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Besides his glowing complexion, Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 74-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack three years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but that's because he's kept his part-time job - as a porn star...
...South Koreans and 76% of Chinese "believe that Japan has not apologized sufficiently for its military actions during the 1930s and 1940s." The Japanese, on the other hand, are split almost down the middle on whether or not they should apologize...
...satellite, and it costs $199 - $400 less than the original iPhone, unveiled almost a year ago. The phone will be available in the U.S. and 21 other countries on July 11; within a few months of that, the phone will be available in a total of 70 countries, including Japan and the burgeoning markets of Brazil and India...
...together with Koji Suzuki's Ring helped to launch a new wave of Japanese horror - both novels were made into movies. Director Hideo Nakata's adaptation of Ring enjoyed more domestic success than the Fuji TV-produced Parasite Eve, but Sena's story reached a broader audience outside Japan through a Sony PlayStation video-game adaptation that shifted the tale to New York City and ratcheted up the gore - most fantastically in the mass spontaneous combustion of an opera audience at Carnegie Hall. There are also two Japanese manga versions of the story, one based on the original plot...
...three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Surveys show that even the U.S., a nation built on immigration, is now more hostile to immigration than at any time in its history. The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Survey found that a majority in every country except Japan, South Korea and the Palestinian territories wanted immigration reduced...