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Izakaya: Kagaya I'm planning to visit in the near future. Just need somebody to go with!
Nature: Green cherry blossom
Nuclear Power: Chernobyl Tourism The people visiting are as interesting as the object of their tourism...
Setsuden: Japanese Firms Ready to Save Power

Stupid cocktail recipe:
'Schuldig' -- a shot of Jagermeister (German, ( Read more... )

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Earthquake: Do folk beliefs about disasters have something to teach?
Earthquake: Shirakawa Castle After The Earthquake
Earthquake Science: Experts Sent to the Ring of Fire
GLBT: Obituary for Alfred Freedman, who fought to have homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders
Urban Exploration: ( Read more... )

Links:
Earthquake: Yoshiki's Planned Piano Auction Goes Ahead ...30 million yen in five minutes.
Food: Wendy's Natural-Cut Fries A bit biased, but interesting description of the process behind fast food fries.
Radiation: Radiations Levels Across Japan
Writing: Mark Twain Writes To Walt WhitmanI went to yabusame yesterday, got a few pictures but I ( Read more... )

Japanese: Blogger Greets Everyone Just Like The Commercials Instructed [Japanese] Cute entry about a blogger who decides to embrace the message from the recent glut of commercials urging us to greet people more. After the first positive result, people seem happy to respond.
LGBT: Photos 1 and 2 from the march in Shinjuku today from Twitter user ( Read more... )

Anime: Blood C Designs by Clamp
Anime: Tenipuri Movie ...They're going to England?
Earthquake: Landmarks Lit Up For Japan
LJ DOS Attack: Check Your IP (via sorion)
Nature: Cat and Dolphin Become Friends (Video)
Weiss Kreuz: AU Weiss Kreuz Fanart (via balljointedomi) I have almost no idea what's going on, but - to my surprise and shame - I CAN read the Russian in the ( Read more... )

Earthquake: Map of Japan on March 11th I decided I wanted to know what shindo level of earthquake hit my school on March 11th, and found this map. It was apparently a strong 5 at my workplace, and a weak 5 at my apartment.

Last night there was a 7.something in Miyagi, said to be either a weak or strong six. I must have seen it upgraded and ( Read more... )

Trailer for Thundercats from Cartoon Network. Speaking of which, I advise you to give a quick look at the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Most people agree that it's a special kind of crack that they can't stop watching even though they don't know why.

Onto the usual links.

Earthquake: Iwate sake brewer urges people not to ( Read more... )

Nature: Spiderwebs in Pakistan (No actual spider photographs, but arachnophobes might want to avoid anyway)
Earthquake: Dog Rescued

Spam From Japan: Tokyo After The EarthquakeIt's been a rather uneventful day... thank goodness. I went to a family restaurant to get myself out of bed this morning, because it's better than doing nothing ( Read more... )

Totally true links:

Truth: Pixar Buys Rights To Totoro
Truth: Shinra Electric To Aid TEPCO (Japanese)
Truth: Toshiba 3D Monocle
Truth: Gmail Motion
Truth: Apply For A Job As A Google AutocompleterApparently, on April 1st, there was also an earthquake in the UK. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's pretty scary if it is ( Read more... )

I promised some links after all this time. Some of them are pretty old　and I discarded a whole bunch of them for being meaningless -- like a J-league footballer dedicating his first goal after the earthquake to Tohoku or something along those lines. There's more news coming out by the day, not all of it worthwhile, but for a time I did copy-paste ( Read more... )