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Young Japanese Raise Their Voices Over Economy

http://zichi.blogspot.com

A group of young people recently gathered in a darkened park here. Holding placards and megaphones, they chanted slogans condemning the Japanese government and a lack of jobs and opportunity.

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Alex Kerr's Lost Japan Reviewed

http://www.michaeljohngrist.com

A cutting review of Alex Kerr's 'Lost Japan', labeling it 'the simpering wuss-cousin of the ferocious ‘Dogs and Demons’.

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Dear Micheal: you live on...even in japan! pt. 3

http://goinglocoinyokohama.wordpress.com

I decided to eat lunch in the teacher’s office, surf the net and try to find some stories or testimonials that didn’t feel like your death was a tragic end to a failed comeback attempt or the hardly gratifying just desserts of a publicly convicted child molester who’d escaped justice a la Orenthal James (at least he had until recently.) I found a number of stories from people who felt as I d

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Garden Spot: Gardeners can take action against Japanese beetles

http://www.enewscourier.com

Japanese beetles usually begin to emerge from the soil by late May or early June with late June being the peak time for emergence in our area. This emergence pattern will generally taper off in July but we may have encounters with Japanese beetles all the way through late summer.

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Peeping Cats

http://shibuya246.com

Are these cats trying to get a secret look in the store?

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British followers of Japanese fashion

http://www.bbc.co.uk

An underground youth culture in Japan with distinctive music, fashion and make-up, where the skin is darkened using tanning products is spreading worldwide.

Young people in the UK have been learning about the intricacies of 'manba' by making friends on the other side of the world using social networking sites and learning how to re-create the style through videos on YouTube.

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Peace at Last - one day in history

http://www.thememoryproject.com

Prime Minister Attlee
announced at midnight tonight that Japan has surrendered
and that the whole world now is at peace. “The
last of our enemies is laid low,” he declared in a dramatic
broadcast announcement.

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Nozomi Sasaki "Rainbow Smile" Photobook added!(HQ Pics)

http://www.myasianphotos.com

Instead I decided to just add a brand new spanking photobook featuring Nozomi Sasaki once again! This is the 83rd photobook from VYJ titled, "Rainbow Smile". All the pictures of Nozomi Sasaki are in high quality of course so make sure to check out her updated gallery, you will love it...she dresses up for you guys in swim suits, tiny shorts and..

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The Great Kusatsu - Vale

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Great Kusatsu passed away on 2008/06/21 at the age of 66. Masatake Kusatsu, who was known in the ring as Great Kusatsu, died Saturday in Japan from esophageal cancer.

A well respected rugby player, including a stint on the Japan National Team, Kusatsu began training as a professional wrestler in 1965.

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Shiso Pepsi Taste Review!

http://rinkya.blogspot.com

Our Rinkya staff does a review of the newest Pepsi flavor- Pepsi Shiso!

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Japanese women thrive in Bay Area arts scene

http://www.sfgate.com

*This article is one year old but still relevant none the less*

"There is a strong ambition to go abroad," said Karen Kelsky, head of the department of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "They simply don't believe they can accomplish their goals in Japan."

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Turning Japanese: MTV video music awards Japan 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Let's face it, people who are fans of MTV probably don't like music all that much. More preoccupied with OTT-sponsorship deals, vacuous celebrity feedback-loops and Westwood overhauling your car, MTV's focus on music has gone quietly AWOL. But as Japanese mainstream pop appears to be one big commercial farce anyway, the more beating around the bush the better.

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Exciting Sailing Ship Education for Boys and Girls

http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp

"Avast My Hearties -- Unfurl the Mainsail !!" as they used to say in sailing ship days.

The age of the sailing ships is not quite over yet thanks to a sailing ship education program for young people aboard the famous Japanese sailing ship, the "Nippon Maru."

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Yamaha Motor Test-Drives Golf Cart Fuelled by Cow Dung

http://www.japanfs.org

Japan's Yamaha Motor Co. has developed a golf cart that runs on methane made from cow dung. In preparation for commercial production, in October 2008, the company began testing the cart on a golf course in Katori, Chiba Prefecture. Osaka Gas Co. provided the methane at a low cost for the vehicle tests, as part of its efforts to promote the use of cow-dung biomass as a low-cost fuel.

