Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A 52-year-old homeless man who spent nine years on Osaka's streets after being fired from his job was in Italy in September as captain of Japan's soccer delegation to the Homeless World Cup. A total of eight men from Tokyo and Osaka who lost their jobs due to corporate restructuring or saw their temporary work dry up were selected to represent Japan in the competition, which ran from Sept. 6 to 13...
Asiajin (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material resources in association with nine program supporting partners. Entrepreneurs joining the program can get benefits by receiving complimentary services and packages as follows....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
OSAKA (Kyodo) Nintendo Co. started Saturday a pay-per-view service of old television programs and popular classic movies for users of its Wii video game console. Twelve companies, including Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. and Toei Co., began providing about 120 items such as comedy skits and cartoons, charging ¥30 to ¥500 each, via the online Wii no Ma on-demand service.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
SAITAMA — Kashima Antlers and Gamba Osaka ramped up the pressure on Kawasaki Frontale in the J. League title race with wins on Saturday, while Urawa Reds salvaged some pride from a difficult season with a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Jubilo Iwata. With Frontale not in action until Sunday's away trip to Oita Trinita, Antlers beat Kyoto Sanga 1-0 to move into first place for at least a day, with...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
After losing to the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the bj-league's playoff semifinals last May, Osaka Evessa forward Lynn Washington, a member of the team's three championship squads in the league's first three seasons, spoke about the team's desire to use that game as motivation for the coming season. On Saturday, the Evessa gained a small measure of revenge against the defending champions in Okinawa.
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forget about that last dog with eyebrows. Here’s Ran, a dog in Osaka with really thick eyebrows: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OSAKA — There weren’t many Western games on display at Games Japan Festa this year, and of those that were, nearly all had already been released in the United States. A notable exception was Avatar, the game based on the James Cameron film that is coming to theaters in December (it’s the one with the [...]
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OSAKA — The Samurai Shodown series was one of SNK’s biggest successes back in the 1990s, adding medieval weapons to the crowded 2-D fighting genre with a cast of characters rooted in Japanese history and mythology. The newest game is called Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny (Samurai Spirits Sen in Japan) and it’s coming to the [...]
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Greenlings: What's the difference between kW and kWh? The h makes all the difference. Japan EV Club creams Tesla range record with Tokyo to Osaka run How long will this one stand? Government bailout does not = EV mandates for GM, Chrysler Obama defers to management for product choices. Other news: Smart ED production kicks off at Hambach plant Electric Rolls-Royce Phantom could arrive within a year...
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Graziano Freschi, experienced travel writer and connoisseur writes.... It is hard to imagine, when you visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both pleasant, prosperous and laid back cities, that nearly 65 years ago they were the target of the Atomic Bomb and its horrific aftermath. Hiroshima today is a mid-size city cris-crossed by rivers and waterways. It dispalys the usual prosperity of Japanese cities, with...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Japan Well that didn't last long. It's been less than a month since Simon Hackett set something of a electric vehicle distance record in his Tesla Roadster, driving 501 km (311 miles) across the hot and flat Australian outback with the windows up and the air-con off. Now comes news that the dedicated enthusiasts of the Japan EV Club have decidedly bested that mark and are...
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OSAKA — Why isn’t the Metal Slug series as well-known as Contra in the United States? Sure, Contra came first but Metal Slug took that basic gameplay concept and threw in wonderfully animated sprite-based graphics as well as a sense of humor. Perhaps it’s simply a case of diminishing returns. 2007’s Contra 4 on the Nintendo [...]
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OSAKA — It’s entirely forgivable if you’ve never heard of Umihara Kawase before. This cult classic Japanese action game is a bit like Bionic Commando, only your character is a little girl and instead of killing Nazis you battle overgrown fish. Umihara Kawase first appeared on Nintendo’s Super Famicom and had a sequel on the Sony PlayStation [...]
Japundit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Foreign tourists watch in amusement as some 20 people dressed in bright red samurai armor pick up cigarette butts and other rubbish around Osaka Castle with tongs designed to look like swords. They are members of the nonprofit organization Osaka Kacchutai (Osaka Armor Corps), which has been cleaning up the castle's perimeter once a month since 2003. read more
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OSAKA — Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period are slowly coming to light. The move is creating headaches for both countries as they grapple over military bases in Okinawa and the future...
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azito | 21/04/2009
The 1970 Osaka Expo, with its motto "Human Progress and Harmony" was the beacon for futuristic inventions of the time. Many artists were captivated by this optimistic creative energy, but Yanobe Kenji who visited the festival after it had ended and was already on its way to being dismantled, saw it as a foreboding representation of the end of the future. Every since this traumatic experience, he went
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