<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : japan : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[The Grave of Jesus Christ - in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35108/1/" /><id>35108</id><summary><![CDATA[The Grave of Jesus Christ - in Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-09-09T12:23:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-09T12:23:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harei village, Shingo, Japan, is said to be the grave of Jesus when he died in the village after escaping Roman persecutors in Golgotha, Israel. According to the myth, in Japan his job was as a carpenter and he made his own cross for the grave at the age of 107.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Gets Mint Green PSP]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46628/1/" /><id>46628</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Gets Mint Green PSP]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T22:04:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T22:04:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sony Japan announced today a new &quot;Mint Green&quot; PlayStation Portable to be released on February 28, 2008. It is expected to be favored by the heavily pursued female gaming demographic. This makes for the seventh PSP color released in Japan, and you just know there's someone oot there that already owns six.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69215/1/" /><id>69215</id><summary><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></summary><issued>2008-07-18T21:31:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-18T21:31:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No, not made <i>in</i> Japan. Made <i>of</i> Japan, or at least made of Japanese blogs.  The site taps into 150 blogs each hour, analyzes the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from.<br/><br/>Could be nsfw, you never know...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2450/1/" /><id>2450</id><summary><![CDATA[How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan]]></summary><issued>2006-10-08T09:46:01+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-08T09:46:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blogs are even more popular in Japan than in the U.S. It may be that they represent an appealing outlet in a culture that discourages public self-expression. Japan produced 8.7 million blogs at the end of March, and the U.S. an estimated 12 million blogs -- making blogging far more popular in Japan, taking the countries' relative populations into account. An estimated 25 million Japanese -- more than a fifth of the population -- are believed to read blogs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games from Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34631/1/" /><id>34631</id><summary><![CDATA[10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games from Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-09-05T16:10:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-05T16:10:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Here is a collection of simple but fun little puzzle games made in Japan]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[On Sex and Flirting in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/57846/1/" /><id>57846</id><summary><![CDATA[On Sex and Flirting in Japan]]></summary><issued>2008-04-10T22:58:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-10T22:58:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The slang term for a woman who lies completely still in bed is maguro (tuna) [...] In Japan that word has a very positive connotation. Tuna's an expensive delicacy.&quot;<br/><i>mildly NSFW</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hello Kitty to be appointed Japan tourism ambassador: report]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/62521/1/" /><id>62521</id><summary><![CDATA[Hello Kitty to be appointed Japan tourism ambassador: report]]></summary><issued>2008-05-20T10:00:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-20T10:00:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Japan is appointing the feline cartoon character Hello Kitty as a goodwill tourism ambassador in China and Hong Kong.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Highways and Earthquakes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/105285/1/" /><id>105285</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Highways and Earthquakes]]></summary><issued>2009-04-07T08:53:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-07T08:53:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Japan has one of the most sophisticated urban infrastructure with modern engineering design.  But still its some time no match for mother nature&#8217;s wrath.  Here are some cool pics of devastated japanese roads after an earthquake.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Strange Santas from Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/43125/1/" /><id>43125</id><summary><![CDATA[Top Ten Strange Santas from Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-12-03T07:27:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-03T07:27:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Santa Claus is a recent feature of Christmas in Japan and sometimes a few details get lost in translation. Sometimes a LOT does...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Now Japan has invented a robot that can cook you pancakes for breakfast ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/121605/1/" /><id>121605</id><summary><![CDATA[Now Japan has invented a robot that can cook you pancakes for breakfast ]]></summary><issued>2009-06-10T02:49:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-10T02:49:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We've already seen a robot that can dance, do household chores and even feel 'empathy' for humans. Now a robot in Japan has proven it can prepare and cook you pancakes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games From Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34217/1/" /><id>34217</id><summary><![CDATA[10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games From Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-09-03T02:01:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-03T02:01:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Japanese are probably the best when it comes to creating cute characters.Here is a collection of simple but fun little puzzle games made in Japan - of course, if you willing to kill a few hours!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Giant Spiders Attack Japan!  (pics/ video)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108452/1/" /><id>108452</id><summary><![CDATA[Giant Spiders Attack Japan!  (pics/ video)]]></summary><issued>2009-04-20T22:01:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-20T22:01:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The city of Yokohama, Japan is welcoming two giant spiders to celebrate Expo Y150, the 150th anniversary of the port city. The spiders are the work of La Machine and Artichoke. They did The Sultan&#8217;s Elephant in 2006 and La Machine in Liverpool last year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/38218/1/" /><id>38218</id><summary><![CDATA[85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-10-13T10:12:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-13T10:12:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blue roses to go on sale in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/49481/1/" /><id>49481</id><summary><![CDATA[Blue roses to go on sale in Japan]]></summary><issued>2008-02-05T08:49:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-05T08:49:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Think that red roses are predictable? In Japan, gift-givers soon will also have the option of blue roses.<br/><br/>The Japanese company that created the world&#8217;s first genetically modified blue roses said today it will start selling them next year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Train Loaders]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/58953/1/" /><id>58953</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Train Loaders]]></summary><issued>2008-04-19T08:44:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-19T08:44:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Or sardine packers as they are known.<br/><br/>These people are fuggin' CRAZY!<br/><br/>Oh, and I'm damn glad I don't use the trains in Japan]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sony to cut PS3 prices in Japan and offer new model ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37772/1/" /><id>37772</id><summary><![CDATA[Sony to cut PS3 prices in Japan and offer new model ]]></summary><issued>2007-10-09T04:06:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-09T04:06:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sony Corp said on Tuesday it would cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console with a 20 gigabyte hard disk drive by 10 percent in Japan and launch a new model, weighing on shares in rival Nintendo Co Ltd.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Jellyfish 'typhoon' bearing down on Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/127603/1/" /><id>127603</id><summary><![CDATA[Jellyfish 'typhoon' bearing down on Japan]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T12:56:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T12:56:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of the biggest varieties of jellyfish in the world, Nomura's jellyfish -- also known as Echizen jellyfish -- weigh as much as 440 pounds and have heads reaching up to about two meters in diameter. Japan's Fisheries Agency warned fishermen across the country about the arrival of the jellyfish after it received several reports of sightings in the sea around Japan this month.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia pursuades Japan to cease hunting Humpback Whales]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44953/1/" /><id>44953</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia pursuades Japan to cease hunting Humpback Whales]]></summary><issued>2007-12-21T06:18:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-21T06:18:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Threats from Australia to take Japan to an international court over their plans to hunt and kill 50 <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_Whale" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Humpback Whales</a> have resulted in a Japanese climb down.<br/><br/>This does not yet impact Japan's other whaling activities]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Outlawing Vending Machines Offering Schoolgirls' Used Panties]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/92350/1/" /><id>92350</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Outlawing Vending Machines Offering Schoolgirls' Used Panties]]></summary><issued>2009-02-02T17:00:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-02T17:00:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The fact that used panties allegedly worn by school girls has been a hot seller for quite some time in Japan is well known, as are the vending machines that display the pictures of the girls who wore them. Now, Japan is trying to outlaw this practice.<br/><i>all for tolerance and acceptance of different cultures, but this is just too weird.</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan pays foreign workers to leave]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/109301/1/" /><id>109301</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan pays foreign workers to leave]]></summary><issued>2009-04-23T21:42:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-23T21:42:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Japan is offering $3,000, plus $2,000 per dependent, to blue-collar workers of Latin American descent to leave the country.<br/>The catch? They &#8212; and their kids &#8212; will not ever be allowed back.]]></content></entry></items></xml>