Latest posts by Chris Salzberg from October, 2008
Japan: The mysteries of Kourakuen
Blogger id:kokorosha writes about the many mysteries [ja] of Kourakuen [幸楽苑], a chain of ramen restaurants in Japan.
Japan: Cirque du Soleil ZED
Blogger sky2525 posts photos of her night out [ja] at Cirque du Soleil ZED in Tokyo on Oct. 1st, as well as some pictures of cats doing a few circus tricks of their own.
Japan: HubMedia
Blogger smashmedia introduces a Japanese online publishing site [ja] called HubMedia [ja] (ハブメディア), a project to showcase quality edited contents on the web, with revenue coming from advertisements and small-lot publication sales. HubMedia will focus on niche markets with high-quality contents and on realizing continuous communication between writers and readers....
Japan: Who can you call about Google Street View?
Blogger Hiromitsu Takagi [高木浩光] takes up the story [ja] of Google vice president Kent Walker's Q&A at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 29th, highlighting statements [ja] by Google Japan director Kōichirō Tsujino [辻野晃一郎] claiming that people who would like images from the company's Street View service to be...
Japan: Major papers agree on mutual consignment deal
Hiroyuki Fujishiro [藤代裕之] at Gatonews comments on reports [ja] that Japan's two largest dailies, the Yomiuri shimbun and the Asahi shimbun, have agreed on a mutual consignment deal that, by 2012, will consolidate the printing end of the news production process. The two papers will also assist in printing the...
Japan: Photos of Shizuoka's Secluded Omori Station
At The Wonderful World of Stations, blogger naka_premium showcases photos [ja] of Omori Station in Kawanehon, Shizuoka Prefecture (Japan). The blogger explains that people used to come to Omori Station to do construction work nearby, but that work has ended and the station, which has no houses or roads nearby,...
Japan: Part-time University Teachers among Working Poor
At A Prisoner in the Cave, id:eirene describes a documentary on Tokyo Television exploring the situation of working poor among part-time teachers in Japanese universities [ja]. The documentary introduces the lives of two PhD-holding part-time university teaching staff living on a salary of 100,000 yen/month [around 1000 USD], highlighting differences...
