Entries for the ‘Japan’ Category

Japan vs. Denmark

With its convincing 3-1 World Cup win over Denmark on June 24, Japan finished second in Group E and moved on to the final 16 sides vying for global soccer mastery in South Africa.
This marks the second time the Japanese team has advanced to the second round of the finals; the last time was two [...]

Starcraft 2 - Final Fantasy

The video pretty much speaks for itself. I have my doubts if I should buy Starcraft 2 since I am not that much of a RTS fan, however I do enjoy the custom games that similar games (Warcraft 3) has to offer. Epic mod!

England vs Japan

I guess football fans out there would’ve already seen the practice match between Japan and England not so far ago. Japan managed to score every goal in the whole game but still manages to lose. Too bad two of those goals was scoring for the other team. They even managed to stop a penalty kick, [...]

Japan to continue Antarctic whaling

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The Japanese fisheries ministry indicated Wednesday that the country’s whaling for “research purposes” in the Antarctic Ocean will be continued, following a proposal by the International Whaling Commission.
The ministry is also aiming to resume full-fledged whaling along coastal regions of Japan.
Presenting the new IWC proposal on Monday, Cristian Maquieira, chairman of the [...]

Frozen babies dumped at supermarket

OKAZAKI, Aichi — The bodies of two babies found dumped in a supermarket here on Saturday evening have been identified as those of a boy and a girl who were frozen soon after they were born.
An autopsy indicated that the babies had probably been frozen within two days of dying. The girl appeared to be [...]

Bloody Sport - Freestyle Wrestling

Came across pictures of some Japanese freestyle wrestling where they allow items of different nature to be smashed against one another. In this instance some lighting was used and the effect seems very harmful. But surely you can imagine something like that would only cause some cuts and not actual injuries. Either way the sport [...]