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Tokyo Game Show starts for businesses today (JST)! It opens to the public (aka cosplayers) on Saturday. The music line up for the following concert looks amazing.
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"We have found new effects of caffeine, including reducing throbbing pain" Seems scientists have verified what we all discovered late in high school/early in University hehe. Maybe these new caffeine based pain killers can replace the old cold and flu tablets which took away pain and gave you a g
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The race to go green has taken to the high seas with two Japanese companies saying they would begin work on the world's first ship to have propulsion engines partially powered by solar energy.
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Here's an interesting article describing Japan's tendency for anonymous social networking. The article describes how despite Google's best efforts, YouTube has become a place to parade your pet rather than yourself, and how on Mixi, you're unlikely to "socialize" with anyone you don't alread
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UNIQLO's cute-girls-doing-weird-manoeuvres thing goes mobile.
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BBC, Nikkei Business News and "Gaiya no Yoake" (TV Tokyo's Business TV Program) reported Wasabi fire alarm for deaf people. The device blast out the strong smell of Wasabi to waken the deaf people in case of fire.
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Maid robot interview. Acknowledges Roll-Oh, Rosey. "Good Humor" too.
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Timepiece. Also useful for locating other Yamanote-line lovers. Like a low-tech SNS.
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ACME just ad water full size towels - another handy small thing to keep in your bag next your tiny folded fabric shopping bags and miniscule umbrella for emergencies :)
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OH OH I sooo need these! Lets hope they streamline them a LOT though lol!
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Japanese researchers have found another way to target therapy at the site of cancer. This seems to be the focus of much research these days, since killing healthy tissue is a dangerous side effect of many current therapies. Long term studies still to be done but Ganbatte!!
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This got me thinking. I often have trouble finding Japanese things (like shops for example) using Google. Any recommendations for a different search engine?
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Your five minutes of the day with kawaii gadget. Not suitable for girls under 12 - they will force you to buy this for them! :)
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At the cosmic-energy fueled home of Dr. Nakamatsu, winner of a n Ig Nobel Prize and inventor of the floppy disk, bouncing shoes and, now, the Love Jet, a hormone-booster designed to raise Japan's dangerously low birth-rate.
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Education is the problem. These Japanese children suffer from a lack of education...The Dems,under Bill Clinton or any other Dem' president, have never treated Japan...But I want an interesting looking face mask. Not one of those plain white things....The Vampire Cafe looks interesting....Agreed. I have not been to a bad one yet....I do not think the education standards are the problem. I think the problem goes...That survey is clearly flawed. If they're lonely, it's because they are stuck in a...X-san: Where are you from?
Nick: Aichi-ken.
X-san: I mean...Well, I have no clue how Obama will treat Japan. He really was not
Nick: Aichi-ken.
X-san: I mean...Well, I have no clue how Obama will treat Japan. He really was not