Foreigners and Japanese customs

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Japanese blame foreigners and kids for
crime (Reuters)

Japanese blame foreigners and kids for
crime (Reuters) 09/19/2004 12:08 AM
Reuters - More than 86 percent of Japanese believe their country is more dangerous than it was 10 years ago and most blame foreigners and youngsters for rising crime, according to a government poll.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

Customs gets new IT head

Customs gets new IT head 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
Not grey and boring shock

Customs ignored Gateway review

Customs ignored Gateway review 06/28/2004 09:20 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 29 2004 1:11AM GMT

Customs seize �3.5m of cannabis

Customs seize �3.5m of cannabis 05/15/2004 05:40 AM
Customs officers seize cannabis with a street value of �3.5m from a lorry entering the UK at Poole ferry port.

Customs Solution (Forbes.com)

Customs Solution (Forbes.com) 05/06/2004 06:53 PM
Forbes.com - Every month a huge corporation gets dinged with the global equivalent of a speeding ticket. In December Sun Microsystems paid $291,000 to settle federal charges that it shipped computer equipment that had military applications to Egypt and China. Later that month Honeywell paid $36,000 in fines for selling a restricted chemical in Mexico. In February Morton International paid $647,500 as penance for shipping protected chemicals to Singapore and Taiwan.

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT 06/22/2004 07:46 AM
Hey, that's our money you're throwing away

St. Patrick's Day -- Customs and History

St. Patrick's Day -- Customs and History 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
Piping Hot Customs and Traditions .. Happy St. Patrick’s Day .. Maewyn the Pagan's Day .. converting pagans .. was Welsh .. GREAT

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EU customs set to slap 14% tax on PC
monitors

EU customs set to slap 14% tax on PC
monitors 01/27/2004 10:18 AM

Smuggling Customs man jailed

Smuggling Customs man jailed 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
A Customs man who waved drug smugglers through the "nothing to declare" channel at Gatwick has been jailed.

Customs and Revenue start CIO search

Customs and Revenue start CIO search 05/04/2004 12:14 PM
vnunet.com May 4 2004 3:48PM GMT

Customs criticised for GBP100m spend

Customs criticised for GBP100m spend 06/22/2004 05:48 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 22 2004 10:29AM GMT

Customs confirms deal renewal with EDS

Customs confirms deal renewal with EDS 08/22/2004 09:02 PM
ZDNet Australia Aug 23 2004 1:37AM GMT

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers 12/27/2004 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: MBF imported a video from Italy and discovered this disclaimer in the packaging -- apparently, you can get a parcel through customs with more ease if you recite a hollow loyalty oath and promise that you're not sending in any footage that advocates treason. Link (Thanks, John!)

Christmas Today: A Kaleidoscope of
Customs, Old and New

Christmas Today: A Kaleidoscope of
Customs, Old and New 12/18/2003 07:21 PM
Indeed, this reporter did a Google search using the key phrase "Christmas shopping" and came up with�are you ready�1,380,000 hits! ...

Customs Gets Tribeswoman's Goat
(Reuters)

Customs Gets Tribeswoman's Goat
(Reuters) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
Reuters - A Gambian tribeswoman has been arrested at a London airport with her bags crammed with illegal snails, catfish and goat meat.

Customs computer project criticised

Customs computer project criticised 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
Guardian Unlimited Jun 22 2004 2:51AM GMT

Customs seize 'booze boat' goods

Customs seize 'booze boat' goods 08/17/2004 07:55 AM
One of the customers of Britain's first offshore off-licence has goods seized by customs officials.

Dubai Customs using Microsoft EPM to
drive efficiency

Dubai Customs using Microsoft EPM to
drive efficiency 06/20/2004 04:56 AM
AME Info Jun 20 2004 9:32AM GMT

Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat
(Reuters)

Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat
(Reuters) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
Reuters - A Gambian tribeswoman has been arrested at Gatwick airport with her bags crammed with illegal snails, catfish and goat meat.

MPs hammer Customs for failure to
control IT spending

MPs hammer Customs for failure to
control IT spending 06/22/2004 01:56 PM
Silicon.com Jun 22 2004 5:18PM GMT

Hong Kong Customs Intercepts Canadian
Pot (AP)

Hong Kong Customs Intercepts Canadian
Pot (AP) 04/18/2004 01:46 AM
AP - Hong Kong customs officials arrested five people for allegedly ordering marijuana by mail from Canada with a total local market value of about 2.1 million Hong Kong dollars (US$269,200), officials and news reports said.

