Pin Itemailprint This is one big fish that didn’t get away. A massive bluefin tuna caught off the coast of northeastern Japan sold at auction for a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000. Yesterday’s auction was the first of the at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. The incredible price for the 593-pound tuna beat last [...]
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Nothing says America like a giant slab of meat on a bun. To that end, McDonald’s restaurants in Japan are re-releasing their line of “Big America” burgers. This is the third time the chain has unleashed the popular burgers on Japan. In theory, the Big America burger is meant to remind you of the various [...]
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Quite a way to start the New Year, don’t you think? A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan today, rocking buildings in the capital. No damage has been reported and there are no current tsunami warnings. The temblor struck near the island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, which is uninhabited and [...]
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Could the end of the dollar be nigh? Japan and China have announced that the two countries will promote direct trading of the yen and yuan without using U.S. dollars. The countries will also encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, according to the Japanese government. Japan will also apply [...]
It’s been nine months since that massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami decimated Japan, killing over 15,000 people in the process. Tsunami debris has already begun washing ashore thousands of miles from the epicenter on the West Coast of the U.S. Last week, along the coast of Washington state, nine polyethylene buoys that belonged to a [...]
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Sad news out of Japan as Pusuke, who was listed as the world’s oldest dog in Guinness World Records, died yesterday, December 5, 2011 in Sakura, Japan. He reached the ripe old age of 26 years and 9 months. Pusuke was certified for the Guinness World Record title in December of last year. The previous [...]
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If you love cars and have a weak stomach, you might want to turn away now. A massive luxury car pileup in Japan has ruined 11 pricey vehicles. An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts ended up smashing 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini, 2 two Mercedes, and a partridge in a pear tree. The collective value of [...]
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It’s “Jurassic Park” in real life. Did we learn nothing from Hollywood? Scientists now think it might be possible to actually clone a woolly mammoth within the next five years after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil found in Siberia. Teams from Russia’s Sakha Republic’s mammoth museum and Japan’s [...]
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Archaeologists say they have found a shipwreck that was part of a fleet sent to invade Japan by Mongol ruler Kublai Khan more than 700 years ago. The large, wooden ship was discovered off the southern island of Kyushu, lying just under the seabed. The wreck is the most intact Mongol ship ever found in [...]
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Jordyn Wieber, 16, became only the sixth American woman to win the individual all-around title at the world gymnastics championships. She accomplished the feat in dramatic fashion, overcoming an error on the uneven bars to battle back and claim the gold medal by a margin of just .033 over 16-year-old Viktoria Komova of Russia. “I [...]
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Thanks to two of the world’s biggest optical-infrared telescopes, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, a group of astronomers has found more than two dozen brown dwarf stars floating freely throughout two galactic clusters. During the Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey, these “failed stars” drew [...]
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