Japan’s Nobel winner awarded a new washing machine, WHOOPIE!!
Winning the half of the 1.2 million dollar award of the Nobel Prize for medicine has changed Japan’s Professor Shinya Yamanaka’s domestic life for the better.
Japan Nobel laureate gets washing machine as gift
2012oct20 | TOKYO (AP)
…Yamanaka joked that he was fixing his washing machine when Oslo called to say he had won the prize for his achievement in the induced pluripotent stem cell research, and since has not had time to finish the repairs.
On Friday, Japan’s science minister, Makiko Tanaka, said she has presented Yamanaka a gift certificate …so his family can choose a new washing machine.
Let’s hope that Dr. Yamanaka has to buy another a worst-in-the-world-technology*, Japanese washing machine like the typical ones shown on the right.
Did you notice that in Japan the lame-ass, cold-water swirling device—aka washing machine—is normally placed outdoors on the balcony? Maybe the space-cramped Japanese want their washing machines to enjoy the view, ha, ha.
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Also, don’t miss our previous post, Washing machine pleasuring (3yen / 2008-12-02) covering the sexy-wild woes of washing in Japan.
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October 20th, 2012 at 11:12 am
I remember those (which shouldn’t be too hard as they were still widely in use only a few years ago).
In my noob days here, still of the belief that Japan — mass manufacturer of super semiconductors and crafter of countless computers — was a technological superpower, washing machines were one of the things that made me think that perhaps my views of this land as one of superior advancement were somewhat misconstrued (picking up the soaking clothes from one side of the washer and dumping them into the other side to rinse them, and the fact that almost nobody had running hot water).
October 20th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Still standard decorative equipment for any cheap apato building.
I’m pretty sure I saw one or two new models on sale when I was buying a washing machine a couple of years back.
October 23rd, 2012 at 3:54 pm
—What, no washing machine?