Expert Swordsman Isao Machii is back and fighting fried shrimp at 130km/h for SoftBank!
They don’t come much more badass than Isao Machii. Dubbed the “Heisei Samurai” or “Modern Samurai” he’s a five-time Guiness World Record holder for feats such as slicing a BB pellet in half mid-flight with a sword. He is also the creator of the Shushin-ryu style of Iaijutsu which is a martial art centered on sudden sword strikes.
Needless to say, this guy has the skills to pay the bills. And pay bills he does by occasionally appearing in commercials. Last year, we saw him promote Toaster Strudel by playing a live version of Fruit Ninja. Now, he’s back to take on more food with his mighty sword, this time at speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour(93 mph).
STATS
- 28,923: Number of suspected cases of child abuse referred by police to welfare authorities in 2013—a record
- 10,168,000: Vehicles sold worldwide in fiscal 2014 by the world’s former No. 1 automaker, Toyota Motor Corporation
- 10,185,000: Vehicles sold by Volkswagen
WELL, THAT’S EMBARRASSING
- A survey by the internal affairs ministry found that 18 of the government’s 24 most important administrative bodies—ministries, agencies, etc.—lack sufficient supplies to keep functioning in the aftermath of an emergency.
- One of them is the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
- An elderly Hokkaido woman turned the tables on an attempted fraudster by playing along with the scam (which involved nonexistent shares in a construction project), then notifying police when the perp showed up to collect his money.
- Officials at Mitsubishi Electric say more than 1.5 million of the company’s TV sets were hit by a transmission glitch that caused them to “repeatedly turn on and off every few minutes.”
Be Considered Revolutionary
Out Weights Reality
But The Money
Is Japan becoming extinct?
The projected drop in the country’s population raises some fundamental questions about its political and social future
BY ERIC JOHNSTON
STAFF WRITER
After years of paying limited attention to academic and media warnings about the declining birthrate, aging population and complaints from the rest of the country about the overconcentration of people and resources in Tokyo, political and corporate leaders in Japan were jolted by the conclusions of a 2014 book by Hiroya Masuda, a former Iwate prefectural governor and head of a government committee on local revitalization.
“Local Extinctions,” Masuda’s detailed report of population changes, used the latest official figures from the government’s National Institution of Population and Social Security Research to show that 896 cities, towns and villages throughout Japan were facing extinction by 2040. At first glance, the book simply repeated what earlier reports had concluded. However, it also included the percentages by which child-bearing women between the ages of 20 and 40 were expected to decline in each and every city, town and village.
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