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Ex-President Bush is in Japan hanging out with his old buddy Junichiro Koizumi. They attended a baseball game the yesterday, where Bush threw the first pitch:
George Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch in game three of the Japan Series betwee...
Mr. Nakamura of the Japan Rubber Band Gun Shooting Association fires off his rubber band machine gun:
Here are some photos that show how one can construct a rubber band machine gun. Nakamura has written a guide book to the art of making rubber band...
“Japan isn’t North Korea, after all. If I got my way in everything all the time, I’d become a dictator.†Those are the words of Osaka governor Toru Hashimoto, whose plans move the...
Some regard it as a religious requirement, for some culture it gives a sense of belonging, and for many it is a common form of punishment. But nonetheless we cannot dispute the fact that tattooing...
English is important. A Japanese air safety board investigating a 2007 incident in which a China Southern Airlines plane that entered a runway without permission has...
Forget about that last dog with eyebrows. Here’s Ran, a dog in Osaka with really thick eyebrows:
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An NTV morning news show plays with Choken Bako, a doggy bank that devours coins:
The doggy bank is available in black, white, and brown. It will go on sale on November 28th and be priced at around 2,310 yen.
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Some of Asahi TV’s foreign reporter team, visits a trash processing facility near Tokyo Bay and gets to see a giant claw in action:
The trash lifted by the claw is burned at 1450°C. The leftover metal is recycled.
In the second clip, they check out...
This week’s “Nanikore Chin Hyakkei” had a segment about a samurai wedding at Matsue Castle:
The wedding was modeled after the kind of celebration that might occur if the groom had been a feudal lord. Their friends and family were dressed in samurai...
A Fuji TV news report about how protective masks that offer “99%” virus protection are selling well:
A study conducted by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan found that most masks are far less effective than their packages claim. Of the...
