It’s service with a sword in Tokyo – and the girls are queuing up to be samurai waitresses..

Tsunami have reached Japan’s coastal areas along the Pacific from Hokkaido to southern regions, measuring up to 1.20 meters high, following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile on Saturday.

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The first tsunami from Chile has reached Japan, and Hawaii and other Pacific areas have been spared any significant damage.

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Tsunami Hits Hawaii

The Tsunami generated by the 8.8 earthquake hit Chile forecast to hit Japan today hit Hawaii earlier on February 28th 2010, but as Dave Price reports, damage appeared to be minimal.

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A report issued by N H K on Feb 28th 2010 warning of the imminent threat of an Tsunami on the Pacific coast of Japan.

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A Tsunami alert has been put in place in Japan as the displacement from the Chile earthquake reaches the Japan coast. The tsunami is due to hit Japan on Febuary 28th at between 1pm and 4pm JST. Residents of coastal area have been advised to move to higher ground. NHK has warned of waves between 1m and 3m all along the Pacific coast of mainland Japan and Okinawa.

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Goldman Sachs ‘predicts’ Japan next to collapse

In the Mantokuji “divorce temple” of Ota City, Japan, visitors flush all of the bad karma from their lives down the toilet, literally.

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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Ryukyu Islands early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Soon after the 5:31 a.m. (3:31 p.m. Friday ET) quake, Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory, recommending that people on the Okinawa Islands evacuate from the seashore.

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Miki Ando is a Japanese figure skater who started to skate at the age of nine. She is the only female skater to have landed a quadruple jump in competition and was the 2007 world champion.

Would you pay $100 or ¥10000 for a bowl of noodles? Well some people do at this upmarket noodle shop in Japan.

Enjoy your lunch.

Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo is creating buzz off the slopes by wearing baggy trousers and having his hair in dreadlocks. The Japanese Olympic Committee were so outraged by the snowboarder’s fashion sense that they left him out of the opening parade as a punishment.

A Japanese zoo has run its bi-annual safety drill to train its staff for the possibility of an escaped animal.

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An Interview with English you-tuber Becki Cruel who was in Japan last week promoting her new DVD…


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A news report from ITN in the UK from 1986 detailing the launch of the Austin Rover Mini in Japan.

Will there be a yen for it in the land of the rising sun?

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Beckii Cruel on ITV Granada Reports

See Beckii on Japanese TV

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Japanese anime dancing sensation Beckii Cruel launches her debut album “Tsubasa wo Kudasai” in Tokyo. The 14-year-old You Tube has been a huge hit with the Japanese after filming herself in her attic bedroom in the Isle of Man dancing to the soundtracks of anime cartoons.

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Japanese culture – Pickles 漬物

Everything you need to know about Japanese pickles or Tsukemono.

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