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• The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance
• Hiroshima marks 63rd anniversary of atomic bombing
• Two-Legged Korean Fighting Fishes
• Now that’s called using your noodle
• Japanese Man Arrested for Pirated Anime DVD Auctions
• First mountain hawk-eagle born in captivity in Hokkaido
• Kinky Beer News
• Hitomi Aizawa jumping rope
• Just Like His Mummy Put Him to Bed!
• Sadaharu Aoki - Macha Tea Millefeuille for you?..
• Teacher suspended for slapping 9-year-old girl
• Principal seeks debate with education board over teachers’ right to ‘express opinions’
• Showa Era retro snacks available at Lawson
• All work and no play, makes Taro Bureaucrat a dull boy
• It all depends what your definition of “good” is
• Ramen Girl
• Murasaki-bot for Genji lovers
• Cola bread
• Japanese love affair with melons threatened by oil price rise
• Sorry we beat you, but it’s your fault
• Japan fee for iPhone drops
• Turning Rice into Gold - a Marathon Effort
• Brown Haired Discrimination in Japan?
• Aso likens DPJ to Nazis
• Ageing Japanese men worry about body odor
• Google Street View for Japan
• The Scent of Money - Boffins sniff out new ways of making you spend
• Summer Time To Tattoo Hide
• The Honeymoon’s Over - Japan Inc. gets a new Girlfriend
• Yohan once?..Yohan twice?..Yohan..gone!
• Standby for “the World’s Greatest ever Metropolitan Makeover.”..(huh?)
• Guerilla gardening in South Kyoto - the story continues…
• Changing trends in births in Japan
• New Japan Justice Minister on the death penalty
• Mt. Fuji bio-toilet about to blow
• Male Indonesian nurses rejected by Japanese care facilities
• Osaka not long for this world?
• Japan Post Bank - where crime keeps on paying