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Friday, June 20, 2008
Japan’s damned for want of slim waists
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There’s a new raging debate on the Internet over the Japanese government’s decision to take compulsory waist measurements of all residents above the age of 40.
Is this just a health precaution, as the government maintains or a serious invasion of privacy?
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
World’s tallest tower to be called ‘Tokyo Sky Tree’
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The name for the world’s highest tower, a huge 610-meter structure to be completed in 2011, will be “Tokyo Sky Tree,” it has been announced.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Asian Cinema Scene: Will ‘Public Enemy’ Save Korea?
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South Korean filmmakers are facing a box office crisis. “Local movies accounted for just 7.8% of the South Korean box office in May,” The Hollywood Reporter noted, “the lowest level since records were started in 2000.” Domestic film admissions are only half what they were two years ago. Therefore, hopes are high that tomorrow’s release of Public Enemy Returns will start to lure audiences back into theaters.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Opening the box
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Where race meets sex, angels fear to tread. Jeff Yang dives into Asian America’s favorite taboo topic: interracial romance and the “gender divide.”
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Septugenarian Porn All the Rage in Japan.
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2 Girls 1 Depends.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Are we all North Koreans now?
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Gas prices in the United States are above US$4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39% last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global economy appears on the verge of a technical knockout, a triple whammy from energy, agriculture and climate-change trends. Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you’re shelling out at the pump and the grocery store; but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could get a whole lot worse.
Just ask the North Koreans.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Asian-American rights group stops to recall how it started
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The infamous Fancy Pants Lounge in Highland Park is no more. That’s where the two men who beat Vincent Chin first confronted him.
The few retail stores near Cass and Peterboro have languished in what was a modest Chinatown in Detroit. That’s where hundreds of Asian Americans met out of indignation at the light sentences handed down for Chin’s two killers.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Baby born with penis on back
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The tot was born to farmer dad Li Jun, 30, and his unnamed wife, who live in Hejian city in central China’s Henan province.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sex trade thrives in Afghanistan
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The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs.
The man paid her $5. And that was how she started selling sex.
Afghanistan is one of the world’s most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving. Sex is sold most obviously at brothels full of women from China who serve both Afghans and foreigners. Far more controversial are Afghan prostitutes, who stay underground in a society that pretends they don’t exist.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Astro Boy made out of train tickets
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Forget using your old Metcards for roaches or chewing gum disposal. You can use them to create gob-smacking words of art.
Well that’s what the people at Shinjuku Takashimaya Department Store did. They created a 3.2 x 2.1 metre work of Astro Boy pixel art made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets.
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