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Burger King Goes Red: No, Not That Kind Of Red

Burger King Japan will start selling the red burger in July. Now, if you're a conservative Fox News watching  American, it doesn't mean they've gone over to the dark side.  It's just a hamburger with a red bun.

The black burgers will once again be returning to Japanese Burger King locations in 2015, but before they do, this summer the chain is debuting a line of bright red burgers with crimson cheese and something called “Angry Sauce.”
July 3 may be one day before the American Independence Day, but it’ll also be the day Burger King starts serving two sandwiches with very Japanese names and ingredients. First up is the 690-yen Aka Samurai Beef.
That’s Aka as in “aka,” the Japanese word for “red,” and not “also known as.” Those bold vermillion buns are the result of using flour mixed with tomato powder. That same special ingredient is what gives the cheese (seen directly on top of the patty) the bright red hue of ketchup, but that’s not the popular tomato-based burger condiment dripping down from the thick-sliced onion.
Instead of ketchup, the Aka Samurai Beef is dressed with Burger King’s original Angry Sauce, a spicy miso-based concoction with “tobanjan” chili sauce and “togarashi” pepper.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Officials at the fisheries ministry say Europe now has about 5,500 Japanese restaurants, up from 2,000 in 2006.
• Japanese embassies and consulates issued 2,873,755 visas last year, a jump of 54.1 percent from 2013—and the most ever.
• Which means it’s unsurprising to learn that foreigners made up 12.4 percent of all visitors to Tokyo SkyTree in fiscal 2014, compared to 6.8 percent the year before.
• Authorities at the foreign affairs ministry are bemoaning the fact that, althoughJapan provides a full 10 percent of the UN’s annual budget, just 2.5 percent of high-ranking officials are Japanese.

WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT

• About 100 people flocked to a shrine in southwest Chiba to watch a battle betweenfunchi jumping spiders.
• A kangaroo that’s taken to sleeping with a pillow at a zoo in Kobe is reportedly “melting visitors’ hearts.”
• The first airfield in Japan devoted solely to testing drones opened last month in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
• Meanwhile, 22 of 47 prefectures have instituted a ban on drones, or are considering one.

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Drones used to survey Mount Hakone amid volcanic alert

JIJI

ODAWARA, KANAGAWA PREFECTURE – The prefectural government of Kanagawa on Saturday used drones to survey a no-go zone in the Owakudani hot spring district on Mount Hakone, where a level 2 volcanic alert has been in place.

The survey found that three hot spring supply facilities have been damaged. The Hakone area is one of the most popular hot spring resorts in Japan.

The prefectural government alternately flew two drones equipped with cameras to the survey area on Saturday morning.