マッドシティーの発明 - Dealing with slow walkers

Japan's Kyushu Electric Company: Idiots of the Day

Dozens of workers at Japan's Kyushu Electric Company posed as citizens and lobbied for a power plant to be reopened, an internal inquiry says.

A whistleblower last week revealed that some 50 workers had sent e-mails to a televised debate backing a plan to restart Kyushu's Genkai plant.

But the firm's internal inquiry has found more than 100 employees may have been involved.

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Iori Tomita: Sick F*ck of the Day

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

If you’re a fish, Iori Tomita can see right through you. Or at least he can after he’s worked you over in his lab. A lifelong fisherman who studied ichthyology as an undergrad, the Japanese artist uses marine life he receives from fellow fishermen to create what he calls New World Transparent Specimens—sea creatures that have been transformed into DayGlo shells of their former selves. He first saw a sample of a fish that had been turned transparent at a university lecture six years ago, and since then he has used the same preservation technique to make thousands of hypercolored cadavers, which he sells at the Tokyu Hands department store.

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Paranoia Agent

Strange anime opening from 2004.

いいなCM サントリー BOSS 豊川悦司

Cheese Zone

The Japanese are nuts.

Muscle Koushinkyaku

Proving yet again that Japan is the world's most insane nation.

Godzilla and Postwar Japan

University of Kansas Professor William Tsutsui argues that the evolution of Godzilla through dozens of films reflects social and political changes of postwar Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso: Idiot of the Day

This guy should keep his mouth shut and protect his glass house. Looks like he's suffering from the early stages of dementia himself.

Japan's gaffe-prone prime minister is in trouble again -- this time for a remark criticizing the elderly as a tax burden for racking up medical expenses.

"They're hobbling around and constantly going to the doctor," Prime Minister Taro Aso was quoted as saying in a transcript of a Nov. 20 meeting of ministers on economic policies.

Aso also said the elderly should be faulted for not exercising enough.

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C-ute

I think I will be ill.

Night of Fire

Japanese Para Para.

Horrifying.

Japanese Game Show Greatest Hits

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Strange clouds over Japan

Japanese landslide

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Olympics Highlights Reel

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