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 Japanese Twitter users square off in Adios Guy Photoshop Championship

With the Japanese national team’s hopes of winning the World Cup championship dashed far too early this year. Japan’s soccer fans were left with mere scraps of enjoyment they once had in the tournament. Luckily though, every World Cup has its ancillary breakout star.

Last time, we saw the mystical talents of Paul the Octopus, and now the world finds itself staring in wonder at the phenomenon Japan has dubbed Adios Ojisan (Adios Guy). For those not familiar, Adios Ojisan was a guy in the audience of the Chile/Spain match (among others) holding up an iPad which read “Adios Spana.”

And so, with Team Japan out of the running, let us enjoy some highlights from the Adios Spana Photoshop Championship currently being held on Twitter!

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• 111 years, 4 monthsAge of Sakari Momoi of Saitama, who became the world’s oldest man earlier this month
• $86,500Price paid at an auction in New York for the flight log kept by the pilot of the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when the U.S. B-29 dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
• ¥675.6 billionSales of toys in Japan in fiscal 2013, a 0.6 percent increase from 2012 and the first rise in two years, according to the Japan Toy Association
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• An apparently serious newspaper report claimed that traditional fundoshi loincloths are enjoying a comeback thanks to their “superior airflow” and “reputation for energizing [the] wearer when the strings are tightened.”
 
• The education ministry has commissioned a panel of nutrition experts to develop school textbooks that stress “the importance of food and table manners.”
• For the first time ever, ANA has topped JAL in a metric called “monthly international passenger transportation capacities,” whatever the heck that is.
• The owner of a frame store in Shimane has found what experts believe to be the oldest existing photograph of the Takeshima islets.

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Once a toy stall, figurine maker Kaiyodo celebrates half-century anniversary

June 28, 2014

By YOSHIKATSU NAKAJIMA/ Staff Writer

KADOMA, Osaka Prefecture--An internationally renowned manufacturer of collectible plastic figurines has come a long way since starting out as a tiny stall selling plastic models to children.

In fact, Kaiyodo Co., which celebrated its 50th anniversary in April, was very nearly a noodle shop.

Since its humble beginnings in 1964 as a 5-square-meter stall in nearby Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, Kaiyodo has adopted a daring business philosophy, selected unique objects and shown a dedication to precision to claim Japan’s top spot in the world of figurines.

Osamu Miyawaki, the 86-year-old company founder, has never settled for second best.