Herro Flom Japan

No surprise at all, but the Flu of Death officially has arrived in the Kanto region–one case in Tokyo of a 16 year-old girl who recently came back from a mock UN in NYC, and another student in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo. Seems to me that constant bombardment of government and media-inspired panic of the [...]

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First, let me appease those who come here for news about my family and me. Last Sunday while Tony had a soccer game, I took Andy to a local 子ども会 and brought my new camera along. (Seeing as how I bought the thing, I ought to use it once in a while.) A kodomo-kai isn't [...]

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This is pretty old news by now, but I just found out about it. I don't spend much time surfing websites about Japan. When I still lived in the US, I hardly ever followed local news either. I've always been a Time/Newsweek/US News & World Report kinda guy. For years and years, the English language [...]

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There's a chain mail message making the rounds in Japan claiming that a three year old girl with leukemia at the Showa University Hospital in Tokyo can't receive a life-saving operation because there isn't enough type B rh negative blood. Both the Japan Red Cross and the hospital have been receiving so many calls that [...]

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Somebody better get fired over this. In happened in of all places, Dallas. Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., [...]

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