Aug 21 2008
When a JR Tokyo station platform attendant was shot at close-range during a dispute amidst early morning rush hour back in 2004, the suspect’s clean getaway from police could probably be attributed to the fact that within the orchestrated chaos of...
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Aug 19 2008
In an interesting change of policy, the Japanese police have finally gotten around to putting out arrest warrants for three environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, for their interference in a whale “research” hunt back in...
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Aug 1 2008
As reported by JapanToday, Japan’s national population is back on its way up again after three consecutive annual declines, which should be temporarily encouraging news for those overly concerned with the birthrate falling too low to feasibly sustain...
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Jul 29 2008
What if, some entrepreneurial young business major at Virginia Tech, with a heart full of good intention, but a head full of air, acted on that good intention and opened a small arms gun shop on Kent Street? You know, the same Kent Street that lies...
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Jul 24 2008
“One of the safest countries in the world?” “Low crime rates?” “They have good sushi there, right?” What is it about Japan that has kept the stereotypes of the 70s and 80s alive for so long? Forget the samurai and geisha too, because it’s...
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