[ full, unlicensed translation of article in September issue of Sekai by Tooru Shirakawa, a 24-year old journalist who has travelled to Afghanistan 5 times in the last 3 years to conduct research and make contact with local people. ]
In April 2009, my feet touched down again on Afghan soil. This was my fifth extended [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 26, 2009
The Situation in Afghanistan (Summer 2009)
August 24, 2009
Toyota in China re-call
Toyota Automobiles revealed on 24th August that the company has recalled around 680,000 passenger vehicles from customers in China. The re-called models include the mid-size ‘Camry’ sedan, the ‘Corolla’ sedan and the ‘Vios’ and ‘Yaris’ compact cars. Regular use of window ‘open/close’ switches in these vehicles can cause them to overheat and stop working.
According to [...]
August 18, 2009
Pre-Election Public Opinion Poll results
Asahi Shinbun today reports results to public opinion polls relating to support for political parties.
All figures are percentages, rounded to the nearest integer. This is only a selection of questions and answers from the survey. Where four figures appear in a row they represent results from surveys this year (2009) in the following order : [...]
August 13, 2009
64 gigabyte SD card
Toshiba unveiled a new SD card today that can store 64 gigabytes of data – amounting to around 12,000 high-quality still pictures or 16 hours of high-quality video images. Until now, the largest SD memory card on the market has a capacity of 32 gigabytes which is doubled by the new Toshiba card. It is [...]
