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XKCD’s Helpful Radiation Chart

The webcomic XKCD has become one of those ubiquitous fixtures of geek life in the new century. In addition...

Today is the 16th anniversary of the Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway, in which either 13 or...

Japan has always been a famously closed society, almost to the point of legend. This closed nature has traditionally...

CNN has a fairly level-headed post by Elizabeth Landau on something called self-embedding behavior, in which “teens” shove things...

Japan is one of the few industrialized nations that still uses the death penalty, and they still execute prisoners...

Akihabara News has an extensive Flickr set and the above video of these new, totally adoarable, I-need-ten-of-these Takara Tomy...

Image via Akihabara News. I just saw that Akihabara News (akihabaranews.com, includes video) posted a full photo set of...

Pictured: Chromium (Cr) is a Dancer. Remembering 118 different elements now looks like trying to keep track of 118...

The Vampire Cafe. Yes, it’s another list, and leaves much to be desired in the way of detail, but...

This looks… inedible. Fortunately for us, it’s only in Japan. Akihabara News tasted it and wrote a few sentences...