Quick links: October 29, 2006
Some cool links to check out today:
-Josh has alerted me to the presence of the website for Gwen Stefani’s Japan-related clothing label, Harajuku Lovers. Am I the only person annoyed by Gwen Stefani’s shitty Japanophilia and regular use of badly pronounced Japanese?
-Despite the fact that 900 African Americans fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, you won’t find any of them in Clint Eastwood’s new film.
-Takeru Kobayashi has set a new world record in hamburger eating.
-A Bangladeshi man has won a libel suit against NTV after the news network reported that he had been raising money for an Al Qaeda terror cell in Japan.
-Softbank (formerly Vodafone Japan), is signing up so many new customers that their computer systems are close to overload. I guess those Yoso Guy and Cameron Diaz commercials are really doing the trick.
-Wild bears continue to menace Japan’s elderly!!!
-Justin and Swifty comment on Haruki Murakami’s dislike of gyaru.
-The story of an American meeting the Japanese fighter pilot who killed his father in WW2.
-Japanese environmentalists are struggling to save the Iriomote Wild Cat.
-Do you have $170,000 laying around that you’d like to throw away? You should totally get a solid gold 2007 calendar!
-Hundreds of dead fish were found in the river near my apartment. I hope my tap water comes from a different source…
