http://whiteperil.com/ en-us 2008-08-08T02:08+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1218163038.shtml My, reporters can be uncritical. The Asahi reports that this year, the mayor of Nagasaki will cite the opinions of prominent Americans in calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons:... Sean 2008-08-08T02:08+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1218150008.shtml Interesting news in the case of the tainted gyoza:... Sean 2008-08-07T23:08+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1217963225.shtml It's already 6 August in Japan; that makes it the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. One Japanese man thinks the Germans are insufficiently aware of how awful the U.S. was to... Sean 2008-08-05T19:08+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1217174975.shtml Japan is taking another step to change its xenophobic image:... Sean 2008-07-27T16:07+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1216828148.shtml ... Sean 2008-07-23T15:07+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1216767566.shtml The Nikkei says... Sean 2008-07-22T22:07+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1216660553.shtml Eels are a summer delicacy in Japan that's especially been in the news because one of the recent food-fraud scandals has involved the labeling of imported eels from China as... Sean 2008-07-21T17:07+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1216078308.shtml The ROK's ambassador to Japan has returned home in protest:... Sean 2008-07-14T23:07+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1214496219.shtml The families of Japanese abductees are, not surprisingly, unhappy with the Bush administration's decision to remove the DPRK from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states:... Sean 2008-06-26T16:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1214492151.shtml Surprise! Possible copycat-criminal-in-the-making in Japan. He was (fortunately) thwarted by the police before he could slice anyone up in Akihabara:... Sean 2008-06-26T14:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1214419229.shtml The Yomiuri prints an AP story relating that President Bush has promised not to forget the importance of the abductee issue to the Japanese:... Sean 2008-06-25T18:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1214415866.shtml Like crossword puzzle writers, the Japanese love their eels. They are, I believe, easy to breed, and Japan came to import a lot of them from the PRC. Of course, the... Sean 2008-06-25T17:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1213750696.shtml It would be very unkind to laugh at the difficulties the new subway line in Tokyo is experiencing:... Sean 2008-06-18T00:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1213749897.shtml Japan--have I posted about this before? [rummaging] yes, actually--has a habit of executing people on death row with no warning. Even the families customarily don't find out until afterwards. Yesterday,... Sean 2008-06-18T00:06+00:00 http://whiteperil.com/posts/1210185436.shtml ... Sean 2008-05-07T18:05+00:00