Online self assessment tax filing has
had impact on HM Revenue & Customs

Online self assessment tax filing has
had impact on HM Revenue & Customs 06/24/2005 09:03 PM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 23 2005 9:34AM GMT

Judge slates Customs in £120m VAT fraud
case

Judge slates Customs in £120m VAT fraud
case 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
HMRC says lessons will be learned

Customs and VAT dept. to extend Internet
VAT reporting nationwide

Customs and VAT dept. to extend Internet
VAT reporting nationwide 12/30/2003 09:44 AM
Israel Business Arena Dec 30 2003 8:26AM ET

HK customs seize £600k fake mobile
phone kit

HK customs seize £600k fake mobile
phone kit 07/30/2004 11:50 AM
Bound for Argentina

Customs officials eye Internet
transactions with importers, brokers

Customs officials eye Internet
transactions with importers, brokers 11/03/2003 05:58 PM
Manila Times Nov 3 2003 3:24PM ET

BT wins GBP28.7m contract extension with
Customs & Excise

BT wins GBP28.7m contract extension with
Customs & Excise 01/06/2005 08:46 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 6 2005 1:35PM GMT

For Native Alaskans, Tradition Is
Yielding to Modern Customs

For Native Alaskans, Tradition Is
Yielding to Modern Customs 08/21/2004 08:47 AM
Centuries-old traditions in Gambell, a village of 700, have been slipping away, as one of the most remote villages on earth finally contends with the modern world.

Customs Officials To Thwart Terrorists
Through Cargo Standards

Customs Officials To Thwart Terrorists
Through Cargo Standards 06/24/2005 09:28 PM
Information Week Jun 25 2005 1:17AM GMT

First Foreigners, Then Americans

First Foreigners, Then Americans 04/20/2004 04:50 AM
The Patriot Act was supposed to help law enforcement ferret out foreign terrorists among us. But law professor David Cole says laws aimed at foreigners inevitably target Americans, and not very effectively at that. Kim Zetter interviews the author of Enemy Aliens.

Parliamentary committee condemns HM
Customs e-programme as risky & costly

Parliamentary committee condemns HM
Customs e-programme as risky & costly 06/23/2004 03:00 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 23 2004 7:16AM GMT

Foreigners Give U.S. the Finger

Foreigners Give U.S. the Finger 01/06/2004 05:42 AM
Foreign visitors to the United States -- most of them, anyway -- are being fingerprinted and photographed as they enter the country as part of a new screening program aimed at snaring 'the bad guys.'

UK knighthoods for foreigners - what it
takes to get one

UK knighthoods for foreigners - what it
takes to get one 01/29/2004 09:58 AM
And how to dress up afterwards

Foreigners may pay income tax online

Foreigners may pay income tax online 04/13/2004 07:29 AM
Korea Herald Apr 13 2004 10:34AM GMT

Foreigners taken hostage in Iraq

Foreigners taken hostage in Iraq 07/23/2004 07:52 PM

French airport customs officers swooped
on them for carrying plastic swords

French airport customs officers swooped
on them for carrying plastic swords 07/12/2004 01:03 AM
a stunning terrorist threat .. Olivia & Eva Ryan

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Customs border measures effectively
protect intellectual property rights

Customs border measures effectively
protect intellectual property rights 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
World Customs Organization Jun 21 2005 9:37AM GMT
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Gigantic WWII Japanese plague-rat sub
discovered near Hawaii

Gigantic WWII Japanese plague-rat sub
discovered near Hawaii 03/25/2005 06:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: Hawaiian divers have discovered a gigantic, intact Japanese WWII sub, that was orginally intended to carry plague rats to America.

The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear-ballistic-missile submarines of the 1960s.

They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarines were designed to carry three "fold-up" bombers that could quickly be assembled...

An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission, which was never completed, reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.

Link (Thanks, Gary!)

Canon Wordtank G50 Japanese Dictionary

Canon Wordtank G50 Japanese Dictionary 04/30/2004 07:50 AM
Japanese pop-culture importer JBox has the Canon Wordtank G50 electronic dictionary in stock, a paperback-sized unit that crams 9 dictionaries and thesauruses into one unit, including English-to-Japanese, Japanese-to-English, the Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus, Kanji and Katakana Dictionaries, and the (apparently) famous Kojien, filled with illustrations and images. Not only...

