Some good, progressive news for Japan in a while – Japan’s first intellectual property disputes court.
The Government also planned to send lawyers and judges to Britain, Brussels and the US to study recent cases, and invite overseas legal experts to teach in Tokyo, Japanese cabinet sources said.
These things take time – and the U.S. is [...]
Loving Day is June 12th. Check out the “legal map”. Amazing.
via Gen.
When I first heard about it, I surely thought it was a joke. I’m … speechless…
As BubbleGeneration points out, why did it take the Guardian?
George Bush’s ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction…
Read Nick Berg’s dad’s story.
As mentioned briefly here, Princess Masako has been rather stressed, depressed, and in not so great health for the past year+. In the Prince’s announcement yesterday, he made it clear her ill-health was largely a fact of Imperial duties and not being able to maintain a career, let alone essentially function as a “normal [...]
The Japanese government is at it again with their sneaky ways. Their most recent success has been making prices tax-included, which went into effect on April 1st. This means they can now raise sales taxes all they want w/o the general public getting full disclosure. Now, they want to restrict imports of copyrighted [...]
This kind of crap is what makes Japan good for tourism but nothing else. This is just bullshit. What business does the LDP have determining which of two last names people use? In fact, this could have detrimental effects in fields such as medical research, where retaining one’s surname after having written [...]
Just got back from my first time in Seoul, Korea attending the 59th IETF conference. Overall a relaxing few days since my presentation was held early on and went fairly smoothly. Have a bit of work cut out for me, but nothing to stress about. Had some downtime to check out the [...]
Google never ceases to amaze me. I frequently cut and paste snippets of text I find interesting from websites, articles, etc; they all go into a desktop Stickie designated for this collection of quotes. Unfortunately I’m not as thorough in tagging the quote with the source. But not matter how long the [...]
Apparently Japan has raised its terror alert to the highest level, which is interesting because nobody — and I mean nobody — where I work who is a native Japanese is aware of this. French colleagues who work next to me are aware of it through their French news sources, American colleagues are aware [...]
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