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Japan to ban 'Breeders'???
Topic: Japanese Tech
Hmmmm, I wonder what they plan to DO with that huge stock of bomb-grade plutonium they've been importing for use ing the fast breeders?

Japan nuclear panel to suggest dropping fast breeder reactors
Science: physical sciences news -AFP via Yahoo! May 11 2004 8:19AM GMT
...government panel is recommending a major shift in national nuclear energy policy away from developing fast breeder reactors to concentrating on conventional light-water reactor....

Racy bra for a losing nag
Topic: Japanese life
'Haru-urara' racehorse bra to promote ...Triumph has featured its decoratively embroidered bra of the popular heroine horse, loved not for her growing record of consecutive losses but for her determination. The bra also features a dye-technology that uses real carrots.

REUTERS/ May 13

killer haiku
Topic: Japanese life
Sitting under the moonlight
At the right time,
Comes a gentle breeze.


War criminals' poems uncovered
The Japan Times: May 12, 2004

Silly gaijin



Via http://arno.meulenkamp.net/japan/
Full size JPEG: http://arno.meulenkamp.net/japan/wine_at_fuji.jpg

Brewers blast boozing breastfeeders
Topic: Japanese life
Brewers warn breast feeders about booze risks
Mainichi Shimbun, May 11
Japan's major breweries will from June start adding warning labels directed at pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers about the risks alcohol consumption ...

She can play with my rod
Why Jpn fishing magazines are hot.

Via the The Shout OUT blog...

Geeky Japanese Case Mod
Via Akiba Hotline: It's a rather natty Thomas the Tank Engine project
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20040313/etc_thomas.html

Speed III: Right-wing bus bashes Chinese Consulate
Topic: Japanese life
Japan Right-Winger Rams Bus Into Chinese Consulate
Reuters - April 23
TOKYO - - A member of a Japanese right-wing group rammed a bus into the Chinese consulate in western Japan on Friday, protesting over China's claims to the Senkaku Islands.... known as the Diaoyus in China

Dressmaking: Best way to extend a Japanese study visa
Topic: adviceS
Immigration officials search schools for illegal workers
(IHT/Asahi: April 22, 2004) Worried that foreign students are using vocational schools as a cover to work illegally in Japan, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau searched 10 schools recently and found eight had problems accounting for their students. The schools were in Tokyo, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures. Many were dressmaking schools.... have seen a dramatic drop in Japanese students because there are fewer younger people due to a falling birthrate and the low popularity of sewing.
Foreign students are a godsend for school operators and possibly the future of the domestic industry for such products.

typical tokyo toe-wear
This is just your average pair of Tokyo shoes, hee, hee, really.

"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"

Tokyo high-jumper arrested after clearing 8ft!
Topic: Japanese life
Tokyo police nab high-rise burglar
Tokyo, , Apr. 22 (UPI) -- Tokyo police have arrested a man suspected of leaping from building to building and robbing them through unlocked upper-story windows.
Hiroyasu Tsuchiya, 47, is a former scaffolding worker...entered about 100 offices on the upper levels of buildings in Tokyo since last June, and stolen about $175,000.... jumped onto the balcony of a real estate company on the fourth floor of an office building April 8 from a neighboring building 8 feet away....

I hear Japanese voices in my head.
Topic: Japanese Tech
Hypersonic sound. This is a focused beam of sound used to deliver marketing noises or other messages in a very personal way. The sound is inaudible unless you walk into its narrow path.
---> New Scientist, " We hold these freedoms to be self-evident..."
It sounds entertaining.
Yes. It does have fun possibilities....it's sudden and it acts inside your head, as if you're hearing something through headphones..... installing this in soda machines right now on Tokyo's streets. As you walk past, you'll suddenly hear inside your head the sound of the ice cubes dropping into the glass and the soda making that "psst" can-opening noise. You are going to be startled, you won't know where the sound came from and then you'll realise, wow, I was just hijacked by an advertisement.

"It's me, send money" scam in Japan
Topic: Japanese life
'It's me' scammers dupe same woman twice
Mainichi/MDN, April 21, 2004
WAKAYAMA -- A woman fell victim to a pair of "it's me, send money" fraudsters twice after the scammers told her that the money she had deposited into their account was not enough,.... 54-year-old woman from Naga, Wakayama Prefecture, received a call ....from a young man who said he had been caught by a moneylender and was going to be taken away if he didn't pay..... the woman deposited about 1.4 million yen into the account. Later the same man called back and said the amount the woman had deposited was not enough, so the woman reportedly deposited a further 1.5 million yen into the account.
See also Captain Japan on this "ore ore sagi" scam.

'nother Nam.
Is there no stopping these numbskulls? Time to dust off the Cookbook...
Senator says US may need compulsory service to boost Iraq force
Tue Apr 20,12:34 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior Republican lawmaker said that deteriorating security in Iraq (news - web sites) may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft.
"There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq.
"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some ....

Scoop-the-Poop College: 'Your career is in the bag'
Yamazaki College: "Your career is in the bag"

1st junior college for animal caretakers launched
japantoday.com - Apr 21 2004 4:30:0 GMT
...Yamazaki College of Animal Health Technology aims to train "animal health technicians" to work in facilities ...
Official textbooks --->

Let's scorpion sushi!

Ginger and scorpion SUSHI

New York's Museum of Natural History's "Adventures in the Global Kitchen," a program that highlights cultures around the world through their cuisine.

Hmmmm. I wonder what part of Japanese cuisine features scorpion sushi, hee, hee?

Handicapped Sakura in Korea
The REAL Question is: "WHY IS THIS TRAIN AN EXACT COPY OF JAPAN AND IS SAKURA A HANDICAP IN KOREA?!"
Via http://www.delabit.com/nekobaba/

Banryu cell phone controlled robot
Topic: Japanese Tech
SANYO reveals new and improved "Banryu" home-robot


Robot Controlled By 3G Phone
20th April, 2004
...Banryu's friendly appearance, long dragon-like neck and its ability to walk and smoothly climb steps with its four legs are anticipated to draw attention
The robot can be controlled remotely through the local area network (LAN) using a personal digital assistant (PDA) or via a third generation (3G) mobile phone using images from the integrated camera placed in Banryu's head.
K-COOL! I WANT ONE TO TORMENT MY CAT FROM WORK.
"VERSION UP! It now looks like a "guard-dragon."

Japan is an upside-down world
Topic: Japanese life

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