(Well, I’m a little late but I still wanted to write about Earth Day, so deal)
There are a lot of interesting reads on the ‘net regarding this special occasion, and here are some worth checking out:
50 Ways to Save This Planet is simple, to the point, and beautifully designed.  It features 50 green ideas in […]

Because of the nature of this site, it gets hard to blog about every little article that I want to share without it seeming irrelevant to stuff that I’ve been focusing on lately (namely, Japanese news and culture.) So I’m going to occasionally make a post featuring interesting reads from other blogs that I […]

Japanese get jabbed while Chinese go shopping - Japan Times
“Chinese like gaudy things,” says the female guide escorting one early-morning group. “For that reason alone, cherry blossoms are popular. And Japan is the only place where they bloom in such profusion. Around this season, it’s a popular tour package.”
Stranger in a Strange Land: Japanese […]

High school girl acquitted of murdering baby born in restroom - Mainichi Daily News
The judge also expressed sympathy with the girl as she gave birth alone. “She experienced tougher hardship than ordinary women who give birth, as she delivered the baby in the breech position in the restroom without anybody’s help.”
Japanese mother abandons kids […]

Okinawa cuisine: tofu, Spam and root beer - Yahoo! News
Decades of an Americanised diet, Okinawa health officials say, is partly responsible for making islanders fatter, more prone to heart disease and likely to die sooner than either their elders or compatriots in many parts of the mainland.
Woman takes on yakuza in the courts over extortion […]

School offers costume-play way to ‘cool’ English - Japan Times
Learning a foreign language is never easy, and for many it can even be a painful process.
How would the suffering be eased, though, if teachers and students could wear their favorite anime, manga or video-game characters’ costumes in class and then all tackle the learning […]

Ten-year-old Japanese warned she’d kill girl - Yahoo! News
Believed to be the youngest person accused in a spate of similar Internet threat cases in Japan, the girl posted a message last month saying, “I’m going to kill an elementary school girl on February 29 at 1:00 pm” in the Tokyo suburb of Saitama, police said.
Rightist […]

Big breasts win verdict for Japanese pin-up - Yahoo! News
“I used to hate my body so much,” Kozakura, who has appeared in product commercials on television, told the private Asahi network in an interview aired Tuesday.
“But it was my breasts” that won in court, she said.
US presidential candidate Obama thanks Japanese town of Obama for […]

US serviceman arrested in Okinawa despite curfew - Yahoo! News
“He has admitted to have climbed over the fence at the base… He smashed the glass door with a steel pipe,” the official said, adding that the airman had been under the influence of alcohol.
Boy cafes, sexy comics feed Japan’s girl geek boom - Reuters
In keeping […]

Japan, US vow crackdown on crimes by US military - Yahoo! News
“It is an undeniable fact that there was violence,” said Suzuyo Takazato, head of a local citizens group supporting female victims of crimes involving the US military.
“Shutting our mouths right now means we give in to violence,” she said, adding that her group […]