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DoCoMo?s ?full touch? PRADA Phone (May 9)
Since the iPhone still isn?t available (and can?t function) in Japan, the newish Prada phone will have to slake the uber-trendy folks who want a mobile without a physical keypad. NTT DoCoMo Develops New PRADA-Branded Handset Tokyo, Japan, May 9, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) ?NTT DoCoMo? will begin marketing ?PRADA Phone by LG?, a full touch screen [...]


wii on your pole (May 9)
Despite the unfortunate Japanese name, Nitendo?s wii game device has been a smash throughout the world. However, it was inevitable that that the product name would end up with description like this, ?wii on your pole.? Peekaboo pledges pole-dance kit for Wii


Blue-eyes invade the streets of Tokyo (May 5)
Aliens with blue-eyes invade the streets of Tokyo! With the extra-long Golden Week holiday, performance artists like the ?Medaman-Medaman? eyeballs are cruising the pavement of the Ginza and Koen-dori districts. Try finding the alien invasion on the live webcams of Koen-dori in trendy-to-tears Shibuya.


Children?s Day - Japan?s increasingly child-free holiday (May 5)
Today is Kodomo no Hi ? Children?s Day, a Japanese national holiday (Wikipedia). However, each year Japan has fewer kids to celebrate as I insinuated in the previous 3Yen report, Japan outlaws humans under the age of 15. According to government reports, Japan will to lose between 33 to 40 million [...]


Learning methods: does it matter? (May 5)
Normally I hate blog posts that just links to another blog that links to another blog that links to the primary source, especially when I?m subscribed to both blogs. Just give me the source, I don?t need your one line comment and link! Nevertheless, I read a blog post about language learning methods and felt an [...]


Japan outlaws humans under the age of 15 (May 4)
In Japan, it seems that cats and dogs are more popular than an actual child SHUKAN ECONOMIST (May 6) via Japan Times ?.there are more dogs and cats in this country (an estimated 23 million as of 2007) than there are children under 15?. ?Shukan Economist traces modern Japan?s first of two pet booms to the economic bubble [...]


Paris Hilton?s kitty clone (May 2)
Showbiz News - Life Style Extra - Tuesday, 8th August 2006, 13:19 Paris Hilton?s kitty clone LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Paris Hilton has been turned into cat. The blonde star has been transformed from super-slim hottie heiress into a ?Hello Kitty? doll by Japanese toy makers. The soft doll depicts Paris as a white cat and [...]


Japanese ?can coffee? ? Golgo 13 vs Spock (May 3)
Separated at Birth Golgo 13 vs Spock of the Starship Enterprise Thanks to the quip by our sharp-eye reader, Gearheadsan, that: ?Golgo 13 looks sorta like a younger, more virile Spock.? Of course you might ask, ?What the hell is Japanese ?can coffee??? Crack-in-a-Can, Japanese ?can coffee? is the secret of Japan?s success and without it this highly [...]


White is Beautiful: Japanese beauty with bird poop powder (May 2)
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Nestle Japan?s ?Killer-in-a-Can®? (May 2)
According to the Mainichi News, Nestle Japan is putting out a new killer can coffee, Golgo 13. The can coffee will be for sale starting May 15 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Golgo 13, Japan?s longest-running manga. Wiki Golgo 13 is sort of the James Bond of Japan?a professional assassin in the beloved manga as [...]