Japan: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Transport Authority lets a "man" in a women-only train car. Read the story to know why "man" is in quotation marks.

Newsweek desecrates the American flag. No riots, no killing, no deaths. Unlike flushing a book down the toilet. TM Lutas has more. The story instalanched our friend Gaijinbiker.

Relatedly, Gaijinbiker's Riding Sun was also sarcastically attacked by Daily Kos today over his criticism of A.P. photojournalists. Congrats!

Nihon's central bank says Japan has conquered deflation

Korea: The self-promoting tdaxp segues from electrons to Killing Kim.

South Korea should focus more on the North. After all, there is no South Korean mafia, so there are no problems at home.

Remember how South Korea was going to free her currency? Never mind!

China: How long before an important blog mentions Gaijinbiker condemning China for banning naked sushi. Sure, the self-promoting tdaxp has, but I said important blog.

South Asia: Pakistan lectures the Middle East on globalization.

There has to be a better way of running tsunami relief operations in Sri Lanka.

Central Asia: Elections in Mongolia.

You probably already knew that Karasuv, Uzbekistan was retaken by government forces. But how long can the government hold out against American criticism. And President-for-Life Islam Karimov have a hard landing.

South West Asia: Josh Landis attacks immediate Regime Change in Syria. It will happen anyway.

Thanks to Bush and Chirac, Lebanon is already free.