With all the stuff there is to read about Japan and its various cultures I often find interesting things with nuggets of information, or just plain funny stories.  Unfortunately, there isn’t a good way to bookmark these effectively.  Social Bookmarking sites don’t really work, talk to me in person if you want to know why.  So the next best thing is a blog post with links in them.

So this starts “Links Around Town” where I will post up links about Japan and the various cultural things that are going on that I find interesting or funny.  These are not the latest and greatest as I will only post this when I get 20 or so links.

Laws

Putting Japanese Cycling Laws to the Test

Dark Side

Ugly Tokyo: A Shibuya Neighborhood
Junk Japan

History

Pictures of foreigners from 17th/18th century Japan
Oldest Hotel-company in the World

Culture

Japan Doesn’t Get It
Making Geta – Traditional Shoes of Japan
Single Japanese Women and Marriage
“I’m on the train” annoys two in three Japanese
Kawaii
Graduation in Japan

Technology

One in Four digital TV plugged into the internet in Japan
Japan Optic Fiber Internet
Few Japanese women share their computers
Surfing with computer versus mobile in Japan

Web

Social Media in Japan
Blogging in Japan
Blogging in Japan 2

Foreign Relations

(can’t find the first one in this series keep getting 404)
Acts of retaliation #2: Joystick
Acts of Retaliation #3: Don’t you understand Japanese?