Vuitton's purse in the "puku" movement... Takashi Murakami, the Japanese art star who was invited by Marc Jacobs to update Louis Vuitton's iconic bags for Spring, and created the single most talked-about accessory of the season...Murakami, a goateed Ph.D., sees his work as part of the &quo...
Sect: Dead toddler cloned Japan ignores cloned birth claim The Japanese Government has shrugged off an announcement by a controversial sect of the birth of a cloned baby in Japan where cloning is banned. "I do not think the case is worthy of comment at this point, there is no publicised scient...
Anybody have an actual Bio on this fella? Where did he come from? http://www.davespector.com/images/category/boy/First%20Composite.jpg http://www.davespector.com/images/category/variety/BestOfWorse/BestOfWorseStandupw.jpg http://www.davespector.com/images/category/CM/Dani/DaniLogo.jpg
Anybody have an actual Bio on this fella? Where did he come from? I just found this more Official Bio which the highlights include: Born: Chicago, Illinois When: 1:24 am [[5/5/1954]] ...He also serves as an advisor to the Tokyo Chapter of the New York-based Guardian Angels and is active in crime pr...
What are your fav films in Japanese? For some reason, Godzilla and 'Truck Yaro' didn't make this list. :wink: Japanese Films Chosen by Sontag -- NYT / January 24, 2003 The truth is that, of my original list, only three of the films I selected made the final cut," said the critic and novelist S...
Prime Minister Koizumi: Breaking vows to the public is no big problem -- It was a moment Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) members had long been waiting for: Their leader finally got the best of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Naoto Kan on Thursday so relentlessly pestered Koizumi about his bro...
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:uyTLqlkayRMC:www.latinola.com/storyphoto/2002/10/14/10_14_1_money.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792846427.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg All of you have heard pathetic news of the gaijin-Japanese tourist news last November about Tokako Konishi, who died wander...
http://www.cotneypeak.com/shop/images/Loofa_Selection.jpg It's for exfoliation of the skin... Rub-a-dub-wha? Damn, I thought you were talking about some other use. :oops: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ofbL8pTlmu0C:www.foodsubs.com/Photos/angledluffa.jpg http://www.thegoodnamesweretaken.com/...
Oh bang on, that was a great story. I laughed, I cried, I crawled on my belly like a reptile. BOKU MO! :rofl: The judo I learned as a kid is still with me to this day... Same here for me. My late great sensei would gutt laugh when we were falling-down drunk on the Yamamote line and I would execute ...
Are games <yawn> dying? Japanese Show Waning Interest in Video Games LA Times / January 21, 2003 Preliminary industry figures show that combined hardware and software sales fell for the second consecutive year in 2002 to $4 billion, down 2.4%. "Of course the market won't shrink to zero," s...
Christ Kandy Kabuki! via Wired.com . . . A new culinary import: With the mission "to supply a heart-warming dream to the customers" (according to its website <http://www.artcandy.net/>), Japan's Art Candy corporation showcased sugar sculptures designed for cake tops. The edible cartoon-li...
Foul-smelling beer bottles found to contain mustard gas Here's an update... Japan's Poison Weapon Past Revives Fears January 23, 2003, 1:37 AM EST SAMUKAWA, Japan -- When the power shovel hit a cache of old beer bottles and a strange smell wafted through the air, the highway construction workers fi...
[quote="bluepxl"]heh, what is up with that henna gaijin girl? ... i wonder what japanese must have thought when she was there ] I'm sure she thinks she's being J-cute like this... http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:xd6HzzXHqyAC:www.quizdiva.com/hennagaijin.jpg
And lets not even get onto the subject of what we feed chickens :? Police arrest Marubeni Chikusan execs over chicken scam TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 23 shows the building housing the office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp. in Tokyo. Police arrested four executives of the company for alleged involve...
I would whine too if I was paying almost 20% of the organization's costs and be referred to as an ennemy. The old farthead Willy Safire of the New York Times touches the topic of the inequity of UN Security Council for Japan in this way: Chirac had made a deal with the U.S. last fall: we agreed to ...
YES! POCKY GIRLS vs POCKY G - Hard&Rich YES POCKY GIRLS! vs Venus Mousse See the girls battle on Pocky CM videos . http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ompqKgyuaykC:www.geocities.com/inyo01/pocky_kiss.jpg Pocky G!Mr."Hard&Rich (tm)" See the hard and rich man pocky all over himsel...
Sect: Dead toddler cloned "The sect-linked company that claims to have produced two human clones said a third would be born in Japan as early as Monday, Japanese media reports said" BBC news.. US court denied 'cloned baby' location The vice-president {Brigitte Boisselier} of a company whi...
And you thought your Katakana name was too long... Ridiculous names work against their bearers ...the case of a person named Shimizu. Whoever chose his given name threw in all 12 signs of the junishi zodiac, like the mouse (pronounced ne), ox (ushi), tiger (tora), rabbit (u), dragon (tatsu) and snak...
Should I start learning how to speak North Korean? :crazy3: From CNN's asian 30 minutes ago... North Korea warns against 'act of war' Thursday, January 23, 2003 Posted: 8:58 AM HKT (0058 GMT) Pak Gil Yon, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations. "Any kind of sanctions to be taken by the...
The thing is, they already have an airconditioning system installed. It is already there, 6 large airconditioners, connected via duct work.... It's like someone buying a Ferrari, and putting it in a garage, never to drive it, only to drive their lawnmower to places they want to go.. just plain stup...
Anybody have an actual Bio on this fella? Where did he come from? How did he get to be the gaijin tarento and last on the rung on the popularity vote? Ok. Since I'm met Dave a few times and from what I have read about the guy in the late-great Tokyo Journal interview of him (circa 1989?) which is n...
[quote=""Kyoto Gaijin" The cleanest and safest heating system I've found in Japan are Delonghi style heaters - enclosed oil heaters (oil based radiators).[/quote"] Darn right. Those oil- filled electric radiators are the only thing I will use in my music room! Regular heaters of ...
teeth...hair.... *shivers* A few years ago, I've popped Spector on the shoulder saying "HI" to him at SHibuya 109 and he flew back a couple of meters. Then I patted him on the head and told him he ought to eat something else besides rice so he could grow a bit. His blond-dyed BIG hair hel...
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030122p2a00m0dm013000c.html I once met a Japanese Immigration official at party in the outside Japan. He admitted to me that he and most of his co-workers at the end of everyday of work felt they needed to scrub and soak in for at least a hour in the ofuro to get th...
...thems just...scary... You could break a nail pinching that... 8O This Japanese Immigration official seems to have done more than break a nail... :( Ugandan wins payout over Immigration's low blows OSAKA -- A Ugandan man has been awarded 200,000 yen in compensation after the Osaka District Court ...