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The creative chief of the Tokyo Olympics has resigned after suggesting a plus-size female entertainer be dressed as an 'Olympig' :wow:

Corporate Welfare:China Tech Ban Mirrors 80’s Attempt To Destroy Japanese Competition Jan. 15 2021 In the 1980s, the US imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector for...

16 November 2020 15 Asian Nations Sign Huge China-backed RCEP Trade Pact, The US is Excluded By The Economic Times Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific...

Y'all see the Blue one swag to the ring?:banderas: I was rooting for it but the White one took it to suplex city:gladbron::russ: But seriously this is impressive.:ohhh: edit: This one has a little robot announcer and ref pat down:dead:

:ehh: and she's not too bad either Any thoughts? No disrespect to @Tommy Knocks, you one of the GOAT travel posters

4 September 2020 Focus: Fears Grow over China’s Possible Massive Sales of U.S. Debt as Weapon By Tomoyuki Tachikawa With Sino-U.S. tensions escalating over several security and economic issues, fears are mounting in the financial markets that China may massively sell U.S. government debt it...

@ZoeGod @Rhakim @tru_m.a.c @2Quik4UHoes @mastermind :lupe:

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kane Tanaka has extended her record as the world’s oldest person by celebrating her 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka in southern Japan. Tanaka marked her birthday with a party on Sunday along with staff and friends at the nursing home, television footage from local...

I have been messing around with this site and like 30 mins or less so far I have learned 15 characters in hiragana. あいうえお - a i u e o かきくけこ - ka ki ku ke ko さしすせそ - sa shi su se so I set up my phone's keyboard to be able to switch to japanese. It's pretty cool. I typed that all from memory btw I...

I figure we got enough old film heads on here to keep a thread like this active :myman: Kurosawa rightly gets his dues and movies like High & Low and Ikiru are basically clinics on film-making I been branching out more recently. Ozu has a real distinctive style and even though his movies are...

S.Korea calls on Japan to compensate WWII forced labor victims via funds from Japanese, S.Korean firms Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-19 16:42:40 S.Korea calls on Japan to compensate WWII forced labor victims via funds from Japanese, S.Korean firms - Xinhua | English.news.cn

I never knew it was this bad :picard: Disney could've easily broken off a little money and put it out there that they were "inspired by" Kimba. But they had to go all in with the "first original story" marketing smh.

Democracy Dies in Darkness Try 1 month for $1 Sign In Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Asia & Pacific In Japan, single mothers struggle with poverty and a ‘culture of shame’ Anna Fifield May 28, 2017 OSAKA, Japan — The country suffered a “lost decade,”...

I mess with Robb Bank$ here and there, but I've never really listened to Wifisfuneral (think that's a stupid name) and never cared to hit play on another tatt'd faced rapper, but I rock with this album. Some good production with anime samples, and the rapping ain't bad 1. Save a Hoe 2...

:whoo: 1st of all, I'm still building my collection of 4K blu-rays, secondly I'm at 11.2 CH surround-sound. Can only imagine beyond, might has well be in the movie. The first 8K satellite TV broadcasts launched today in Japan As scheduled, at 10 AM local time on December 1st Japanese TV...

I see whole teams of Mexicans doing drywalling because its easy and does not take any math or reading for the most part... Well they going to get yall outta here one way or another...

pretty funny actually

:ohhh: So one of your Indian posters on the Coli (yeah, that majority black forum) posted this about black people and slavery: :mjlol: wow. Welp..:francis: There you have it folks, untamed people who could not be conquered, the Indians and the Chinese were never enslaved, apparently they only...

http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-served-japan-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-dessert-out-of-a-shoe-2018-5 A dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their wives last week was interrupted by an offensive cultural faux pas: Dessert was...

On December 18th, 1944 the U.S. Supreme Court in deciding against Fred Korematsu, upheld the constitutionality of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19th, 1942. The order designated certain areas as military zones from which those of Japanese ancestry could be...