It has been reported that the popular 5 man marketing machine SMAP have made individual personal donations totalling about 400 million yen, or close to USD$5 million, to the Japanese Red Cross Society to help with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that swept through North Eastern Japan. The donations were not made [...]
March 2011
Written By: guyjin on March 30, 2011
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Written By: guyjin on March 30, 2011
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Written By: guyjin on March 25, 2011
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Japanese Box Office: Mar 19 – Mar 25, 2011
Number 1:
Movie: SP The Motion Picture II
Weekend Box Office (US$): $3,611,960
Cumulative Take (US$): $10,805,232
Written By: guyjin on March 25, 2011
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I haven’t seen any figures in the last few days, but up until earlier in the week there were an estimated 350,000 people in North-East Japan who have been evacuated to shelters. Some of these are people in Fukushima prefecture that have been evacuated from their homes due to radiation from the Fukushim Dai-ichi nuclear [...]
Written By: guyjin on March 24, 2011
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Here are the top 10 programs for the week of Mar 14, 2010 – Mar 20, 2011:
Number 1:
News: NHK News 7
Network: NHK
Time & Date: 19:00-20:00, Mar 19
Rating: 29.8
Written By: guyjin on March 19, 2011
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It was probably a natural thing to do, but the cynic inside of me wonders about the politics behind the Prime Minister’s meeting this morning with former party leaders Ozawa Ichiro, Hatoyama Yukio, and Maehara Seiji. The meeting was ostensibly held at the PM’s request, to pick the brains of the party’s former leaders, and [...]
Written By: guyjin on March 18, 2011
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It has been just on a week now since the massive M9.0 earthquake and companion tsunami thrashed the north-east coast of Japan. It’s taken this long for me to be able to sit down and write some of my own feelings about what happened. I wasn’t in the middle of the destruction by any extent, [...]
