KILLER DOORS attack and kill thoughout Japan!
Topic: Japanese life

Boy dies after being stuck in revolving door in Tokyo
More... (Kyodo) TOKYO, Japan ....

My comment: These are no ordinary revolving doors, that you push but rather huge, compartments turned by a motor that fit up to 8 persons.
According to TBS TV news this morning (March 29), there have been 59 REPORTED cases of these powered doors attacking people.

Japan's Dead Zone
Topic: Japanese life
Spreading ocean "dead zones" top list of threats at UN environment forum
Kyodo / Monday March 29, 1:54 PM
So-called "dead zones," oxygen-starved areas of the world's oceans that are devoid of fish, top the list of emerging environmental challenges, the United Nations Environment Program warned Monday ...
Dead zones have long afflicted the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay, but are now spreading to other bodies of water... appearing off South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand....

Akebono is a cheater
Topic: Japanese life
210cm, 350+kg Akebono vs 185cm, 110kg Musashi... guess who wins?
Feast your eyes.


Akebono pile driver beats on the head of Musashi and is red carded in the 2nd Round. Restarts the 2nd Round with meaningless weak hits at Akebono fat. The 3rd Round has Akebono SLOWLY walking around and Musashi gamely neko punching fat.


Decision: Musashi wins on points 'cause Akebono is a cheater.


I guess Akebono had to figure out a way to lose since he was winning against a Japanese, hee, hee,
Musashi, Japan's K1 Champion VS Akebono
See the results posted on the official site at
http://www.so-net.ne.jp/feg/k-1gp/top585.htm



K-1: Former yokozuna Akebono bites dust again in K-1 fight
Kyodo
Saturday March 27, 8:42 PM
Former sumo grand champion Akebono lost his second straight bout since making his K-1 debut last year when he was defeated by Musashi in a unanimous decision in the K-1 World Grand Prix in Saitama on Saturday evening.


Pix via Nekobaba

Japanese ladies love lushes
Topic: Japanese life
Note this picture is from the Wasada University famous "Super Free" drinking/rape club.
Women teed off by teetotalers
(Mainichi and wire reports, March 27, 2004)
Young Japanese women are almost 10 times more likely to prefer a boyfriend who drinks than one who abstains from alcohol, according to a survey by brewer Takara Holdings Inc.
Takara's survey found that 60.6 percent of women in their 20s or 30s wanted a boyfriend who boozed as opposed to just 6.6 percent who preferred he either didn't drink or was easily intoxicated.

Stargate found at Tokyo Dome!
Topic: Japanese life
For more details about the Tokyo Dome Stargate...

Czech it out!
Topic: Japanese life

See the full-size picture and comments on the Easterwood.org site........For the first time since they've been keeping records of these things, 4 highest division sumo wrestler enter today, the 12th day of the current Spring tournament in Osaka....<

Posted by trek/taro at 3:34 PM JST
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Get ChipsCan 2004
Topic: Japanese life

"GET chipscan 2004," the Japanese solution!All your chips and drinks in one huge can.
Via http://www.pepsi.co.jp/campaign/chipscan2004/index.html#

Wal-Mart in Japan
Topic: Japanese life
Sorry, but just this once I'm gonna NEKOBAKA this entire article, FAIR USE because nobody is reading this blog. It will be removed by 10pm March 26 Tokyo time.
Japan: The American Revolution
Forbes.com
Thu Mar 25, 6:33 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=64&u=/fo/20040325/bs_fo/3a99979c322369997604a9a322d74e22&printer=1

Full text--
Wal-Mart's entree into Japan is Seiyu, the country's fifth-largest grocer, a 400-store chain with $8.9 billion in sales. When it agreed to sell Wal-Mart a 6% stake, the company was nearly bankrupt and had little to distinguish itself from its competitors, says Seiyu President Masao Kikuchi. Two years later it still seems to be struggling. Revenue fell 17% as it posted a loss of $65 million in 2003. Walk around a Seiyu store and you will be hard-pressed to notice any difference from before.

Look closer, though, and you see a revolution in the works. Fifty-three Wal-Martians have converged to move Seiyu's point-of-sale and inventory tracking systems over to the standard Wal-Mart setup. It will take three years for them to switch over all 400 stores, and then they'll move on to Seiyu's distribution centers. Store managers will know how many items of each individual brand were sold, how many are on the shelf and how many are in the warehouse.

The future of Japanese shopping as Wal-Mart sees it lies in the Futamatagawa store, near Yokohama. First, the company moved most general merchandise upstairs and put all the food onto the first floor. The entrance has been turned into a wide, inviting funnel crammed with fresh fruits and vegetables. A greeter hands out baskets to arriving customers and answers questions. Wal-Mart has made the elevators to the parking lot big enough to hold shopping carts and has radically increased the number of cash registers. Sales of food at the store are up 50% from last year.

But not everything is going according to plan. On the second floor, even though clothing prices have been cut by 20% as generics replaced brand items, sales have fallen 10%. The Japanese, apparently, like their brands. Still, overall revenue at the Futamatagawa store has risen 17% since Wal-Mart made its changes.

The real challenge for Wal-Mart will be dealing with the convoluted and opaque Japanese distribution system. Realizing that many manufacturers will sell only through their traditional wholesalers, Wal-Mart has decided to work with them when necessary and help educate them in how to cut their own costs. To wean suppliers away from middlemen, Wal-Mart holds out the carrot of access to its 5,000 outlets around the world. At the same time it's trying to encourage Seiyu buyers to turn to Wal-Mart's global partners like Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Johnson & Johnson and Kellogg.

