
Tokyo faces a 75% chance of a magnitude 7 quake in the next 4 years, say researchers, a figure much higher than the government’s previous estimate of 70% in the next 30 years.
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China’s latest boast is a 30 floor hotel built in only 15 days and supposedly able to withstand “magnitude 9″ earthquakes.
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Japanese football fans have been outraged at the reception laid on for a Japanese team playing in Korea recently, with a banner goading them by celebrating the deaths of 20,000 Japanese in the recent earthquake and tsunami.
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Japanese are wondering what has become of their politicians, after the latest resignation of a minister after only a week in office, for calling the evacuated reactor-despoiled towns of Fukushima “towns of death.”
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The operators of the ruined reactors at Fukushima are under fire for claiming that the recent death of one of their reactor cleanup workers from cancer of the blood had “nothing to do with” his work amidst the radioactive ruins of the plant and that they have “no plans” to investigate it further.
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Recent charity auctions held for earthquake relief have seen a number of mangaka selling autographed illustrations, with To Love-Ru mangaka Yabuki Kentaro topping the auctions with an impressive ¥1,223,000 – over $15,000…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 26, 2011 03:49 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Cosplay, Earthquakes, Fashion, Makeup, Music, USA, Video Gallery

Lady Gaga’s august presence in Japan is delighting not only her fans but 2ch as well, with her latest makeup and apparent love for Japan making quite an impression.
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Lady Gaga has been given a thank-you letter by the Japanese government for a tearful address in which she insisted Japan is completely safe and that everyone should flock there.
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So much does Studio Ghibli want no part in the unnatural evils of nuclear power that it has proclaimed it wants to produce anime using non-nuclear electricity.
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Masakazu Katsura, the legendary H mangaka behind such titles as I”s and Video Girl Ai, has held a charity auction of one of his sexiest illustrations, which fetched an impressive ¥1,141,000 – a figure almost as impressive as the illustration itself.
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Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara efforts to ruin the nation’s anime industry continue – this time the old man has stated that the quake induced cancellation of the industry’s events “served them right” for daring to complain about his constant attacks on their freedom of expression.
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Members of a Japanese ultra-nationalist group have been arrested for invading France’s Tokyo embassy in response to a French satirical TV show which poked fun at the recent earthquake.
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