ENTER THE TWITTERVERSE
- A nursing student in Gifu was criticized for tweeting in-class photos of human organs along with a message that read, “We have a colon from a hospital patient.”
- It was reported that prior to last month’s Upper House elections, 29 Twitter users set up accounts in which they posed as leaders of major political parties.
- Archaeologists in Kyoto made a surprising discovery while examining the underside of a Kamakura-era piece of pottery: the oldest surviving example of a Japanese writing lesson.
- A former employee of cosmetics company Kanebo reached a settlement with the firm over an incident in which she was forced to wear a fortune-teller costume at a training session“as punishment for not reaching a sales target.”
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Japan Society for Tobacco Control not happy with new Studio Ghibli movie
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new Studio Ghibli movie, “The Wind Rises” (“Kaze Tachinu” in Japanese), and it’s stirring up quite a buzz. However, not all the press has been particularly positive – or even about the movie in general.
A few weeks ago, we mentioned that there was quite a bit of cigarette-smoking in the movie. While smokers, nostalgic for by-gone eras when they could happily puff the day away, might be pleased with all the tobacco in the film, certain people were not. Specifically the Japan Society for Tobacco Control.
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