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Japanese football fans are sooooooo excited this Summer because their national team is going to take part in another FIFA Soccer World Cup which is to be hold in June, in South Africa.
For those who can’t wait for the official kick-off, Hakkeijima Sea Paradise has created a match between Japan and Danish “Fish Football” teams.
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Japan is a crowded country. There are 128 million people crammed into a space not much bigger than the state of California. And most of these people live in cities. This may explain why they are so big on manners.
So five years ago Japan Tobacco Inc., a giant tobacco monopoly in Japan, decided to educate those unruly cigarette smokers with a series of graphic poster campaigns. Some of the ideas they come up with are so outlandish they’re almost untrue. Here are some of my favourites. Read more
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A detailed instruction of the correct usage of chopsticks in sushi restaurant. This one is by far the most thorough one I’ve seen. This one is from a sushi restaurant in Minneapolis, USA.
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The first London Marathon was triumphantly held on Sunday the 29th March 1981, and thousands of people have jogged through the normally quiet streets of the capital.
During the same week UK’s The Daily Mail ran a story about an unfortunate Japanese long-distance runner, Kimo Nakajimi, who had entered the London Marathon but, on account of a translation error, thought that he had to run for 26 days, not 26 miles. Reportedly Nakajimi was now somewhere out on the roads of England, still running, determined to finish the race. Read more