The following is a translation of an article appearing on The Asashi Shimbun website.
An earthquake with an intensity of 7 out of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale has just occurred, and a tiger has escaped from its cage.—Under this hypothetical scenario the Tennouji Zoo in Osaka practiced capturing escaped animals.
The real 1975 incident of […]
The following is a translation of an article from the Asahi News
MOS Food Services, Inc., operator of “MOS Burger†chain of fast-food restaurants, will start selling the premium burger “Japanese Burger Takumi JÅ«dan†from the 16th. Among fast-food hamburger chains this will be the most expensive hamburger in history at 1000 yen ($9.58 US […]
Every year, a number of people choke to death on mochi, pounded sticky rice cakes, in Japan during the New Year’s holiday. The Mainichi Daily News reports this year’s death toll at four so far, and fifteen remain in critical condition.
The Asashi Newspaper reports that in Tokyo 26 people were taken to the hospital […]
Girl Power Fuels Manga Boom in U.S., an article on the New York Times website caught my eye this evening. Manga is becoming big business here in the US, and it seems like some of these companies are discovering that 50% of their potential market is girls. From the article:
Manga often celebrates strong […]
From the Economist.com, an article about cranberries. Apparently they are one of nature’s most fantastic fruits, with a long shelf life, possibly even more nuclear war resistant than a twinkie.
The gist of the story is that they can extract the juice from a cranberry to make cranberry juice, and then put another juice inside […]