One of Japan’s most renowned castles was damaged on Tuesday when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the southern main island of Kyushu. Amateur video showed part of the stone wall of Kumamoto Castle collapsing, sending up clouds of dust. Photo credit: Kyodo News Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video […]
“Bloomberg: The Asia Trade” brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Singapore with Shery Ahn and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global […]
In 1985, an American would indirectly cause the awakening of an unlikely vengeful spirit in the world of Japanese Baseball. This is the Curse of the Colonel “Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based […]
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A few months ago, I covered the disappearance of Plastic Lover’s viral upload of Mariya Takeuchi’s song Plastic Love due to a copyright dispute over the photo used. I am pleased to inform you that it is now back up! The situation has been resolved between Plastic Lover and the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron gave his outgoing prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, until Wednesday night to negotiate with France’s political parties in a last-ditch effort to prevent the country from falling deeper into crisis. Macron’s options include appointing a new prime minister, calling a parliamentary election, or resigning, with opposition groups […]
Diet Secrets for Living Past 100 Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution has traveled the world, studying its many “blue zones”: regions where the local population enjoys exceptionally long average lifespans. […]
What’s better than winning a war? Well, not much really… But what’s better than losing a war? Pretending it never happened and continuing fighting! “Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World […]
Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months after Japan’s bombing of the US Navy base […]
It would be taller than the Burj Khalifa and Mount Fuji. We’re taking it to the sky today and touching the troposphere in a cosmic skyscraper. How big would this skyscraper’s base be? How would you get up by elevator? And what would living the high life in your skyscraper […]
