Toyama City introduces Key Ranger, a new superhero to warn the public about leaving houses and bicycles unlocked.

[YT]RgefEIEsHTY[/YT] 760KFMB: Cold murder mystery heats up with focus on husband A cold case in San Diego is heating up: a dead woman's body went unidentified for years, and her husband never reported her missing. Now, court documents are revealing details about their marriage. Fumiko Simoneau disap...

Well, it's dead now. Sharp has announced it will stop selling the product at the end of the month.

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It's open:

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e721951203ab.png A Japanese blogger has another perspective one of the Metro posters. The caption reads "Who is the weakest?". The old guy with the stick is labelled having 40 million yen in savings a living a life of leisure. The bloke lookin...

Here's a Toyo Keizai article which includes a survey of major restaurant chains, supermarkets and food suppliers asking them what radiation checks they are conducting on supplies. The survey tables are on pages 5 & 6. This is all in Japanese. The main conclusion is that many companies are doing no a...

Police recently conducted a survey of free newspapers servicing the foreign community in Japan. They have now revealed that many contain advertisements offering illegal services, such as fake marriage, and illegal job offers. Police are looking at the possibility of prosecuting publishers as crimina...

J Sports is putting short match highlights up on YouTube. Here's the Japan game:

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http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e6f9291a42cc.jpg Major supermarket chains Carrefour and Tesco both decided to give up on Japan but the world's 3rd largest retail company, Germany's Metro Group, wants to build its brand. Metro actually opened in Tokyo in 2002 but is little kn...

Nestle Japan is now asking people to vote for their favourite limited edition Kit Kat . 20 flavours are up on their website and the winner will be back on sale. Funny that. I suspected Nestle wouldn't be able to resist selling them again despite their "limited edition" label. I predict Nes...

It looks like Searchina completely blew this story. Their claim that YouTube retaliated against Korean spammers has proved unfounded and now anyone who reposted their story, such as Yahoo, is running around to clean up the mess. The original Searchina piece was removed with no explanation - the link...

AFP: Italian student killed in 'sex game gone wrong' Italian prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man with killing a female student who suffocated during a sex-game gone wrong, media reported Sunday. Soter Mule tied Paola Caputo, 24, to another woman while performing a Japanese sado-masochist tec...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794b7ae8f84889e.jpg http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794b7ae7f1f26a1.jpg Kawana Tsuyoshi who is "victim" of this incident, a drug dealer, a pimp and an owner of FERIA in Roppongi and whose father is one of executives...

[floatl] http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e6df39fc328d.jpg [/floatl]JR Hokkaido has confirmed at a press conference that company president Naotoshi Nakajima has been missing since the morning. NHK reports that something resembling a suicide note has been found. Police have beg...

Now Youtube limited all accesses from Korea because the above reason I told. That's certainly what this story (Japanese) says. You would think, though, that if it is was true, there would be confirmation from Google. There is none that I can find. This article (Japanese) claims that the Korean gove...

Advance sales for the first day of the Autumn basho in Tokyo have been sluggish. Over 4,200 tickets remain unsold and will now be offered as same-day sales. That's one of the worst levels of demand in the capital on record. Ryogoku has a capacity of around 11,000. Interestingly, the Sumo Association...

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63 year old actress Kazuyo Aoki gets a gyaru makeover.

The Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi have conducted a telephone survey of residents in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima. Asked about radiation worries, around a third of Miyage and Iwate citizens selected "greatly concerned" while the figure in Fukushima was 54%. Only Fukushima residents were posed the questio...

[YT]761acag-IX0[/YT] The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking at buying the Toshimaen amusement park in Nerima ward, currently owned and operated by the Seibu Group. Many of the "crazy Japan" photographs of crowded summer swimming pools on the web are shots of the park, which introduced some of ...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e69cba16c657.jpg Korea is wheeling out the big guns. South Gyeongsang provincial government, which claims jurisdiction over the islands, has appointed 14 year old American boy Jonathan Lee as "Public Relations Ambassador" for Takeshima/Dokdo.

[YThd]Tefcox7B4hM[/YThd] The Peach John in Shinjuku has just reopened. Anyone spending more than 3000 yen received an AKB48 promotional poster. According to this tweet , a remarkable number of men flooded the shop buying bras and knickers so they could get hold of one. The store is only small and ju...

Pearse wrote:Come on, Mulboyne, Ireland is a separate nation. Don't lump it in with the UK or Britain.

I didn't. Read further and you'll see why I highlighted that distinction.

Kirwan has chosen six foreigners in his starting XV for Japan's first match against France. There are another two on the bench. Actually, Luke Thompson naturalized so you could make the case he shouldn't be included in that count. 1. Hisateru Hirashima 2. Shota Horie 3. Kensuke Hatakeyama 4. Luke Th...

[YT]7r-ER909QJU[/YT] "Postcard" trailer Japan has chosen "Postcard" , a film by director Kaneto Shindo, as its submission for next year's foreign language Oscar. The final short list for will be selected from all country's submissions in January. If Shindo's does go forward, he might have one advant...