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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:04 pm Post subject:
A pair of skeletons have been found in a car at the bottom of a reservoir in Fukuoka Prefecture, 17 years after two brothers disappeared while out for a drive in the area, police said Tuesday.
Highway workers found the remains when they drained the reservoir during a land survey in the town of Koge.
"We are trying to confirm if the accident was related to the disappearance of two brothers in 1995," a spokesman for the local police station said.
In October 1995, a 20-year-old man and his 18-year-old brother went missing after they went for a drive from their parents' home in the nearby city of Usa.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject:
Tokyo governor resigns to form new party
-- Shintaro Ishihara, the strident governor of Tokyo who helped touch off a major dispute between China and Japan over some uninhabited islets near Taiwan, announced Thursday that he was quitting his post and forming a new political party.
Ishihara, 80, told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo that he wanted to return to parliament and said he would run in the next election for the House of Representatives, Japan's lower house.
Ishihara has served as Tokyo governor since 1999, following a quarter of a century in parliament. Known as a fierce nationalist and co-author of the 1989 book "The Japan That Can Say No," he has pushed for Japan to rewrite its pacifist constitution and advocated acquiring nuclear weapons.
Among other things, this guy has said Japan needs to launch a pre-emptive first strike not only against North Korea, but also China. And he once said that when a woman can no longer have children she's outlived her usefullness. Just what the world needs, another right-wing nutcase.
Among other things, this guy has said Japan needs to launch a pre-emptive first strike not only against North Korea, but also China. And he once said that when a woman can no longer have children she's outlived her usefullness. Just what the world needs, another right-wing nutcase.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:
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Among other things, this guy has said Japan needs to launch a pre-emptive first strike not only against North Korea, but also China. And he once said that when a woman can no longer have children she's outlived her usefullness. Just what the world needs, another right-wing nutcase.
Good idea, that would make the triple diaster of the 3/11 the amuse buche of disasters.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject:
I couln't make this stuff up if I tried:
NHK announcer Morimoto Takeshige arrested for sexual assault
Public broadcaster NHK announced on Thursday that 47-year-old announcer Morimoto Takeshige has been arrested under suspicion of sexual assaulting a woman on a Tokyo train.
Newspapers report that the incident occurred around 8:00pm on Wednesday, November 14. Morimoto was on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line near Futako-Tamagawa Station when he inappropriately touched a 23-year-old woman, apparently reaching into her shirt to grope her breasts. The woman managed to take him off the train at Futako-Tamagawa and handed him over to a station employee.
According to the police and NHK�fs public relations department, Morimoto had a meeting at NHK until the afternoon, then went drinking in Shibuya with co-workers. He seemed to have been drunk at the time of the incident, and he stated that he has no memory of the assault. Morimoto also told police that he was on his way home, although he had been heading in the wrong direction.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject:
gaijinmark wrote:
Tokyo governor resigns to form new party
-- Shintaro Ishihara, the strident governor of Tokyo who helped touch off a major dispute between China and Japan over some uninhabited islets near Taiwan, announced Thursday that he was quitting his post and forming a new political party.
Ishihara, 80, told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo that he wanted to return to parliament and said he would run in the next election for the House of Representatives, Japan's lower house.
Ishihara has served as Tokyo governor since 1999, following a quarter of a century in parliament. Known as a fierce nationalist and co-author of the 1989 book "The Japan That Can Say No," he has pushed for Japan to rewrite its pacifist constitution and advocated acquiring nuclear weapons.
Among other things, this guy has said Japan needs to launch a pre-emptive first strike not only against North Korea, but also China. And he once said that when a woman can no longer have children she's outlived her usefullness. Just what the world needs, another right-wing nutcase.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 4:12 am Post subject:
Obviously, this guy watches too much American television:
Siege ends as police storm bank
Police in Aichi prefecture have stormed a bank and arrested a hostage-taker who was demanding that the country's prime minister resign.The man was holding five people captive, when about a dozen police carrying shields bashed their way into the bank in Toyokawa city in central Japan.
They rushed the man and freed the hostages.
In a televised news conference, a police spokesman said the hostage-taker, identified as Koji Nagakubo, was arrested on suspicion of taking the five captive.
