“In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how have Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings—500 or so wooden pagodas—remained standing for centuries? Records show that only two have collapsed during the past 1,400 years.”

“News and ideas from Canada & around the Anglican world”

“A time bomb is relentlessly clicking away in the worldwide Anglican Communion. If and when it explodes, gone from the see of Canterbury will be the majority of the estimated 80 million members in 44 national and regional churches birthed by the CofE.”

ya relax

Trash news from Japan

Tokyo’s underground flood management infrastructure (地下水管也可以拍的這麼漂亮)

Overworked Japanese salaryman public narcolepsy