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Escape the cold this winter in a faceless fleece bodysuit!


Scott R Dixon

Every year as the temperatures drop, Japan finds another creative way to make the cold winter months more bearable. This year, a Japanese outdoor product company has the newest way to keep warm—a full-body fleece suit that turns you into an anonymous humanoid!


The makers of the 4,980 yen (US$50) “Humanoid Fleece” had your best interests in mind when designing garment. When wearing the suit, you will not have to worry about taking it off ever because there are enough zippers, openings and pockets to maneuver around your daily life in full Humanoid Fleece form.

STATS
6.72 million
Cans of tuna recalled by Shizuoka-based Hagoromo Foods because of elevated levels of histamine, which caused some consumers to complain of “pains in the tongue”

¥560,000
Cost of a suite in a new luxury sleeper train introduced by Kyushu Railway last month

43.5
Percentage of evacuation sites around the country that are not quake-resistant, according to a Board of Audit survey covering 44 prefectures

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Coal miner’s photo book to be housed at British Museum


November 02, 2013


By MASAHIRO OYA/ Staff Writer

NAKAMA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Where others might have seen only a dusty and gritty mining town, a young amateur photographer named Isao Yamaguchi, who also worked in the mines, saw the human faces and the stories they told.

The vivid black-and-white images he captured in the 1950s and 1960s were compiled into a book in 2006. The photo book has caught the attention of the prestigious British Museum in London, which will add the book to its collection.

Photographer Seiichi Motohashi, 73, who compiled Yamaguchi's collection into a book, welcomed the news.