News for November 30, 2006
Some news/links for this morning:
-An Englilsh school in Yamanashi has run an employment ad for a new teacher at their school. The requirements:
“blonde hair blue or green eyes and brightly character“.
-The New York Times has a feature on the CLAMP manga authors. [Link via Dark Diamond Network]
-Japanese police have raided four locations connected to an employment company believed to have dispatched workers to transfer manufacturing technologies to North Korea.
-Are Japanese companies intentionally producing low-quality TV programs? Judging from just about every dramas I see on TV, I’d have to say yes…
-U2 frontman Bono thinks Shinzo Abe is “cool.”
-Expedia Inc, the world’s largest online travel company, has launched a Japanese language version of its service at Expedia.co.jp!
-Russian 18-year-old Wakanoho has become the youngest-ever foreigner to be promoted to sumo’s juryo division.
-Hokkaido is afraid that a trade deal with Australia will lead to agricultural losses.
-A weird foreigner with long hair talks about figures on episode 8 of Tokyo Eye.
-What Japan Thinks has translated the Top 100 goo searches of 2006. Everybody loves 2-channel!
-Edible squid-flavored postcards!
-This is what happens to foreigners who leech images from Japanese sites [they are given a Takeshima propaganda version of the original image].
-Japanese researchers have created an ultradense carbon nanotube. Neat.
Afternoon update:
-Yet another junior high school student suicide. No word yet on whether she had been bullied.
-The Yankees have 2 Japanese players now? Well, the Red Sox can match that.
-Japan’s Prince Akishino, the father of Japan’s recently born male heir, turned 41 today.
-JASRAC, the copyright enforcement association for Japan’s music industry, has had a man arrested for distributing ring tones on his website.
-The Yomiuri Shinbun has an article on the reluctance of schools to suspend bullies.
-Rooting out Japan’s woes, an editorial from the IHT.
-You thought the students in your English class sucked? Check out Lindsay Lohan’s writing abilities.