One of the hostages was slightly injured in the 13-hour siege. The hostages, including one released earlier, were all in protective custody safely, the spokesman said
The 32-year old hostage taker was armed with knives and had been demanding the resignation of Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda. He began the siege Thursday afternoon at the Zoshi branch of the Toyokawa Shinkin Bank in central Aichi prefecture.
Wielding a survival knife, he took four employees and a female customer captive and was demanding the Noda cabinet step down, as well as asking to speak to journalists, local media said.
TOKYO (AP) �\ Parts of a tunnel collapsed Sunday on a highway west of Tokyo, trapping an unknown number of vehicles as smoke from a fire inside initially prevented rescuers from approaching.
Video footage from cameras inside the tunnel, after the fire was apparently extinguished, showed firefighters picking their way through cement roof panels that collapsed onto vehicles inside the Sasago Tunnel, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) outside the city.
About 25 vehicles were inside the (2.5 mile) 4.3 kilometer-long tunnel, some of them trucks stopped by the tunnel's collapse.
Police spokesman Yoshihiro Fukutani said they were still seeking details about the situation inside the tunnel.
Police vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances were massed outside the tunnel's entrance. A man who said he saw the collapse and alerted authorities to the emergency told NHK television he managed to escape after he was ordered to flee. The roof and windows of another vehicle parked on the roadside outside the tunnel were crushed, and the injured occupants reportedly taken to a hospital.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject:
Here we go again
Strong quake hits northeast Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong quake centered off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo on Friday and triggered a one-meter tsunami in an area devastated by last year's Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage.
The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate to higher ground, but the tsunami warning was lifted two hours after the tremor struck.
The March 2011 earthquake and following tsunami killed nearly 20,000 people and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years when the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was destroyed, leaking radiation into the sea and air.
Workers at the plant were ordered to move to safety after Friday's quake. Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, reported no irregularities at its nuclear plants.
All but two of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors have been idled since the Fukushima disaster as the government reviews safety.
The quake measured a "lower 5" in Miyagi prefecture on Japan's scale of one to seven, meaning there might be some damage to roads and houses that are less quake resistant.
The scale measures the amount of shaking and in that sense gives a better idea of possible damage than the magnitude. The quake registered a 4 in Tokyo
The one-meter tsunami hit at Ishinomaki, in Miyagi, at the centre of the devastation from the March 2011 disaster. All Miyagi trains halted operations and Sendai airport, which was flooded by the tsunami last year, closed its runway.
TOKYO (AP) �\ A bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million at a Tokyo auction Saturday, nearly three times the previous high set last year �\ even as environmentalists warn that stocks of the majestic, speedy fish are being depleted worldwide amid strong demand for sushi.
In the year's first auction at Tokyo's sprawling Tsukiji fish market, the 222-kilogram (489-pound) tuna caught off northeastern Japan sold for 155.4 million yen, said Ryoji Yagi, a market official.
The fish's tender pink and red meat is prized for sushi and sashimi. The best slices of fatty bluefin �\ called "o-toro" here �\ can sell for 2,000 yen ($24) per piece at upmarket Tokyo sushi bars.
Japanese eat 80 percent of the bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and much the global catch is shipped to Japan for consumption.
The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said "the price was a bit high," but that he wanted to "encourage Japan," according to Kyodo News agency. He was planning to serve the fish to customers later Saturday.
Kimura also set the old record of 56.4 million yen at last year's New Year's auction, which tends to attract high bids as a celebratory way to kick off the new year �\ or get some publicity. The high prices don't necessarily reflect exceptionally high fish quality.
The price works out to a stunning 700,000 yen per kilogram, or $3,603 per pound.
Stocks of all three bluefin species �\the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic �\ have fallen over the past 15 years amid overfishing.
On Monday, an intergovernmental group is to release data on Pacific Bluefin stocks that environmentalists believe will likely show an alarming decline.
"Everything we're hearing is that there's no good news for the Pacific Bluefin," said Amanda Nickson, the director of the Washington-based Pew Environmental Group's global tuna conservation campaign. "We're seeing a very high value fish continue to be overfished."
