World's oldest "students" protest in Tokyo
Caption:
TOKYO, JAPAN: Member of a left-wing students' group [Zengakuren] raise their fists as they shout slogans during a demonstration near the American embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, 09 November 2004, AFP/Getty Images

FREE JOHN HINKLEY!

Hinckley Hearing
Prosecutors Want To Limit Outings

Washinton Post
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2004; Page B01
Lawyers for John W. Hinckley Jr. and federal prosecutors argued yesterday over whether the presidential assailant's ongoing relationship with a former mental patient could make him dangerous if he wins extended and unsupervised visits to his parents' home in Williamsburg.

"Photocapacitor" aka solar cell and battery combined by Japanese reseacher in Aoba, Yokohama
Here's a "Photocapacitor" aka solar cell and battery combined by Japanese reseacher in Aoba, Yokohama near my house, He has put a solar cell and a battery into one structure..
A new type of solar cell
physicsweb.org / 4 November 2004 (Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 3932).
Scientists in Japan have made the first device that can convert solar energy into electricity and then store the resulting electric charge. The "photocapacitor" designed by Tsutomu Miyasaka and Takurou Murakami at Toin University in Yokohama could be used to power mobile phones and other hand-held devices ....

Eco-globe Bra holds 2 Japanese boobs / globes with corn, hemp & paper
Mon Nov 8,11:49 PM ET / REUTERS... model Yu Misaki shows off the Eco-globe Bra, which has cups that join together to form a palm-sized green globe...The brassiere, licensed for the Expo 2005 Aichi Japan and not for general sale, uses environmentally-friendly materials such as corn, Deccan hemp and paper which can all be recycled.

Hey, where's the fire buddy?
Fire engine fatally runs over man walking on sidewalk
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Nov. 8, 2004).
... Investigators are questioning Sasaki on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death.

Gwen Gothic Lolita's Malice in Wunderland
What you Waiting for? Gwen Stefani's rehash video of an Alice in Wonderland meets giggling Japanese school girls fetishization.
In the song I heard, "gwen ha suru no which means Is gwen doing - or will gwen do it?
Does anybody have an idea if the fake school girls are actually somebody famous in Japan?

"Please up the Volue. ..." (sic engrish)
This Japanese webpage site for the infamous crook, Muneo Suzuki of the Liberal Democratic Party is Hall-of-Fame material for bad site design
http://www.muneo.gr.jp/flash.html

Japanese ex-political heavyweight fined, given two-year jail term?
A once-influential Japanese lawmaker from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling party was handed a two-year jail term and fined 11 million yen (US$104,000; euro 81,000) Friday on bribery and perjury charges.
Muneo Suzuki, formerly a heavyweight in the most powerful faction of Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was arrested in June 2002.
Tokyo District Court judge Shoichi Yagi found Suzuki guilty Friday on two counts of bribery, one count of hiding political donations and one count of perjury, said court spokesman Hideaki Wada.

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Japanese Prison: No place like home for the elderly & gaijin
Prisoners top 60,000 for 1st time in over 40 years
Mainichi Shimbun, Nov 5
The number of prisoners in Japan exceeded the 60,000 mark last year for the first time in 43 years, a Justice Ministry report showed Friday. ...
....The number of elderly and foreign prisoners has shown marked increases. At the end of 2003, 6,683 people aged 60 or over were serving prison terms, over 10 times the figure of three decades ago. Elderly people account for about 11 percent of all the inmates, as compared with 2 to 4 percent in the United States, Britain, Germany and France.<

Six months in Japan jail for leafleting
Damn, these folks got 6 months for leafleting a condo just like my condo is leafleted everyday with 'pink chirashi' porn everyday.
6-month terms sought for 'prisoners of conscience' in Japan

Kyodo News / Nov 4, 2004 04:56pm.

---Prosecutors on Thursday demanded six months in prison for three activists recognized by Amnesty International as "prisoners of conscience," saying they trespassed in residential quarters to distribute leaflets opposing the deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq.

At the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court, the lawyer for the three -- two men and a woman -- said they are not guilty, declaring that "It is a violation of the freedom of expression to prosecute them just because they made a political statement."

The prosecution said, "It is clearly illegal to enter other people's property without permission from the management."

But the defense argued distributing leaflets in mailboxes is common in Japan.

CANNIBAL BABIES! says Tokyo Metro. Institute of Medicine

CANNIBAL BABIES!

Newborn babies feed on themselves
BBC News / Nov 4, 2004 04:56pm.
Babies survive the period immediately after birth by feeding on the content of their own cells, research suggests.
Right after birth babies face sudden and severe starvation as they have lost their nutrient supply from the placenta, but have yet to drink milk.
It appears they bridge the gap by breaking down cells, and releasing essential nutrients.
The study, by Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, is published in Nature.

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.