Tag: AKIHABARA

In Japan, even the gods are computer literate. At the Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo, the faithful have been bringing their computers in for some tech-nical healing: according to a spokesman, the priests use ceremonies to ask the gods for help and protection for their computer, warding off viruses, hard drive failures, and generally buggery (not the pornographic kind). Certainly by no ...

Akihabara, a district in Tokyo, Japan, is known world-wide as the place to go for gadgets. Nowhere else on the planet offers the same access (or as many stores) to the latest (and weirdest) in technology, resulting in the place being a mob of shoppers at any given time. Sadly, over the weekend, it also turned into the scene of a horrible tragedy, with one man mowing down a group of pedestrians in ...