Punishment!
Three teachers will be suspended from work for 6-12 months, 12 others got pay cuts and another 20 received warnings for not standing up to honor Japan's national anthem during graduation ceremonies.
Japan's school year ends in March.
Japan's Rising Sun flag and "Kimigayo" are considered to be symbols of Japan's militaristic past. They are the [...]
Those who don't know history can rewrite it if they like and hope no one else has a long memory.
Tokyo has ordered changes in seven history textbooks that say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of WWII.
Seoul has already sternly objected to another revision - a claim that a [...]
There's a new cell phone service in the neighborhood - eMobile Ltd.
Even though Japan's cellphone market is considered saturated - 100 million cell phone and PHS (personal handyphone system) subscribers among Japan's 120 million population, eMobile thinks it can make inroads by tapping demands for wirelss connections to the Internet via personal computers and PDAs [...]
A 52-year old geezer (yikes, that's my age) who works as a senior official in a ward office in Tokyo has admitted to molesting (groping) a 21-year old girl on a train bound for Narita.
He has been arrested and charged for obscene behavior.
More and more of these kinds of actions are expected in the coming [...]
India owes Japan 19% more after this fiscal year than it did from the previous year.
India received 185 billion yen in loans, with an annual interest rate of 1.3% and a repayment schedule of 30 years last year. That's more than 2 billion in interest each year that India will pay to the Japanese [...]
Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) is soliciting the help of Internet Cafes to check the identity of users and introduce methods to eliminate password-stealing software.
Half of the 277 cases in which police failed to apprehend people for illegal computer access involved computers at Internet cafes.
Police want Internet cafes to voluntarily check identification before the police [...]
Japan’s Hottest Girls - Tatsumi Natsuko is Miss Flash 2007
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Nippondit….a short blog to get you thinking about Japan….updated throughout the day….I hope.
Japan's atrocities during the Nanjing Massacre are the theme of four Chollywood flicks this year. One of the few Japanese words that many Chinese know…Baka yaroo…Pick the most derogatory word you can think of to call someone…that's pretty much what it means. [...]
Greenpeace Ship Demands Permission to Dock in Tokyo
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Toyota's global production climbed in February for the 28th month in a row. Overseas production was up for the 62nd straight month.
Last year Toyota's output reached 9.018 million to GM's 9.18 million. It's just a matter of time before Toyota becomes number one.
Japan's second largest carmaker, Honda saw its global production climb for the 19th [...]
