Archive for the 'Japan' Category
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Luckily, I found the contact sheets which demonstrate a wholly other sequence of events. The six photographs show that the deep bow was but the aiding the emperor to his feet after the body slam and nostril spread. The empress displayed a stony silence throughout at the ordeal. The royal palace blamed the emperor’s bizarre, […]
Posted in Japan, Barack Obama |
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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A few Mazda concept vehicles
graced the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month.
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Images: (Mazda) Road&Track.com; (Bale) img.trb,com via swamppolitics.com; (symbol) polaris.umuc.edu; (Grinch hat) imagecache2.allposters.com via deborahsteinber.com; (Grinch) via fishkite.com;
This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pm and is filed under Business, Japan, Automobiles.
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Posted in Business, Movies, Books, Japan, Automobiles |
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Nissan Races to Make Smaller, Cheaper Cars; Industry Shifts Strategy;
As Big-Vehicle Sales Fade; Simplifying the Doors
By AMY CHOZICK
October 22, 2007; Page A1Wall Street Journal online
ATSUGI, Japan — At a top-secret session on car designs at a Nissan Motor Co. technical center, chief product strategist Carlos Tavares recited the company’s ambitious new mission: to sell an […]
Posted in Business, Energy, Japan, Automobiles |
Monday, September 8th, 2008
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Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors
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Sun Sep 7, 3:08 PM ET
TOKYO - Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.
Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
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Images: (bears) […]
Posted in Nature, Japan, Zoo/Aquarium |
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
UCLA suspends its Willed Body Program
Johnson & Johnson admits buying tissue samples
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Posted: 9:40 PM EST (0240 GMT)
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Boris Karloff, the director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program,
has been busy lately.
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Anyone concerned that parts of a family member’s donated body were sold should contact UCLA by phone at 866-317-6374 or by email at […]
Posted in Television, Japan, Sleaze, Los Angeles |
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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Images: (Mazda) Road&Track.com; (Bale) img.trb,com via swamppolitics.com; (symbol) polaris.umuc.edu; (Grinch hat) imagecache2.allposters.com via deborahsteinber.com; (Grinch) via fishkite.com;
Posted in Business, Japan, Automobiles |
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Japan takes first high-definition image of Earth rising
Wed Nov 14, 6:13 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan’s space agency said Wednesday it has shot the first high-definition image of the Earth rising, showing a crystal clear blue planet emerging from the moon’s horizon.
The images were taken by Japan’s Kaguya probe, which is carrying out the most […]
Posted in Japan, Science, Technology |
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Nissan Races to Make
Smaller, Cheaper Cars
Industry Shifts Strategy
As Big-Vehicle Sales Fade;
Simplifying the Doors
By AMY CHOZICK
October 22, 2007; Page A1
Wall Street Journal online
ATSUGI, Japan — At a top-secret session on car designs at a Nissan Motor Co. technical center, chief product strategist Carlos Tavares recited the company’s ambitious new mission: to sell an expensive-looking small car […]
Posted in Business, Energy, Japan, Automobiles |
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Both cities are over-populated.
Both are on islands.
Could it be that London restaurants must import all champagne and chefs?
But, that’s not true.
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By Richard Vines
Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) — London has overtaken Tokyo as the most expensive city in the world for dining out, with a meal now costing more than twice as much as in New York, […]
Posted in Business, Great Britain, Japan, Cuisine, Economics |
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
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Images: (television) soundtrackcollectoe.com; (magazine) mainchi.msn.com; (Bloomberg) tvcrit.com; (left to right bottom of screen) asianweek.com; 24weblog.cpm; i7.photobucket.com via imomus.livejournal.com; robsjapanesecards.com;
Posted in Television, Japan |
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
France’s V150 Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) is seen here at the “Reims Bezannes” station on the new high-speed line built between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg, on the eve of an attempt to break its own world speed record.(AFP/Francois Nascimbeni)
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French train aims to break world speed record
33 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - France’s […]
Posted in Business, Germany, Baseball, Transportation, Japan, France, Technology, Trains |