The population of another species, the Southern Bluefin, which swims in the southern Pacific, has plunged to 3-8 percent of its original levels.
Stocks of bluefin caught in the Atlantic and Mediterranean plunged by 60 percent between 1997 and 2007 due to rampant, often illegal, overfishing and lax quotas. Although there has been some improvement in recent years, experts say the outlook for the species is still fragile.
In November, the 48 member nations of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT, voted to maintain strict catch limits on the species, although some countries argued for higher limits. The quota will be allowed to rise slightly from 12,900 metric tons a year to 13,500. Quotas were as high as 32,000 tons in 2006.
A total catch limit on the Pacific Bluefin has been imposed only recently in the eastern part of the Pacific near the United States and Mexico, but not by the intergovernmental group that oversees the western Pacific, Nickson said. So-called effort limits in place now �\ restrictions on the number of vessels and days fishing allowed �\ are not effective, she added, and fisherman also are targeting juvenile populations and spawning grounds.
"This poor species is being hit from every angle," she said.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:48 am Post subject:
niknik wrote:
Bluefin tuna sells for record $1.76M in Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) �\ A bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million at a Tokyo auction Saturday, nearly three times the previous high set last year �\ even as environmentalists warn that stocks of the majestic, speedy fish are being depleted worldwide amid strong demand for sushi.
In the year's first auction at Tokyo's sprawling Tsukiji fish market, the 222-kilogram (489-pound) tuna caught off northeastern Japan sold for 155.4 million yen, said Ryoji Yagi, a market official.
The fish's tender pink and red meat is prized for sushi and sashimi. The best slices of fatty bluefin �\ called "o-toro" here �\ can sell for 2,000 yen ($24) per piece at upmarket Tokyo sushi bars.
Japanese eat 80 percent of the bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and much the global catch is shipped to Japan for consumption.
The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said "the price was a bit high," but that he wanted to "encourage Japan," according to Kyodo News agency. He was planning to serve the fish to customers later Saturday.
Kimura also set the old record of 56.4 million yen at last year's New Year's auction, which tends to attract high bids as a celebratory way to kick off the new year �\ or get some publicity. The high prices don't necessarily reflect exceptionally high fish quality.
The price works out to a stunning 700,000 yen per kilogram, or $3,603 per pound.
Stocks of all three bluefin species �\the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic �\ have fallen over the past 15 years amid overfishing.
On Monday, an intergovernmental group is to release data on Pacific Bluefin stocks that environmentalists believe will likely show an alarming decline.
"Everything we're hearing is that there's no good news for the Pacific Bluefin," said Amanda Nickson, the director of the Washington-based Pew Environmental Group's global tuna conservation campaign. "We're seeing a very high value fish continue to be overfished."
The population of another species, the Southern Bluefin, which swims in the southern Pacific, has plunged to 3-8 percent of its original levels.
Stocks of bluefin caught in the Atlantic and Mediterranean plunged by 60 percent between 1997 and 2007 due to rampant, often illegal, overfishing and lax quotas. Although there has been some improvement in recent years, experts say the outlook for the species is still fragile.
In November, the 48 member nations of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT, voted to maintain strict catch limits on the species, although some countries argued for higher limits. The quota will be allowed to rise slightly from 12,900 metric tons a year to 13,500. Quotas were as high as 32,000 tons in 2006.
A total catch limit on the Pacific Bluefin has been imposed only recently in the eastern part of the Pacific near the United States and Mexico, but not by the intergovernmental group that oversees the western Pacific, Nickson said. So-called effort limits in place now �\ restrictions on the number of vessels and days fishing allowed �\ are not effective, she added, and fisherman also are targeting juvenile populations and spawning grounds.
"This poor species is being hit from every angle," she said.
The best part about it is this tuna was radioactive and the isotopes in its body are worth 6 million dollars to any nuclear power plant. So it works out!
The best part about it is this tuna was radioactive and the isotopes in its body are worth 6 million dollars to any nuclear power plant. So it works out!
I read this a couple of days ago. My friend in Tokyo says that the Tokyo Costco doesn't even charge for parking so this truly is outrageous because I strongly doubt the cost of living in Hiroshima is on the level of Tokyo.
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