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Japan WWII soldier who hid in PH jungle for 30 yrs, dies
A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades because he did not believe World War II was over, has died in Tokyo aged 91. Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out.
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In Motion
A surreal look at the streets of Tokyo, Japan. This effect was created by blending frames of video together to simulate exposure times longer than actually possible because of the limitations of capturing 24 frames per second.
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US residents monitor Fukushima radiation
Activists who distrust the US government taking the responsibility of radiation monitoring into their own hands.
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Crazy Japanese Subaru Commercial
Subaru SUV Forester collaborates with manga comic "Attack on Titan".
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Man arrested in Japan food scare
Japanese police have arrested a factory worker at a plant that produced food laced with pesticide, which led to hundreds of people being poisoned. More than six million packages of frozen food were recalled.
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Police sergeant quits after he is reprimanded for making officers eat 15 burgers or doughnuts
A police sergeant in Japan has resigned his post after he was reprimanded for forcing subordinates to binge on 15 hamburgers at a time to 'toughen them up'. The unidentified traffic sergeant, 40, is believed to have stepped down from his position in the western city of Osaka on Christmas Day.
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How your boss can keep you on a leash
Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business Microscope.
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North Korea calls Japanese PM 'Asian Hitler'
North Korea has denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "Asian Hitler" intent on amassing military power under the guise of ensuring regional stability. The attack in an editorial carried by the North's official KCNA news agency followed commentary by the ruling party's newspaper Rodong Sinmun last month that described Abe as a "militarist maniac" for trying to amend Tokyo's pacifist constitution.
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Nightime Cityscapes of Tokyo Made From Stickers by Yukino Ohmura
Nightime Cityscapes of Tokyo Made From Stickers by Yukino Ohmura
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Perky Pop Art Pin-up Girls by Oneq Nao
Oneq Nao combines art nouveau, manga and pop art styles to create seductively buxom pin-up girl illustrations.
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China fury at Japanese claim that Nanjing massacre never took place
China's foreign ministry has criticised remarks by a board member of Japan's state broadcaster who said a massacre carried out by Japanese troops in China's then-capital of Nanjing in 1937 did not happen. China consistently reminds people of Japan's historical brutality, such as the Nanjing massacre in which China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people.
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Eight more Fukushima kids found with thyroid cancer; disaster link denied
Eight more Fukushima children have been confirmed as having thyroid gland cancer following the prefecture’s checkups, a local panel of experts said Friday, ruling out any link to the Tepco triple-meltdown calamity.
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Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times
TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter. Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission with a half-life of 28.8 years. The legal standard for strontium emissions is 30 becquerels per liter.
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Three dead, 500 injured as heavy snow hits Japan: Reports
The heaviest snow in two decades struck Tokyo and other areas across Japan on Saturday, leaving three dead and nearly 500 others injured, reports said. More than 740 flights were grounded as the weather agency issued a severe storm warning for the capital, while more than 40,000 households lost power.
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Documents reveal chaotic military sex-abuse record
At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Department of Defense documents. Instead, in a review of hundreds of cases filed in America's largest overseas military installation, offenders were fined, demoted, restricted to their bases or removed from the military.
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Hachiko and Its Owner, The Story Behind Faithfulness
If you are one of the travellers who want to travels around the history (‘s) time, this article will suits you. This is a statue of a Japanese dog, Hachiko ( a purebreed of Akita Inu family ), which was built in April 1934. You can find this statue in Shibuya Station, Japan.
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Ghost At Car Park Japan Caught by CCTV
Ghost At Car Park Japan Caught by CCTV
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A Loving Little Penguin Chases After His Zookeeper in Japan
In this video, a loving little penguin named Sakura chases after his Zookeeper at the Matsue Vogel Park in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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Skateboard Sculptures by Haroshi
Japanese artist Haroshi creates impressive sculptures by recycling old and broken skateboard decks. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.
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Oldest signs of Japanese using tools uncovered in Okinawa
Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around 20,000 years old that could help clear up mysteries surrounding the ancestors of modern Japanese people, a museum said Feb. 15. The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum said the shell tools--the first uncovered in Japan from the Paleolithic Age--were dug up at the Sakitari-do cave site in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, near the site where the country’s oldest whole skeletons were found.
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