Japanese Prints and the World of Go

Japanese Prints and the World of Go 11/19/2003 08:07 AM
Japanese Prints and the World of Go. Classic Japanese art meets classic Japanese boardgame.
'The purpose of this catalogue is twofold: to enlarge the understanding of print collectors who may be unaware of the long historical and legendary background of a game that has for centuries engaged the interest of many artists in Japan; and to enrich the experience of go players by presenting works that reveal some of the large body of traditions and associations connected with the game in Japan's cultural life. Although artists were inspired by the game of go to work the theme in several media--wood, ivory, metal, textiles, and clay, and while the motif appears on numerous scroll and screen paintings--it is in woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) that its image is most frequently found.'
'. . . there is a text that likens the world to a go-board. For those who see with their minds, it is the centre of the universe.'
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MDN: The Wackier World of Japanese Ice
Cream

MDN: The Wackier World of Japanese Ice
Cream 07/08/2004 10:33 AM
Another round of wacky Japanese ice cream flavours .. whale, goat and garlic .. list

mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0406/ice-cream04/00.html
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A Glimpse Into the World of Japanese
Animation

A Glimpse Into the World of Japanese
Animation 09/10/2004 02:30 PM

Wacky world of Japanese ice cream

Wacky world of Japanese ice cream 07/07/2004 02:35 PM
Quirky feature in Japan's Mainichi Daily about ice cream flavors popular with Japanese consumers. Move aside, rocky road -- make way for lettuce-potato, tulip, horseflesh ("with meaty chunks," shown here at left), and cherry blossom. Link (Thanks, Mustafa)

Re: Strange Java Loader (not so strange
- Trojan.ByteVerify)

Re: Strange Java Loader (not so strange
- Trojan.ByteVerify) 12/30/2004 09:51 PM
K-OTiK Security (Dec 30 2004)

Singapore Detonates World War II
Japanese Bomb (Reuters)

Singapore Detonates World War II
Japanese Bomb (Reuters) 07/13/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - Singapore's military on Tuesday detonated a Japanese bomb from World War II that was discovered at a construction site near the center of the city.

The Seattle Times: Nation & World:
Japanese WW II sub found off Oahu

The Seattle Times: Nation & World:
Japanese WW II sub found off Oahu 03/28/2005 03:07 AM
Gigantic WWII Japanese plague-rat sub discovered near Hawaii .. biological combat .. Seattle Times .. Cool

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Experience the Strange and Twisted World
of Internet Cafes

Experience the Strange and Twisted World
of Internet Cafes 08/10/2004 12:04 AM
WebDevInfo Aug 10 2004 2:25AM GMT

No sex please -- we're Japanese

No sex please -- we're Japanese 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
USA Today story on statistics published in a popular Japanese news magazine that point to an acute shagging deficiency throughout the country.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."

More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. "They don't want a complicated life," says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.(...)

AERA reports that condom shipments are down 40% since 1993 (probably in part because Japan finally legalized birth-control pills in 1999) and love-hotel check-ins are off at least 20% over the past five years. What's more, an increasing number of those visiting love hotels aren't there for romance, AERA says; they've found that love hotels offer the cheapest access to karaoke machines and video games.

Link. Hope this has nothing to do with the butter dog trend recently reported by Fleshbot. Or, god forbid, her .(Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl).

Unicode-Japanese-0.22

Unicode-Japanese-0.22 05/31/2004 05:39 AM

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
A rocket carrying two spy satellites meant to keep an eye on North Korea malfunctions following liftoff, failing to gain sufficient height and speed to reach orbit. Japan's space agency, JAXA, destroys the rocket.

Unicode-Japanese-0.21

Unicode-Japanese-0.21 05/26/2004 05:48 AM

Unicode-Japanese-0.19

Unicode-Japanese-0.19 01/19/2004 05:05 AM

Those Crazy Japanese...

Those Crazy Japanese... 01/06/2005 10:19 PM

You want some iMac fingernails?

