KIDS THESE DAYS…
The Tokyo Board of Education says elementary school students walk 30 percent less than kids did in 1979. The Board even went so far as to count the number of steps: 11,382 vs. 17,120.The education ministry says that the costs for parents to send children to high schools-both public and private-have never been lower.
USA Today named the Texas Rangers’ new $60 million man, Yu Darvish, as the top young baseball player in America. Which is impressive, considering the 25-year-old has yet to throw a pitch in the majors.
Tokyo officially registered its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. The other hopefuls are Doha, Madrid, Istanbul and Baku, Azerbaijan.
stats
45.3 Percent of Japanese who believe in UFOs, according to a TV poll>10,000 Cyclists in Tokyo who were reprimanded for using cellphones, wearing earphones, etc., during a recent crackdown by police
29,584,000 Cellphones shipped in Japan in 2011, according to industry associations
11.1 Percent decline in cellphone shipments compared to 2010
FAMILY FEUD
Outspoken Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and his son Nobuteru have been engaging in a war of words. “I feel like Hamlet,” despaired Ishihara fils, who is secretary-general of the LDP. Responded Pops: “I feel sorry for him because he’s in such an absurd political party.”
Nobuteru also found himself in hot water after describing the sight of bedridden hospital patients being kept alive by feeding tubes this way: “It was like parasitic aliens living by eating humans.”
The Japan Pension Service said some 72,000 folks will be missing out on ¥1.7 billion in benefits that were due February 15 because “the government mistakenly collected more income taxes than necessary.” Huh?!?
Giving new meaning to the term “Throw me a rope,” Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists messed with Japan’s “research” fleet in the Antarctic Ocean by tossing a rope that got caught up in a ship’s propeller.
And The Moron Attached To It
Or, Just A Bad Pun?
With Miss Manners
The Hardcore World Of Japanese Tattoos Will Make You Stronger
9:30PM Yesterday | Brian Ashcraft
I used to be into video games during the PS2 era,” Benny Her says, as he buys a green tea espresso at convenience store in Osaka’s fashionable youth district, Americamura. “But then I started apprenticing and didn’t have any free time. ”That apprenticeship was a huge gamble. And Benny Her didn’t look like a gambler. He looks like a guy I knew at uni – comfortable clothing and puffy hair. And when he pulled up on his pink bicycle, wearing an anime sweatshirt and carrying a messenger bag, he could’ve easily passed for a foreign exchange student, maybe studying to get a masters or a PhD.
And then you notice a red ink peeking from underneath his sweatshirt. Red link that leads to a dragon. A red dragon that covers his arm. A blue dragon covers his left. It doesn’t stop there: His chest, ribs, both sleeves and legs are covered in Japanese tattoos. Benny Her sports a “zenshin irezumi” (全身刺青) or a tattoo bodysuit.
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