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Japan
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Of Course An Unemployed Japanese Guy Built A Gymnast Robot In His Basement [VIDEO]
23 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You can all go home now, an unemployed Japanese man has demonstrated – via the robot that he casually built in his basement – that you are not actually pursuing the best possible outcome to your life. Presenting: Robot Number 17 performing on the Horizontal Bar.
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In Japan, Under-40s Can’t Be Bothered With Sex – Here’s Why
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems as if Japan is losing its sex drive – which wouldn’t be a bad thing considering they have 126 million people crammed into an area the size of California, but still, the fact that millions of people under 40 aren’t even dating is cause for alarm.
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Town From ‘The Cove’ To Open Marine Park Where You Can Swim With Dolphins… Then Eat Them
09 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The Japanese town of Taiji became synonymous with brutal dolphin slaying after the Oscar-winning, tear-jerking, doccie, ‘The Cove,’ was released. Sadly, regardless of the international recognition and fame the documentary received, dolphin hunting at the cove still takes place annually between September and April, and its about to get a whole lot darker.
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The Japanese Velociraptor Chase Might Be The Best Prank Of All Time [VIDEO]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You get pranks, and then you get pranks. Japan seems to know what’s up – they get it. The water buckets on top of doors and the electro-shock handshakes are so last century. This century is all about giant velociraptors chasing people down corridors. Yeah, that’s what’s up.
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Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 Defeat – The Izumo Destroyer [VIDEO + PICS]
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While tensions mount between Japan and china over disputed island in the East China sea, Japan has unveiled its largest warship since World War II.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Wolverine
24 Jul 2013 by SPLING / No Comments
The Wolverine is a standalone film, not because they’ve decided to pursue a Japanese thread to the popular comic book character, but because other films featuring Wolverine are too embarrassed to stand next to it. While peppered with iffy CGI and mixed reviews, Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is actually a better film than the […]
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Of Course Google’s Japan Offices Have Koi Ponds Inside [GALLERY]
12 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The multinational corporation Google is renowned for the offices everyone wants to work in, or at least see at some point of their lives. Each office designed for the company is done so uniquely with regards to its corresponding location. Google makes sure that the architects have come up with an interior that represents the country’s history and culture. Today […]
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Japanese Students Have Invented A “Girlfriend Coat” For The Lonely [VIDEO]
10 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of lonely Japanese engineering students have developed what they call a “fulfillment coat”. The coat gives the wearer a cuddle from behind, and whispers gentle loving words into their ears.
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Japan Is Mobilising Ground To Air Missile Defence Systems In Anticipation Of Attack
09 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Early on Tuesday Japan, deployed missile-defence systems at three of their sites around Tokyo. The deployment follows North Korea’s threat to launch nuclear missiles, said Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan.
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Google Street View Takes A Tour Of The Japanese Tsunami-Ravaged Province [PICS]
28 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nami is a ghost town. Having played host to a nuclear power plant, the town became the icon of suffering in the wake of the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, which destroyed much of Japan’s North Eastern coastline. Shortly thereafter, the nuclear power plant melted down, having sustained critical damage in the wave. Google Street View has […]
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One Metre Tsunami Strikes North East Coast Of Japan
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
(File Photo: March 2011 Tsunami) Japan’s northeast coast has been struck by a 7,3 magnitude undersea earthquake, and reports are that a one metre high wave has now swept ashore. The same stretch of coastline was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011. Thousands of people perished in the wave. Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, repeatedly […]
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Photographer Captures Images Of Abandoned Japanese Holiday Resort [GALLERY]
08 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
French photographer Thomas Jorion specialises in capturing urban ruins and condemned buildings. His latest picture set tells the sad story of the Izu Peninsula – an abandoned holiday resort in Japan. It is one of many such resorts abandoned 40 years ago and left to the mercy of the elements.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
25 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Malema will not appear in court today. Miners continue strike despite threats. Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates as 5 Million Units Sold. Mxit cuts deal to buy Motribe.
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A New Earthquake In Japan Could Kill 320 000 People
30 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new study based on lessons learned from last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake indicates that if another major earthquake strikes Japan it could be one of the most fatal earthquakes in history.
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Japanese Parliamentary Panel: “Fukushima A Man Made Disaster”
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report that the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster”, and that the disaster “could and should have been foreseen and prevented”. The report also blamed cultural conventions and a reluctance to question authority.
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SONY Reports Record Annual Loss of $5,7 Billion
10 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
SONY Corporation has declared an annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5,7 billion) in 2011, its fourth straight year of hemorrhaging money, and the worst in its 66-year corporate history. In spite of which, the company – which appointed a new president, Kazuo Hirai last month – is predicting return to profit by the end of 2012.
