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Odd little item I just found on Brian's site, a new gas station in Seoul aimed at female drivers. Looks, um, girly. According to the item it also features a saloon providing nail care, cooking lessons and other services.
As had been rumored, the Nippon Ham Fighters have agreed to send star closer Micheal Nakamura to the Yomiuri Giants for infielder Tomohiro Nioka in a four player trade.
McDonald's Trying to Trick Japanese People into Eating its Burgers
Interesting idea here — a no brand McDonalds in Tokyo called "Quarter Pounder." The menu is minimalist, offering just a double and single quarter pounders with friends and a coke. Hmm…where have I seen this before?
Ode to (the Wonderful) Pepero Day
I doubt Pepero Day gets many props from the foreign community in Korea, but it's my favorite Korean holiday of the year. You can read my Happy Pepero Day post from last year, which includes a little history.
Tags: japanese, korean, korea, asia, south korea, foreign, history
I'm taking this off Simon's site because it just needs to be seen by as many eyes as possible. I would label this as teuroteu, usually just called "trot," which is similar to Japanese enka. In fact some nationalists criticize...
Game 3 of the Japan Series is today starting at 6:15pm JST. If you're a night owl like me you can perhaps check out this channel on justin.tv to watch it on and chat with the community at JapaneseBaseball.com.
China Finds Japanese Version of Melamine
Or, at least I think that's what the Chinese food safety authorities are trying to do.nFrom Japan Today...
Iguchi & Taguchi Back to Japan?
MLB veterans So Taguchi and Tadahito Iguchi both could be headed back to Japan next season.nIguchi is said to be undecided about where he wants to play next year, but has expressed a strong desire in playing for...
SK One Win Away From Second Straight Championship
SK, keeping with the theme of "simple," looks set to win its second straight KBO championship after last night's 4-1 win over Doosan. Again, nothing fancy or overwhelming going on here.
Tags: star, performance
Korean Youngster Drafted by Japanese Team
Patrick at NPB Tracker has been doing some fine NPB draft coverage. The biggest news, I suppose, internationally is that Junichi Tazawa wasn't drafted by a team and will now be free to pursue his own interests.
Tags: japan, japanese, korean, korea, media, release, live, free, rights, baseball, human rights
Daily Sports is reporting that Kenshin Kawakami has hired American agent Tony Attanasio, with an eye toward MLB. Attanasio is notable in NPB circles for representing Ichiro.Â
Tags: 2008, american, english, olympics, deal, boston, mlb, red sox
By now this is old news, but this is one of those posts that I started drafting, got interrupted, and haven't had the time to get back to until now. Better late than never.
Tags: japan, japanese, new, fans, film, international, couple, future, baseball, college, threat, mlb, pitcher, yankees
From a Pink Tentacle (who got them from this Flickr set) posting of vintage illustrations detailing the innards of famous Japanese kaiju (strange beast).
Ask a Korean Sportswriter — The Weight on Kim Yu-na's Shoulders
EWC:The other day my wife was talking about Kim Yu-na and how she's worried the Korean media is overexposing her in advance of much success. She compared the situation it to another female Korean athlete named Kang Cho-hyun.
Tags: korean, girl, media, school, olympic, olympics, female, wife, student, high school, shooting
The Chance to Own a Piece of Chinese History
Neat little YouTube of a program called French 24 (although it's in English) about the auctioning of Beijing 2008-related items to Chinese citizens. As you might expect, people are buying used VWs that say Beijing 2008 across...
Tags: new, people, chinese, 2008, beijing, english, youtube, history, car
You might have to read this one twice.nA 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion ...
Tags: japanese, world, police, woman, online, game, arrested, cosplay