Okinawans March for Handover of U.S. Serviceman Over Fatal Hit-and-Run
Over a thousand Okinawa residents and lawmakers gathered Sunday in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, urging the U.S. military to hand over the c....
14 Dec 6:53 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Needs to Step it Up in Copenhagen
Japan needs to step up and take a more prominent and visible leadership role at the U.N. climate talks or the conference could end in failu....
13 Dec 10:46 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Super Carbon Eating Plants to Ease Global Warming and More
Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one d....
12 Dec 4:57 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
False Fingerprints – Chinese Woman Switched Her Prints to Enter Japan
by fazen A Chinese woman has been arrested on suspicion of illegally entering Japan by falsifying her fingerprints to deceive a biometric re....
9 Dec 3:05 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Johnny Depp is in Japan!
America’s Sexiest Man Alive Johnny Depp made an amazing arrival into the Narita International Airport on December 8, 2009 in Narita, Chib....
9 Dec 2:38 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Pearl Harbor – Discovery of Japan’s Mysterious Mini-Subs Fill in the Missing Pieces of the Attack
The wreckage of the last of five Japanese midget subs sent to attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was identified recently with the help of ....
8 Dec 1:16 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Space Beer – Sapporo Hops Minus the Gravity
Japan, always has it’s sights in the future, and has also with every leap been able to hold on to a little of its past. In this tradition....
7 Dec 4:51 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Kagura dancing thrives in Hiroshima-ken
A kagura performer dances during a November performance in Tagouchi. (Photo by Natalie Oram) With the Japan Kagura Festival coming up in H....
6 Dec 6:45 pm  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Current State of Affairs, Pt. 1
Copyright © 2009 billywest. Visit the original article at http://sevententotokyo.com/2009/12/the-current-state-of-affairs-pt-1/.Ok, maybe I....
6 Dec 2:32 pm  from  Seven Ten to Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Quentin – You din’t? The Newset Addition to the SoftBank Saga!
Quentin Tarantino stars in the new softbank commercial promoting its all new and shiny never heard of it before speaker phone tech. And so....
4 Dec 3:21 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese Man Weds a Virtual Girl from his Favorite Video Game
All I can say is that it was a nice ceremony and I hope he never runs out of batteries. For some people, the dream to marry a loved one reg....
3 Dec 2:48 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan expresses doubt on final agreements being made at the upcoming climate talks
Japan’s envoy to climate change talks expressed doubt Wednesday that a final agreement would be reached at the UN summit on tackling globa....
3 Dec 1:45 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Why Japan Get’s it Wrong on Finding Ways to Boost its Economy
After weeks of calls by the Japanese government to do something about deflation and the fast appreciating yen, the Bank of Japan held an em....
2 Dec 12:00 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Cute Cheetah Cubs Steal the Show in Tokyo’s Tama Zoo
A trio of cute cheetah cubs are entrancing visitors to Tama Zoo in Tokyo. These cute cheetah cubs are some of the newest editions to Tama ....
1 Dec 12:26 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Successfully Launches North Korean Spying Satellite
An H-IIA rocket carrying a government spy satellite lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center on Saturday morning. (Mainichi) A new spy satell....
30 Nov 2:23 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Self-Healing Paint for Cell Phones
Where was this technology last week when I dropped my poor little iPhone, while trying to balance it on top of my Chinese takeout? The answ....
30 Nov 1:02 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Giant tuna landed by actor sells for 4.37 million yen
Actor Hiroki Matsukata, right, lands a 325-kilogram bluefin tuna last Sunday. (Photo courtesy of the city of Hagi) A giant tuna landed by ac....
29 Nov 9:49 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Own the Night
Copyright © 2009 billywest. Visit the original article at http://sevententotokyo.com/2009/11/i-own-the-night/.I’m a creature of the night....
28 Nov 1:02 pm  from  Seven Ten to Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Light Sabers and Robots = Dance Party! – International Robot Exhibition 2009
The International Robot Exhibition 2009 is underway in Tokyo, and Yasukawa is again showcasing its Motoman robots. Previous models were dext....
27 Nov 12:07 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Nagoya Cops take a walk on the wild side -Not under the covers, but undercover
The Aichi prefectural police have given new meaning to the term “undercover cop.” In an attempt to foil purse-snatchers, male officers a....
26 Nov 1:56 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
WWII soldier’s flag leads Hiroshima JET on journey to Niigata Prefecture
Aaron Sponseller with Bunjiro Kaizo, holding the Japanese flag that belonged to Mr. Kaizo’s younger brother, Bunichiro Kaizo, a soldier ....
25 Nov 9:59 pm  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Wagashi – Japanese Sweets
Here are a couple of videos to help explain all those wonderful candies or wagashi that you see when at the department stores or at other c....
25 Nov 12:09 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
JAL in the Crossfire between Delta and American
Delta Air Lines and its alliance partners offered $1 billion in aid to Japan Airlines on Wednesday, a proposal that American Airlines quick....
24 Nov 10:27 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Seasonal Eating in Japan: Daikon recipes
A little boy carries a daikon at the Sera Daikon Festival in October. (Photo by Luc Gougeon) By Luc Gougeon It’s daikon season folks! Dai....
24 Nov 12:02 am  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 
1Q84 – Murakami Speaks About the Unreal
In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more p....
23 Nov 3:09 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Universal Language Communicator
Well…for Star Trek fans this might be the closest we’ve come to the universal translator..for the rest of us it might be the next new to....
22 Nov 10:49 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
‘Runaway Sites’ Latest Exploitation of Young Girls
Desperate measures: A cell phone in Shibuya, Tokyo, shows an 'iede saito' (runaway site), where runaway girls post requests for a place to s....
21 Nov 4:32 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Ocean Warming Causes Jellyfish to Swarm Japan’s Northern Waters
A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within m....
20 Nov 1:00 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Robot meets iPhone
This video is nifty in ever sense of the word. It puts the power of the iPhone with a little bit of ingenuity in perspective like no other ....
19 Nov 12:47 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Okinawa to Guam? Possibly…
John Roos and Katsuya Okada The United States reiterated its demand Tuesday that Japan implement a 2006 bilateral pact on the transfer of a ....
18 Nov 9:10 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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