Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Ageing, as you'll know from following Sir Terry Wogan's career, can be a cruel business and the most terrible symptoms, apart my very specific problem that I seem to resemble fellow knight Salman Rushdie a bit more every day, are increased grumpiness and a tendency to repeat oneself.
oneafrikan.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The shorter version: Checkout Online Personal Assistant. I recommend it, it’s saved me time and made my life easier. Best part is you can use it from wherever… Try it, tell Ed you got there from here, and he’ll treat you nice The longer version: OK, so I’m the first to admit that I often [...]
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
BARCROFT MEDIA Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny” effortlesssly neutralises an opponent “Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by the country’s military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat. Miss Wakabayshi, who stands exactly 5ft tall, looks tiny compared to her charges who are mostly over 6ft. But the pensioner is a [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
A kung fu Japanese grandmother has been appointed to teacher soldiers a thing or two about "fighting".
IOL (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
A grandmother has been appointed to teach soldiers a thing or two about fighting.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Tokyo, Kanto, Japan The focus of the next month is kendo, which I will spare the reader details of. Interspersed between these sessions is more organising and visiting areas in the Tokyo region. First up came a trip to Roppongi and the Chinese embassy there. An imposing presence with whitewashed walls and heavy security. A country definitely trying to make an impression....
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
For British wrestling fans reared on the global sports entertainment brand of WWE, the grappling action in Coventry this Saturday could prove eye-opening. Japanese wrestling promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH are making their debuts on these shores.
Izzy Neis (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Here’s a story out of leftfield to show how 3D avatars could break out of the web and onto other media platforms. TV Asahi is producing a one-hour pilot TV show called Hoshi-ichi Owarairyoku Test, due to air on 14th June in Japan. It appears to be some kind of cross between a gameshow and [...]
Best New Technology (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Only in Japan will you be able to find an interactive mobile participation TV show that allows the many hundreds of thousands of mobile users to represent themselves on-screen as a real-time custom 3D avatar. Unfortunately, the system will only be able to animate up to 100,000 concurrent identities, so there will be a fair number who will be left out each time. This interactive TV show will last for...
Okazu (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Aoi Shiro is a manga story that was based off the game of the same name. It exists in two parts - the Yuri Hime magazine version , in which we meet Momoko and her roommate Yasumi, a frail girl who has a crush on the president of the kendo club. That manga ended just as the story began, when Momoko and Yasumi joined the kendo club. Although it ran in Yuri Hime the vaguest shading of Yuri was actually...
Ippoippo (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
A small break from Kendo It's half term, so that means the school gym is closed… and that means there was no Kendo for me this week. So, Yuko decided to drag me along to her Yoga class which she goes to with a friend from work, and said friends husband. The yoga class she does tends to [...]
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Good fortune to one and all. I am a surgeon by trade. For fun, I enjoy long-range precision marksmanship and martial arts (Kendo and Jiu-jitsu). I hope to learn something from the distinguished members of this forum. scullycasey
Ippoippo (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Oooo errrr! Nothing saucy in that topic though… Yesterday, I progressed from the Kendo beginners lessons now into the full class. So far, the class of 9 learners are all still there, but it will be interesting to see who keeps up with this. We now take part in a lot of the exercises with the main [...]
Federal Way Conservative (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
I have been enjoying Kumdo with my 7-year-old son for almost the past year here in Federal Way. Kumdo is the Korean version of the Japanese (and more popular) Kendo, which is simply “The Way of the Sword”. It is similar to the kind of sword training that Japanese Samurai practiced. It shares a lot with [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The search for strange truths in undiscovered lands begins - my first summer away from home in Houston and Tome
