BBC News Really Behind The Times This Time

The BBC have got around to writing about internet cafes in Japan (link) referring to them as “the latest craze occupying Japan’s urban young.” Hmmm. Let’s set aside the fact that the old manga kissaten were already pretty well established when I got here five years ago, and instead travel back in time to just one year ago, right here at sushimatic.

In a post entitled ‘Calm Down’, I took a look at a Scotsman article about manga kissaten that was very froth at the mouth on the whole topic of these accursed internet pods.

Interestingly, the Scotsman article is still online should you wish to see how up to the minute and with it the BBC really are.

Link.

The BBC article really doesn’t seem to have much to say except “I went to an internet cafe. w00t. It was teh r0xx0r. LOLZ!!11″

Monday, May 21st, 2007 Japan, Japanese Culture Trackback URL for this entry