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Australia House a Go-Go in Echigo

http://arts.australia.or.jp

* "Australia House is continuing to undergo it's transformation at a cracking pace." (beauty mate!)

* "A group of youthful urban volunteers and a few members of the local Japan-Australia society joined the clean-up work as well. The team was welcomed by 100 years of trash and treasure (plus a considerable amount of soot!)" Jeez,I feel like a sucked-out Mango

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Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages - Rotating Snakes

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

Akiyoshi Kitaoka (born August 19, 1961 in Kochi, Japan) is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

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Visa overstayers given too many breaks: rightist

http://zichi.blogspot.com

In some Japanese quarters, there's an Urban Myth what foreigners commit crime. This belief is held by those members of the extreme right.

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Kamidana

http://www.muza-chan.net

I love miniatures. Kamidana, the traditional miniature shrine, is, for me, an interesting aspect of Japanese tradition.

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Move over Gundam, construction on Gigantor is almost complete

http://asia.cnet.com

Now that the life-size Gundam figure is complete, it was only a matter of time before Japan constructed a second giant robot. After all, you wouldn't want the first one to get lonely, right? It seems the folks in Kobe have nearly finished a 60ft-tall Testujin robot.

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Hatena - when Genetics meets Art - How Odd

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This oil and acrylic painting illustrates endosymbiosis - one organism living inside another. Featured prominently in the painting are mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are both thought to have evolved over millions of years from bacteria living within other bacteria.

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Himiko and the Galaxy Express 999

http://www.muza-chan.net

Himiko, a real-life ship, designed by a... mangaka.

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Personal Post - The Bitter Beginning

http://www.theatlantic.com

Your first sip of Fernet Branca, an Italian liqueur, will be akin to waking up in a foreign country (such as Japan) and finding a crowd of people (gaijin) arguing in agitated, thorny voices outside your hotel window. It’s an event that’s at once alarming and slightly thrilling!!, and leaves you wanting to know more.

*tweaked by remora

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Quba Mosque:Tatebayashi,Gunma-ken - did you know?

http://icoj.org

..probaby not,and you possibly don't give a toss - but you see this is how it starts.

"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," - "The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement _ I want to say it solemnly,It will not be welcome ".

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Uniqlo to fill the fashion gap?

http://www.almostjapanese.com

Japan's clothing giant, Uniqlo, may take over the Gap.

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Mosquito whine? fails to stop Tokyo vandals

http://news.asiaone.com

A restroom for women at a Tokyo park has been vandalised, in a setback for an unlikely experiment to stop youngsters from roaming around at night and causing damage to public property, by installing a loudspeaker system that emits an offensive high-pitched frequency.

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History and Homophobia

http://www.nichibeitimes.com

In imperial Japanese society, where the sexes often remained separated, same-sex social relations flourished. Issei artist Chuzo Tamotsu, an antimilitarist

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Kissin’ cousins keep incest in the family

http://www.tokyoreporter.com

“I’m having an affair with my cousin,” the anonymous female writer confesses in the reader’s column of the June issue of the woman’s magazine Renai Tengoku, introduced in Shukan Bunshun (July 2) “We know it’s wrong, but have continued the relationship while taking extra precautions.

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Filipino plays pivotal role in Japan Nationality Act amendment

http://www.tribune.net.ph

Children born to Filipino and Japanese parents, who are not married to each other, are now eligible to acquire Japanese citizenship thanks to the efforts of noted public future and humanitarian Efraim Genuino. Being close friends with Sen.

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Read The Kanji - a kanji quiz application

http://www.readthekanji.com

Read The Kanji is a web based application designed to help those studying Japanese to learn kanji reading patterns through context. In other words, it helps you learn to read kanji by asking you to read actual Japanese sentences.

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Welcome to rock bottom, Hitchens-San... A penetrating look at a Japan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

dived beneath the kitchen table as the floor trembled and heaved beneath me. A pan clattered from the stove, the furniture tottered. An unsettling roaring noise seemed to surround me. It was an earthquake.
But I had, literally, asked for it. Japan must be the only place in the world where you can learn how to behave in an earthquake, by undergoing a remarkably realistic simulation.

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