Japanese troops in Iraq cease to exist without beer, porn & pork ramen

Japanese cannot send items violating Islamic law to GSDF in Iraq
Kyodo / Wednesday August 11, 11:09 AM
Families of Japanese troops deployed in Iraq are having a hard time picking things to send to their loved ones because they cannot send items that violate Islamic law, such as alcohol, magazines with photos of women in swimsuits, and even instant noodles with pork-based ingredients....
As alcohol and pork are banned under Islamic law, even instant noodles containing pork-based ingredients are forbidden, according to the manual obtained by Kyodo News.

"Smiling faces of Afganistan" (Japan missing)
I just got this from the Japan rep of the UNICEF in Afganistan. Let's see there's Russia, Korea, Turkey but wait...no Japan, Hmmm. Japan pays zilions of yen for Afganistan but doesn't even get on the T-shirt.

Zillion defects found Japanese missile prototype
Oh, whatta joke. This Pongi missile system has been disfunctional for years now, sheesh.

Surface-to-Air Pongi!--->

12 defects found in MHI surface-to-ship missile prototype system

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 02:02 JST
TOKYO Kyodo- A total of 12 defects such as design problems were found during tests of a surface-to-ship prototype missile system developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd...

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Updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:21 AM KDT
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Japan welcomes the Raelian Overlords!

Raelian movement founder Claude Vorilhon; TOKYO, JAPAN
AFP Aug 5 Raelian movement founder Claude Vorilhon, also known as Rael, and Brigitte Boisselier, head of the sect firm Cloneaid listen to questions during a press conference in Tokyo, 05 August 2004....Thursday they had dozens of cloned fetuses as the group expands its cloning services.
See also:
The Aliens Look Japanese according to Raelian Prophet
Dead baby cloned?
I have met him at his Tokyo Dome Crusade in 1991!
He's not as much fun as his UFO posters.
イベント： 　No Sex Strike!
日程：　　　　７月２５日　＆　 ９月１２日

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In a fit of wild inspiration, Shiki Theater does 'Cats'...again
Musical ''Cats'' to be restaged in Tokyo
TOKYO, Aug. 6, Kyodo - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ''Cats,'' which became a sensation across Japan when performed by theatrical troupe Shiki (Four Seasons) Theater Company, will be restaged in Tokyo in November for the first time in eight years and the fourth time in the capital since its first Japanese performance in 1983.
The celebrated musical, based on British poet T.S. Eliot's ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'' has been staged 5,745 times in Japan, making it the country's longest-running musical. ..

Wanna eat at the "Tough Sushi Restaurant"???
In Japanese Katakana this sushi restaurant's name is the English word "Tough". Huh?

Let's BAKA Bomb happy Aug 15th!
Ohka rocket-bomb (aka the "BAKA Bomb") sits inside a bunker in Ibaraki Prefecture. Note the cherry blossom emblem on the fuselage.


ONE-WAY TRIP: They fell to Earth aboard `cherry blossom' rockets
Aug 7, Asahi Shimbun News
...Come Aug. 15, the nation will again look back to the close of World War II, 59 years ago. Crowds of reporters and curiosity seekers will again gather at controversial Yasukuni Shrine-the nation's central shrine to the war dead-to see which politico will turn up and to snap photographs of the dwindling number of veterans who come every year to march in their old uniforms.
How many of them, however, will visit Ohka (Cherry Blossom) Park, set at the edge of the immense Sumitomo Metals foundry complex near Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, and a shrine in its own right?
There, a small granite altar stands in front of a crumbling air raid bunker, inside of which, beyond a wire fence, sits a replica of an MXY7 Ohka 11 rocket-bomb.
Cherry blossoms seem a ready-made symbol of the brief glory of youth, so it's no surprise that such a poetic name was given to this most desperate of weapons.
Looking like a spaceship, but actually little more than a torpedo with wings, the Ohka was meant to be slung under a bomber and dropped near its target. Only then would its pilot, a young man with a few weeks training, switch on its rocket and guide the craft to its end-a blossom of fire, mangled metal and flesh....more...