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Japan’s “The Cove” Town Plans To Build A Dolphin Park In The Cove
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The town of Taiji in Japan, made infamous by award-winning documentary “The Cove”, plans to repair its reputation by building a sea life park in the self-same cove where annually hundreds of dolphins and whales are herded, captured and slaughtered by local fishermen. More on this seaside slaughter after the jump. Images might disturb some readers.
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Japan Has Wi-Fi Vending Machines Now.
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Any article discussing some fun new tech in Japan is liable to be instantly out of date, because those guys have everything. Voice synthesizers, Olympic robots, eco-friendly Christmas lights – whatever. But this is new, and probably practical enough to port overseas: vending machines that sell Wi-Fi accessible within a 50m radius.
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Google’s Updated Streetview of Fukushima
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
True to the pledge it made back in July to digitally archive images of the parts of Japan affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, Google has uploaded imagery of post-earthquake Fukushima to Street View. They’ve also set up a ‘Build the Memory’ website which compares before-and-after shots of the affected towns.
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Japan’s Eco-Friendly Christmas Lights [PICS]
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the Year of Setsuden in Japan, which Google tells me means “saving electricity'”; this means that the lavish Christmas illuminations that Tokyo usually sets up are a little hard to justify. Minna no Illumi has found a pretty neat solution to the problem, though, with an entirely biodiesel-powered display.
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Nervous Japanese MP Drinks Fukushima Nuclear Water
01 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Japanese government official has risen to a challenge set by journalists to prove that water collected from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was safe to drink. Albeit with some trepidation. MP Yasuhiro Sonoda downed a glass of water during a televised news conference and seems to have survived, although his shaky hands certainly betrayed his nerves.
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Radioactive Cars Now On Sale In Japan
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been about seven months since that huge Tsunami hit Japan, wiping out businesses, cars, people and the Fukushima nuclear power station. However, a lot of stuff contained in the 18-mile radioactive exclusion zone remained undamaged, including some pretty usable cars. These can now be bought on the Japanese used car market. Extra limbs sold separately.
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Japan Will Offer 10 000 Free Visits To Tourists
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
If the thought of waiting until the 2015 Rugby World Cup to visit Japan is less appealing right now, consider going there sooner, and for free, courtesy of the country’s tourism agency. The Japan Tourism Agency has announced it will fund airfares for 10 000 foreign travelers in an attempt to help the country’s plummeting tourism levels recover in the face of nuclear disaster.
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Japan Walks Out On Whaling Talks
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Pro-whaling representatives from Japan, Iceland and some African and Caribbean nations, upped and left the room yesterday at a gathering of the International Whaling Commission. The topic they were touchy about was a proposal to create a sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic. Guess walking out was a simple way to ensure the vote could not proceed?
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Knockoff Popstars – Made In Japan
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you take a little stroll down to your local market, you can pick up anything from a pair of Mikes (fake Nikes) to a pair of Maddibas (fake Adidas) to the best real fake Rolex you’ve ever seen. It’s now only a matter of time before you can pick up a new secretary, wife or girlfriend as well.
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Amazing, Lifelike Dental Practice: Japanese Robot Opens Wide [VIDEO]
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The girl pictured is actually a robot named Showa Hanako 2. She was originally developed as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures, but is now able to recognise voice commands, turn her head and open her mouth real wide! Before your mind ends up in the gutter, see the video as to why she’s designed like that.
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Pensioners Volunteer To Work At Fukushima Plant In Order To Save Young People From Radiation
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Sometimes fellow human beings are just…awesome. As the Japanese government struggle to bring the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant under control due to a lack of people willing to go into the contaminated area, a group of pensioners have decided to step up. Why? They are willing to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation.
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Pixar Auctioning Off Props & Sketches For Japan Relief
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The nice thing about Pixar is that all of its movies make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Charity helps people AND makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With this in mind, Lee Unkrich, Pixar director, is letting you enjoy the indulgence of both, by auctioning off Pixar stuff for Japan aid.
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Yet Another Tsunami Warning Issued For NE Japan
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch out for Japan in the next 100 years, because if this continual natural bombardment doesn’t galvanize a national stoicism, ingenuity and will to survive of epic proportions, then nothing will.
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Japan Braces Itself: Tsunami Warning Issued For North East Coast
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In what is quickly becoming a cosmic joke, the North East shore of Japan is expected to be struck by a tsunami in a matter of hours. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,4 struck off the coast of Honshu, with local reporters in the North East of the country citing concern over an unusually strong aftershock.
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