It is sweltering out here in Tokyo right now, and it will stay that way for next 2 full months. But 42 degrees centigrade (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit in old money) is taking things a bit far, isn't it?

It is funny you know, and it's true. You only miss and appreciate something when it's gone.

One of the busiest train stations in Japan is Shinjuku, located in the heart of Tokyo. Some 20 lines metal spaghetti thread their way into it, meaning that almost the equivalent of the entire population of New Zealand passes through this epically proportioned station every single day.

It is as hot as hell out here in Tokyo right now. I have to have my air-conditioner on all night to stand any chance of the Sleep Fairy bothering to get up of her lazy arse to do the necessary sprinkling of dust into my restless eyeballs.

It can't be everyday of the week that you are told that you don't exist, but this is precisely what happened to a Japanese woman when she went to register the birth of her kid with the authorities.

A top climatologist just said that we have 7 years in which to drastically do something about our excessive carbon emissions, or else forget about life on earth!

Clinton’s thrown in the towel, then.

Does Japan use real humans as crash-test dummies to observe the effects of what happens to people when they smash up their automobiles?

Japan went radical late last month, much to the consternation of the natives.

A few weeks ago, I got new neighbours, and they moved into a spanking brand-new house exactly opposite me.