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Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Flying High in Japan

I LOVE this story:
Towards the end of May, a drug dog at Narita Airport (Tokyo) failed to detect 142 grams (about 5 ounces) of pot in the side pocket of a passenger’s luggage. While this must be troubling for the Japanese officials, what is a bit more troubling is how they knew that the [...]

Getting Around: Tokyo

As frequent readers know, I went to Tokyo recently. Being completely unfamiliar with Tokyo and Japan as a whole I decided to check out a couple of guidebooks on the town. I checked out the usual big names for guidebooks: Rough Guide, Time Out, Fodors, Lonely Planet as well as a handful of others. In [...]

Sanyo-Bussan International Lifesaving Cup Results

As you may have read here before (since this is my third time mentioning it here in 3 weeks), this past weekend was the Sanyo Bussan International Lifesaving Cup held on the beach in Kanagawa, Japan.
You might be familiar with this beach from the iconic picture “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai. Okay, [...]

Just a very quick note

If you ever go to Tokyo, make sure you go to the Sapporo Museum (and yeah, there were only 2 of us).

Blogging from Tokyo

Well, three days have passed and there are no reports on Castro’s demise. We’ll save the obituary for when he actually passes.
As you may have guessed from the title of this post I am not blogging from my usual NY outpost but rather from the other side of the world.
I landed in Tokyo yesterday [...]

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