Verena from Pingmag has written a feature about Japanese bathhouse culture.
Verena from Pingmag has written a feature about Japanese bathhouse culture.
The Metropolitician tries to account for the Internet and cultural barriers to content production with the presence of conglomerates in the industry.
A fire burned down a hotel in a small town in An Hui province, 1 dead, 3 seriously injured when jumping down. It grabs the attention of blogsphere, however, not because it being thought as a tragedy, but that the 4 are all local officials long living there. It’s questioned whether that is a waste of public money for their living in the luxury hotel every day.
Chinese blogger Yang-zhizhu (杨支柱) sighed for the tragedy that a pair of parents choked their daughter so that they can have a boy under the cap of birth control in China, railing against the policy as forcing people to abandon “excessive” girls. In Chinese tradition, boys are much weighed over girls.
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Those were a beatiful set of photos that nicely capture a wonderful Japanese tradition.