Record Price for Bluefin Tuna at Japan Annual Auction
Japanese businessman Kiyoshi Kimura has paid 1.38 million euros ($1.76 million, or 155.4 million yen) for a blue fin tuna – more than three times the previous high – which he also set one year ago. The 222-kilogram fish will be served to Kimura’s customers. Blue fin tuna is annually sold in a traditional New Year’s auction. Japan consumes 80 percent blue fin tuna caught worldwide.
Photo: President of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, Kiyoshi Kimura, displays a 222kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2013. The bluefin...
Anti-Japan Protests in China
A boat, center, is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday's occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also...
Big Boys Don't Cry: Children's Sumo Tournament in Tokio
This young boy wrestled with his emotions at the National Children’s Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on July 30, 2012. (Photo by AP Photo/LaPresse)...
Samurai Festival Soma-Nomaoi
Soma-Nomaoi is a festival that recreates a battle scene from more than 1,000 years ago. It is annually held for 4 days from July 22 to 25 in Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, in the eastern part of Japan. In this historical event, 600 mounted samurai in traditional Japanese armor, with long swords at their side and ancestral flagstaffs streaming from their backs, ride across open fields. Soma-Nomaoi has been designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
Photo: A young woman (C) clad in samurai costume leads other local poeple as she rides her horse during a...
Typhoon Guchol Hits Across Japan
Women walk in the strong winds from Typhoon Guchol in Nagoya, Japan on June 19, 2012. The storm lashed southwestern Japan with strong winds and heavy rain as it moved toward the center of the country, forcing airlines and train operators to cancel services amid warnings of flooding and landslides. (Photo by Kyodo News)...
Greetings sickly monkeys!
Greetings, sickly monkeys! Planet Nibiru is near already. Confess, parasites! Love you! Yours truly, Avax...
Greetings sickly monkeys!
Greetings, sickly monkeys! Do you remember about the planet Nibiru?! Confess, parasites! Listen to good music! Love you! Yours truly, Avax
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Celebration As Japan Becomes Nuclear Free
Women dance, in the style of Japanese butoh dancing, as the [Zero Nuclear Power Celebration Parade] makes its way through the streets of Suginami district, on May 6, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Greg McNevin; Source: Flickr)...
[A Cure For Baldness]
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Japanese researchers have sparked hopes of finding a cure for human baldness after successfully growing hair on hairless mice by implanting follicles created from stem cells, Agence France Presse reports. A picture taken on April 13, 2012 and released by the Tsuji Lab Research Institute for Science and Technology of the Tokyo University of Science shows a hairless mouse with black hair on its back at the laboratory in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. (Photo by Tokyo University of Science via AFP)...
Simply Some Photos: Robots
HRP-4C, a five-foot humanoid robot developed at Japans National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, sings and dances with performers at the Digital Contents Expo in Tokyo on October 17, 2010. The robot runs entertainment software called Choreonoid, a name formed from the words [choreograph] and [humanoid]. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP)...
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