Why, oh Buddha, why?
Oh why do these guys go for foam? 
See Dakimakura/pillow love...
Friday, February 6, 2004
Pillow talk for gamers
 Getting in Bed With the Customer WIRED / 02:00 AM Feb. 06, 2004 PT...to celebrate the Japanese release of Dead or Alive Online next month, Microsoft is rolling out a special edition Xbox set with an extra-special bonus -- a dakimakura, or "hugging pillow," that features a life-size, front-and-back print of teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini.
"For relaxing times.....make it Suntory time." Wry Whiskey Humor NY Newsday / Liz Smith / Feb 5 FORGET ABOUT the Oscar; Bill Murray has other concerns. The "Lost in Translation" star says, "I keep looking in my mailbox to see if Suntory whiskey is going to send me a check for doing the commercial in the movie!" .... "I'm still drinking the alcohol, but no offers from Japan for commercials yet!"
Get's Tinfoil Hats!
Japan's nearly-dead airline industry looks for more expenses...FLY ME!  Save me!  Airplane crews seek state steps for protection from cosmic raysKyodo / Friday February 6, 10:41 AMPilots and cabin crews of Japanese airlines on Friday urged the government to take steps to protect them from exposure to cosmic radiation, measures they say are long overdue. The Airline Pilots Association of Japan and the cabin crew association presented the request to science minister Takeo Kawamura....
Does the "carpet have to match the drapes"?
  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 ...
Safety Pooping, DRINK Kirin!
 Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-FreeFri 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.
YES! This is what Tokyo is all about.
 Eat your hearts out.
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Harry's new Firebolt is being sold next to my office
 First look at Harry's new Firebolt from 'Azkaban' PopularCharmed 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.
'JAP' ad for AT&T Japan
 AT&T Wireless sorry for ad gaffeTech 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.
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!  Via the Japanese Tokyo Fuku-blog.
Janet Jackson is Bush's titty grabber Justin Girls Gone Wild Paris Hilton
  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?
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 shameJustin McCurry in Tokyo Thursday February 5, 2004 / The Guardian
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
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As well known, Valentine's Day is when men judge their worth by the number of boxes of chocolate they receive at their Japanese workplace. However, today is Friday the 13th, many guys won't be in the office to collect their love bounty and many OLS will be snaking out of the giri-choco/chocolate obligations. 