Japanese to tag schoolkids

Japanese to tag schoolkids 07/09/2004 11:39 AM
My first RFID

Peculiar Japanese

Peculiar Japanese 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I just got back to Japan after a few weeks abroad. It's the longest trip away from Japan that I've taken in awhile. When I was in the waiting area before boarding the plane, which was mostly Japanese, I noticed that the Japanese people seemed peculiar. I remember feeling this in the past after long trips. It's like suddenly I'm aware of weird Japanese body language, fashion, behaviors and facial expressions. It made me self-conscious too. I'm sure this is a pretty common phenomenon, but it was odd because it was disproportionately stronger compared to a one week trip away. Maybe it's because I was in Paris, South Africa, San Francisco and Boston before returning and the variety of cultures scrambled my cultural blinders. It was also strange reading the International Herald Tribune on China's anger over recent statements by Japanese about ramping up their military while watching the Japanese news in the plane talk about the same thing from their perspective. It was like having two cultural identities coexisting in my head. Somewhere over the arctic, both cultures seemed mighty peculiar.

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Japanese videophone

Japanese videophone 03/13/2003 12:53 PM

Amazing footage over at TokyoDV of the unreleased FOMA P2102V video cellphone. With the screen folded sideways it looks almost like a very small MiniDV camcorder.
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Japanese Ice Cream

Japanese Ice Cream 07/07/2004 05:48 PM
OK, here's one of the reasons I love Japan: The way they have no inhibitions about what might go together with something else. How about Spinach Ice Cream? Or Seaweed Ice Cream? Or how about the Raw Horse Meat Ice Cream ("with chunks!")?

The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream

(Via Boing Boing. Of course, it's incredibly lame to refer to Boing Boing, because everybody reads it already, but... well. I just find this one interesting. :-)

Folksonomies in Japanese

Folksonomies in Japanese 02/01/2005 08:41 PM
OK, I need some help from people who speak Japanese. This post is about folksonomies (tagging), and how it might be really hard in Japanese. This is mostly speculation at this point, please comment or email me if you speak Japanese. On the Sigia-L list, Fiona Bradley writes: "I don't know Cantonese, ...

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Shibori< /a> is an amazing Japanese textile dying technique--a very sophisticated form of tie-dye, where nubby, lumpy, bizarre things like this are transformed after dying into this fish or these flo wers (scroll for detail) or these starbursts. Specifically this odd thing became this (detail). You can find excellent photos and descriptions of the process here, here(scroll down and hold mouse over photo), and here. There is also information at the World Shibori Network . This photo shows partially dyed fabric and here is a video of the preparation for dying. Shibori is very labor intensive (carpal tunnel syndrome-city) and was a one time subject to a sumptuary tax and one form was outlawed by an emperor for being too extravagant. There are many different knots and ties for different patterns--browse here, here(gallery1-7), and here. Shibori can be used to make some striking and detailed images. Diverse examples of shibori --iris, layer ed squares, waves, kimonos, large bridge banner, subtle black and white winter scene, , a nifty “aerial view” of earth as a tidal pool with hot air balloons (detail of anemones). Don't miss the stunning work of Hiroko Harada (English/Japanese) . I especially like Rain In the Forest, There Are Ripples On the Cloth, Seasonal Changes, and this large installation. You can browse more here, but the Japanese page has more.

Japanese numbers

Japanese numbers 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
Joi runs the startling results of a survey of Japanese Internet usage. Some highlights: 36.2% of homes have broadband. 72.5% have heard of blogs, about double last year., 25% of women in their teens and 20's have blogs. (!) Wow....

What is Technorati (in Japanese)

What is Technorati (in Japanese) 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Masahiko Satoh posts an extensive explanation of Technorati in Japanese for folks in Japan trying to understand better what the service does, and how it works. Thanks Masahiko!...

Japanese popstar van-art

Japanese popstar van-art 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
This is a stunning gallery of fan-car art inspired by Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki. Link, Link to lots more Ayumi fan art (via MeFi)

Japanese fashion

Japanese fashion 08/18/2004 06:16 PM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

What are the cool kids in Harajuku wearing?

Glad you asked. Link to an online photo gallery with street snapshots from Harajuku station in Tokyo. (Thanks, Todd!)

Pete sent me this picture. Marc, were you in Harajuku recently?

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those crazy japanese

those crazy japanese 09/13/2004 05:01 AM
The OS Girls.

Foreigners and Japanese customs

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