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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
How Shinjuku Girls Helped Save The iPhone In Japan
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Remember when people were wandering around idiotically saying the iPhone was a total failure in Japan?
Yup, pretty stupid, but it’s true that, at first, the iPhone didn’t catch on in Japan, and that was a problem for Apple, because Japan is the country where gadgets rule.
So what changed Apple’s fortunes in Japan? Women!
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Plastic Surgery Blamed for Making All Miss Korea Contestants Look Alike
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It’s an accepted truism that all beauty pageant contestants have a certain similar “look,” but one Japanese blog has touched off a firestorm of speculation that South Korea’s plastic surgery craze may have taken that cliche too far.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Strong quake hits southwestern China, killing at least 179
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A strong earthquake struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing at least 179 people and injuring about 6,700 others in a region that suffered a catastrophic quake five years ago, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Why Aren’t Asian Actors Getting Leading Roles in Hollywood?
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Think carefully: When’s the last time you saw a Hollywood flick with an Asian actor in the lede role? Tough one. As Hollywood is struggling with diversity, women and black people are making a few strides, but, as actor Masi Oka — known for Heroes and Hawaii 5-0 — tells The Hollywood Reporter, Asians are getting left behind.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Look At These Chinese Workers Carrying Mind-Blowing Amounts Of Stuff
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Shanghai’s migrant workers are the foundation of China’s economy, ferrying goods around the city on their bicycle. But if these photos of them look impossible, that’s because they are. Their loads have been digitally increased as part of a photo project on the Chinese economy and global consumerism.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
World ninjas gather in Japan
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More than 200 ninjas from around the world gathered at a Tokyo gymnasium Friday to kick off a two-day training seminar, especially designed for women.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
To Avoid Wearing Seat Belts, Chinese Drivers Wear Shirts Like These
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According to Car China News, a blog about the automotive industry in China, many Chinese drivers hate wearing seat belts. They’ll go so far as to wear special t-shirts to fool police officers.
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Saturday, March 09, 2013
Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After
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In a few days, Japan will mark the 2nd anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake and resulting tsunami. The disaster killed nearly 19,000 across Japan, leveling entire coastal villages. Now, nearly all the rubble has been removed, or stacked neatly, but reconstruction on higher ground is lagging, as government red tape has slowed recovery efforts. Locals living in temporary housing are frustrated, and still haunted by the horrific event, some displaying signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. Collected below are a series of before-and-after interactive images.
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Sunday, March 03, 2013
Face Shapes and Blood Types: Wading into the World of Online Dating in China
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The Mandarin term shengnu literally means “leftover woman.” It was coined to describe China’s growing crop of middle-class women who, thanks to new educational and economic opportunities, have been able to rise to unprecedented ranks within Chinese society—at the expense of their love lives. Nearing (or heaven forbid passing) the age of 30, these women find themselves materially successful but romantically unattached.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet ‘There’s Only One Rooster’
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The first thing you smell at the Huy Fong Foods factory in suburban Los Angeles is the overwhelming aroma of garlic, a key ingredient in the company’s signature product: Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. The first thing you see, however, doesn’t make nearly as much sense. In the lobby is a blown-up picture of two astronauts—one Russian, the other Asian-American—hovering in zero gravity in the cramped confines of the International Space Station. Why it’s hanging there becomes clear on closer examination: An arrow superimposed on the photo points to a little green plastic cap, the top of a Huy Fong sriracha bottle floating in the background.
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