5 Acts (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Sao Paulo, Brazil CSS release their sophomore disc, Donkey , tomorrow and play quite a few festivals coming up. 07/27 - Fuji Rock Festival - Niigata, Japan 07/30 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN 07/31 - Turner Hall - Milwaukee, WI 08/01 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL 08/04 - Osheaga Festival - Montreal, QC 08/05 - Kool Haus - Toronto, ON 08/07 - Trocadero Theater - Philadelphia, PA 08/08 - All Points...
an englishman in osaka (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The nominations are in for Japan's Door of the Year award. The nominations cover a wide variety of quality doors ensuring that this year's winner is far from being a foregone conclusion. Here are the doors vying for top prize.... 1. The Pointless Door (Niigata) Walk out of here on a dark night and you'll soon find yourself in mid-air. 2. The American Door (Nagoya) Sesame Street is big here, especially...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Science in Art, a juried exhibition that will feature scientist-artists from the University, Argonne and Fermi national laboratories and the Chicago area, is accepting submissions for this year s exhibition through Friday, Aug. 22. Submissions may Source: chronicle.uchicago.edu N-power plant remains offline / Pressure mounting to resume operations - [...]
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Remember Charles Robert Jenkins, the American who defected to North Korea in the 1960’s, married a Japanese abductee, and later came to Japan? It’s being reported that he is applying for permanent residency: Sources said that Jenkins, 68, visited the Niigata Branch Office of the Tokyo Immigration Bureau on Tuesday and filed the application. The [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in northeastern Japan caused significantly less damage than earlier quakes in the Asian country, officials say.Four buildings were leveled in the June 14 quake, compared to 3,175 buildings that fell in the 2004 Niigata prefecture Chuetsu earthquake, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.There could have been much more damage if the focus and the soil, which affect the frequency of...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The Japanese government is creating 94 types of commemorative 500 and 1,000 yen coins, including special coins for each prefecture. The designs for Kyoto and Shimane (pictured above) were announced by the Finance Ministry today: The 1,000-yen coins for Kyoto and Shimane will be sterling silver, weigh 31.1 grams and measure 40 millimeters in [...]
storm from the east (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
As readers are no doubt aware, a number of earthquakes...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
There was just a strong earthquake in Northern Japan (6-upper on the Japanese scale, 6.9 on the Richter scale): Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures appear to have been hit the hardest. Not a lot of information is available at this time, but judging by how this quake is as strong as the one that hit Niigata [...]
