UPDATE –Fun new information from the 2007/2008 Durex Sex Survey once again showing the Japan as No. 1 for the third year in the running.
The Sun / 03 Mar 2008
BRITS are among the world’s most undersexed, according to a new survey. Around 55 per cent of us have nookie on a weekly basis - making Brits the fourth-least sexed on Earth. Americans and Nigerians fared worse, coming second to last in the love stakes. 
Japan came bottom in the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey, with just 34 per cent of its people having sex at least once a week…
Aussies among world’s most undersexed
NEWS.com.au
About 60 per cent of Australians have weekly sex, making Aussies the sixth-least sexed nationalities on Earth, the Durex Sexual Wellbeing study …
No dating, thanks, just sex
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Mar 1, 2008
The programme makers did the story after Kiwi women last year topped the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey as the world’s most promiscuous. …
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2005’s survey…
Asians too stressed for sex
Singapore—- Stressed-out Asians have the least active sex lives globally, with nine countries and territories from the region making up the bottom 10 in terms of love-making, condom maker Durex said on Tuesday. Japan was bottom of the list of 41 countries and territories covered by this year’s Durex survey. Japanese have sex an average of 45 times annually, less than half the global average of 103 …Singaporeans ranked second-last with 73. Indians (75), Indonesians (77), Hong Kong residents (78), Malaysians (83), Vietnamese (87), Taiwanese (88) and China (96 times a year) …The Swedes were the only non-Asians in the bottom 10, with 92 love-making sessions a year.…more…
Over the age of 30, the Japanese don’t have time for doing it.
Under 30, Japanese sexual activity is bipolar.
Some are very active, with multiple partners. However, there many, many clueless otaku who are increasingly reluctant to do anything at all….except stay home and scare at a screen. Yikes, that sounds like what I’m doing now!
Japanese researchers have developed this cute Franken-Mouse with a camera in its brain to give better insight to the processes of creating memory to help with general cognitive science and specially with research into treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
Japan researchers put tiny camera in mouse’s brain
Thu Jan 31, 2008 TOKYO (Reuters) –Japanese researchers have implanted a small camera inside a mouse’s brain to see how memory is formed, in an experiment … published in the “Journal of Neuroscience Methods” and “Sensors and Actuators”, used a camera 3 mm (0.1 inch) long, 2.3 mm wide and 2.4 mm in depth, said Jun Ohta, professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in western Japan…more…
Update:
It’s that time of the year again!
AFP News. Feb. 20. 2008—Zoo staff spread a net to catch a fake zebra, which made a break for freedum from its cage, as it strolls in the zoo park during the annual exercise for runaway animals at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on February 20, 2008. Some 150 zoo staffs and policemen participated in the annual exercise.
Previously posted on Feb. 28, 2007….
Every year the Tama Zoo has this “escaped” animal drill. However, the 3Yen found out last year about the scary truth in, Tama Zoo Reveals Secret. Now, there are more revelations about the zoo…
‘Don’t cry children, I was only aping about’
The Daily Mail, 20:55pm on 27th February 2007
As acting goes, it was a little too convincing.
The idea was to test the readiness of zoo staff for the escape of a dangerous animal.
But despite the ludicrously obvious disguise of the runaway beast, its pre-ordained destiny - to be shot with a tranquillizer gun - had children in tears...more...
‘Saru mo ki kara ochiru’ ‘THE NATURE OF MONKEY WAS IRREPRESSIBLE!’ [猿も木から落ちる]
—Hello Kitty monkey bobble
Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica
Feb. 19, 2008 (AP) – Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths..Some of the animals far under the sea grow to unusually large sizes, a phenomenon called gaijin gigantism that scientists still do not fully understand…more…
I have to snicker about the true “mysterious creatures found in Antarctica” —the gaijin/foreigners—onboard the Japanese research ship, the Umitaka Maru, conducting the “Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census” (CEAMARC) that these news reports are covering. Read the website with a personal log of a foreign scientist, Patrice Pruvost, onboard the Umitaka Maru with a group of international scientists, as well as Japanese students, crew and cadets.
