The G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting was held this year in Kyoto, on June 26 and 27th. The Group of Eight, consisting of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the UK, take turns hosting the different meetings and final summit, and this year it just happened to be in Japan. While [...]

As I type this I am breezing by central Japan at a comfy 171mph in seat 14E of the Nozomi Superexpress 155 bound for Shin-Osaka. (Well ok I finished the rest of it like two weeks later sitting on my bed…)
After work on Friday, June 20th, in the pouring rain, I hailed a cab and [...]