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Couldn't tell if this was a real incident or not at first. read more »
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BREAKING NEWS: Neighborhood Watch Coke machine out of service. read more »
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Pimped Coca-Cola vending machine protects from perps. Machine returns to Japan's robot roots. read more »
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According to a various news sources, at around noon today, a Spanish tourist dived into Tokyo's Imperial Moat NAKED. read more »
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US servicemen in Japanese prisons. Daily routine; lose their special foods needs. read more »
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Do you want to play 'cut 6 people I don't know'? It's a little game they like to play down in Kanagawa. It's an offshoot of the ever-popular game here in the Kanto area called 'My life sucks, so yer gonna pay!" What are the rules? There are no rules, baby! It's a free-for-all. read more »
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A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation's effort to deal with white collar crime at emerging dot-coms. read more »
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Well, I didn't expect to update the 'News of the Mentally Defective' column so quickly, but this story necessitated it. read more »
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Panty theft by men is popular too. But we all know that already. read more »
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Japanese police arrested a Hiroshima couple for allegedly selling fluorescent cell phone lanyards containing about 26 times the allowable level of the radioactive substance tritium. The phone straps were sold online for more than 3 years. read more »
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A new feature at 7:10 to Tokyo called "News of the Mentally Defective." Check out this first post on one of Nagoya's pillars of the community. read more »
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When septuagenarians attack. No MC Hammer jokes, please. People are dead. (Also - "Ah, more coverage of strange Japanese crime for the Western media to serve the masses." You'd think that Japan would lose its "safe country" image after the deluge of these stories in recent years.) Also - this read more »
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It's about time, already. Former President of NOVA, Mr. Nozomu Sahashi was taken in for "voluntary questioning" and then arrested. He and Toshihiko Tamura, of NOVA Kikaku, were charged with embezzlement. read more »
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