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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Japanese Student Planned To Join ISIS

Even the Japanese are allegedly getting into the ISIS action. They're everywhere.

Japanese police questioned a university student and several others Monday over suspected plans to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group, news reports said.

The reported investigation by Tokyo police would be the first indication of possible support within Japan for the militant group.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the reports.

Public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News service said investigators questioned a 26-year-old male Hokkaido University student and several men who shared a house with him on suspicion they were preparing to go to Syria to fight.

More here.

Interesting, considering one rarely hears about problems with Islam in Japan.

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Video- Japanese Rally For Israel

Not a huge crowd, but this is a video of some people in Japan rallying in support of Israel in front of the Embassy.

And interesting- no pro-Hamas counter-demonstrators, hence no violence.

Video here.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Japanese "Birther" MP Claims Obamas' Headed For Divorce Over His Cheating and Michelle's Spending

Who knew there were foreigners who have bought into the whole Barack Obama "birther" issue. Kazuyuki Hamada, a Japanese MP, has. He even wrote a book about it in 2009 titled "Who is Obama?" He's also very pissed off that Michelle stayed home instead of accompanying her husband on his trip to Japan, so he lashed out by claiming Obama has been cheating on her, and as a result of Michelle's outrageous travel spending and Obama's infidelity, they're headed for a post-term divorce. Apparently the National Enquirer is claiming the same thing.

Hamada who has a Phd from George Washington University in D.C. also wrote on his blog:
 'His approval numbers are dragging down near 30 per cent." 
'The president has been criticized for having no visions or leadership to solve domestic and diplomatic problems, some even ridiculing him as the worst president of the postwar era.'
Regarding Obama and Michelle's relationship, he writes:

'It is an open secret that the pair are already negotiating their divorce, and that they are waiting for his term in office to be over, and then they'll separate.'
He had stiff words for the impact of the first lady's multimillion-dollar 'goodwill' trips to far-flung places on the taxpayers' dime.
The Japanese pol claimed that 'if you ask the president, he will tell you, "I can't show my face to the voters after how she's spent so much money".'
'On the other hand,' Hamada added, 'if you get his wife to talk, she'll tell you: "The president is a pathological philanderer. He uses the Secret Service for this, and has used them to hide evidence that he's a cheater".'

But he's not just anti-Obama.  According to the Daily Mail, many of his books are decidedly anti-American.

It's all very doubtful, but rather amusing nonetheless.

More on the story plus pics, here.

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Bagel Head Look Latest Japanese Beauty Fad



The latest body modification fad in Japan is the 'bagel head" look. Saline is injected into the forehead and once it is pumped full, someone presses their thumb down the middle of the protrusion to create an indentation. Voila, the bagel look. The saline eventually is absorbed into the body, but for a while they look as they have a bagel pasted onto their foreheads.

Some call it body art, I call it stupid. These kids have no idea what this might do to their bodies in the long term.

I just want to know, why??!!




For more on pictures and information on the phenomena, click here.