Tokyo (Japan)

Man Cooks His Own Genitals, Serves Them To Diners [PHOTOS]

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"[Please retweet] I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen …Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location," was the message that Japanese chef Mao Sugiyama sent out to his Twitter...

Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Parsley, Restaurants, Japan, Dining and Drinking

Japan Mourns Tsunami Dead; Grapples With Aftermath

Reuters

OFUNATO, Japan (Reuters) - With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the...

Tags: Human Interest, Lifestyle and Leisure, National Government, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Government

Japanese Developer To Construct Space Elevator By 2050

@AndrewJRamos

A high-tech elevator that would shoot passengers into space, delivering them to a station for the best weekend ever, is reportedly in the works. The bizarre - yet super cool - concept may actually come to pass as a Tokyo-based company is now reportedly...

Tags: Japan

Asia Stocks Start Lower; U.S. Futures Down

CNN

Asian stocks fell in early Monday trading, but losses were not as severe as some analysts feared, in the initial world markets response to Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt. U.S. stock futures tumbled about 1.7% in early electronic trading as...

Tags: CNN (tv network), Credit Ratings, Economy, Business and Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, S&P 500

Officials Retract Reports Of Extremely High Radiation At Fukushima Plant

Los Angeles Times

Officials at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant late Sunday retracted their announcement that they had found puddles at the facility's No. 2 reactor containing 10 million times more radioactivity than would be found in water in a normally...

Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Japan, Naoto Kan, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace

Tags: Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), National Government, Disasters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Economy, Business and Finance

Japan Food Imports: Cause For Concern?

Staff reporter

Albert Jacobs was stocking up on brown rice vinegar at a Japanese market in Manhattan. "It's made from rice in Japan. It's made from water in Japan," he said. "This bottle I'm holding in my hand is perfectly safe, but I don't know how it's going to be a...

Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Water Supply, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Food and Drug Administration

Tags: Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), National Government, Disasters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Government

Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Science and Technology, National Government, Disasters, Government

Radiation Levels May Be Falling At Stricken Nuclear Plant

Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

Radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan are still high but may be tapering off, a senior U.S. nuclear official said Sunday. Indications from the plant, which houses six nuclear reactors, were levels in the range of...

Tags: Employees, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Metal and Mineral

Thousands Line Up For Global Launch Of New Apple iPhone 4G

Associated Press Writer

Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone was selling briskly Thursday as thousands lined up outside stores around the world to become among the first to own the device amid concerns of supply shortages. The iPhone 4's launch began in Japan and sold out by early...

Tags: Sean Hill, Apple iPhone, New York, Georgetown, Crimes

Tags: Product Recalls, Employees, Plant Openings, General Motors Corp., Georgetown