Covering the economic and industrial might of Japan

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.          8:43 am

Sanyo's founding family loses control of the company after a six-decade reign.  It's an old pattern. Start a company, go public, lose control. It happens in Japan, too.   8:50 am 

Honda's R&D and Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth have developed a process for converting all plant fiber compounds in wood chips and weeds into ethanol by using genetically altered bacteria. Leave it to Honda to find a more efficient way to do things.        10:11 am

Osaka cancels resident registrations of 2,100 homeless. The aim was not to send them packing, but to keep them from voting.     11:34 am

When Japanese TV stations get wrapped up in a scandal, the station president resigns. In the US, the beat the scandal to death and enjoy the ratings.  3:53 pm