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	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cooking Hair vs Ash Hair Make</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-05/cooking-hair-vs-ash-hair-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on the twitter, 3Yen reader &#8220;zhanglizhen&#8221; and I have started exchanging photos of Japanese beauty salon with odd, dangerous sounding engrish names.


3Yen&#8217;s Twitter
And my all-favorite, &#8220;SNOTTY BOY BARBAR&#8221; (sic).

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		<title>&#8216;Bagelheads&#8217; &#8212; a Japanese trend we just made up</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-05/bagelheads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bagelheads&#8220;! Yikes, we manufactured a Japanese fad!

&#8220;Bagelheads&#8221; is just a name  that was made up to joke about this body modification, but the mainstream press took the name as real, as you can see from the reports below.
Bagelheads the latest fad for Japanese teens: Mom hopes it stays in Japan
New Jersey On-Line &#8212; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake fireworks for the Fourth</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-05/fake-fireworks-for-the-fourth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to ElliteChoice.org, Sega Toys of Japan are offering these indoor projector generated, green and non-polluting &#8220;Uchiage Hanabi fireworks.&#8221; 
 (more info)

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		<title>Bugzilla attacks Yokohama!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-05/bugzilla-attacks-yokohama/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-05/bugzilla-attacks-yokohama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Move over Mothra. Bugzilla is spotted in Yokohama

daylife.com YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - July 4, 2009
A Huge locust-shaped attraction is seen during the Yokohama-port Opening Festival Y150&#8230;. the port opened in 1859, as the result of the signing of Treaty of Amity and Commerce between United States and Japan in 1858. 
Check out Mothra disguised as seagull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robots to the rescue of ramen and the rails</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/robots-to-the-rescue-of-ramen-and-the-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/robots-to-the-rescue-of-ramen-and-the-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it&#8212; I hate Japanese ramen since I was forced to subsist on it all during my university days. Now, with this creepy ramen-bot I have a real reason to hate it.
Two-minute ramen via robot
 July 3, 2009 - Mainichi Shimbun (machine translation)
In Japan&#8217;s  Minami Alps of Yamanashi comes the &#8220;Momozono Ramen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wearable Sensors to further inslave Japanese factory workers</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/wearable-sensors-to-further-inslave-japanese-factory-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/wearable-sensors-to-further-inslave-japanese-factory-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Japan sometimes is like living in a campy science fiction program&#8211;In this case &#8220;Thrall Collars&#8221; for Japanese factory slaves&#8230;.

					Wearable Sensors Help Analyze Behaviors of Factory Workers
July 3, 2009 - Nikkei Tech-On! &#8211; DSS Co Ltd, a Japanese firm that edits and processes digital maps based on survey data, started a service of recording [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UP!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/up/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not unlike the new film &#8220;UP&#8221; &#8230;Here&#8217;s the traditional Japanese answer.

What you are looking at is an odd twist to &#8220;Tanabata&#8220; the Japanese star festival (ripped off from the Chinese star festival, Qi X) when Japanese write their wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on &#8220;tanzaku&#8221;, small pieces of paper, and hang them on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATTACK ROBOT ATTACK!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/attack-bot/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-04/attack-bot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[embiggen pix

daylife.com -  July 3, 2009&#8230; hyper rescue robot &#8220;T-53 Enryu&#8221;, developed by Japanese robot venture Tmsuk&#8230; Kitakyushu Fire Department deployed the 2.8-meter tall, three-ton robot which can be operated manually by a person aboard it as well as by remote control to lift heavy objects with its two arms.	
The earlier, smaller version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Amoeba Vs. giant Japanese cooks</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-03/japanese-cooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant mutant Japanese cook threatens to paddle passersby in Chuo-ku Niigata Japan!

A huge replica of Yukiko Kobayashi was unveiled in Chuo-ku&#8217;s &#8221;NEXT21&#8221; in Niigata Japan according to  Mainichi Shimbun of June 29.
I have no idea why Yukiko Kobayashi, the C-List star of &#8220;Space Amoeba,&#8221; is now a giant paddle-welding mutant cook terrorizing the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession training</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-03/recession-training/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-03/recession-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The advertising revenue is getting a little thin for this Tokyo train.


actual pix
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