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Sunday, February 22, 2004

Japanese "Love by Mail"
Japanese Love Mail

Japan?s Internet dating services: The weird and the dangerous
Tokyo Weekender / feb 20
....Men can pay a fee to have access to the mobile phone numbers of schoolgirls. Often, the male callers arrange to meet the girls, who sign up voluntarily and register their phone numbers. The Japan Internet Association (JIA), a non-governmental organization, reports that one in three high school girls own a mobile phone that has Internet functions. ...more than 30,000 Japanese men pay \500 per month for the privilege of sending romantic e-mails to a computer that responds with pre-programmed scripts. It?s called ?Love by Mail.?
The male subscribers get to choose a virtual girlfriend from a diverse lineup of women including bartenders, flight attendants, office workers and teachers. After making their selection, they begin to date these cyber gals via e-mail. When asked to explain his attraction to his virtual girlfriend.....
Another unnamed subscriber proclaims, ?I dated Hiroko (virtual name) for a while, and I have to confess I became very attached to her. It was hard sometimes to remember Hiroko wasn't real. She would argue with me and ignore me the same way as all my other girlfriends.?
See also the BBC Click Online story.

Posted by trek/taro at 10:09 PM JST
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Elvis is alive in Japan
Elvis

Ladies and gentlemen - elvis pongi! - live from the rabbit hutch

Via f'ed G.com

Posted by trek/taro at 4:32 PM JST
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Cho cute Japanese

Shamlessly ripped off from the grrrreat Nekobaba site.

Posted by trek/taro at 3:51 PM JST
Updated: Sunday, February 22, 2004 3:51 PM JST
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twisto Toshio

Be sure to click on the PDFs of this twisto artist, Toshio Saeki .
It's art, so don't go whinging about it being NSF, Not Safe for Work. The artsy wallpaper is kool too Download

Posted by trek/taro at 12:58 AM JST
Updated: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:59 AM JST
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Saturday, February 21, 2004

Have you seen a Lert?
magan kid terrorists

What a farce...the Japanese police haven't clue about terror and won't know what to do if they found a terrorist since their guns are never loaded. Sheesh.
Japan raises security alert against possible terror attack - - Associated Press / Feb 21
Tokyo - Japan ordered riot police to patrol airports and guard nuclear plants and beefed up security at other key facilities nationwide, in a precaution against terror ..the alert sent a shiver through global financial markets, knocking the Japanese yen to a 10-week low against the US dollar on Friday.

Posted by trek/taro at 6:46 PM JST
Updated: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:50 PM JST
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Alien flu invasion via wild ducks!
I've been watching the mass murder of poultry all day on Japanese TV because I'm home sick with some sort of damn flu. Arrrr. Now I'm on the lookout from those mucking ducks!

Hygiene center destroys 83 chickens from shrine amid bird flu scareTSU, Feb. 21 Kyodo ...Mie prefectural government said Saturday they have destroyed 83 pet chickens kept by a local Shinto shrine due to public concerns over bird flu, although the birds were healthy....The shrine did not want the presence of the birds to scare away visitors amid growing public fears over avian influenza, they said.

Killer bird flu hits new speciesToronto Star / Feb 21... Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan ? all keen to keep the virus from their borders ...likely spread by wild ducks....

Posted by trek/taro at 6:26 PM JST
Updated: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:30 PM JST
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D'oh! Japanese nuke plant burns, AGAIN!

D'oh! 'Nucular' terror the Japanese Way
This is the third nookyooler fire in Japan: it must be Homer Simpson has found a job in Japan. I used to think Japan was the only country anal-retentive enough to successfully run nuke plants in terms of maintenance and quality security but this is getting laughable. The fire was caused open burning of trash next to the nuke building. Sheesh.

Fire breaks out at Japanese nuclear plant
Seattle Post Intelligencer, Feb 21
TOKYO -- A fire briefly broke out Saturday on the roof of a Japanese nuclear power plant that was shut down for regular inspections ...

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Friday, February 20, 2004

Your subway stalker: VAAM+ advertising

I never noticed this while I was in the new Minato Mirai subway but it sounds CREAPful enough for me....via the dottocomu blog:

"A glimpse of the future: interactive ads?
.....an experiment into interactive advertising in the new Minato Mirai subway linking Tokyo's Shibuya with Yokohama: it will have a system set up in a concourse tunnel that detects pedestrian movements via a brace of TV cameras and uses the information to alter the images (art, local information, and advertising) projected on the tunnel walls..."
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Posted by trek/taro at 3:59 PM JST
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Japanese Korean sex slave photos burned

Sexslave photos burned

And here's the "COMFORT" pix...

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/02/14/200402140020.asp

Lee emphasized she has no plans to exploit comfort women for commercial means, her photographs and mobile images are going to be offered via books and mobile service, leaving the public unconvinced.

Lee who had been denying rumors that she had nude photographs taken in Palau until acknowledged that there are pictures of her bare chest and released some pictures during the news conference. Lee is scheduled to leave for Japan to take more photographs for the second part of the three-part project.

