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Friday, February 6, 2004

Does the "carpet have to match the drapes"?
bright red hair Japanese

Japan Factoid: It's much higher percentage now, but....
"one [2001] survey that 68% of women in Japan had dyed hair".
Via NIPPONIA No.12 / March 15, 2002
Who Said Japanese People
Have Black Hair?

Via MDN: WaiWai By Ryann Connell / August 1, 2002
... Hair dye sales have two boom periods over summer in Japan -- once at the start when young women gear up to go on overseas jaunts and kids on holidays escape ...

Posted by trek/taro at 11:56 AM JST
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:19 PM JST
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Safety Pooping, DRINK Kirin!
beer rats drinking

Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-Free

Fri January 30, 2004 05:12 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking beer or eating certain components found in the beverage seems to protect against colon cancer in rats, new research shows.... In the new study, Dr. Hajime Nozawa, from Kirin Brewery Co. in Yokohama, Japan, and colleagues assessed the ability of beer or its components to prevent a type of chemically induced colon cancer in rats. The results are reported in the International Journal of Cancer.

Posted by trek/taro at 10:39 AM JST
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YES! This is what Tokyo is all about.

Eat your hearts out.

Posted by trek/taro at 12:10 AM JST
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:13 AM JST
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Thursday, February 5, 2004

Harry's new Firebolt is being sold next to my office
Harry Potter's Firebolt from Azkaban

First look at Harry's new Firebolt from 'Azkaban' Popular

Charmed By Dan / Feb 4, 2004,11:05 PM
... A Japanese shop that offers official Harry Potter merchandise and memorablilia had its grand opening, and she shot some wonderful pictures of the eventopens in new window, including a couple of props from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
The store, Harry Potter Collections, is located in a mallopens in new window at Queens Square Yokohama....
I will try to find it in 45 minutes.

Posted by trek/taro at 4:17 PM JST
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 1:41 PM JST
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'JAP' ad for AT&T Japan
bad words like JAP

AT&T Wireless sorry for ad gaffe

Tech Digest / Feb 5--AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has put itself up for sale, apologized for newspaper ads using an abbreviation for the word Japan that it said was misspelled "in an offensive way." The ads used the abbreviation "JAP" in a chart referring to prices for calls to Japan.

Posted by trek/taro at 3:42 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 4:18 PM JST
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Chicken Flu Fighter for the coming Tokyo funk flu

Avian Infuenza? Bah. Humor is the best medicine!

I present Rob Pongi and his new, improved SUPER COMEDY CHICKEN PROP
Six foot six inches of rubber chicken fun! super six foot rubber chicken

Via the Japanese Tokyo Fuku-blog.

Posted by trek/taro at 3:20 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 3:25 PM JST
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Janet Jackson is Bush's titty grabber Justin Girls Gone Wild Paris Hilton
nipple

Janet Jackson titty exposed!

This Janet Jackson is just a revealing thought of Justin Timberlake rapist Boob-grabber and Girls Gone Wild Paris Hilton! Is this a Google F_odder kind of sentence, or not?! And note the wardrobe malfunction pictures above. Now, can I get some hits, pleeeeeease?

Posted by trek/taro at 2:17 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 2:42 PM JST
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Are Japanese teen hookers exempt from curfew?
According to this article working girls are exempted from new curfew.

Quote:
...Tatsuo Mizuno, head of child welfare at the Tokyo metropolitan government, says the regulations will not restrict freedom of movement.
"Teenagers who have good reason to be at these places during the curfew, say for work, will not be affected," he said.
"Tokyoites of all ages have lots of reasons to be out late at night...

Tokyo's mission to clean up its streets of shame

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Thursday February 5, 2004 / The Guardian

Posted by trek/taro at 1:09 PM JST
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The Little Guy ALWAYS gets squeezed.

Ok, I've got a friend who sells Lord of the Rings stamps online he buys from the New Zealand Post Office. It's a nice little sideline--easy money--he offers great service. However, now he's been "busted" for infringing on the trademarks owned by Tolkien Enterprises EVEN THOUGH THESE ARE JUST POST OFFICE STAMPS sold to the public. Sheesh. Does the Little Guy ALWAYS get screwed?

He writes: Loads of news starting with a pending hearing before the Arbitration Forum http://www.arbitration-forum.com on all my lord rings stamps and coins website registrations. Going on their past ruling which have been very generous to the trademark holders I expect to lose. Background: Trademarks are issued in classes i.e. many companies have Apple in their name and can lay claim to www.apple.com (but not www.applecomputer.com), and before registering lord-rings-stamps.com I check that none of the trademarks owned by Tolkien Enterprises covered postage stamps or coinage. Unfortunately the decisions so far rendering in most domain disputes have tended to favor trademark holders even when their area of business was different from the supposed infringer.

http://www.lord-rings-stamps.com/domain_dispute.html

Posted by trek/taro at 11:12 AM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 11:18 AM JST
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Lost in Translation: an accurate portrayal
It's too "accurate."
Lost in Translation
interview /05.02.2004

Acclaimed director and famous daughter Sofia Coppola talks ... about family, Tokyo and how her new film really isn't about her own failed marriage...
...We turn to the character of the hotel bar singer, washed up and torturing Scarborough Fair.
"She's the real singer in the bar," points out Coppola. It's my turn to look incredulous.
"I know," she smiles. "It was a little bit delicate, but I thought she was a good sport about it."
...If the satire in Lost in Translation is unflinchingly sharp, Coppola can do subtle, too. The timid love story between Charlotte and Bob is tender, poignant and mercifully chaste..."So no, there was no sex scene that we cut out for the DVD."

