Caustic wrote on the FG: |
Dakimakura! They're not just for horndogs anymore! |
Oh why do these guys go for foam?
See Dakimakura/pillow love...
Friday, February 6, 2004
Pillow talk for gamers
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.
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 5FORGET 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!"
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Just a normal game and TV cartoon
Via very kool site
http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gamessex.html
Nothin's normal here in Japan.
Via very kool site
http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gamessex.html
Get's Tinfoil Hats!
Japan's nearly-dead airline industry looks for more expenses...
FLY ME! Save me!
The Airline Pilots Association of Japan and the cabin crew association presented the request to science minister Takeo Kawamura....
Japan's nearly-dead airline industry looks for more expenses...
FLY ME! Save me!
Airplane crews seek state steps for protection from cosmic rays
Kyodo / 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....
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Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 1:51 PM JST
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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 ...
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 ...
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Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:19 PM JST
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Safety Pooping, DRINK Kirin!
Fri 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.
Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-Free
Fri 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.
Eat your hearts out.
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Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:13 AM JST
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Thursday, February 5, 2004
Harry's new Firebolt is being sold next to my office
... 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.
First look at Harry's new Firebolt from 'Azkaban' Popular
Charmed 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.
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Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 1:41 PM JST
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'JAP' ad for AT&T Japan
AT&T Wireless sorry for ad gaffe
Tech 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.
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Chicken Flu Fighter for the coming Tokyo funk flu
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.
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.
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Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 3:25 PM JST
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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?
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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...
Thursday February 5, 2004 / The Guardian
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 shame
Justin McCurry in TokyoThursday 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
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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Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 11:18 AM JST
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Lost in Translation: an accurate portrayal
It's too "accurate."
Acclaimed director and famous daughter Sofia Coppola talks ... about family, Tokyo and how her new film really isn't about her own failed marriage...
...We turn to the character of the hotel bar singer, washed up and torturing Scarborough Fair.
"She's the real singer in the bar," points out Coppola. It's my turn to look incredulous.
"I know," she smiles. "It was a little bit delicate, but I thought she was a good sport about it."
...If the satire in Lost in Translation is unflinchingly sharp, Coppola can do subtle, too. The timid love story between Charlotte and Bob is tender, poignant and mercifully chaste..."So no, there was no sex scene that we cut out for the DVD."
It's too "accurate."
Lost in Translation
interview /05.02.2004Acclaimed director and famous daughter Sofia Coppola talks ... about family, Tokyo and how her new film really isn't about her own failed marriage...
...We turn to the character of the hotel bar singer, washed up and torturing Scarborough Fair.
"She's the real singer in the bar," points out Coppola. It's my turn to look incredulous.
"I know," she smiles. "It was a little bit delicate, but I thought she was a good sport about it."
...If the satire in Lost in Translation is unflinchingly sharp, Coppola can do subtle, too. The timid love story between Charlotte and Bob is tender, poignant and mercifully chaste..."So no, there was no sex scene that we cut out for the DVD."
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Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2004 4:22 PM JST
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Where's his 9,300-yr-old baggage?
Court: Scientists Can Study Kennewick Man
Associated Press - Feb 4
PORTLAND, Ore. - Scientists can study the Kennewick Man - 9,300-year-old remains found in Washington state - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday....it is one of the oldest, most complete skeletons found in North America, with characteristics unlike modern Indians.
... The University of Michigan anthropology professor wants to learn Kennewick Man's origins, and said he might be related to people in prehistoric Japan. ...
Is this just a very lost Japanese tourist?
Court: Scientists Can Study Kennewick Man
Associated Press - Feb 4
PORTLAND, Ore. - Scientists can study the Kennewick Man - 9,300-year-old remains found in Washington state - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday....it is one of the oldest, most complete skeletons found in North America, with characteristics unlike modern Indians.
... The University of Michigan anthropology professor wants to learn Kennewick Man's origins, and said he might be related to people in prehistoric Japan. ...
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Updated: Friday, February 6, 2004 12:14 AM JST
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B U Z Z W O R D O F T H E D A Y
not be found in the 3,307,998,701 Web
pages searched by Google until uttered by
Justin Timberlake to explain Janet
Jackson's Super Bowl unveiling.
---B U Z Z W O R D _ O F _ T H E _ D A Y--
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WARDROBE MALFUNCTION:
-- A term that couldnot be found in the 3,307,998,701 Web
pages searched by Google until uttered by
Justin Timberlake to explain Janet
Jackson's Super Bowl unveiling.
---B U Z Z W O R D _ O F _ T H E _ D A Y--
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Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Japan has plenty Hitler art fans
... A spokesman for the film's Japanese distributor acknowledged that displaying a picture by the dictator may fuel allegations that Japan was indifferent ...
Japan to display Hitler painting
BBC News, UK - Feb 4... A spokesman for the film's Japanese distributor acknowledged that displaying a picture by the dictator may fuel allegations that Japan was indifferent ...
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The 'real' Japan continues to elude NY Times reporters
The 'real' Japan continues to elude filmmakers
New York Times- Feb 4 ---In the climactic battle of Kill Bill Vol. 1, Quentin Tarantino's bloody revenge flick, O-Ren Ishii, the kimono-clad yakuza chieftess played by Lucy Liu, turns to Uma Thurman's blonde, blue-eyed Bride, and caustically remarks: "Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords." The Bride turns out to be pretty good with her blade, but the sentiment might well be an epigraph for this season of subtitles and samurai. Blogarama
The 'real' Japan continues to elude filmmakers
New York Times- Feb 4 ---In the climactic battle of Kill Bill Vol. 1, Quentin Tarantino's bloody revenge flick, O-Ren Ishii, the kimono-clad yakuza chieftess played by Lucy Liu, turns to Uma Thurman's blonde, blue-eyed Bride, and caustically remarks: "Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords." The Bride turns out to be pretty good with her blade, but the sentiment might well be an epigraph for this season of subtitles and samurai. Blogarama
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Updated: Wednesday, February 4, 2004 8:00 PM JST
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