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While the government of Japan does their best to assuage our fears, the situation at TEPCO’s Daiichi nuclear power plant seems nothing short of dire. Nuclear energy has a polarizing effect on scientists; they either love it or hate it, often in equal measure. The facts: the reactor designs...
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To the best of this author’s knowledge (and contrary to what Fox News reported earlier), there are no nuclear plants in Japan named “Shibuyaeggman”. There are actually no nightclubs here named that either, but there is a nightclub named “Eggman” and it is situated in Shibuya. To the research...
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The Government of Japan has been working hard on convincing us that everything is almost under control at TEPCO’s troubled Daiichi power station. As long as they keep the water pumping, they will be able to keep the nuclear reaction from spiraling out of control and keep an accident...
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The massive earthquake 8.9 / 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan last week has not only devastated the country. It’s shifted the earth’s figure axis (the axis balanced by mass) about 15 centimeters and this is going to make days shorter. According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) specialist Richard...
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Taxes, ugh taxes. Tax time again – which for most is a tearful goodbye to hard earned money. Not for Toshiki Takei. For him it’s the biggest payday of his tax paying life after being awarded a refund of $2.4 Billion. However, it didn’t happen in one return. In...
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It had to happen, it was inevitable, after the old urinal cake bulls-eye game we men all know and love, the Japanese now have high tech urinal video games. These games called Sega Toylets will be installed over normal everyday toilets. Four mini games are planned at launch, mostly based...
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Japan is famous for a lot of things—some good, some bad—and one of those things is their love of infatuation with vending machines. So it’s no surprise that the Japanese have come up with a lettuce dispensing vending machine now is it? The thing is, this vending machine grows...
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This video shows members of the Japanese Coast Guard (a highly rigid military organization) dressed as dancing schoolgirls dancing on the bow of a coastguard ship – in what may or may not be a bizarre hazing ritual. The action was captured by passengers aboard a civilian vessel somewhere...
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A new piece of malicious software doing the rounds on file sharing networks packs a nasty surprise. Kenzero Trojan, which come by way of Japan, gathers information about porn browsing habits (including browser history, favorites, illegally-downloaded porn, and clipboard content) and then uploads said information to a public website...
The massive earthquake 8.9 / 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan last week has not only devastated the country. It’s shifted the earth’s figure axis (the axis balanced by mass) about 15 centimeters and this is going to make days shorter. According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) specialist Richard...
Taxes, ugh taxes. Tax time again – which for most is a tearful goodbye to hard earned money. Not for Toshiki Takei. For him it’s the biggest payday of his tax paying life after being awarded a refund of $2.4 Billion. However, it didn’t happen in one return. In...
It had to happen, it was inevitable, after the old urinal cake bulls-eye game we men all know and love, the Japanese now have high tech urinal video games. These games called Sega Toylets will be installed over normal everyday toilets. Four mini games are planned at launch, mostly based...
Japan is famous for a lot of things—some good, some bad—and one of those things is their love of infatuation with vending machines. So it’s no surprise that the Japanese have come up with a lettuce dispensing vending machine now is it? The thing is, this vending machine grows...
This video shows members of the Japanese Coast Guard (a highly rigid military organization) dressed as dancing schoolgirls dancing on the bow of a coastguard ship – in what may or may not be a bizarre hazing ritual. The action was captured by passengers aboard a civilian vessel somewhere...