Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Karmic Whales Caused Japan Earthquake, Say Life Lovers
WHEN reader Alvin responded to our news that the Japan earthquake was caused by global warming –
I am surprised that the environutters have not claim that the tsunami is caused by the whales revenging on the Japanese for eating them all these years –
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Hiromitsu Shinkawa Is The Human Face Of Huge Horror In Japan
JAPAN Earthquake: Every disaster of unimaginable horror and magnitude needs a single human face to make it real to those of us tuning in to watch on the telly. The Australian floods introduced the world to Jordan Rice. Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was luckier. He was found drifting nine miles off the coast of Minamisoma.
Want to try to imagine what he was thinking? Mr Shinkawa helps us to wonder by saying to a news agency:
“Several helicopters and ships passed by, but none of them noticed me… I thought today was the last day of my life.”
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Global Warming Caused Japan Earthquake: Fact
THE Japan Earthquake was caused by… Well, if in doubt, blame climate change and man:
Treehugger knows:
I know headlines like that might just make most folks roll their eyes at this point — I mean, what doesn’t climate change cause these days, am I right? And I realize that people are skeptical of news-cycle tie-ins, like this very story appears to be. But just because it’s sort of depressing to keep tabs on all of the myriad impacts of ol’ climate change occurring the world over, doesn’t mean we should be glossing over facts like this: Geologists believe that global warming may already be causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. After all, screwing with the world’s ornery climate system to the extent which we have is bound to have far-reaching effects — effects like huge amounts of melting ice causing the earth’s crust to “bounce” up, potentially triggering earthquakes.
Which makes sense. And if you ask me, now is a perfectly apt time to be analyzing such possible causal relationships, like the one between climate change and earthquakes (which set off tsunamis). You are, after all, perhaps turning to a green site like TreeHugger to examine the environmental implications of various world events. But some insist this reeks of opportunism (especially those amongst the anti-climate crowd) — and therefore should be immediately written off as sensationalism.
Don Surber reacts: “Are these people mentally ill?”
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Posted: 13th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comments (19)
Bing Sees Japan Earthquake As Marketing Opportunity: Doesn’t Everyone?
THINK not what you can do for Japan but what Japan can do for your brand, in this case Bing, the microsoft search engine.
The Bing tweet pledges:
“How you can#SupportJapan -For every retweet, bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.”
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Posted: 12th, March 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Japan Earthquake Photos: 80,000 Missing In Nameless Apocalypse
HOW do you report on the earthquake in Japan? Unlike volcanoes and hurricanes earthquakes don’t get names. They are just a number. This one is said to have hit 8.9 on the Richter scale. And then there is the next grim number – the one that says how many people died.
The newspapers agree that 1000 people are feared dead.
The BBC reports:
Japanese police told Kyodo news agency 433 people are confirmed to have died and 784 more are missing.
Or as the Mirror puts it:
Hundreds dead and up to 80,000 missing in Japan tsunami
It’s a big number. And, as yet, we have no single face to cling to that makes sense of it.
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Japanese Tsunami Horror: 2-Feet High Waves Hit San Francisco
THE Japanese earthquake continues to excite the news media around the world. Many are dead in Japan. But what does the story mean to you? Paris Hilton has blessed the people of Japan. Phillip Schofield has advised them to be safe. And the San Francisco Chronicle leads with:
Tsunami warning closes local beaches, Great Highway
Go on:
The horrific tsunami that washed away buildings in Japan is starting to hit Northern California, with 2- to 5-foot waves predicted to wash over local beaches, according to the National Weather Service.
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Japan Earthquake Tweets: Paris Hilton Blesses The Dead And Damaged
IN JAPAN, at least 40 people have been killed and 39 are missing after an earthquake of the magnitude 8.9 unleashed a 23ft tsunami. Bad news for them. And worrying for celebrities taking to twitter to advertise how much they care:
Shane Warne – he’s bearing up:
“Goodnight-everything crossed for people in japan and for the people who have a tsunami warning. No more natural disasters please-can’t cope.”
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Posted: 11th, March 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Japan’s Oldest Woman Is Missing: Killer Sushi Suspected
JAPAN’S oldest women, 113-year-old Fusa Furuya is missing. How long before we can presume she is dead, we are uncertain. But given the scam in Japan for passing dead relatives off as living so as to claim their pensions, we guess she will remain missing until all her dependents are dead.
The story goes that when updating their records, officials discovered that Furuya was not living at the address where she is registered. She has not been found.
This follows the news that Tokyo’s oldest male, Sogen Kato, a man of some 111 years had been dead for 30 years.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Japan Police Arrest The Girls’ Bicycle Saddle Thief
IN Tochigi, Japan, a man has been arrested for stealing 78 seats from girls’ bicycles. Police found the seats at his home. The man said he had stolen the seats because he enjoyed watching the saddle…
Posted: 6th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Japanese Teacher Anri Suzuki Wants Sex With Students To Apologise For Japanese War Crimes
MISS Anri Suzuki, 24, from Tokyo, says she will repair wrongs carried out by Japanese soldiers in China by having sex with the Chinese student body.
Japan invaded – penetrated, if you will – China in 1937.
