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The man did set the standard for Giant Monster Destroys Cities type movies by which all others are judged! I agree with Ranger_Miffy, I must get this book!

Hey telecasterplayer - Why don't we have Steve Martin play the part of Godzilla. They could film it in Iraq this time (oh wait Iraq already looks like Godzilla has been there) - how about Canada, they never get to be in any SciFi movies.

Bottom line - Leave Godzilla to the Japanese film industry where it belongs, this is just one thing that America can't get right in Hollywood.

This is what happens when have a third party building and also doing your quality assurance, time to bring QA back into Toyota's lap.

I don't think that Japan has the monopoly on wives who want their husbands to drop dead this minute! I believe this to be a world wide epidemic. Where's the World Health Org when you need them? Or is this part of Global Warming?????

Funny how they dress like invaders from outer space from an old 1960's Japanese Sci-Fic movie.

There is no mention of how badly the employees of the store were FREAKED-OUT by this, just think of the nightmares the employees have who found these kids! My heart goes out to the the little ones and the store employees.

It doesn't sound like the show Biz has gotten to her head yet - I just hope she can keep it that way. I hope she makes it to Anime Expo in Los Angeles some year.

After the reporters dig into this don't surprised if you find out that this was all staged! A great way for the two of them to get their 15 minutes of fame.

Just really sad - its Vietnam all over again. To many young Americans dying for what will prove to be for NOTHING in only five more years when they pack up and leave and it goes back to the way it has been for the last 2,000 years.

"and then to have those massive pillars within feet is just a tragedy waiting to happen. The course should have been designed with curbed Plexiglas coming out of all the turns to keep the racers "inside" the course. Sad turn of events- so sad !" - Branded

Branded, you hit the nail on the head! Why would anyone put pillars up knowing that people might just fly off the course. It always takes a major accident (and usually someones life) before these people design it right (although common sense should have dictated here!).

Our hearts go out to this athlete's family and friends who spent the last year cheering him on during his practicing for this event.

I heard you have to watch out for Flipper - he has a cold nose in the morning.

Let the U.S. pull out of Japan completely and let Japan face China and N. Korea by itself (and see how long it takes before government officials in Japan start crying for the good old days).

"The boy, who was returning home after sitting for a university entrance exam in Tokyo"

Poor Kid - just starting to unwind from taking exams and gets stabbed in the back by some looney - Tell me this kid isn't going to be checking his back every time he goes to the train station for the next year - crap!!

I wonder if this was an EXTRA CREDIT assignment he was working on at school?

Las Vegas usually has guards escorting the money vendors in the casinos, maybe this place should take a page from their book on not letting employees carrying large sums of the company's money by themselves.

sasukene says: "Take it from an hotel industry insider that these sorts of things can, and do happen in all countries and not just Japan."

Hey sasukene why don't you come to California or Las Vegas Nevada and try it here and just see how long you can stay in a hotel room before they catch on - you might get away with 3 days at the most before security comes knocking on your door.

The simple solution is to have girls wear pants and boys were skirts. If girls wear pants then when they are on the escalator there will be nothing to see. And if boys wear skirts then when they are on the escalator NO one will want to see!!!

"According to JR West, Omuro was on his break at the time of the incident"

Oh thank goodness he was on his break and NOT on company time when he did this!

It must have been his first time at a Yoshinoya's and found it was Pretty crappy food so maybe the guy just wanted a refund and they refused to give him one so he got one himself.

Living in Southern California its just one of those things you can't run away from - you try and ready yourself for it but its almost impossible to do so because you don't know how powerful it will be. We could see 2012 in 2011 !!!!

"Australia said the ship sank after being torpedoed by the Japanese, but Japan says the circumstances surrounding the sinking are unclear."

Apparently another attack by Godzilla that is blamed on Japan.

(I just found out that Godzilla is even in Spell Checker - talk about famous!).

goddog "I know because I read the crime reports here all the time, and they love to stab in the neck. It is a J thing. Good ole Americans go for the heart"

goddog - I thought you knew - in America they always stab you in the back!

Lowly - "It's hard to shoot an arrow inside a car, knife is easier"

Lowly you have a POINT there!!

"Police said the man posed as a customer" So what was the guy suppose to pose as - a robber? That has to be the dumbest statement I've seen from the Police in a long time.

"When she took them out of the showcase, the man put them on his finger and held them up to the light. Then, he ran off." Why would you allow a customer to put 4 (four) rings on the finger at the same time - who trained this employee?

It sounds so romantic - two lovers parked in their car - love is in the air and apparently so is a knife! What ever happened to Cupid shooting you with an arrow????

Kapuna - Why would anyone build , or buy a home or business around any airfield

Hey Kapuna, have you ever heard of the El Toro Marine Base (Air Wing)in California - it use to be surrounded by strawberry fields but then they (civilians) started building houses right up to the runway (and of course the amazing thing is that people bought them). I was looking for a Condo near there and one set I was looking at - well when the F-18's came over head they were only 150 feet above us.

Well the same thing that is happening on Okinawa already happened years ago with El Toro - under pressure from the civilians they abandoned El Toro and moved to other existing Marine/Navy air bases.

So what on earth is the big deal here. If Japan doesn't want us there then lets MOVE OUT!

You can now mark this in the history books as the start of America turning into a third world country because after they raise taxes to over 55% of your income (and all other things that they can dream up to tax) to pay for this there will be no middle class left - only the rich and the poor. And just think world, we Americans did it to ourselves without any outside help!

By the way - Merry Christmas to everyone at JT

Am afraid that the only way these girls are going to get any attention is if they wear nothing as they work in the rice paddies!

"He told police that he had “set them free to hunt.”

Well it seemed to have worked! Is it possible that these were fighting dogs and this "farmer" was worried about the police catching him with fighting dogs? (are fighting dogs even illegal in Japan?)

By the way TJ your headline "Seven dogs bite five students in Mie school grounds" makes this sound more like a High School Math Question - lets see if I divide 7 dogs by 5 students I get ??? number of students bitten.

Apparently they are re-running the first season of "IRON CHEF" and someone wants to play along at home.