Hokkaido
Japan Shoplifting
Japan, a country with some of the lowest crime rates in the world, and dropping crime rates over the past 5 years has an ever growing problem with elderly shoplifters. In the past teens have led the statistics in Japan shoplifting with a peak in the late teens and early twenties, but new statistics are [...]
Snowboarding Adventure
My son and myself went on our first Snowboarding Adventure on a local mountain nearby the village that we live in. The great thing about this hill, is that it is totally free and a nice gentle slope for beginners. The day was great alternating between sun and snow with blue skies. It was truly [...]
No Cockroaches
A new study recently done has proven that cockroaches can detect static electric fields with their antennae’s. The antennae’s of cockroaches act like a persons hair when a balloon is rubbed on it, and are pulled towards the static field, which in turn signals the cockroach to avoid these fields.
Scientists did not think that cockroaches [...]
Snowboarding Weather
About five weeks back we got the first snow in Hokkaido which settled on the Mountain right outside my window called Asahidake. And now on Election Day snowboarding weather is here!! Last night before I went to bed I saw a reflection of something falling reflected in the street lights outside, it has been raining [...]
Milk for Adults
In keeping a subject flow, lets continue the stories about milk this week. With the woes of practically everything coming out of China having something wrong with it, most recently milk. Four children have died and 13,000, let me say that again thirteen thousand remain hospitalized after drinking milk from China that was tainted with [...]
