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After the hype of the idea of going to Japan for Free, and for some odd reason, our own post titled: “Japan May Let in 10,000 Tourist for Free” got tons of views and tons of comments asking us to choose them to go on this trip. We’re not in charge! It appears that the entire program isn’t happening. According to a released statement: “We realise that this announcement is going to disappoint thousands of people around the world, but we hope people will understand how insensitive it would appear for the Japanese Government to give people free flights to Japan when the cities, towns and villages devastated by the tsunami are still in desperate need of funding for reconstruction.” (seejapan – 10,000 won’t be going)
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The Tomb of Christ is in Japan according to a town in northern Japan. From the Japan Times: “The pamphlet goes on to explain that, according to this testament, Christ first visited Japan between the ages of 21 and 33 (the Bible does in fact skip over large periods of Christ’s early life, and many theories exist about what he did in the intervals). The document claims he studied the native language and culture before returning to Jerusalem, where he was crucified.” It goes on to say that He later came back to Japan and lived to be 106. It’s a tourist attraction in a town of 2800 where there’s only 1 Christian who outs it all. Ironically, the rest of the town are the ones who keep the story in tact. If you can’t believe this story, then what can you believe? UFOs? That happened too. (Japan Times – Christ)
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This is too cool. The anti whalers who are constantly tracking Japanese whaling ships claim that there have been no whales killed thus far, but they now have spy drone technology which they used to track the Japanese ships. It was donated to them by a security company. The Japanese ships now have their own security detail ships who help stall the Steve Irwin ship, but in one upsmanship fashion, there are other anti whaling ships that go faster than the Steve Irwin who can chase the whalers down. What’s next? Like in Modern Warfare, Predator Missiles? (dawn – drones)
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It’s cleverly said as you. But in the end, it is your end. Really, it’s not. These seats have 360 pressure points which will distinguish you from the next person. Iris scan? Finger print? No, just your body. The engineers at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Japan is working on this project. Will you need a car key? Probably since in the end, do you really want strangers sitting in your car, saying, “oops this Ferrari Enzo looks just like mine!” Yes we could have said Kia, but we didn’t. (cnet – Seats of the Future)
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Here’s a little more about the google street views of post Earthquake Japan. 44,000 square miles were reshot just to have a record of what happened. Here’s our link to the story along with the viewer. The NPR story actually has before and after views which are sobering and somber. If you don’t know how to use it, just drag the man icon in the left corner to the blue line in the road (zoom in first), then you get Street View and from there just navigate. We randomly picked a spot, and it looked like the photo below. (google – Miraikioku)
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