Japan

Japan Is one of the world's leading technological countries. It contains one of the world's largest cities: Tokyo.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Flipnotes by Japanese Animator

Here're some flipnotes by one of my favorite animators, InkWolf



Sunday, May 16, 2010

Japanese tries boarding flight with stun gun

On Sunday a man tried to board a plain off of Honolulu reputably carrying a stun gun in his handbag. The U.S. District Court charged the man of carrying a weapon while trying to get on the flight. An affidavit said it was found during an x-ray scan in a side pocket. The man, Hiroki Suzuki, Said he had bought it in Japan about a year before.

Latest Uniqlo flagship outlet opens in Shanghai

The day the flagship outlet opened, over 1,000 people were waiting to enter. This outlet sells everything from kimonos to tourists' t-shirts. These item's quickly moved from the shelves to customer's handbags.

Fast Retailing Co. announced it as their fourth global flagship outlet. There are similar outlets stationed in Paris, London, and New York. 

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Team discovers most distant galaxy cluster

Recently a team of  Japanese and German researchers discovered a cluster if galaxies that is said to be the most distant cluster yet found. Masayuki Tanaka, a special researcher at the University of Tokyo, said that he and his team had found it after analyzing X-ray data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory. The cluster is said to be approximately 9.6 billion lightyears away.Read More