Robo-companions for Expo 2005 in Aichi Japan

RoRobot guides to be used during Aichi Expo

(Kyodo) Nov. 4 NAGOYA, Japan - A robot guide, to be used during the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, speaks four languages and expresses emotion. The expo will be held March 25 to September 25 near Nagoya.

Japanese bear left to die in DEEP shit

Bear trapped in garbage left to die

(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Nov. 4, 2004)
SHUNAN, Yamaguchi -- A bear found trapped in a garbage disposal hole will be left to die because it is already too weak to save.
Tokiyo Terato, a 76-year-old woman from Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, found the bear at about 8 a.m., Thursday, stuck in the 2-meter-deep garbage hole ....
....The bear was floating in water and garbage in the 1.5 by 5-meter hole with a 35-centimeter opening.
Believing it was too late to save the bear, the officials plan to leave it to die.

Traitor Charles Jenkins GUILTY of teaching English!
Jenkins pleads guilty to charges of desertion, aiding enemy
Kyodo / Wednesday November 3, 9:10 AM
U.S. Army sergeant Charles Jenkins on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion to North Korea in 1965 while serving in South Korea at the outset of a court-martial hearing held at the Army's Camp Zama near Tokyo.U.S. Army sergeant Charles Jenkins on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion to North Korea in 1965 while serving in South Korea at the outset of a court-martial hearing held at the Army's Camp Zama near Tokyo...
Jenkins also pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy by teaching North Koreans English. He pleaded not guilty to charges of encouraging disloyalty and soliciting other personnel to desert.

Heil to the Thief

Wal-Mart, YEAH!
The Gap, YEAH!
Baseball, YEAH!
NFL, YEAH!
Slavery, FYEAH!

Starbucks, YEAH!
Disney World, YEAH!
Porno, YEAH!
Valium, YEAH!
Nikes, YEAH!
Fake Teats, YEAH!
Taco Bell, YEAH!
Rodeos, YEAH!

Liberty, YEAH!
NRA, YEAH!
The Alamo, YEAH!
Las Vegas, YEAH!

Seeing-eye 3G keitai cam-cellphone
Scene and heard
October 30, 2004 The Sydney Morning Herald.
Sadao Hasegawa, a blind man in Japan, has set up a website called Telesupport Net which uses sighted volunteers to help visually impaired people using the video capabilities of 3G mobiles.
Blind users point their mobile's built-in camera at the place or object that they want to decipher, and the sighted person on the other end of the phone can report back to them immediately....

TeleSupport NET (the Japanese site) is a kind of "seeing eye" service that takes the video from a Keitai-phone held by a visually disabled person and channels it into a center where sighted people can interpret the physical environment for the person carrying the 3G cell-phone.

See also: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronnews02-12.html

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Our Lady of the Sea (Japanese love boat or floating crap game)

Buy a chapel with organ, outboards
November 1, 2004 / The Courier-Mail
REAL estate agents spruik the advantages of location, location, location.
With 360 degree water views, the Gold Coast's latest property listing certainly offers that--- and maybe even salvation, salvation, salvation.
What's claimed to be the world's only floating chapel, Our Lady of the Sea, has been put up for sale by a Japanese wedding company....
"A lot of couples have had very memorable weddings on board the chapel and we're hoping whoever buys it might continue the tradition."
Australian Wedding Blessings built the chapel in 1997 to cater for the lucrative Japanese wedding market and it has since become the Gold Coast's own love boat. ...
....It has a price tag of $250,000 -- priest not included.

See also the Our Lady of the Sea website.

Wahoo! Ride 'em quake cowboys
AFP/Getty Images - OJIYA, JAPAN:Japanese "cowboys" escort cows as they evacuate their livestock farm in Ojiya after the strong earthquakes that have jolted central Japan, 28 October 2004.

Charles Jenkins' butt-ugly daughters to boy hunt at Camp Zama Japan
Soga, daughters head to Camp Zama
japantoday > national
Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 12:07 JST
NIIGATA -- Hitomi Soga, a former abductee to North Korea, departed Thursday from Niigata Prefecture with her two daughters for a U.S. Army camp in Kanagawa Prefecture where her American husband's court-martial is scheduled next Wednesday....

BURRIED ALIVE! Japanese kid lives 4 days under quake rubble
Child survives under quake rubble for 4 days
(Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, Oct. 27, 2004)
An infant boy was rescued on Wednesday from a car that had been buried under large rocks for four days after being hit by a landslide triggered by Saturday's huge earthquakes, the Tokyo Fire Department said.
A helicopter arrived on the scene in the Myokenmachi district of Naganoka, Niigata Prefecture, to airlift the boy while rescue workers continue trying to free his mother and sister, who are alive. ...more....

