It has been reported that the light novel series, Zero no Tsukaima (The Familiar of Zero) author, Noboru Yamaguchi has cancer [...]

It has been months since I last blogged about the swine flu. H1N1 isn’t a big deal in my country right now – probably because everyone have been taking extra precautions when they go out. Right now, Japan is preparing to import new flu vaccines against the H1N1 influenza.

Japanese manufacturers began producing new-flu vaccines in late July, but the ministry estimates that doses for only 13 million to 17 million people will be available by the year end.
Hm I guess it’s whether you are responsible when you are out. Like …

For the past two weeks, I have been down with a horrible dry cough. You should heard seen me complaining on Twitter ^_^”. While your typical coughs can be treated with cough medicines, dry cough is different. I have been given cough suppressants – which suppresses my urge to cough, but my surroundings are still making me cough. LOL.

Today, I am still suffering from cough. The cough syrup I was on yesterday almost made me puke for some reason. I guess my stomach is starting to react to the medication …

Yazawa Ai, Author of the manga NANA has been anounced ill enough that the publication of her series has been halted till further notice. If I remember correctly this isn’t the first time this is happened; my best wishes go out in hopes that she gets better as soon as possible.  (source-MAL)
Nana is a Josei manga/anime about two young women that both share the name Nana and how by an odd turn of fate their destinies interlapped. A Drama series dealing with Romance, Rock music, sex and drugs, its not …

Just when swine flu alert is going lower in Asia, Japan has been hit with the flu. A total of 283 cases(as of Thursday 21 May 2009) have been report in Japan alone. The first two cases of Swine Flu has been confirmed in Tokyo on Wednesday. Having reached Tokyo, one may wonder whether the flu would spread rapidly in Japan..
A 16-year-old girl in Hachioji, western Tokyo, was diagnosed with the new flu strain after coming back from a visit to New York from May 11 to 18, metropolitan …

Swine flu reaches Japan! Three Japanese males from Osaka who returned from the United States have been confirmed to be infected swine flu, making them the first cases of Japanese nationals to contract the new flu.

The three—a high school teacher in his 40s and two teenage students from Osaka—had been staying in Oakville, Canada, on a school trip from April 24 and arrived at Narita airport from Detroit at around 4:30 p.m. Friday on a Northwest Airlines flight.
During a quarantine inspection onboard the airplane, the three, who have …

Seems that my fear is coming true.. ><
It is being reported that a Japanese woman who came to Japan on April 30th 2009 may be infected with swine flu. The particular woman, arrived in Japan via a North America Airline flight from L.A.

The passenger, a Japanese woman, was transported from the airport by ambulance to Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital. The woman, accompanied by quarantine officers wearing protective suits, walked into the hospital without assistance.
Around 10 other passengers who were seated nearby will be transported to another facility by …