Posted by trek/taro at 12:38 PM JST
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Thursday, February 19, 2004

"GET'S" has become a Japanese fetish in ads

"GET'S" has become a Japanese fetish in advertising

Posted by trek/taro at 10:39 PM JST
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Get smarts! (Japanese way)
Hi honey, want some English injections?
Teacher busted for molesting girl with 'smart treatment'

MDN, Feb. 18, 2004 / YOKOHAMA -- A cram school operator who molested a girl after claiming he was a doctor and had a special treatment that would "make her clever" has been arrested...fictitiously told students at his school that he was a qualified doctor and had a stethoscope and X-ray images in his office.... told her he would treat her to make her clever before undressing and molesting her...

Posted by trek/taro at 4:57 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:01 PM JST
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Sneak JPN Attack on Wonder Woman!

The MAN WHO COULD MOVE WORLD (30/9/1977) -- A Japanese man with psychic powers that are enhanced electronically has a vendetta against Wonder Woman who prevented his saving his brother 35 years before during the Second World War. The Amazon princess will have to avoid her demise on a mine field pushed by the psychic powers of the crazed Japanese!
Translated from L'UOMO CHE POTEVA MUOVERE IL MONDO ( 30/9/1977 )... La principessa amazzone dovra evitare di finire su un campo minato, spinta dai poteri psichici del giapponese!
See COMMENTS for more pictures

Posted by trek/taro at 1:08 PM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:14 PM JST
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Does sushi sex exist?

LINK NOT SAFE FOR WORK (unless you're the pervy boss)

Posted by trek/taro at 8:42 AM JST
Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:42 AM JST
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004

I don't know what is is, but I like it.

It's a NI_KO_BAN sign
ニコホン印だ！！

Posted by trek/taro at 6:54 PM JST
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JPN's youth least gender prejudiced in the world!

Jpanese youth are the least gender prejudiced in the world!????
Survey reveals Japan's youth least aware of gender
Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Feb 18
....Japanese youths' lower sense of gender difference also was evident when 69.7 percent answered positively to the question "Do you think men should protect women?" Positive responses in the United States and China were between 80 percent and 90 percent. ....
"Do you think women should act with pure femininity?" only 28.4 percent of the pollees from Japan replied yes. However, 58 percent in the United States, 71.6 percent in China and 47.7 percent in South Korea answered yes.
... "Do you think men should act in a manful manner?" 43.4 percent answered yes in Japan, compared with 63.5 percent in the United States, 81.1 percent in China and 54.9 percent in South Korea.
... "Do you think people should avoid premarital sex?" About 33.3 percent answered yes in Japan, while 52 percent did so in the United States, 75 percent in China and 73.8 percent in South Korea.

Posted by trek/taro at 12:40 PM JST
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Mo' Mad Cow!
New Form of Mad Cow Disease Is Discovered
AP / Tuesday February 17, 1:19 PM
Italian scientists have found a second form of mad cow disease that more closely resembles the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease than the usual cow form of the illness.
The brain-wasting diseases BSE, known as mad cow disease, and human CJD are caused by different forms of mutant proteins called prions... Italian researchers reports a study of eight cows with mad cow disease found that two of them had brain damage resembling the human victims of CJD. ...the Italians named the new form with amyloid plaques BASE. ...Brown said there have also been some unpublished reports from Japan of cows with a different form of mad cow disease.

Posted by trek/taro at 2:58 PM JST
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Japan's true God turns 50!
Here's the new trailer for Godzilla 2004.
I swear it looks like "Bambi VS Godzilla".
VS

See also.

Posted by trek/taro at 12:18 PM JST
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Monday, February 16, 2004

Lets 'subliminal'!
I hate to defend any Japanese company, but this is crazy. Six frames out of 30 is real OBVIOUS and not "subliminal" at all; about 1 frame of 25 is.
NTV inserts 'subliminal' image into TV program

Mainichi Shimbun, Japan - Feb 16
The program, "Manee no Tora" (Money Tiger), featured a split-second image of Yukichi Fukuzawa from Japan's 10,000-yen note as the program switched ... when recorded and viewed slowly, the screen could be seen turning white before a sepia image of Fukuzawa's face appeared on the screen. NTV officials said the image lasted 0.2 seconds, covering six frames out of 30, a length difficult for most viewers to see.

Posted by trek/taro at 4:06 PM JST
Updated: Monday, February 16, 2004 4:18 PM JST
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Sunday, February 15, 2004

Ssirum VS Sumo
VS First Sumo Exhibition Held Amid Cheers and Guards

Korea Times, South Korea - Feb 15 --The first-ever sumo exhibition in South Korea got off to a successful start despite early concerns and controversy. The seats in Changchung Stadium were mostly filled on Saturday but many were taken up by Japanese tourists and residents and older Koreans.

They cheered all the players, especially home-grown star Kim Sung-tak, known as Kasugao in sumo. He was defeated in the second round by Mongolian Yokozuna Asashoryu on Saturday... big issue is the rivalry between the traditional forms of wrestling in the two countries. As ssirum and sumo have some similarities, it's natural for them to be compared with a good measure of national pride. Fanning the flames, the sumo exhibition received attention that ssirum never gets.

"I don't think most ssirum people care seriously about the sumo matches in Korea"

Posted by trek/taro at 8:26 PM JST
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40% of Japanese girls are wearing these Feb 14th

Japanese Boots!
"These boots were made for walking"?

Posted by trek/taro at 3:16 PM JST
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