Anri Suzuki has a doctorate in Sino-Japanese history. She also happens to be a jobbing porn star. And if she has learnt one thing it is that a shag can heel wounds and build bridges. But might a bad shag do more harm than good?
Says she:
“We have to respect the lessons of history and although we cannot obliterate it we can try and make recompense. I want to cure the wounds of China with my body, and I offer to do this by having sex with Chinese students in Japan. I think it would be a symbolic compensation for them.”
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Posted: 18th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (21)
iPad Triggers Surge In Newspaper Sales In Japan: Want To Know Why?
THE iPad is the new way to spot a tosser on the Tube. Or is it?
In Japan, you can’t see the iPad because the shame-faced punters and posers are wrapping the things (chip wrappers – geddit?!) around their iPads on the underground.
The given excuse is that it stops them being stolen. The real rason we have touched upon: shame.
How the iPad saved newspapers… Read all about it!
Posted: 3rd, June 2010 | In: Technology | Comment
How To Put Out A Bloody Japanese Fire With Your Face
ADVERT of The Day: How to put out a Japanese fire with your face. If you see a fire. If you want to help. Puncture your face with a large stick and do the right thing.*
* May incur light-headedness and death.
Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Japanese F-Cup Cookie For Bigger Breasts
IN Japan, you can buy the F-Cup Cookie that should you eat it will increase your breast size. The cookies contain Pueraria Mirifica, a “natural breast enhancer”.
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Dolphins Protect Boats From Somali Pirates
HAVING invested heavily in the Pirate Scheme to save the world’s economy, how typical that the dolphins should ruin it.
As the headline says:
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates
Pirates have deployed rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons to attack another US merchant ship off the coast of Somalia, says reports. Show me the money!
But:
THOUSANDS of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden.
China Radio International reported the Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China’s fleet sailed on the Gulf of Aden when they met some suspected pirate ships. Thousands of dolphins suddenly leaped out of water between pirates and merchants when the pirate ships headed for the China’s.
Piracy, not privacy, stoopid (via Tim Blair):
The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins. The spectacular scene continued for a while.
Send for the Japanese!
Posted: 15th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Japanese Pop Star Hideki Kaji Robbed By Pineapple
SWEDISH police say Japanese pop star Hideki Kaji was dressed up as a pineapple when he was robbed.
Police spokesman Bo Paulsson says three men attacked Kaji when he was filming a music video.
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Posted: 6th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Woman Falls Into Hole On Golf Course And Dies
A WOMAN in Japan has died after falling into a hole of a golf course.
Takae Gassho, 38-year-old housewife, was enjoying a round of golf with three family members at the le Petaw golf course in Abira, Hokkaido.
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Posted: 3rd, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Nicholas Cage Is Big In Japan
NICHOLAS Cage is the indie actor who’s face is unsuited to big Hollywood. But he makes money. The hang dog look. The rhomboid expression. The drawl. And now the hair. But he still makes money.
Cage is that Rat Pack interbred – dashes and dabs of something that suggests talent but adds up to a cameo.
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Posted: 1st, April 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Ski Jump Toilet
THE Ski Jump toilet in Japan.
Guaranteed to end constipation in a jiffy.
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Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comment
Cameron’s Conservatives Pan For Gold In Japanese Sewage
IN Japan, the local pass gold in their stools. Muck and brass. To the sewerage plant in Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo
And the workers are panning for gold. David Cameron, pay attention:
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Posted: 31st, January 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1)
Japanese Men Don’t Bounce
“HE worked until the retirement age. We had been looking forward to going to various places as a couple and were excited that we would be able to spend a relaxing time together.”
So says the wife of a Japanese man celebrating his 60th birthday and retirement from work.
But first a few drinks and few laughs with his world colleague at a transport company in Ritto, near the ancient capital of Kyoto.
The man is picked up and tossed in the air. Down he comes. Up he goes. Down he comes. Up he goes. Down he comes. Down he comes. Down he comes…
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Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Flesh Food In Japan And Instruction Manual For People With Type B Blood
FLESH food on sale in Japan.
In Japan, blood is all the rage:
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Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Perks Of Being Old: Shoplift To Beat The Recession
IT’S at times like these when I realise that Britain is not what it was; the NYT reports on ‘Silver-Haired Shoplifters On the Rise In Japan’ and what are we Brits doing to catch up with our Asian counterparts?
Bugger all; we can’t even muster a mini-geriatric crimewave, much less achieve the heights of the island of Hokkaido, where 3 OAPs are arrested for every two teenagers nicked.
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Eating Worms For Sex On Japanese Trains
WORMS.
As Charles Darwin said:
“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.”
He wasn’t kidding. It’s not hard to overreach the value most of us place on earthworms. Although Open Reach Laboratories (Opal) seeks to expand our knowledge by recruiting volunteers to collect and count worms.
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Posted: 26th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Japanese Man Blames Murders On Pet Dog
TO Japan where Takeshi Koizumi is accused of murdering Takehiko Yamaguchi and his wife Michiko. He is also staid to have stabbed one Yasuko Yoshihara.
It is crime not without potency. Mr. Yamaguchi was a retired vice minister in the health ministry in Japan, and Mrs. Yoshihara’s husband, Kenji, had held the same position.
The motive seems clear: revenge on the politicos.
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Posted: 24th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