Posted by trek/taro at 10:51 AM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 4:22 PM JST
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Where's his 9,300-yr-old baggage?

Is this just a very lost Japanese tourist?

Court: Scientists Can Study Kennewick Man
Associated Press - Feb 4
PORTLAND, Ore. - Scientists can study the Kennewick Man - 9,300-year-old remains found in Washington state - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday....it is one of the oldest, most complete skeletons found in North America, with characteristics unlike modern Indians.
... The University of Michigan anthropology professor wants to learn Kennewick Man's origins, and said he might be related to people in prehistoric Japan. ...

Posted by trek/taro at 10:20 AM JST
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:14 AM JST
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B U Z Z W O R D O F T H E D A Y

WARDROBE MALFUNCTION:
-- A term that could
not be found in the 3,307,998,701 Web
pages searched by Google until uttered by
Justin Timberlake to explain Janet
Jackson's Super Bowl unveiling.

---B U Z Z W O R D _ O F _ T H E _ D A Y--

To see the full Buzzword Compliant Dictionary, http://www.buzzwhack.com

Posted by trek/taro at 9:55 AM JST
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Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Get's Chocolate Sushi heartful!

Chocolate Sushi – The Most Unique Valentine’s Day Gift!
Feb 3 / eMediaWire (Enhanced Media Wire)
See also www.kookisushi.com

Posted by trek/taro at 5:32 PM JST
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Japan has plenty Hitler art fans

Japan to display Hitler painting
BBC News, UK - Feb 4

... A spokesman for the film's Japanese distributor acknowledged that displaying a picture by the dictator may fuel allegations that Japan was indifferent ...

Posted by trek/taro at 3:14 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 3:24 PM JST
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The 'real' Japan continues to elude NY Times reporters

The 'real' Japan continues to elude filmmakers
New York Times- Feb 4 ---In the climactic battle of Kill Bill Vol. 1, Quentin Tarantino's bloody revenge flick, O-Ren Ishii, the kimono-clad yakuza chieftess played by Lucy Liu, turns to Uma Thurman's blonde, blue-eyed Bride, and caustically remarks: "Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords." The Bride turns out to be pretty good with her blade, but the sentiment might well be an epigraph for this season of subtitles and samurai. Blogarama

Posted by trek/taro at 2:27 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 8:00 PM JST
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Soon to be Chinese-replaced
Honda workers to demand record-high bonus of 6.6 months salary
(Kyodo) - Feb 4, 12:08 pm - - - The labor union of Honda Motor Co. will demand a record-high annual bonus equivalent to 6.6 months salary during this year's spring wage negotiations, union members said Wednesday.

Posted by trek/taro at 2:12 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 4:16 PM JST
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My answer to Bowling for Columbine

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy.

Posted by trek/taro at 2:04 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 4:21 PM JST
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Janet Jackson has Just a Little out
Janet Jackson has another, um, single out
Feb. 4, 2004 12:00 AM--- Proving there's no such thing as bad publicity, Virgin Records digitally delivered Janet Jackson's new track, Just a Little]...

Posted by trek/taro at 1:57 PM JST
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Via the "Qazmon blog at livejournal, give you X-BOX pizza! Please note that in Japanese, "X-BOX" is pronounced Batsu Box, which means NO-GOOD BOX, hee, hee.
Blogarama

Posted by trek/taro at 12:40 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 8:02 PM JST
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Get's hobby!

Over at Lee's blog http://www.lee-chapman.com/tokyo_times/2004/02/oh_dear.html he observed:
"I don?t know whether you are aware of it or not, but groping on trains is not exactly uncommon in Japan. It?s so prevalent in fact, that it could almost be viewed as a hobby....
This is when 47 year-old Mitsuru Nagasaki stepped up to join the fray. Kindly taking it upon himself to help a group of falsely accused men. Now the only problem with this is that he has gone and got himself a suspended six month prison sentence.
And for what? Surreptitiously taking a photograph up the skirt of a woman sitting opposite him on the subway. That?s what.

All I can add is that the "standard" (inane) question that all Japanese are required by law to ask aliens is: "What is your hobby?"
I always have answered, "CHIKAN desu." (Molester)...Not one Japanese in 20+ years balked at that hobby. Go figure.
Blogarama

Posted by trek/taro at 12:08 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 8:01 PM JST
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