"So, how they bitin''?"

A man in Tokyo has been arrested for using fishing tackle to steal a pair of women's knickers off of washing line. A subsequent search of Akira Hino's turned up a further 500 pairs of lovely, frilly pants. Well everyone should have a hobby.

Now here's a job I think that Sarah Palin could do

Yuko Obuchi, daughter of former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, has been named the country's Minister of the Declining Birthrate.

I don't suppose anyone notified you but...

...last weekend there was yet another terrorist attack on American soil, this time in the form of a firebomb attack on the US consulate in Okinawa. Fortunately no one was injured.

Today in Japanese weirdneess

Japanese meat products company ItoHam has applied for a trademark for the term "High School Girl" and apparently plans to launch a range of products including High School Girl dumplings, High School Girl pizza and most worryingly High School Girl meat pies. How do you say "bordorline paedophilia" in Japanese?