Ronelda Mcdonald is a hot tomato!

Mo' betta than "Donald's Biscuits"* is McGRANDStyle with Ronelda Mcdonald and her metrosexual friend Gaynelda.

See:
Metrosexual Ronald Mcdonald .wmv video
Transexual Donnel Mcdonald .wmv video

*Ronald Mcdonald is called "Donald" in Japan to avoid futher embarassment I guess.

Japanese box living

Life in a box.

Via the the Gadget Watch newsletter, 10/25/04Gadget Watch No. 166
Yamaha MyRoom
Category: Room within a room
Equipped; Ready for Ethernet, TV cable, and two phone lines
Price: Natural: 438,900 yen, Standard: 522,900 yen, Deluxe: 627,900
Release date in Japan: November 1st, 2004
Yamaha MyRoom website (in Japanese)

Team Samurai is "provocative"

Japan, Allies on 'Team Samurai' Anti-WMD Sea Drill

Reuters via Yahoo! News / Oct 26
Ships from Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called hostile and provocative.....
...The drill, dubbed "Team Samurai," is the 12th in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative but the first to be held in the backyard of North Korea, a clear focus of the exercise....
..."The only people who have anything to worry about from PSI [anti-proliferation initiative] are proliferators," Bolton, U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, told reporters as the Izu, a Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessel, set off under cloudy skies.

Japan

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Psychedelic car paint job for only 20,000 yen in Nagoya Japan
Bungling bank robber busted after putting paint-stained car in for repairs

(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Oct. 22, 2004)

NAGOYA -- A bank robber has been arrested after a car repair shop became suspicious over paint marks covering his vehicle...

...Miyamoto grabbed a pile of 10,000-yen bills from a clerk and fled.

Branch manager Takayuki Inagaki gave chase and hurled a paint-stained [sic] rubber ball at the robber...
...Shortly after, Miyamoto visited a car repair shop in Komaki, about 10 kilometers from the bank branch, and left after ordering the paint be removed. An employee of the shop became suspicious about the paint-stained car and alerted police...

... only bills on the top and bottom of the pile were real 10,000-yen bills.

Killer 'Shooms strike Japan
Japan inspects mushroom after four people die of sudden fever Agence France-Presse / Tokyo, October 22
Japanese health officials said Friday they were investigating a possible danger from mushrooms after at least four people believed to have eaten a local variety died of a sudden fever.
Three of the victims died in Niigata Prefecture, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northeast of Tokyo, where they were among 11 people in their 50s to 80s who fell ill, officials said.
All 11 people, who already suffered from poor kidneys, came down with acute fever and convulsions this month about two weeks after eating wild white mushrooms known as sugihiratake...

Hmm, concrete's not so bad after all.
Topic: Concrete Japan

"Sometimes when I go home, and I'm standing in the three-chins-or-less line at Walmart, I think, hmm, concrete's not so bad after all."

--dingosatemybaby

MAGGOTS! feast on Japanese patients
Maggots allowed to feast on diabetics
Surgeon prevents amputations by applying old therapy to festering sores
OKAYAMA (Kyodo) Oct. 22, 2004 - - A Japanese heart surgeon is successfully treating diabetics via a method once used by Australian aborigines and Native Americans -- maggot therapy....

See also: Larval therapy "cost effective" for treating venous wounds

Is China Inc gonna make all the same bonehead mistakes as Japan Inc?
China Inc. Quickly Raising Global Profile?
SHANGHAI, China, Oct 21, 2004 (AP Online via COMTEX) --
....China Inc. is fast raising its international profile with a corporate buying spree, spending billions on companies and resources to feed its growing industrial juggernaut. ....
....China's largest drug manufacturer, Sanjiu Enterprise Group, bought a majority stake in Japanese pharmaceutical maker Toa Seiyaku Inc. It was eyeing the drug unit of cosmetics giant Kanebo before its expansion ....
....The close ties between government and business - much closer, even, than in Japan - might be a liability but they also give Chinese companies leverage, consultant Broadfoot said. The Chinese, said, "have the ability to argue with foreign companies that 'if you want access to our market, you have to sell us a stake in your company."'

"Paper-form factors" VS "dead trees"
BuzzWack.com gave this newly-minted definition for
paper-form factors: Geek-speak for printed matter, particularly distasteful, old-fashioned things, such as newspapers and books.

It was real fun to see that entry for the BUZZWORD of the DAY "paper-form factors". However, proper geek speak is "DEAD TREES" to make disparaging remarks about printed material.

Here are the results of googlefights between "paper-form factors" (13 examples) and "dead trees" (127,000 examples) in the computer field:
paper-form factors" vs "dead trees"
paper-form factors" + computers vs "dead trees" + computers

TRUST THE CORPUS.