Posted in: Y750,000 left in 29 mailboxes at Nara condo See in context
if the news was in the San Francisco Chronicles it would probably be titled: $30 left in 2 mailboxes at Oakland condo.
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Posted in: Japan to unveil Y100 bil in aid to Ukraine at G7 summit See in context
I'm just wondering how a nation with a 23.3 trillion yen in debt offer 100 billion in aid to Ukraine?
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Posted in: March 11, 2011: What are your memories of that day? See in context
It was just another day at my home studio when suddenly I felt the usual earthquake movement you feel so many time in Japan... i remember thinking "earthquake again..." but within seconds I realized this time its different. Our whole tower start shaking from side to side stronger and stronger, I remember holding my iMac as it looks like its going to fall off the work table when first time ever in my life, i feel TRUE PANIC --- for a split second, i thought "THIS IS IT...THE BUILDING IS GOING TO FALL, IT WOULD NOT HOLD KEEP SHAKING FROM SIDE TO SIDE THAT WAY" --- and then, as it started, the whole thing just stopped. I looked out the balcony and saw a huge fire burning behind FujiTV building and helicopters buzzing all over the sky. I turned the TV on to realize it was MASSIVE... i am not a person who panic easily.. but that moment shook me forever. I will never forget it.
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Posted in: Japan's tallest building opens in Osaka See in context
Japanese business, long dominated by a handful of family cartels and other industrial combines called zaibatsu, used to use size as a measure of success. The bigger the better. nothing really changed in the past 1000 years, this is just the latest, tallest, biggest, thickest, most expensive, of them all.
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Posted in: 2 British men arrested for trespassing in imperial compound See in context
to prevent another British invasion to the imperial palace, i suggest the Tokyo police should import and spawn Australian alligators in the imperial moat.
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Posted in: Ishiba to attend ceremony at WWII battle site Iwoto on March 29
Posted in: Ishiba to attend ceremony at WWII battle site Iwoto on March 29
Posted in: Unification Church faces dissolution in Japan
1.8 million of foreigners in Japan are Asians from China, Vietnam, and South Korea,
Posted in: Number of foreign residents in Japan hits record high for 3rd year