<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : japan : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2009, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : japan : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Gets Mint Green PSP]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46628/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46628/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></title><description><![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...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69215/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69215/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grave of Jesus Christ - in Japan]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35108/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35108/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2450/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2450/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Outlawing Vending Machines Offering Schoolgirls' Used Panties]]></title><description><![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>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/92350/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/92350/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan pays foreign workers to leave]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/109301/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/109301/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Satin Silver PLAYSTATION 3 For Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[While gamers throughout the rest of the world get their PlayStation 3 in any color they wish, so long as it&#8217;s black, Japan will soon be receiving its third color variant.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49542/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49542/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee Bukkake Man Arrested]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man has been arrested in Numazu, Japan for assaulting 5 schoolgirls with coffee via drive-by spitting attacks. Complete with Japanese news report video and way cool anime graphics. Japan, y'know...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43869/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43869/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetrapod beaches of Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hit the beach anywhere in Japan, and you are likely to see endless piles of tetrapods &#8212; enormous four-legged concrete structures intended to prevent coastal erosion. By some estimates, more than 50% of Japan&#8217;s 35,000-kilometer (22,000-mi) coastline has been altered with tetrapods and other forms of concrete.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/88339/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/88339/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Penis Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Penile celebrations/festivals are very, very old. Japan keeps up its old customs and that is why these are still going on each year. They are Shinto religious ceremonies tied in with fertility gods and held out in the small farm, country villages. <br/><br/>They revere FERTILITY and if the man in their culture is #1, so of course, it would be the penis. They are also tourist attractions and bring lots of westerners to see these festivals!<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.gadling.com/2007/03/13/japanese-penis-festival/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Another link</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=+Japan+Penis+day" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google it</a>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96055/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96055/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cash flows free at men's rooms in Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Packages containing 10,000 yen (40 pound) bills have been found this week in men's toilets at government offices throughout Japan, baffling officials as to why and who would do them such service.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26965/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26965/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits northern Japan ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit northern Japan on Thursday morning, triggering a small tsunami that apparently caused no damage, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75726/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75726/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fat in Japan? You're breaking the law]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Japan, being thin isn&#8217;t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It&#8217;s the law. Maximum waistline for anyone age 40 and older: 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135569/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135569/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony PSP Japan sales hit record high]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony said on Thursday it sold a record number of its PlayStation Portables (PSPs) in Japan in September as a slimmer and cheaper version of the handheld game machine helped drive demand.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37495/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37495/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[A banquet of Cannibalism from Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan has just invented another way of eating, where a &#8220;body&#8221; is made from food and placed on an operating table, much as though in a hospital. You can operate anyway and anywhere you want by cutting open the body and eating what you find inside. The body will actually bleed as you cut it and the intestines and organs inside are completely edible]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34123/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34123/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan plans underwater sponges to soak up uranium ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;At the moment, Japan has to rely on imports of uranium from Canada and Australia, but this technology could be commercially deployed in as little as five years&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/123619/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/123619/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco's Delightfully Disturbing 'Smoking Manners for Adults' Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco (JT), like most cigarette companies today, is concerned about the image of smokers and smoking in modern society. In an effort to improve said image (but NOT discourage smoking, of course), the company commissioned a series of over 70 public service announcement style ads.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45615/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45615/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire station burns in Japan after cooking mishap]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/91648/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/91648/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Hopes To Build A Space Elevator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The concept of a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Elevator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">space elevator</a> has long been a dream for scientists and has here to date been a staple for science fiction authors. Japan hopes to change that and make the dream a reality.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77183/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77183/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Best Bizarre Bras from Triumph Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Triumph International Japan, maker of bras, panties and other women's undergarments often goes over the top, as it were, to attract attention to their products and cleverly associate them with the latest popular cause.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/41617/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/41617/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>