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A nursing student in Gifu was criticized for tweeting in-class photos of human organs along with a message that read, “We have a colon from a hospital patient.”It was reported that prior to last month’s Upper House elections, 29 Twitter users set up accounts in which they posed as leaders of major political parties.
Archaeologists in Kyoto made a surprising discovery while examining the underside of a Kamakura-era piece of pottery: the oldest surviving example of a Japanese writing lesson.
A former employee of cosmetics company Kanebo reached a settlement with the firm over an incident in which she was forced to wear a fortune-teller costume at a training session “as punishment for not reaching a sales target.”
Think you have a creepy boss? Lotteria has you beat with Manager Sadako!
by Paula Gerhold
At the entrance to Sunshine Street, overlooking one of the busiest intersections in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro shopping district, sits an innocent-looking LOTTERIA restaurant. The burger chain boasts most of your standard fast food fare: cheeseburgers, fries, desserts, and soft drinks. However, they recently hired a blood-curdling new worker at their store.In preparation for Sadako 3D2, the sequel to last year’s horror hit based off of the cult-classic movie, Ringu (known as The Ring in the West), Sadako emerged from the TV and earned a place as honorary manager of the burger joint!
The limited-time dessert, Sadako’s Chilling Shake, went on sale August 9, the same day that the evil spirit made her appearance behind the LOTTERIA cash registers. The treat consists of a ramune soda slushie with chocolate syrup and a pure black straw, meant to be reminiscent of Sadako’s signature hairstyle. As a special promotion, from August 8 to mid-September, the shakes are half-off!
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‘Trumpet girl’ of 2011 disaster heads local festival committee
August 17, 2013
By KAZUMASA SUGIMURA/ Staff Writer
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture–A teenager wipes away tears after playing her golden trumpet. One month from the day the tsunami killed her mother and grandparents, the rubble of what was once her family home in the background, Ruri Sasaki mournfully plays her horn to pray for the souls of her lost relatives.It is one of countless enduring images in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
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