The little village of Kizu where I (and exactly 423 other gaijin)'ve been living may not have much nightlife or even a 24-hour konbini, but apparently it does have its own space-time...

When one of your colleagues in the government, say a foreign minister negotiating with North Korea, gets a bomb threat, what would be the responsible thing for the governor of Tokyo to say? "He deserved it," of course! At least the US government isn't the only one with hardline wackos in power.