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Flashy Lights: Taxi Illumination In Japan
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Prowling the city of Tokyo are hoards of taxis, chasing down lonely passengers on their way, to and fro. Characteristically, all are equipped with automatically opening doors and a driver’s white gloves. However, little distinguishes these roaring vehicles, classically Japanese, outside the small glowing beacon perched on the center of their tops - each company from every region set themselves apart with their own special logo and shape.
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Japan Celebrates Annual ‘Festival of the Steel Phallus’
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Every year, hundreds of camera wielding tourists gather around the Kanamara Shrine in Kawasaki, Japan to see something they’ll never get to see in their home towns – a large, twelve foot pink representation of a penis being held aloft by chanting men, and paraded down the street. It’s the annual Shinto fertility festival of Kanamara Matsuri also known as the Festival of the Steel Phallus.
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The 10 Best Cars of 2008
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From the very beginning it is worth mentioning that the list of the ten best cars of 2008, mentioned in Consumer Reports, for the first time includes an American car for the last five years and first ever cars made in Korea.
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Township Denies Pregnant Patrol Officer’s Request For Light Duty
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Police Chief Antonio Amodio Jr. told the Asbury Park Press he is following township policy.
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Curses! News anchor Sue Simmons slips
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The 64-year-old lead female anchor at WNBC-TV shocked thousands of viewers Monday night by shouting the F-word during a promo for the 11 o’clock news.
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China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
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“The labor of the people has made the sky black with the smoke of progress.”
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Manhole Cover Art in Japan
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Some lovely looking manhole covers in Japan.
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Pudding Package in Japan
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These puddings look absolutely delicioussssssss!
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Woman mistaken for man settles ladies room suit with Caliente Cab Co.
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“We don’t dispute she looks masculine at times,” said Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.
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Video: Exorcism
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A Filipina mother believes her son is possessed. So she seeks a local exorcist to cure her son.
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