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The UK’s Daily Mail has reported that Kim Yu-Na is in line for a US$1 million bonus from sponsors for smashing the world record in the ladies figure skating at Vancouver last week...

If you live in Japan and watched even a moment of television over the last week, you have heard of Asada Mao. The nation’s media have been frantic in their hopes that surely, after two weeks of competition, somehow the Japanese team would win their first gold medal.

China's economic growth will plunge to as low as 2 per cent following the collapse of a "debt- fuelled bubble" within 10 years, sparking a regional recession, says Harvard University Professor Kenneth Rogoff.

"I’ve lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don’t. I haven’t changed. Japan hasn’t really changed, either. Something else, however, has.”

The Mantokuji temple in Japan's central Gumma prefecture was once an asylum for women who wanted to cut marital ties with their husbands, a function now made obsolete by modern divorce laws and family courts.

Now, the temple is a museum chronicling the history of divorce as well as a place to help people get rid of any bad karma, via a piece of paper they drop into latrines.

Chrysler and General Motors are basically owned by the U.S. government which is currently controlled by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party and the Obama administrating beholding to the unions. The United Auto Workers union has Toyota in their cross-hairs because Toyota factories in the United States are not unionized. Vehicles Recalls Stats: http://auto-recalls.justia.com/

Like most other countries, Japan has also a lot of positive traits, and at the same time a lot of strange ones. Based on my knowledge and experience, I have tried to summarize some of the characteristics of Japanese society. In case you differ with me, you're entitled to have your own opinion...

Dear friends, welcome to the Japan Blog Matsuri, February 2010 Edition!
This month, 20 Japan bloggers united to provide you with an amazing set of Japan Top Lists, covering a great variety of subjects: tourism, technology, finance, cuisine, entertainment, society and much more…
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Two 18-year-olds "spotted smoke coming from the window of the second-floor apartment, and climbed up the drainpipes on either side of the building", and rescued the boy who had been left alone in the apartment.

one mans run in with japanese immigration, detained at the airport and ejected from the country.

Decreasing murder rates in Japan have led some commentators to believe that living in an increasingly impersonal society, means fewer people actually appear to care enough about others to kill them.

Good news then!?!

In 83 years of Oscar history, Asian films have for the most part gotten the extremely short end of the stick. Here's why

A Chiba police officer sustained minor burns to his face and hands when a police box men's room he was using exploded when he lit his lighter.

It's thought the washroom was filled with gas from a natural gas pocket that had leaked into the drain pipe.

Princess Aiko, the 8-year-old only child of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, has been kept out of her elite elementary school since Tuesday over her fears of boys who "treated her harshly," the country's Daily Mainichi newspaper reported.

One of the most frustrating parts of living in Japan, especially if you work in a Japanese office, is the fact that 125 million people take their vacations all at the same time. And short ones at that.