G.Com Nova celebrates its second birthday
Two years have passed since English conversation school chain Nova imploded. G.communication, the company that purchased the remnants of Nova, is now running commercials that celebrate the 2nd birthday of the G.com Nova brand:
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Categories: Teaching English
Insects + Rice
“Nanikore Chin Hyakkei” travels to Shizuoka prefecture and tries out some yellow jackets (Vespula flaviceps) mixed with rice:
The comedians who eat the gruesome looking dish are quite surprised by how good it tastes. Apparently the bugs taste very much like sakura shrimp.
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Categories: Japanese Food, Odd / Strange
Thief enters apartment through closet ceiling
Someone who was puzzled by valuables somehow disappearing from inside a locked apartment, so a surveillance camera was set up:
It was revealed that a man who lived in an adjacent apartment was crawling up into the ceiling and entering the apartment through a loose ceiling board in the closet of that room. Thanks to the video footage, the man was arrested.
If you live in an old building, make sure your closet is secured!
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Categories: Odd / Strange
Japan Times photo caption error
An amusing mix-up over at the Japan Times caused the following photo caption to appear in an article about ferry service between South Korea and Russia:
[hat tip to Durf]
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Categories: Odd / Strange
