Cheers to:Oldest Japanese marks 114th birthday in Fukuoka
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) Japan's oldest person, Yone Minagawa, turned 114 Thursday, celebrating her birthday at the Keijuen special nursing home in Fukuoka Prefecture where she now resides.Born in 1893 in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture, she was widowed early and raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables in a coal mining town.
Minagawa now has a daughter, seven grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
While she now spends a lot of time in bed, Minagawa is in good spirits and asks about the well-being of nursing home staff and jokes with them. She also loves sweets.
Happy Birthday Yone. May you enjoy many more.
Jeers to:Foes of female reign bask in prince's birth
Male-only succession must be preserved at all cost, conservatives say
By MASAMI ITO
Staff writer
"It's a boy!" The news spread like wildfire on red-letter Sept. 6 with the birth of Prince Hisahito, the first male born into the Imperial family in 41 years.Over the past few decades, only girls have been born into the Imperial family. Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako had Princess Aiko, while Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko had Princesses Mako and Kako.
Conservative lawmakers let out a sigh of relief with the birth of Prince Hisahito, safe in the knowledge that male-only Imperial succession is safe for now, and debate on female succession was effectively shelved.
It must be nice to have a mind which lives in the Middle Ages while your body occupies space in the 21st century. That is quite a trick. Perhaps someday the two will converge in the same era? Probably not since you really want to be cave men.
Cheers to:Ex-delinquent now education champion
By AKEMI NAKAMURA
Staff writer
As a troubled teen, Hiroyuki Yoshiie got into lots of fights, ran with motorcycle gangs, extorted money from people on the street and even used a lighter to set a teacher's hair on fire, drawing an expulsion from high school.
Hiroyuki you are proof positive that what one sees isn't always what one gets.
A record 97.95 million people visited shrines and temples across Japan on the first three days of this year, 4.22 million more than the year earlier, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Friday.
The NPA compiled the figure based on those released by major temples and shrines throughout the nation.
In contrast, the number of visitors to tourist spots fell 70,000 from last year to 3.67 million people.
Tokyo Disney Resort in Chiba Prefecture was visited by 345,000 people over the three-day period while Universal Studios Japan in Osaka attracted 140,000 visitors
Stalking granny just wanted to share a cuppa tea
At an age when most women are more concerned about creaking bones and keeping warm in the winter, a 70-year-old Ibaraki Prefecture woman has been arrested for stalking the man of her dreams -- a 79-year-old widower, according to Shukan Asahi (12/29).
Emiko Suzuki, the septuagenarian home helper, arrested for breaking the Stalker Regulation Law, is accused of sending over 200 love letters to the widower, many of which read along the lines of: "It's been my dream for 10 years to share a cup of tea and meals with you," Shukan Asahi says.
You arrested Emiko? This woman is harmless. She just wants some companionship in her reclining years what's wrong with that? She also wants a cup of tea. Knowing these fools they'll probably sentence the poor woman to 50 years in prison just because she was in love.
Cheers:Visitors to Tsutenkaku tower in the Shinsekai district of Osaka, are likely to also encounter a much shorter attraction at the site: a 6-year-old kindergarten boy who loves the tower so much he visits it almost every day.
Hikaru Mizobe, who claims to know everything about the tower, talks to tourists casually and offers them free personal guides to landmarks that can be seen from the tower, which was rebuilt in 1956 and is soon to be registered as a national cultural property.
Tsutenkaku Kanko Co., the tower's operating company, issued a free pass especially for the boy, expecting him to become as popular as the tower's Billiken statue.
Hikaru you had better still be giving tours at the tower the next time I'm in Osaka so that we can meet and you can educate be about the wonders of Tsutenkaku tower.
About 1.5 billion yen in income concealed by a construction company connected to tax-evasion and political bribery scandals apparently went to yakuza groups and aides of Diet members.
Mizutani Kensetsu Co. of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, and former executives were indicted last year on charges of hiding about 3.8 billion yen in income over a two-year period ending in August 2004 and failing to pay about 1.14 billion yen in corporate income tax.
These fools must be getting advise from the Republicans in America how else can one explain they're behavior.
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