The Democratic Party of Japan's oldest lawmaker recently had a few bitter words for his old friend, DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Speaking in Fukuoka earlier this month, Kozo Watabe... Read more . . .
A bizarre story out of Peru today--with the backstory almost entirely missing, and the lede truly buried.Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black...
Authors: Kazumasa Sakurai, Kenji Abe, Tetsuya Mizumoto The improvement of a direct bonding technique is important in realizing a waveguide optical isolator with a III–V compound semiconductor guiding layer. By applying a...
Authors: Naoki Suzuki, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tomoji Kawai Nanoimprint-lithography-based molybdenum lift-off was applied to fabricate a perovskite-type La_{0.8}Ba_{0.2}MnO_{3}(LBMO) nanodot array on a SrTiO_{3}(100) substrate in...
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote that what is "familiarly known" is not "properly known," just for the reason that it is familiar. The familiar historical image of the Edo... Read more . . .
Few objects have surfaced from early Imperial tumuli as, being graves of an extant family, excavation is at present prohibited by the Imperial Household Agency. Nevertheless, the occasional object... Read more . . .
No, this trope isn't about people named after rock stars . Naming women after jewels is the least conspicuous - it is quite common to gives girls names like Ruby, Opal, or Crystal. In Inuyasha, the three characters from the...