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Scilla Alecci

Japanese Language Co-Editor

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November 19th, 2009

Japan: British teenager becomes a YouTube star

lingua → fr

She is British, blond, slim and cute. Her name is Beckii Cruel [ja] and, at age 14, has become an idol on the Japanese web. Beckii Cruel started to gain popularity at the end of this year thanks to some videos posted on YouTube where she appears dancing in her ... 0 comments · read »

November 16th, 2009

East Asia

Ingmar, at Demotix, uploaded some pictures he took on Friday, when President Obama arrived to Tokyo to meet the Emperor and PM Hatoyama. The photos show the arrival of Obama at Suntory Hall.

November 13th, 2009

East Asia

Hideki Sakamoto (坂本英樹)comments on the topic of the week: the bizarre results of the predictive search function of some Japanese search engines.
“If you enter the word otto (夫,　husband) in the Google search bar, and then press space, a few phrases are shown. But at the head of the list is the keyword 夫死んでほしい (I want my husband dead), with 674,000 hits […].”
Though, the most searched one is 夫嫌い (otto kirai, I hate my husband), with 2,190,000 hits.
Besides, according to blogger Sakamoto, the first two keywords to be `suggested` after otto in the Yahoo Japan search bar are 浮気　(uwaki, infidelity) and 小遣い平均 (kozukai heikin, average pocket money).

East Asia

Naoki Motoyama (本山直樹), guest professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture, addresses [ja] a post to Tatsuya Ichihashi　（市橋達也）, the alleged murderer of Lindsay Hawker captured on Tuesday after having been on the run for almost two years.
The blogger, who used to belong to the same karate club at Chiba School of Horticulture as Ichihashi, remembers one of the last conversations they had and invites him to apologize to the victim`s family and pay for his crime.

Japan: Hitler's “Mein Kampf”, the manga version

Scilla Alecci · 02:33, November 13th, 2009 · East Asia

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After more than 80 years since its first publication, Hitler's Mein Kampf has become a Manga comic. The 190 page volume, which sold some 45,000 copies in the first printing, tells in a very simple way the story of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood to his rise as the leader ... 4 comments · read »

November 3rd, 2009

East Asia

Damoncoulter, at Demotix, uploaded photos of the anti fur demo that took place in Tokyo on October, 25. According to Damoncoulter “The campaign hoped to raise awareness of the cruelty in the production of fur clothing which has become fashionable again for Japanese youth.”