DISQUS

Hi Asian Kid

Welcome to the site. I'm glad you are enjoying out content ;)

This is so bad, ahahaha

http://harpooned.org/

Here is a video of the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4KN6EfX6M

No love for Erin.

Here is an awesome site to assist those that are actually doing some work by translating online content themselves.

http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx

This is so much faster than opening up a dictionary or even using Jim Breen. I've used it a few times and I have no complaints.

Another great article Koichi!














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@kevinnwhat

Your web browser's encoding setting is probably set wrong. Do the following (I'm assuming you are using Firefox):

1) View > Character Encoding
2) Select Unicode (UTF-8)

If that doesn't work, try the selecting the other character encodings.

@Mai

I think its a good hour to hour and a half by Shinkansen if I rememeber correctly.

The places you are visiting sounds like my planned graduation trip :)

Wow, this certainly is a different take on presenting updates. So far I like it.

I am definitely interested in reading your explanation of Lifestream.

http://whatheck.net/index.php/component/content...

Looks like the Russians are doing something equally crazy. They even have the go ahead for this one!

In for one..

Hey, is that your yakuza friend in your profile pic?

Mochi kills old people who can't chew properly.

The state (US) governments allow Native Americans to hunt an allotment of whales for cultural reasons. I have no problems with that, except for the fact they can use high power weaponry to kill the whales, which is something I don't agree with. Anyway, the point is this is happening in the US, but it seems the focus are on the Japanese whenever this hits the news or some social linking website like Digg. Which is fair considering the magnitude the Japanese are gathering the specimens. But at the same time shouldn't we "clean" up our act before we go attacking others?

Whale consumption in Japan seems to be a cultural thing, which personally I have no problems with. It seems people are pissed off because they are using the guise of "research" to harvest these mammals and think they could get away with it. In addition, they are breaking whale hunting laws by using a loophole. Using such a blatant lie is an insult.

In conclusion, to me it isn't so much the whaling that makes me think Japan in a negative way, but the obvious lies they try to pass off to the international community just to fulfill their gluttony.

From my understanding, the Japanese are still "researching" other whales, but humpbacks are excluded for now.

Yes, listen to your Grandpa!

Resolutions?

Hmm maybe start learning the language again.

o_O

I'm going to have to agree with Tori :)

@Marc

It was bought at some store in Kyoto, off the head of a freeta D:

Hmm. Imagine doing this on yourself.

@Ste

Awesome! I'm glad the tips worked out for you.

"It’s not a pill so us American’s won’t deal with it."

But would American's deal with inserting pills through their rectum?

@Ramaja

That is true. The culture among the end users have influence on what is being provided and thus the provider (supposably) accommodates to those needs by providing the technical services. But ultimately in the end it is up to the provider to provide those services as they are the ones that have the resources to execute it.

It just seems to me the Japanese cell providers are willing to take more risks with random services like coupon scanners and built-in credit cards. I honestly don't think there was a demand for these services, but they took the risk and the market accepted it. In the US the providers are very conservative.

It really depends on how you look at it I suppose.

I want a Japanese cellphone like the next guy, but lets be realistic here.

Even if you do get a Japanese phone to work on the US cell network, it'll just be as shitty as the US phones. Heck, it'll probably be worst, since most of the features touted won't work at all.

All the features that make it better depends SOLELY on the cell phone provider. They support fast upload/download speeds because of the wireless spectrum + technology provided by the cell service (DoCoMo, Softbank, etc). Same goes for the coupon scanners and TV tuners. These are provided by the cell service companies. The framework is in place and this allows the cell phone companies to make their god-like phones. Maybe we should start wishing that companies like AT&T;, T-Mobile, etc provide services equal to that of the Japanese cell carriers. Then and only then we might get phones that are on the same level. The cell phone companies are limited to whats provided to them.

So the question "iPhone or Japanese phone?" should be revised to "AT&T; or DoCoMo?" I'd choose DoCoMo.

Oh funny fact, DoCoMo owns a sizable share in AT&T.; I wish they could do something about the laughable cell service here.

That T616 Sony Ericsson is as big as her head! Yeah, I'm a cell phone whore :(

@Salem

You can cry once you are inside Pikachu.

@Zaakro

They have these at my local Gameworks (Seattle) also. But every time I've visited there the prizes don't seem winnable.

@fredy

Thanks for the compliments. This article was definitely a team effort.
Fixed the image.