[davidw]

No condescension; I just said it's not hacker news, and indeed, it looks like it got zapped.

Interestingly enough, there's another Japan story on the front page:

http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japane...

Despite not being about startups or hacking, per se, that one strikes me as being much more on topic. It's more "deeply" (rather than shallowly) interesting, it's informative, and it tells you about something that most of us probably know little about. It's not political, it's not designed to anger you... it's just interesting.