An Ecuadorean judge has sentenced 20 Chinese crew members to jail and levied a $5.9 million fine after their ship was found with 300 tons of frozen marine animals apparently from the Galapagos reserve, including protected sharks. Judge Alexandra Arroyo announced late Sunday that the ...
While conventional but feature-rich cellphones are still in demand in Japan, one SoftBank executive says don't expect them to stick around forever. Known as "Galapagos phones," a reference to the high number of endemic species on the islands off Ecuador, the devices often have functions ...
"The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish." This gives a reader pause. Freakish? The judgment is historian Hiroshi Watanabe's in "A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901," ...
