Herro Flom Japan

There's a chain mail message making the rounds in Japan claiming that a three year old girl with leukemia at the Showa University Hospital in Tokyo can't receive a life-saving operation because there isn't enough type B rh negative blood. Both the Japan Red Cross and the hospital have been receiving so many calls that [...]

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Somebody better get fired over this. In happened in of all places, Dallas. Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., [...]

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This is getting ridiculous. The first incident was intolerable, what are we up to now, four in the past month? Details are sketchy, but a Philippine woman living in Okinawa claims that she was attacked by two US marines in a hotel on the night of the 17th. Police are investigating, and the two marines [...]

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There are a number of official lists of kanji. I'm not an expert by any means, I'm just going by information gleamed off the net. 教育漢字(kyouiku kanji): The 1oo6 characters students must learn by grade 6. Essentially, knowing these characters is a good start, but you're far from finished. 当用漢字(touyou kanji): A list of 1850 [...]

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Garrett from Trans Pacific Radio wants me to post this. (You owe me a beer.) Black Stripe Theater, a team of independent artists, performers and technicians based in Tokyo, will be performing David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross (in English) from Friday Feb. 22 through Sunday Feb. 24 at Theatre Iwato [...]

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