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Hundreds of thousands of centenarians go missing in Japan Japan's Justice Ministry said Friday that more than 230,000 centenarians are missing and probably dead. Family neglect and fraud are factors.

Samurai Champloo Anime Review

Samurai Champloo Anime Review

Samurai Champloo サムライチャンプルー Samurai Chanpurū Written and directed by 渡辺信一郎 Watanabe Shin'ichirō Samurai Champloo is the latest anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, the creator of Cowboy Bebop. Samurai Champloo is a period drama set in the Tokugawa Era, featuring two wandering swordsmen and a cute young girl

Japanese Deflation

Reading the WSJ article on deflation linked below, I had to wonder: But Japan's experience has looked nothing like this. Rather than being deep, destructive and concentrated in a few years, deflation has been a surprisingly mild, drawn-out affair. Consumer prices have been falling in Japan for 15

Deflation: So What?

Jerry Pournelle has a good bit on deflationary spirals today. Deflation The new fear is deflation. There's also the plea that we don't really understand deflation. Roosevelt didn't understand it either, although the New Deal took a number of measures to combat it, including

Japan isn't doing so bad

From Super-Economy, one of my favorite economics blogs, comes an analysis of the Japanese economy for the past twenty years that claims their economic performance has actually not been so bad. If you look at things like productivity improvements, and economic growth per working age adult, Japan does as well

Matsuri

I went to the Arizona Matsuri this weekend. I had not been in a couple of years, so it was a good excuse to get out of the house and to somewhere warm for the weekend. Matsuri is a Japanese spring festival put on every year in Phoenix. There are