A good place to start is the Japan Blog List. Here you can find blogs written both by Japanese people and foreigners, so you can explore different perspectives. The blogs also specialise in different aspects... (read more)

Real Madrid Club de Futbol, to give it its full name, dates back to 1902 (there was an earlier club with a different name going back to 1897). When it was founded by its president Carlos Patros it was known as the Madrid Football club, but it is basically... (read more)

If you type 'greatest golf player ever' in a search engine you will find a number of top 10 lists based on different criteria. The most carefully chosen lists are usually based on players' performance in the major world championships including the Masters... (read more)

Rachel Weisz is from England. She was born in London and grew up in the expensive and prestigious Hampstead Garden Suburb. Her father originally came from Hungary and her mother from Austria... (read more)

The most spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese, and increasingly schools in other countries are offering Mandarin as an option. However, it hasn't yet been adopted as a second... (read more)

If you mean the new Warner Bros movie that is scheduled to be released in 2015, the cast hasn't been announced yet and it's possible that they haven't even cast the main characters. Work doesn't start until 2013 and the script isn't written yet, though... (read more)

The easiest way, if you have digital photos, is probably to do it through a company like snapfish or similar. The procedure is quite simple - you upload your photos and then you use the 'picture organizer/manager'... (read more)

The weather in December is usually good; it's hot but not too hot to enjoy walking, safari etc. November and December in Tanzania can be rainy; it's the time known as the short rains, so less heavy than the March rains. While June to October is usually... (read more)

The traditional celebration begins on Christmas Eve with stockings (or a big sock or even a bag) being filled with small presents for the children (and sometimes adults too). Officially it's Santa Claus who fills these, so don't forget to leave a mince... (read more)

Caffeine occurs naturally in the plant from whose leaves tea is made (Thea sinensis) so it has to be taken out using one of these main methods: It can be removed using methylen chloride. This is used as a solvent in which the raw materials (in this case,... (read more)

Neither type 1 or type 2 diabetes can actually be cured at present, but there is a lot you can do to make type 2 more manageable. Especially if it is diagnosed early, changes... (read more)

All body hair goes in three phases - the growth phase (anagen), the transitional phase (catagen) when growth pauses and the resting phase (telogen) which is also the point when you are most likely to shed hair. The hair on your head, especially, has a... (read more)

Yes, it is. There have been countless predictions that the world will end at a certain date, and as soon as one date has come and gone somebody will come up with a new one. 21 December 2012 has been calculated as the date of the end of the world according... (read more)

The first full feature length zombie movie was White Zombie in 1932. It was produced and directed by the Halperin brothers and starred the famous horror actor Bela Lugosi as an evil voodoo practitioner... (read more)

If you click here you will find the Benetton store locator. If you then choose United Kingdom from the 'select country' button below the map you can look through the list of cities and find the nearest... (read more)

A cult film typically, but not always, is one that has a devoted fan base but isn't universally popular. Very often it's a film that wasn't successful on first release, or that the critics didn't like but some of the public did. Over time a cult film... (read more)

The main things you need are good red wine, a blend of spices, some fresh fruit - one orange at least , preferably a lemon too and maybe an apple - some sugar and a dash of spirits (I like brandy, but sweet liqueurs are good too). How much water you add... (read more)

If you put 'greatest ever cult movies' or similar in a search engine you will get links to several different lists, and of course they are all based on personal opinion so it's hard to choose. But this Movie... (read more)

Some of the advantages are that the mother may feel she has more control, as she will know when the baby is to be born, that the pregnancy will not run over the full term and, for many, that the anxiety about the approaching birth is less. Medical advantages... (read more)

When you join Stumbleupon it is a good idea to give yourself a good profile, with a photo and a good range of interests ticked, as users who are involved and visible on the site find it easier to get traffic... (read more)