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The following is a translation of an article from the Asahi News
MOS Food Services, Inc., operator of “MOS Burger” chain of fast-food restaurants, will start selling the premium burger “Japanese Burger Takumi JÅ«dan” from the 16th. Among fast-food hamburger chains this will be the most expensive hamburger in history at 1000 yen ($9.58 US […]

The lovely and talented Moira writes, “Is there any sort of analysis of these [Ten Nights and Dreams] stories? I would be interested in reading some kind of critical analysis.”
Well, it’s a minor work, so it has been more or less ignored, I think. There’s one analysis I know of on the web, in […]

For the public benefit I’m going to explain what 全伽（ぜんが） means. You won’t find it in any dictionary, I know, because I looked in a lot of them.
It came up in the text for “The Second Night,” in “Ten Nights and Dreams” by Natsume Soseki. I was only able to find out what […]

Every year, a number of people choke to death on mochi, pounded sticky rice cakes, in Japan during the New Year’s holiday. The Mainichi Daily News reports this year’s death toll at four so far, and fifteen remain in critical condition.
The Asashi Newspaper reports that in Tokyo 26 people were taken to the hospital […]

Girl Power Fuels Manga Boom in U.S., an article on the New York Times website caught my eye this evening. Manga is becoming big business here in the US, and it seems like some of these companies are discovering that 50% of their potential market is girls. From the article:
Manga often celebrates strong […]