Portland police made no arrests outside the ICE facility Sunday. Federal agents detained at least one person — a clarinetist with a protest band who has been held in Clark County jail, where a roster listed no charges Tuesday.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I was born in America but left upon my return who do i tip and how much in all situations

I'm typecast. Typhoons again. Typhoons or beer. I should probably expand into a third topic. www.japantimes.co.jp/community/20...

Watching Dept Q and among my favorite things is how Carl parks his Ford in all manner of angles.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

If we want more journalists to be on here, you should: - follow them here - repost and engage with their stories - reply to their posts with “and you’re surprised??” 3x per week

Identifying a style of writing that is common in my field, the article causes me to ponder my life choices. >> The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Feels like a black and white sorta day. From Shibuya, earlier this month.

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country's northern snow belt.

I wasn’t home but this apparently shook our house pretty solidly despite being a wee one.

Across the TV news landscape, coverage of Trump's inauguration was soft. Networks almost entirely avoided using terms like "twice-impeached" or "convicted felon." On CNN, neither term was used a single time, per a search of closed captioning. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/the-invasi...

Never knew about the apps that let you scan your IC transit cards to check the balance. I found 5000 yen that was previously lost to time.

Ahead of sumo’s return to the United Kingdom next year, we revisit its famous foray to London in 1991.

Busy news day? I decided to run for the hills.

Dropped my son off at the new Shogi Kaikan in Tokyo and now doing some exploring.

The Japanese media has long struggled with how to translate "woke." None of the proposed solutions capture the contentiousness of it in English. So I took a shot at it myself. blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/how-do-you...

Secretary of Defense Andrew Tate has betrayed the legacy of Pete Hegseth. by David Brooks (2027)

This was pretty funny. Man burgles an office in Wakanai. Police follow his footprints in the fresh snow for 2km and arrest him.

Japanese researchers have developed a technique to identify individuals who may have Alzheimer’s disease by asking simple questions and observing their behavior.

In the real-life case that inspired the Netflix hit "Tokyo Swindlers," the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered five of the fraudsters involved to pay ¥1 billion in damages to Sekisui House after swindling the construction company of ¥5.5 billion in 2017. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11...

Japanification?

I’ve joined some proper Thanksgiving dinners in Japan, but this year it’s nabe.

superb intro from Janan Ganesh:

On the menu: Shiitake and mikan from Mie

Here we are. Pleased to meet you! 👋

Is this where we're doing this? I was just over on Threads reading made-up stories, but I'll give this a go.