Here be monsters…
The Register, Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:39 GMT
Researchers from Australia, France and Japan have returned to port from the Southern Ocean following a two-month jaunt to probe the icy depths, which yielded some impressive footage of the abyss as well as a range of hitherto-unknown Antarctic sea monsters…more…
From Ocean Depths, Strange Sightings (AP News video)
Although the Japanese research team at researchers at the Nagayo University calls it a “robot” for “carpentry,” this is actually a single-purpose exoskeleton for hanging drywall—aka a Well Hung Robot.
In their paper, Development of a Wearable Robot for Assisting Carpentry Workers (PDF).
Development of a Wearable Robot for
Assisting Carpentry Workers
Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, JAPAN (PDF)
Abstract: The work of fitting ceiling boards is one of the hardest in carpentry, as it requires large muscular power. Hence there is a need to develop assisting apparatus for such work. In order to use this apparatus anywhere a wearable robot is the most suitable. As the robot must be autonomous and lightweight, a design requiring low power is proposed. A semi-active control method has been developed using springs, which requires low energy but satisfies the requirements of compliance and assistive force. In this paper several aspects of design, control and experiments of the developed prototype is explained. The experimental results prove that the robot reduces the muscular fatigue of carpentry worker by providing suitable assistive force.
Hey. Just to have some fun with robot translations, let’s count the machine-translation mistakes in that abstract, Robot for Assisting Carpentry Workers (PDF).
“Robot”
—> Single-purpose exoskeleton
“Carpentry Workers”
—> drywallers
“The work of fitting ceiling boards”
—> Hanging drywall for ceilings
“it requires large muscular power.”
—> requiring extensive labor and muscular strength ...etc…
The bigger question is why Korea is still dumping waste in the ocean when that’s been banned since 1993 by the London Convention? Oh and why has the Japanese Navy been allowing this for years?
Korea Dumped Waste in Japanese Waters
Digital Chosunilbo: News in English About Korea; Feb. 11, 2008—Some part of waste dump areas in the East Sea designated by the South Korean government overlaps with the continental shelf area and thus the exclusive economic zone of Japan. Unaware of this, South Korea has dumped waste in these areas for the past 15 years. A few years ago, the Japanese government lodged a protest against this to Korea’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries through the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, but the ministry delayed its response…more…
Killer jellyfish population explosion warning
08/02/2008 - Telegraph
…The really bad news is that the box jellyfish and another equally poisonous species, Irukandji, are on the move….
…perplexed Japanese salmon fishermen are seen hauling in tonnes of box jellyfish in their nets. The few fish they do haul in are writhing in their death agonies after being stung.
….the Japanese government to protect their fish stocks by wiping out the swarms using a fleet of commandeered fishing boats to drag razor-sharp wire through them backfired spectacularly…because they are genetically programmed to ensure their survival by producing more offspring than normal when under attack…jellyfish are multiplying in the Western extent of the Pacific ocean and threatening 20,000 miles of coastline off Japan...more...
The Telegraph reporters were smoking jellyfish when they wrote the above article. Jellyfish are multiplying wildly because of overfishing but box jellyfish, Habu-Kurage in Japanese, were not the type of jellyfish the government tried “to protect their fish stocks” from—it was 450lb/200kg Nomura’s Jellyfish aka echizen kurage and I reported on them back in 2005 in Attack of the giant jellyfish! (2005) as you see below.
The the real problem jellyfish is not that they are poisonous but they’re just too numerous. As in the below photo I took last summer, just take a peek over the edge of a dock on Tokyo bay. Any place where the waves are somewhat still, amongst the Japanese-love-of-nature litter, the water looks like you could walk across it over the seething mass of jellyfish.
Amoebae Exhibit Brainless Intelligence
Jan 10, 2008 / robots.net…new research by Atsushi Tero and Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Hokkaido University Lab for Cellular Informatics reminds us just how smart even a brainless single celled animal can be. There latest research shows that amoebae can be trained to anticipate environmental changes, exhibiting a Pavlovian-like responses even though they have no brain or nervous system….
Organisms that exhibit, “responses even though they have no brain or nervous system”….Gee, that sounds just like the typical salaryman’s commuting livestyle.
Zombies show more life than these most sleep deprived amoebic brainless intelligence in suits.
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