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Anyone know how well her CDs are selling? Cause I reckon with all this publicity people will be buying up her CDs as much as Michael Jackson's.

I find the closer you get to the autumn leaves the worse they look. It's more impressive taking shots of vibrant red trees from a distance.

4.6 mil for him doesn't sound like a lot of money. He'll probably wait and see what kind of prosecution he'll face and if it's not a slap on the wrist he'll probably escape back home.

I think I know why old women barge onto trains. It's because otherwise they have a good chance of not being able to sit down. Priority seats get filled by young people who pretend to sleep (out of sight, out of mind when it comes to old people standing near them).

Forgetting history is almost inevitable, given the way history is taught in most schools.

This is good material for a photoshop - just change the message on her sign to read something like "free bl...s"

Scratch this temple out of your guidebooks people, it'll take a while to rebuild.

This kid just earned the wrath of most people in Nagoya, when he grows up either he'll have to move or he'll be an outcast in Nagoya, homeless probably.

These hostesses drink almost everyday which is terrible for their health. High pay but also high risk.

Bridgestone also closed their plants in Australia and New Zealand to save money.

"Price: 417,9000 yen." Do you mean 417,900 yen? If so that's quite an expensive toy.

Japan Post workers are under huge pressure to sell these cards, it's a big money-making time of year and the workers have difficult quotas to meet. I feel sorry for them. Each year more and more people send emails instead of cards.

This guy is confusing. Even his official blog has photos of him as a fruit and a K-1 fighter: http://ameblo.jp/jienotsu/ You'd think they're two different people.

1500 people, 20 courtroom seats - that's a 1.33% chance of getting a seat for each person, basically no chance.

Interesting that people will waste their time and money for a 1% chance.

I bought a new mouse recently. The stores put all the 5000-yen mice prominently at eye-level, and tuck the cheaper ones near the bottom. Why do I need to pay so much for a friggin mouse? I walked away satisfied with one under 1000yen.

He buys a new tie at the 100 yen store each morning before work.

The eye of the man on the right is troubling - where's he looking?

The timing of this test does seem suspicious. If I were a resident of Taiji who ate dolphins I'm not sure I could trust the staff performing the tests to give accurate results (surely they'd like to tell everyone they don't suffer from mercury poisoning)

No, she was born in the year of the boar, not the rabbit, so they should change the title to "Lonely Boar" or "Lonely Bore"...

Competition is good, it'll make Amazon and Sony produce better and (hopefully) cheaper e-ink readers in the future.

House arrest is too good for him because for him it would be "mansion arrest" - complete with jacuzzi, home cinema and waterbed.

This guy really committed a serious crime - not only was the victim underaged, but 13 years old, quite a bit underaged. And he performed sodomy on her which was probably unlubricated and quite painful.

I expect though in the US he'll only get a couple of months jail time. I only hope there he'll get to experience unlubricated sodomy himself, as receiver rather than giver.

It seems these guys get a thrill from doing something illegal, like some couples get a thrill out of doing it in public. It must be some kind of adrenaline rush for them, and they become addicted to it. These guys need help to break their addiction.

There was a rumour that Nova could get the best branch locations near stations because the yakuza owned those buildings and Sahashi did a deal with them whereby in exchange for the office space he would use their subsidiary companies to buy furniture and indoor plants at incredibly inflated prices. Even if it's not true, this news story shows Sahashi was doing something with the yakuza.

She's got a lot of guts to not only withstand the pain of the needle but also to isolate herself culturally in Japan. She'll never be able to go to a hot spring, sento, or sports gym in Japan.

If they're too tired at night they should do it in the morning.

BTW, she shouldn't pull her hair back like in the photo. It can cause traction alopecia hairloss (already her hairline looks jagged).

Leave it as a pit - it's a great symbol of the power of Islamic extremists.

She's definitely a pickled plum short of a bento.

I bet it's renamed to "Nazi Hunter" in Japan.

Hey, they need that here in Japan too! Remember you're a Japanese company Sony!

Sorry, accidentally posted twice. 2020 hindsight: I'm sure most people are fine bungee jumping, but because of the sudden increase in blood pressure to the head eye damage is possible. All sports carry their dangers, I guess bungee jumping is not different ("bunjee jumping" is rather long, how about we just shorten it to "BJing" instead?)

Just be aware that bungee jumping has risks of injury, such as eye trauma, rope burn, uterine prolapse (in women), dislocations, bruises, whiplash, pinched fingers and back injury (thanks to wikipedia for this info).

Just be aware that bungee jumping has risks of injury, such as eye trauma, rope burn, uterine prolapse (in women), dislocations, bruises, whiplash, pinched fingers and back injury (thanks to wikipedia for this info).