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• President Obama has declared war on the yakuza (pictured above). (Japan Subculture)
• This is how to not hold a press conference: the railway signals company blamed for the Wenzhou train crash fails. (Shanghaiist)
• Celebrating Ramadan in Singapore? There’s a web app for that. (Penn Olson)
• A Japanese actor was fired after he ranted online about Korean TV dramas. (Japan Probe)
• More Japanese (85%) have a favorable opinion of the U.S. than Americans (79%). (Pew Global via Japundit)
• Fans of Kim Jaejoong, a.k.a. Hero, donate 6.56 tons of rice to charity. (allkpop)
• Foxconn will employ one million presumably unsuicidal robots to make your iPads. (Xinhua)
• A North Korean diplomat visited New York for two days of “constructive” talks. (Washington Post)
• PhD candidate Joel Hartse discusses the role of the English language in China. (Cha)
• American Apparel is selling rice paddy hats as ”Conical Asian Hats” for $15 USD. (Disgrasian)

(image via Let’s Play Archive)