Japan - News/General Discussion

Tu_triky wrote:

i guess everybody likes their trophies....

Exactly. :mrgreen:

Where do you get all your Japanese News, btw?

Wynter wrote:

Exactly. :mrgreen:

Where do you get all your Japanese News, btw?

i usually go to three locations

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/index.htm

there are other resources but these three sites give good coverage.

Tu_triky wrote:

i usually go to three locations

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/index.htm

there are other resources but these three sites give good coverage.

Ah okies, thanky. I'll check them out.

MySpace to launch Japan venture with Softbank-paper
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TOKYO (Reuters) - News Corp.'s MySpace.com Internet business will be launched in Japan this month in a joint venture with Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp. , Japanese business daily Nihon Keizai reported on Monday.
The paper said the 50-50 venture, to be called MySpace Japan, will first offer services for personal computers and will eventually allow users to post photos and write blogs via mobile phones.

The firms are expected to announce the deal as early as this week after a meeting between News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, it said.

Officials at Softbank were not immediately available for comment.

News Corp. bought MySpace.com, which is popular with teenagers, last year for an estimated $580 million, and has transformed it into one of the Internet's fastest-growing properties.

Such online services have also rapidly gained in popularity in Japan with Mixi Inc. , Japan's most popular online social network site, quintupling its users since August of last year.

Mixi debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in September.

A research note by UBS said in June that News Corp. and Softbank would set up a joint venture to launch MySpace.com in Japan by mid-September, citing comments by Murdoch.

News Corp. declined to comment at the time.

Tu_triky wrote:News Corp. bought MySpace.com, which is popular with teenagers, last year for an estimated $580 million,

>>GASP<<

Wynter wrote:

>>GASP<<

money talks and poutine walks.

Tu_triky wrote:innocent otakus: merely sexual abusers in training ^_^
...
The maid accompanied him there, heading up the dimly lit, narrow staircase toward her second-floor diner when the man suddenly turned on her, thrusting a knife in her face and his hand into her knickers before kneading her breasts. He eventually ran away.
...

Sounds like my kind of place. You're not too sure if you'll wake up with a missing kidney. :hehe:

a quote from an article discussing japanese washlette toilets:

"When I was a kid, we used to hang up a bit of rope next to the toilet and we'd rub our butts up against the rope to clean them after we'd had a poo," the doctor says. "People nowadays have gone too far in their quest for cleanliness."

:lol:

That is so wrong on many levels. :rofl:

tabana wrote::lol:

That is so wrong on many levels. :rofl:

ridiculous isn't it? i was like...i'm glad the guy shared that with the journalist. :sweat:


i bet after the interview was over the guy was all: "look i still have the rope in question."

:dielaughing:

I would've asked the guy how the hell does it clean when you use a stained rope and what's that smell? :beaten:

I hope they burned the couch he was sitting on. :hehe:

tabana wrote::dielaughing:

I would've asked the guy how the hell does it clean when you use a stained rope and what's that smell? :beaten:

I hope they burned the couch he was sitting on. :hehe:

the probably used a WWII era flamethrower on his butt to sanitize it.

watashi wa unko no atama...yoroshiku.

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I hope so. Note to self: Do not touch rope in Japanese bathroom. :bleh:


BTW, nice boushi. :hehe:

tabana wrote:I hope so. Note to self: Do not touch rope in Japanese bathroom. :bleh:


BTW, nice boushi. :hehe:

:victory:

Tu_triky wrote:a quote from an article discussing japanese washlette toilets:

"When I was a kid, we used to hang up a bit of rope next to the toilet and we'd rub our butts up against the rope to clean them after we'd had a poo," the doctor says. "People nowadays have gone too far in their quest for cleanliness."

:bleh:

Wouldn't that burn?

Surely. Can you imagine a rope made of bamboo. :dead:

tabana wrote:Surely. Can you imagine a rope made of bamboo. :dead:

O gawd. Bad visual in my head now... :bleh:

more ero jiji perversion....a staple in japan

Gynecologist arrested for child prostitution claims he didn't know her age

CHICHIBU, Saitama

-- A gynecologist has been arrested for paying a junior high school girl for sex, police said Friday.

Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, 59, director of the Sekiguchi Maternity Clinic in Chichibu, is accused of violating the Anti-Child Prostitution and Pornography Law. He admitted to having sex with the girl but denied knowing she was under 18 years old.

Sekiguchi paid 50,000 yen to the 15-year-old, third-year junior high school girl to have sex with him at a hotel in Saitama in August last year, investigators said. He met her through an online dating site. (Mainichi)

It seems a lot of online dating site are filled with middle age men and high school girls.

I'm surprise he didn't claim he was working over time. :beaten:

tabana wrote:It seems a lot of online dating site are filled with middle age men and high school girls.

I'm surprise he didn't claim he was working over time. :beaten:

it's warped man....at 59 this guy doesn't even qualify as middle-aged....fool spends about 500 dollars to have sex with this girl and didn't ask her age......yeah right......maybe he just asked for verification that she was underage and then slept with her....