What a long, strange trip it’s been
- Cops in Osaka arrested the driver of a rental car that was involved in six separate hit-and-run accidents in a single day last month. The 22-year-old suspect claimed he was “high on a legal herb” at the time.
- The latest castaway from the March 11 disaster to wash ashore far from home is a 5m-long fishing boat that floated more that 1,600km to Kagoshima after being unmoored from its berth in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture.
- Government-appointed researchers hunting through the US National Archives in Washington, DC found a detailed map of bunkers dug by the Japanese Imperial Army on Iwoto Island (aka Iwo Jima) during World War II.
- Headline of the Week: “More Japanese Seeking Ova in Thailand” (via The Daily Yomiuri)
stats
- 200 Number of fans of the pop group Exile who were denied admission to a concert at Seibu Dome last month after it was discovered their tickets were counterfeit
- 61 Percent of governors around Japan who say they are in favor of Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s plan to buy part of the disputed Senkaku Islands, according to a newspaper survey
- 12.3 Percent of the debris from the March 11 disaster that had been cleared as of May 7, according to the environment ministry
This just in
- It was reported that the number of mobile-phone users defaulting on their monthly payments has shot up six-fold during the past year and a half. Costly smartphone plans are thought to be the cause.
- Railway officials believe a mischievous crow caused an hour-long power outage that delayed about 4,000 shinkansen passengers in Miyagi last month.
- Thanks but no thanks: the health ministry reported that at least two of the 35 Indonesian caregivers who recently passed a Japanese-language nursing exam have already left the country.
- The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has confirmed that “extremely slow” earthquakes struck an undersea trench south of Japan in 2009. The quakes lasted as long as long as a minute and a half, compared to the usual 1-2 seconds.
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