Random Japan

STATS
70,172
Net population gain of Tokyo in 2013—the most of any prefecture in Japan, according to the internal affairs ministry

¥20 million
Price reportedly paid by former Rakuten Eagles pitcher Masahiro Tanaka earlier this month to charter a JAL 787 Dreamliner from Tokyo to New York for his first press conference as a Yankee

5
Total passengers aboard the flight, not including Tanaka’s poodle, Haru

BIG BROTHER IN THE NEWS
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology is deploying 90 cameras in and around Osaka station as part of “an unusually large study on tracking location data using facial-recognition technology.”

Authorities at the Fire and Disaster Management Agency say they want to develop a search-and-rescue helicopter operated by remote control.

The government announced that, to celebrate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it will authorize the issuance of commemorative license plates for the first time ever.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have ranked the Tokyo-based Japan Institute of International Affairs the top think tank in Asia.

Boeing Creates Ultra Safe Smartphone

In Conjunction With Its Ultra Safe Plane Batteries

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet More Powerful Than A Locomotive

The Tokaido Shinkansen

Zushi Bans Scary Tattoos Why?

Because They Are Very Very Very Scary

S Korea chides Japan over 'comfort women' apology review

POLITICS MAR. 01, 2014 - 06:35AM JST
South Korea hit back at Japan over its plan to consider revising a landmark apology for its wartime system of sex slavery, accusing Tokyo of “insincerity”, a report said.

Japan announced Monday that it would re-examine evidence given by “comfort women”—those forced to work in military brothels—that forms the basis of a 1993 Kono Statement of apology.

“The more Japan denies its historical truth, the more it will be isolated from the international community,” the South Korean foreign ministry said in a press release cited by Yonhap news agency late Friday.