Pillow Talk Japan

When life gives you rice, make bread with Gopan

Back from a weekend filled with vigorous outdoor activities, miscellaneous secondhand highs and Inception fapping, I thought I would drop a simple, yet unavoidably amusing food/technology story. I saw some totally whack-ass post earlier where a dude was eating food off his iPad. Thanks for that, Bob. Always good to know I can eat [...]

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Mystery of falling tadpoles returns

The mystery of the raining tadpoles is back. On Monday morning, a man working in a field in front of his house in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, reported that he found about 10 tadpoles, which he suspects fell from the sky. Since last June, tadpoles falling from the sky have been reported in Ishikawa, Miyagi and Saitama [...]

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Marten killed ibises in Sado / Security camera footage, tracks point to weasel-like animal as culprit

The Environment Ministry announced Thursday that a marten killed nine of 11 Japanese crested ibis that were being prepared to return to the wild in a cage in Sado, Niigata Prefecture. The ministry said it found the small carnivore’s tracks inside the birds’ cage at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island. The 11 [...]

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Around-the-clock bird patrols to start at Haneda

With a fourth runway due to open in October at Haneda Airport, which experiences the largest number of bird strikes in the nation, the airport will start around-the-clock bird patrols in which staff plan to scare away birds with blank shots and fireworks. Bird strikes often occur during takeoff and landing. When a bird is [...]

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Cute Bird lights!!! 500yen

Set of 5 blue bird shaped lights (like big xmas tree lights). Very cute and nice for decorating a room. Birds are attached by pegs to whatever you want, but two pegs are broke, hence I’m selling for 500yen. The broken pegs don’t make much difference, they can just be hung down from something. Pick [...]

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Deer, birds, snakes giving rail firms grief

Local train routes that run through mountainous areas often are brought to a standstill by animals colliding with trains or inadvertently damaging power-line equipment. Cases of trains colliding with deer and wild boar occur more often than power outages. Since 2007, 51 such cases have resulted in train service delays. (Yomiuri)

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In Tokyo, Hitchcock isn’t around, but he seems to have sent the birds

The crows are back in town, swooping in from the suburbs, feasting on garbage in Ginza, cawing with impunity. “Yes, they have returned,” admitted Naoki Satou, the chagrined point man for the city’s eight-year-old war on crows. The conflict had gone Tokyo’s way until 2006, when the formidably beaked carrion-eaters launched a counterattack. The crow [...]

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