Rather that repeat myself, I humbly ask you to see my literary awards blog for the news about Orhan Pamuk’s winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Well, maybe a bit bigger. But what got me out of silence (still busy with my theses) was the adorably sweet creature you can find here.

One of my blog entries was picked up by the StumbleUpon community earlier this week. This is a report about the effects it had to my Adsense earnings. Read the rest of this entry »

Updated 4th November, 2006: Added some personal experiences with Shopping Mall Japan

For some reason eBay has never made it to Japan. Instead, Yahoo! Auctions Japan is the place to go if you are looking for that rare Akira Kurosawa item, or the latest manga and anime releases. Read the rest of this entry »

The question that will be given an answer to in this post is: How to follow the news online? While there obviously are countless ways to do it, this is how I accomplish the task. Read the rest of this entry »