In 2007, Jennifer Strange was one of several participants KDND’s “Hold Your Wee For A Wii” contest, in which participants held their urine and drank copious amounts of water with the hopes of wining a …

Smoking rate in Japan down?
The smoking rate among men in Japan has fallen to a record-low 36.8% since the survey of its kind was launched in 1986, while the rate among women stood at 9.1%, …

Tokyo train stations use lights to stem suicide
Alarmed by a rise in people jumping to their deaths in front of trains, some Japanese railway operators are installing special blue lights above station platforms they hope will …

Health minister Akira Nagatsuma recently disclosed that the nation’s relative poverty rate in 2007 was 15.7 percent. What are the implications of roughly one in six citizens living in “poverty”?
Let us introduce a Tokyo man …

Anime increases popularity of learning Japan overseas
Learning Japanese is growing in popularity every year especially in East Asia, because of interest in animation. According to a survey done in 2006, Japanese was being taught in …