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POPSEarth Album..... This is a wonderful and intelligent map.... You have to see this map...You are watching some Japan's photos, but you have to go to the site to see a great amount of photos from over the world...You pick the Country and it shows to you the beautiful photos....Just great!!!
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POPSJapan's Homegrown Operating System METI and Japanese electronics makers are keen to move away from Windows and to nurture a homegrown OS in order to secure a leading position for Japanese firms in the info-appliance market Meanwhile, Microsoft has decided to reveal its source code to government organs and others, providing certain conditions are met. It has also announced that it will make the source code for Windows CE, its OS for info-appliances, freely available and will not object to manufacturers or others altering Windows CE or selling products installed with an adapted version. Some see these moves as a response to the success of Linux and TRON. Having started life as the invention of a university professor, TRON seems to have a bright future in cutting-edge electronics for the twenty-first century.
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POPSJapan and Australia Sign Security Pact "Bear in mind we have a Trilateral Security Dialogue with Japan and the United States and we are, the three of us, great Pacific democracies" "We therefore have an enormous amount in common."
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POPSToxic Bacteria Strain Surfaces In Japan The strain was identified in a recent investigation sparked by reports of rising infections in North America. How exactly the two contracted the strain has not been determined. The woman was an inpatient, while the man had no history of hospitalization. Both, however, are known to have developed symptoms of enteritis after taking antibiotics and recovered after changing drugs and taking other treatments. Bacteria are known to multiply abnormally when their balance in the intestines is upset by antibiotics. The strain in this case is the variant type 027, which releases a larger volume of toxic substances than other strains. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on raised alert. Infections were recently reported in Europe.
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POPS188 In Japan Recognize As Blessed Among the 188 who were killed between 1603 and 1639 are four clerics such as Julian Nakaura, one of four boys sent to Europe on a delegation ordered by a local feudal lord in Kyushu in 1582, as well as Peter Kibe, who made a journey by land to Jerusalem, chronicled by the famed Catholic writer Shusaku Endo in a novel. A ceremony of beatification is expected in November in Nagasaki with a cardinal to be sent from the Vatican, the source said.
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POPSTree Nymph Butterfly
The tree nymph is attracted to the color red, and will land on red shirts and hats. In the wild it can be seen from Kyushu to Okinawa, in fields and woodland. It is also seen across Southeast Asia.These butterflies seek out lianes and vines, and milkweed, which are all creeping plants that grow around trees. Many of these plants contain bitter-tasting alkaloids, and it is thought that the female locates the correct plants to lay her eggs on by smelling out the alkaloid The plant alkaloids apparently have a similar structure to the male pheromones of this butterfly, so it appears that there has been an ancient evolutionarily relationship between the butterfly and its food plant. Probably the alkaloids evolved first, and male nymph butterflies evolved to have similar-smelling pheromones. Alkaloids in plants that the butterfly does not feed on are completely unlike the male pheromone. The caterpillars accumulate the bitter alkaloids in their bodies, protecting them from predation. Th
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POPSMichael Jackson arrives in Tokyo Jackson, one of the best-selling artists of all time, has lived abroad since his acquittal, forsaking his Neverland Ranch in California for residences in Bahrain, France and a castle in Ireland.
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POPSMichael Jackson In Japan That is today March 4, 2007. Just to host an exclusive party where admirers pay $3,500 to spend 30 seconds with the pop icon and he is not obligated to perform at either event.
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POPSDolphins And Whales There is a question.. What exactly does this "sentient beings" argument mean? Because dolphins and whales are more intelligent than other animals, it is wrong to kill them? Where are we to draw the line with animals when it comes to being "sentient?"
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POPSChild-Watching Gadgets Gain Foothold In Japan Is interesting that if the little one is running late, a parent can either call the Coco-Secom operation center or send an e-mail to trace the child. Within 30 to 40 seconds, a subscriber will get a map marking the location of the child. For an additional cost of $82 per request, security guards can be dispatched to the location to retrieve the child. So far, the Coco-Secom service has attracted 135,000 subscribers.
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POPSDutchman Reaps Spoils Of 20-year Search For Samurai Art Collection There is more information about this..Somerwil, a connoisseur and great lover of Japan has visited 19 times and has authored a noted travel guide. "At the time you could buy one print for only 5 guilders (about 380 yen today)," he said. "Thirty-five years ago, I started collecting seriously. And I love it more and more." We could learn to love other countries....I really like and enjoy knowing other people from other places...and what they like and love...
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POPSOlder Japanese Men Tend Their Marriages Is sad for a couple to be like this...That is why Ito said: "Repent, repent, repent. That's whay I do every day." "I had never told Setsuko I love her - not like that. But now I want to say it more often...It feels nice," he said. I think that never is too late, but why do we have to wait that much time, 30 years, to say "I love you."
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