After Little Tokyo we cut over to Little Little Tokyo (or so I call it), the 2000-block of Sawtelle Blvd. on the edge of L.A. and Santa Monica where one of the Giant Robot Stores is located. If you do not know about the Giant Robot magazine of Asian pop culture then you simple are [...]

We all went to Little Tokyo in L.A. today—oh yeah, forgot to mention that we’re in L.A. at my Mom’s place until June 8. Ate ramen, bought stuff at a Japanese market (I love going into them here in California—they make me feel as if I’m in Japan), bought a couple gifts, walked around. The [...]

I grew a second head from my right shoulder this evening. One minute it wasn’t there, the next minute it was. Don’t ask me how—very weird. It kind of looks like it has some of my genes (eyes, smile, hair color), but it looks female. I didn’t think that kind of thing was possible (a [...]

Not being a supporter of this kind of display of women, I’m only reporting that Miss Canada won the Miss Universe 2005 beauty pageant for three reasons:
1) This is the second year in a row that a woman from a British Commonwealth nation won (Australia won it last year), but interestingly, runners-up 2-5 were [...]

I just submitted an article to Diplomatic History about how the Japanese government used the recovery of war remains and memorial pilgrimages in Okinawa as a diplomatic tool to achieve some access to the island while it was under U.S. occupation (1945-1972). So, it was with some personal interest that I read this article about [...]