While checking out BBC World News recently I saw a very interesting episode of their travel program called Fast Track. I’ve seen Fast Track at random times before as it covers news and recent developments in travel industry but when I heard Tokyo, anime and saw a dancing storm trooper on screen...

The BBC’s website has been a very important resource for me over the years for not only news related to Japan but through some interesting features, photo galleries and more recently videos I have been exposed to many things I couldn’t read in a book and can only get better by experiencing...

I recently surfed into an unexpected but interesting and very useful Japanese learning resource on the BBC website called A Touch of Japanese. Don’t expect a zillion pages of learning material, but the few pages and examples (with audio) there are very useful for a basic Japanese lesson that can...

I enjoy browsing through the “in pictures” feature of BBC.com daily and the last feature that related to Japan that I blogged about was Robot Menagerie which speaks about Japan’s vibrant robotic industry and one of the pioneers of robotics in Japan is Professor Shigeo Hirose at the...

Each year the leaders of the world leading industrialized nations meet. The countries that make up the Group of Eight are France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Various other leaders of developing countries are also invited to partially participate in the meetings,...

Of course I would want to experienced being in one of these “pods”, surrounded by technology, music and manga, isn’t that what heaven is like? Media Immersion Pods – described as “drug dens for internet addicts” – are the latest craze occupying Japan’s...

Harry Potter and Capt. Kirk would be proud. A team of American and British researchers has developed its own cloak of invisibility. Well, OK, it’s not perfect yet. But it is a start, and it did a pretty good job of hiding a copper cylinder. In this experiment the scientists used microwaves to try...

While doing my usual browsing on the net I stopped over at BBC.com like I usually do to check out the latest world news especially out of Asia. They have this little “in pictures” feature that I find very interesting and the latest on has some very interesting photographs by Magnum photographer...