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    A Marine Corps Cafe in Japan

    When I think about going out and paying for a meal, the last thing I want would be someone dressed as an army sergeant screaming at me, and going through boot camp before my meal comes. But leave it to the ever so unique Japanese to open up a cafe appropriately named Sergeant Cafe. Upon […] More

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    Beautiful Kanji Training

    Here’s a new product over at J-List that I think would be really useful if you’re learning Kanji. Beautiful Kanji Training is a Nintendo DS game that teaches you to write, as the name suggests, beautiful Kanji characters. You hold the DS on the side like a book, and Beautiful Kanji Training acts as your […] More

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    A-kon 19 breaks Guinness World Record

    Thanks to Crisu for first bringing this to my attention. Seems the short lived videogame cosplay Guinness world record has been broken by cosplayers at A-Kon 19 in Dallas Texas. The new event, which by the way is the largest continually running anime convention in North America, shattered the old record. 697 cosplayers were on […] More

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    Smell like sushi everywhere you go

    You may have wondered if there was any way to remind the people that you randomly pass by while walking in the mall of the first time they ever visited a sushi resturant. You wish that you can remind them of the subtle smell of vinegar in the air, the pungent yet inviting smell of […] More

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    Soy Sauce Ice Cream Topping?

    Talk about an unusual combination. Yamato Soy Sauce has created a new topping for Ice Cream made from… you guessed it, Soy Sauce. They are expecting the new ice cream toping to be a big hit this summer. Yamato Soy Sauce has been around since 1911, so they must know what they are doing. I […] More

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    May 2008 stats for xorsyst.com

    May seems to have flown by this year. It was a busy month for me offline. I went to visit my family in St. Thomas at the beginning of the month for a week. And I have been hard at work on my new website that’s going to detail some of my traffic and SEO […] More

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    3D Anime Girl PC Case

    One man’s anime fandom has produced one of the coolest PC cases I have ever seen. Katsuya Matsumura wanted a unique computer case, so he sculpted this anime girl out of styrofoam, and painted it. Makes you wonder where he hid the power button… Check out the making of the anime girl PC case! Via […] More

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    Invading your personal space

    Talk about invading one’s personal space. For some reason I just couldn’t stop laughing watching this video. How do you deal with people invading your personal space? Hopefully, not as casual as this lady does. More

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    Barak Obama & Hillary Clinton Caramell Dansen

    By this time, I have already gone against my word to not post anymore Caramell Dansen videos about 4 or 5 times by now… So what’s one more for good measure? With the hype surrounding the Democratic nominee for the convention, even they could not hide from the Caramell Dansen craze. Via Alafista More

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    Weird Japanese Pictures

    What a weird and wonderful place Japan is. Here are some weird Japanese pictures gathered by Michael over at MMOABC. These are just a few of them, mainly the Japanese-ish ones. But he has some from all over Asia. Check out his post for more weird Japanese pictures. More

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    Classic Star Wars Posters From Japan

    Star Wars fandom is not just a phenomena here in the US, there are Star Wars fans all over the world, including Japan. The classic Star Wars films were a huge hit in Japan. Unless you lived in Japan, you wouldn’t have seen this promotional posters. For more classic Japanese Star Wars posters, check out […] More

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