I don’t consider myself a Japonophile, but I do find myself reading Mainichi Daily News each day, and when they put up a picture like this, of fireflies near the Yamada River in Ohara, (Chiba Prefecture) I can’t help but notice.

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Posted June 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: fireflies, mainichi, mainichi daily news, ohara, yamada. Be the first one.

Today is the first day of summer, according to Japan’s Environmental Ministry, and that means it’s time to take off the ties and suit jackets and put on “casual” clothes. The ministry has been leading a charge to reduce energy consumption and ease global warming by asking all government employees to leave their neckties at [...]

Posted June 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: bureaucrat, cabinet ministers, energy consumption, environmental ministry, government bureaucrats, government employees, junichiro koizumi, mainichi daily, mainichi daily news, mdn, national government, neckties, reduce energy, seriousness, welfare ministry. 2 Comments.

I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago. I thought the lineup of fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus flavored ice cream had everything pretty [...]

Posted June 30, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: abalone, cactus, flavor, flavors, goat, ice cream, ice cream flavors, iceream, japan, japanese, mainichi daily news, mdn, oyster, sea water, seaweed, shark, shark fin, water ice, whale, yummy. 8 Comments.