Archive for January, 2009

Yokosuka Navy Burger

Restaurants in Yokosuka have used a special recipe they received from the US Navy to add ‘Navy Burgers’ to their menus:

The burger is initially available at four restaurants chosen by the city government, which wants to promote it as a local delicacy. Six other restaurants will begin to serve the burger by mid-February.

The burger, made with a 200-gram ground beef patty, uses less salt and sauce than other burgers to enable customers to fully taste the flavor of beef, the restaurants say. Each restaurant also uses its own secret ingredient.

Among the four restaurants is Tsunami, a Mexican restaurant located just in front of the Navy base, which is serving an extra-large burger called “the George Washington” after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with the same name that was deployed to Yokosuka last September.

The four restaurants with Navy Burgers are the Bistro Gourmand, Tsunami, Honey Bee, and Launa.

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Worker nearly crushed to death by elevator

An incident that took place a few days ago in Tokyo highlights the dangers of elevator maintenance work:

As on maintenance worker worked at the bottom of the shaft, another worker did some maintenance on the elevator while testing its movement between other floors. The worker at the bottom told his colleague not to take the elevator down to the first floor, but at some point the “1″ button was accidentally pressed. Had there not been a ladder at the bottom of the shaft, the worker there would have been killed. Instead, he was given 18-centimeters of space – enough to experience the horrible pain of being crushed without fatal injury.

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Apartment designed by Kazuo Umezu

If you thought Kazuo Umezu’s house looked cool, you might enjoy this designer apartment he produced for a company in Osaka:

The Japanese/Romanian couple living in the apartment seem to enjoy its wacky interior、and don’t have a problem paying 250,000 yen a month in rent for the place.

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North Korea to capure the moon

First they abduct Japanese citizens, now they plan to abduct the moon:

[via the Marmot's Hole]

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