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If you live in the NYC area, Ningin has teamed up with the Museum of Chinese in America to host a Sichuan earthquake charity event on July 12th at Pace University. This event will help out the relief funds to rebuild China’s Sichuan region after the 7.9 earthquake that hit the area on May 12, […] More
This year’s 92nd annual Nathan’s hot dog eating contest was being marketed as “The Rematch II: This time it’s personal”. Six time champion Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi is going after 2007 champion Joey Chestnut who won by eating a world record 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. This year’s competition was exciting. After 10 […] More
June was an awesome month for xorsyst.com! Thanks to all the new readers and fans! Not only did I see the best month ever in terms of traffic, but we more than doubled May’s traffic, and shattered my previous goal of 200,000 page views for June. xorsyst.com served over a quarter million page views for […] More
TokyoMango caught a pretty interesting article from the LA Times about Masi Oka called, “10 things you may not know about Masi Oka.” Masi Oka plays a Japanese otaku named Hiro that has the power of time travel. He’s most known for throwing his arms in the air and yelling “Yatta”, which basically like saying […] More
Life in or near Florida? Want to meet the LEGEND of Ninja Warrior himself? Here’s your chance! Makoto Nagano will make his first U.S. appearance at the Chibi-Pa festival in West Palm Beach, FL on September 27th 2008! Who is Makoto Nagano? You have got to be new to Ninja Warrior if you are wondering […] More
It seems like only yesterday when Newtype closed its doors forever. But then we were given a ray of hope in their new venture PiQ magazine. However, that ray of hope was indeed short lived. AnimeOnDVD caught a blog post from a freelance journalist that wrote for PiQ. The email she received went as followed, […] More
Tomohiro Kato (above) Today marks a sad day in Akihabara. A man with a survival knife stabbed and killed 7 people while leaving 10 people injured. Reports say he drove a truck into a crowd, got out, and proceeded to stab anyone withing distance. Police was able to apprehend Tomohiro Kato, the 25 year old […] More
Not quite Japan, but a sea apart. Meet Dr. Sheng. You may think Dr. Sheng is just doing this as a publicity stunt for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. You would be right. However, this is not the first time Dr. Sheng has stuck needles in his head for a publicity stunt. In 2004, he […] More
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
We all know how powerful the Yakuza is in Japan. Seems they have a bit of power in the United States as well. The UCLA Medical Center is under investigation by law enforcement due to transplants given to Yakuza members. During 2000 to 2004, a time where there was a shortage of livers for transplants […] More
Tokyopop is taking some heat right now due to their new strategic effort called Manga Pilots. Tokyopop has a reputation for giving exposure to new manga artists. They created Manga Pilots to help streamline this process. According to Tokyopop, … promising manga creators are selected and hired by our editorial team to create a 24-to-36-page […] More
Not to be outdone by the $170 Burger King burger, an American restarant has also created a $175 dollar Japanese Kobe beef burger in New York City. The Wall Street Burger Shoppe serves the normal $4 burger, but for those days when brokers on Wall Street have done exceptionally well, they need a burger for […] More
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