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		<title>&#8216;NO BLOOMERS, NO LIFE!&#8217;  Huh?</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-10-05/no-bloomers-no-life-huh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is perfect gift for the Japanese otaku/perv&#8211; a wallet made of schoolgirl &#8220;bloomers&#8221; (gym suit bottoms).
The Japanese  Akiba blog  describes them (machine translation) in the following breathless prose: &#8220;Romance for a man is new lifestyle product&#8211;a cute item of the palm size that is simple and is full of beautilities of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1923 quake memorial day in Japan</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-02/1923-quake-memorial-day-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tokyo elementary school children, wearing fire-proof dunce caps for a nationwide earthquake drill. These disaster drills are held every year around the the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923  to prepare for the next Big One.

Japan conducts quake drills on 1923 quake memorial day
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Tokyo: An estimated 795,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Origami dinosaur in Tokyo?</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-26/origami-dinosaur-in-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-26/origami-dinosaur-in-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ play
World&#8217;s largest origami dinosaur 
(25/08/09 &#8212; Reuters video 02:24 min.)
Volunteers fold paper to create a replica of a Spinosaur at Tokyo&#8217;s Dinosaur Expo 2009. 

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		<title>Japan has a lot of assearth</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-22/japan-has-a-lot-of-assearth/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-22/japan-has-a-lot-of-assearth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frequent commenter here on 3Yen, MARKed TRAIL, sent in these gems of engrish signs in Tokyo centered around the Japanese spelling of Ass/Earth, which are homonyms in their Katakana writing system.
First is a security company, &#8220;A.S.S.&#8221;

Second is the Assfairy fragrance&#8212;&#8220;The perfume the snares the man for whom Miss Hippopotamus aimed at in an instant.&#8221;

And finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese drowns during concrete canoe testing</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-17/japanese-drowns-during-concrete-canoe-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-17/japanese-drowns-during-concrete-canoe-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Student drowns while testing concrete canoe
Mainichi &#8211; August 17, 2009 OSAKA &#8211; A university student here died after a test on a concrete canoe in the Yodogawa River went disastrously awry on Sunday afternoon...more&#8230;
Ok, ok, if you stop giggling so will I. Creating concrete canoes are common engineering competition throughout the world&#8212;the idea being to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling is pronounced &#8216;boring&#8217; in Japanese</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-15/bowling-is-pronounced-boring-in-japanese/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-15/bowling-is-pronounced-boring-in-japanese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I stumbled across this odd photo of a &#8220;gutter pin&#8221; from a huge bowling center in Yokohama* that is being torn down.

One of the oddities of Japan is that almost all bowling alleys here have the same giant 5-meter bowling pin made of fiberglass mounted on their roofs.

 For some mysterious reason, these massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant Safety in Japan&#8217;s convenience stores</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-05-13/elephant-safety-in-japans-convenience-stores/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-05-13/elephant-safety-in-japans-convenience-stores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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The Elephant Kid aka &#8220;ESUZOU-kun&#8221;  is supposed be posted on the front window of most convenience store&#8221;SAFETY STATION&#8221; signs.
Open 24/7, convenience stores are wrangling with Japanese government officials to curb their late night operations to help combat global warming. However, the Japan Franchise Association is countering with this Elephant campaign saying that&#8230;.&#8221;Convenience stores that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Tokyo promotes their robo-receptionist to a robo-teacher</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-03-10/university-of-tokyo-promotes-their-robo-receptionist-to-a-robo-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-03-10/university-of-tokyo-promotes-their-robo-receptionist-to-a-robo-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In our 2006 report Robot Love, the 3Yen covered a robot called, &#8220;Saya,&#8221; who was propped up as a receptionist at the Science University of Tokyo. Judging from the the expression on the face Saya the fem-bot, she did not have much job satisfaction. Now looking at her face,  Saya seems much happier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey business of Japanese Ministry of Education</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-02-15/monkey-business-of-japanese-ministry-of-education/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-02-15/monkey-business-of-japanese-ministry-of-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the always educational Erosblog NSFW, here is a great still photo from the Japanese Ministry of Education&#8230;.
 &#8211;Click for full-size photo.
According to the Erosblog, the Japanese Ministry of Education made two movies on a &#8216;girl Tarzan&#8217; theme. The above photo comes from the book Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Pollen-Robo&#8217; hoard patrols Japan with glowing LED eyes</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-02-04/pollen-robos-patrol-japan-with-glowing-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-02-04/pollen-robos-patrol-japan-with-glowing-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese weather forecasting company Weathernews is deploying nationwide 500 of these &#8220;Pollen-Robo&#8221;&#8212;pollen counting robots to monitor to pollen levels as the allergy season begins in Japan.

The  Weathernews will ask volunteer monitors to place the Pollen-Robo robots outside their dwelling to record in real-time the pollen, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, which will then [...]]]></description>
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