Wal-Mart is learning from Seiyu, as well. Its systems will have to adapt to the rigor of Japanese shoppers, many of whom can tell just by tasting a piece of fish whether it has ever been frozen; prices can drop five times a day as the fish ages.

Just no mayo pizza, pleeeease?
Topic: Japanese life
All I ask is no mayo on my pizza.
Mayo fish-egg pizza, seaweed pizza, and mayo sweet-potato pizza via the so-called "California Pizza".

Only 83 women trafficked into sex industry in Japan
Topic: Japanese life
Gee those 83 women must have been real busy servicing all of Japan in 2003. Maybe it's a typo and should read "83 women per hour" at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Office alone.

83 women trafficked into sex industry in Japan in 2003
Japan Today, March 25
TOKYO --The National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday that is has uncovered 83 cases of women who were trafficked into Japan and forced to work in the sex ...


Compare and Contrast with: SPRAY...
Nyukan't be serious! - Fun at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau
"....Before you, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Office, architecture reminiscent of some mental hospital or dog pound. ....Are you a prostitute? No my friend, at the Tokyo regional immigration beuro, you're an entertainer! Break a leg."

Chinese defeat the Japanese Coast Guard, again
Topic: Japanese life

Japan VS Chinese

Chinese activists land on disputed island claimed by Japan
Kyodo / Wednesday March 24, 12:11 PM
Flag-waving Chinese activists landed on an island claimed by both China and Japan on Wednesday, evading Japanese Coast Guard boats that tried to block them and triggering an official protest from Tokyo....
On Wednesday, a Chinese protest ship approached Uotsuri Island and dispatched a group of activists on small paddle boats that evaded a Japanese Coast Guard vessel...Japanese officials protested the landing.

Blue-eyed Japanese Loan Shark
Topic: Japanese life
The dark side of Japanese finance
Japan Entrepreneur Report No. 17 March 2004 by Tim Clark
Speaking the polite Japanese of a seasoned businessman, the well-dressed visitor to Steven Gan's cramped Tokyo office introduced himself as an "investigation services colleague," so Mr. Gan invited him inside to get acquainted. For a few minutes, the two men made chitchat over cups of old mugicha barley tea. Suddenly, the stranger's face darkened. "What the hell do you think you're doing, trying to collect debts here in Tokyo?" he growled in the unmistakable slang of the yakuza, Japan's mafia. He pointed at Mr. Gan with fingers mimicking a gun. "Get out of this business now, or...bang!" ..

authentic Japanese NATTO pasta?!
Topic: Japanese life
Try authentic NATTO spaghetti?

"One young woman I know breakfasts off natto on buttered toast...
For dinner, she often has natto on pasta, dousing the whole thing with mayo and soy sauce. "

The Japan Times: March 23, 2004

"No Play" in Yokohama
Topic: Japanese life

"As a dog returneth to his vomit..." Prov. 26:11

There are some fun/foon pictures on this JET Returners site by "marcdano".

Hello Kitty is 'officially' 1870 years old
Topic: Japanese life

Fun/foon typo on the Official Hello Kitty website on Tuesday morning, March 23

The orginal is now corrected, bah.
http://www.dreamkitty.com/hellokitty.html

Tokyo unprepared for "CERTAIN" bio-attack
Topic: Japanese life
Japan should prepare for bio - attack - US health chief
Reuters AlertNet,
TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - Japan, like the United States, is certain to be a target of an attack with biological weapons and should be ready to respond ... The government has compiled a manual to improve coordination among ministries in the event of an attack ... security experts worry that progress is too patchy.

Giggling Japanese schoolgirl blog?
Topic: Japanese life

See/read a little more in the inspired livejournal entry:
today in giggling japanese schoolgirl zombie bunny-suit chainsaw news....

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106 straight losses & Haru-Horse is still a favorite
Topic: Japanese life

NHK News this morning devoted 15-farkquing minutes to this nag's big 106th "no-win" yesterday. Sheesh.
Even the yakuza couldn't even come up with such a good scam.

Get this. People lined up outside the track for hours before the race to bet. The racetrack had to close its doors at 2pm when it was filled over capacity. People were send to another fairgrounds 5 miles away to bet and watch the race on a big outdoor screen.

Japan Enthralled by Losing Horse...
AP via Sunspot Tue Mar 23 2004 08:12:00 GMT+0900
..."Glorious Spring" -- or "Haru-urara" in Japanese -- was out doing what she does best Monday, losing her 106th consecutive race, even with Japan's top jockey on her back. More than 10,000 fans braved the rain to watch her come in 10th out of 11 horses....
....Kochi Racecourse, travel agents are making a killing off "Haru" tours, and her chestnut face adorns shirts, cups and other tourist trinkets...A pop song about her came out last week....
Her already legendary lack of speed has made betting tickets with her name on them talismans to guard against traffic accidents. And her face is being used as advertising space: She races with a pink "Hello Kitty" riding mask.

http://www.harnesslink.com/www/Article.cgi?ID=10546

According to reports by 6 am there were already 40-50 people waiting to enter the course. The race did not start until approximately 4.35 pm.....
Shortly after noon the Kochi Racing Association's Internet server crashed after receiving a huge number of access attempts.

Japan's Boobie Army invades Iraq!
Topic: Japanese life
Today's SDF pinup girl in Iraq is fun. Via Nnkobaba


Japan's SDF girl in Iraq

VS


Japan's Shonan Coastal Force

Via the grrreat Nekobaba!

Sexual Harassment Corporation
Topic: Japanese life
Rough draft

Sexual Harrassment Corporation

A Underground warehouse
B Data room
C Commuting SECRETARY is Chinese course
D Night crawling course
E Company internal romantic love course

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