www.abbotts-web.com/shop/index.html These are the four most important maps on the Web for anyone living in Japan. They guide you to the latest U.S. fast-food chain mining the country for franchise locations. And if you were happy when Starbucks and Tully's jumped across the Pacific, wait till you try frozen custard, which makes ice cream taste like soda water. Oh, the chain is called Abbott's; it's out of New York.
www.net-ibaraki.ne.jp/aboys/jreport.htm A rather concise essay on how capitalism and consumerism have trashed Japan. Find out who "the single-most environmentally destructive corporate force on Earth" is. There's plenty of scary stuff here that'll make you want to stick your head in the sand.
rainforest.care2.com Or if you don't want to do the ostrich thing you can type in the above URL and click to save a patch of rain forest. The Spudster just gave 12.4 sq. feet (1.2 sq. meters) of forest the chance to photosynthesize some more oxygen for the 6 billion-plus of us. Now if I could just get rid of all my used PET bottles as easily.