Japan has seen a huge increase in international students (+54% ) since 1998. And yet, thanks to a declining Japanese population, the odds for first year students to enroll in a Japanese university are…
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Lamb Raisin Ice Cream
What’s your favorite kind of ice cream?
Butter Pecan.
Peanut Butter Cup.
Green Tea.
Strawberry Cheesecake.
Lamb Raisin.
Lamb Raisin?
Somebody, seriously needs to figure out how to use a dictiona…
Japanese Porn Industry Looking for More Locations
The Japanese porn industry is big business.
Okay, make that huge business.
The industry, however, is becoming more and more daring. Something about finding more and more ways to feed the desires of th…
Bubble-Era Cops Big Problem
During Japan’s heyday, late 80’s and early 90’s when the world thought Japan’s economy might surpass the economy of the United States, the value of assets was not the only thin…
READ MORE3 Sony Flicks in Top 10 on Super Bowl Weekend
Sony might be losing money with its PS3, for now, but it is making up for it elsewhere…at the theatres.
While guys and gals are buying pizza, snacks and large flat-screen TVs, Sony is offering u…
American Pervert Gets Ad Placed in Japanese Newspaper
He’s English, he’s a man, and he’s in Osaka….and he almost always makes me laugh.
His choices for topics also serve as good commentary on how things Japanese.
The Englishman ca…
Tax Office Sells Figures of Young Girls
The Hokkaido Tax office wants “to deepen understanding about the prefectural government’s tax collection.”
So…. they will auction on the Internt a set of figures of young girls…
Nissan Introduces Pino to Appeal to Cute Niche
Nissan’s Pino is just 11 feet (3.4 meters) long, has star stamped upholstery, a hook for a handbag and a choice of milk tea beige or pink exterior.
It’s cute! And the target is young girls…
Tokyo Girls Take Beijing
In a giant stadium outside Tokyo, 20,000 women in their late teens and early 20’s gathered to watch models from teen magazines, Ebihara Yuri and Oshikiri Moe, walk instead of catwalk professiona…
READ MOREJapanese Airline Hostesses Get Pinched
It used to be that being an Airline Hostess meant something. I had a student who’s one an only purpose in life was to become a stewardess for Japan’s All Nippon Airways.
She studied hard&#…
