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This is the price plan announced today by Softbank: http://imgur.com/tEZv1

After I read this story this afternoon, I rode my bicycle down to the ward office to drop off my permanent resident application. On the way back, just 90 minutes ago, a kid of about 13 rode his bicycle straight into the side of a parked motorbike and flew over the handlebars onto the street (while two passersby shouted warnings) because he was playing a handheld videogame while riding. The crazy thing is, he "endoed" hard, but he never dropped the videogame.

They are mounted under the chalkboard in all the classrooms at my son's elementary school in Kyoto. Teachers are all trained to use them. I thought they were mandatory after the Sakai incident, no? Scroll down and you can see here: http://cms.edu.city.kyoto.jp/weblog/index.php?id=107907&no=1 (pictures are blurred to protect identity)