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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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50 People Can Save Japan
Yomiuri: Cells of 50 donors could cover most Japanese A bank of cells to be donated by 50 people with special types of white blood cells will cover...
Asakura Choso Museum | Museum/Attraction Review | Tokyo | Frommers.com
"The house, which combines modern and traditional architecture, wraps around an inner courtyard pond fed by a natural spring"
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Cosmetics on Tokyo Subway
家でやろうI recently came across this sign (below) on the Tokyo subway urging women not to apply their make up on the trains.Women (I have yet to see a man) applying their cosmetics on trains is a common sight in railway carriages up and down the country. It really does prove how smooth the…
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spiral web
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Crazy Indian Video (Real Title Unknown)
Instead of actual English - Indian translation subtitles, this video's subtitles include what the editor, someone named "Buffalax", thought the actors sounded like they were singing in English!!! And that incorrect interpretation just makes this "Crazy Indian Video (Real Title Unknown)" TOTALLY…
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The Yakuza Own Japan & are EXPANDING!!!
washingtonpost.com — This is a very rare, highly accurate and overall excellent story on the modern-day Japanese Yakuza Mafia written by Jake Adelstein for the Washington Post. Mr. Adelstein is a very brave man who used to cover crime while living in Japan for 15 years. The Yakuza are very…
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Art Space Tokyo - An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World - a book by Chin Music Press
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Benji Lanyado takes a tour of Tokyo's cutting-edge art scene | Travel | The Guardian
nitiated Roppongi's rather dramatic change of im
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Aap werkt in een bar als ober
Een bar in het stadje Utsunomiya heeft een aap als ober rondlopen. Deze aap brengt netjes je bestelling op tijd naar je tafel, wat wil je nog meer!.
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Secret underground warehouse in Tokyo
Some kind of... underground storage/emergency facility? Interesting to look at from a Japanese-style production perspective
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Kobe Ijinkan (Western Houses)
神戸北野異人館Kobe was one of the first Japanese city's in which foreigners settled. Like Nagasaki and Yokohama, which are also port cities, Kobe had a large community of expatriates following the opening of the country in the mid-nineteenth century until 1940.What remains of that community…
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Viator.com | Mt Fuji and Hakone Day Tour from Tokyo: Return by Bullet Train, in Tokyo, Japan
Find and book the Mt Fuji and Hakone Day Tour from Tokyo: Return by Bullet Train or another Sightseeing in Tokyo, Japan
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Maybe not so mobile manners
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with Japan Tobacco being half owned by the government, but while smoking is plainly becoming less passable in public places, it’s still manners more than anything that matter in Japan; meaning mobile ashtrays are a must. However, regardless of how…
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BULLET'S
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PauseTalk Tonight
Just a reminder that due to the Golden Week holiday, tonight (May 12) marks this month’s edition of PauseTalk at Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro. Start time is 20:00, as always. time savedtime saved
J-Police Now Assisting Suicides
Kerosene-soaked man dies after being given lighter in Japanese police station TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese man who had doused himself with...
Motorcyclists Being Hounded From Big Cities
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghos t/9794827a77dbea54.jpg http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghos t/9794827a77db713c.jpgAsah...
Art Space Tokyo in The Guardian
ART SPACE TOKYO gets a very nice piece in THE GUARDIAN. time savedtime saved
Is Japan going to miss Summer Movie season AGAIN !?
Ok they have to translate the movie, do subtitles etc....but can it really take THAT long ? Perhaps they are trying to do it right this time, avoid...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Is anyone else having problems with live messenger on vista?
Its driving me insane, live messenger just will not work on my laptop, the laptop is only a month old running japanese vista basic and live messenger...
Japanese Audiences Can't Read Japanese Subtitles
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghos t/9794826d9a584497.jpgThe Sankei has an interesting article about Japanese subtitles on foreign...
Japan This Week: 11/05/08
今週の日本Chinese leader Hu visits Japan.NY TimesJapan battles urban crow menace.NY TimesPoison free fugu specially bred challenges industry authorities.NY TimesJapanese rice remains expensive and difficult to sell as domestic tastes change.Washington PostChina accuses Dalai Lama of "ruining…
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'Rob Pongi's First Hollywood Movie' Production Stills
Several of these shots just came in recently and below are some very funny and cool production stills taken during the making of Rob Pongi's First Hollywood Movie which is a quite popular and humorous promo short for Revver a very well-known internet video company located on Sunset Boulevard in…
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David Bowie "Heroes" in Nike China Commercial
Above is a brand-new commercial featuring the legendary hit song "Heroes" which was co-written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1977. This short commercial also features several Chinese Olympic athletes engaged in various competitions as this ad is part of a new Nike China marketing campaign which…
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True TRAiNG(tm) from Japan
This time of the year is the height of the training season for newly hired employees in Japan, so here’s Fujitsu’s new train simulator for some true TRAiNG®.* Fujitsu train simulator gets real Kyodo News via The Japan Times | Saturday, May 10, 2008 Fujitsu Ltd. said…
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Japan Decides On G8 Souvenirs
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghos t/9794825fd9d5bf47.jpgYomiuri: Traditional Japanese souvenirs for G-8 meet The government has...
This Week in Magazines
BRUTUS (639) asks “How do you live?” and reports with a look at the ways people find to make their homes what they are. I tend to be quite fascinated by these peaks into people’s homes (an obsession I share with the way people work as well), and so I love this sort of feature.…