No one is above the law. An ex-cop from the riot police has been arrested for the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old school girl in Akishima, Tokyo. Former police sergeant Koichi Omura (32) left the force in March but has been busy since then. He is accused of coming up to a fifteen-year-old high school [...]
May 16, 2013
Vietnamese Trade Ao Dai for Anime-Inspired Uniforms and Collars at Ho Chi Minh City’s First Locally-Owned Maid Café
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One of the most enduring images of Japanese pop culture in the past few years is that of the maid café, where customers are served by waitresses with personalities to match the careful craftsmanship of their cute, frill-covered outfits. Maid cafes have become something of a cultural export, popping up in the U.S., Canada, and, [...]
May 15, 2013
Hashimoto tells US to “use prostitutes” in Japan
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Outspoken former Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the “comfort women” during the war and his recommendations for how to avoid rapes in Okinawa. Hashimoto, no stranger to getting noticed by provocative comments, [...]
May 14, 2013
Richard Nixon’s grandson tours China
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BEIJING — “He would be amazed,” exclaimed Christopher Nixon Cox, digging into a plate of fried rice over lunch in a starkly modern restaurant with black-clad waiters and white walls at the foot of the Great Wall of China. Cox was referring to his grandfather, Richard Nixon, whose 1972 trip to China he is retracing. [...]
May 14, 2013
Russian Kindness Affecting People in Japan
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There’s a new video from Russia that’s moving the world to tears, just with its simple content: random acts of human kindness. Using the same car dashboard cameras that brought images of a falling meteor to the world, it shows Russian drivers helping out animals, pedestrians and fellow drivers in a manner that defies traditional [...]
May 14, 2013
Beautiful Cosplay Girl is Actually Nerdy Guy
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Pictures of the cosplayer seen above have been making the rounds on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, being hailed as “just too cute!” Many women post pictures on the internet of themselves cosplaying and these new photos seem to be more of the same. That’s not to say that this young lady doesn’t look good, [...]
