Media consumption in Japan | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Media consumption in Japan | 世論 What Japan Thinks. Hm. PC Internet use is way higher than mobile phone internet use. PC Internet use (on a daily basis) lags slightly behind TV. Daily readers of newspapers are still high at 54%. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides [...]
Energy Shift Japan! | Japan For Sustainability
A friend forwarded me a ezine from Japan For Sustainability. (I’m a little leery of the term “sustainability”, especially after reading this article by Jeffrey Tucker, but let that pass). It included synopses of a number of interesting articles, some of which I might introduce here later, and I also discovered this map: Trends in [...]
Had enough of your eco lifestyle?
世論What Japan Thinks has translated into English a recent online survey that asked people “Are you tired of your eco-lifestyle?” Note that eco here refers to both ecology and economising. Is this the start of a backlash? Before you answer that, take a look at this instructional video on how to get the answer you [...]
British news: migration
“It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder,” said a UK immigration minister, according to this BBC news article. The article contains a link to an interesting map showing “total numbers of Eastern European migrants in each local authority who registered for work between May [...]
Japan news: over 100 teachers opt for demotion
For one of the classes I teach, I need to find news items in English about Japan (especially items that look at Japanese society from an unusual or non-Japanese point of view), and Japan Probe is a good source of such news. Japan Probe is a Japan news blog in English that focusses on general-interest [...]
