For many around the world, the year-end holidays can be a very painful time. It’s a time when messages of togetherness, family, and relationships are plastered across all media, making it sting more for those who don’t have some or any of these things. And in Japan, New Year’s Day is generally…
There’s not really any such thing as a good city to crash your car in. Still, you’ve got to think that Kyoto is an especially bad place to do it. Having been the capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years, there’s nowhere in the country with a denser concentration of historically significant buildings,…
Upon hearing “A man was arrested in Japan for stealing a staggering number of women’s…,” a lot of people’s brains would auto-finish the sentence with “panties.” Maybe some people’s minds would jump to “bras,” but in any case there’s a pretty good chance that if a theft’s summary starts like…