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Fun & Dirty: Boryeong Mud Festival

2008-07-18T05:29:08Z

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, South Korea. Now the annual event is underway and drawing a whole bunch of photographers snapping pictures of big-noses cavorting away - most of ...

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Chinese Village Feast Treating 6,000 People at Once

2008-07-18T05:27:03Z

The Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Festival (aka: Tuen Ng Festival) is a traditional Chinese festival. It occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on Chinese calendar. In 2008, this falls on 8 June. The focus of the celebrations includes ea...

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Five-Year-Old Blind Piano Girl Can Play Any Song After Just One Listen

2008-07-18T05:25:43Z

A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world after a video of her performance received more than 27million hits. Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can ...

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Japan's Local Festival Calendar

2008-07-10T00:06:38Z

Wonderful calendar of Japan's local festivals with photos... January: January 1 Horan Enya in Bungo Takada City, Oita Prefecture February:February 4 The Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Hokkaido February 14 The Kokuseki-ji ...

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Tea and Chat Japan's Latest Defence for Robbery?

2008-07-09T23:43:19Z

Police aren't recommending the tea defence for everyone! A Japanese woman and her six-month-old daughter escaped unharmed from an armed robber after the mother calmed him with a cup of tea and a chat. A middle-aged man allegedly pulled a k...

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Pictured: Inside the cellar where father locked daughter for 24 years and repeatedly raped her

2008-06-29T01:12:32Z

Confession: Josef Fritzl says he locked his daughter in a cellar for nearly 24 years This is the man who today confessed that he imprisoned his daughter in an underground chamber for 24 years and fathered her seven children. Elisabeth Frit...

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Middle-Aged Japanese Women Seek One Last Thing: Love

2008-06-21T08:33:18Z

Japanese women aged 40 married, had kids, got a career and it's all going really well. They should have no worries in the world, but according to a recent survey, for some reason, they feel lonely often, many of them are looking for one last ...

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Otaku Cannibal Killer Tsutomu Miyazaki Executed in Tokyo

2008-06-21T08:30:45Z

Japan’s most reviled serial killer – a “cannibal nerd” who preyed on primary-school girls and drank their blood – has been executed in Tokyo. The hanging of 45-year old Tsutomu Miyazaki brings to 13 the number of death-row inmates who have ...

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'Human Flesh Search' Turns Netizens into Cyber Lynch Mobs

2008-06-19T13:42:33Z

In China "human-powered” search engines can turn netizens into cyber lynch mobs, and private lives are turned upside down by collective cyber-vigilantism. "Human flesh hunting" is a literal translation, but the term '人肉搜索引擎', applied to the...

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Japan's New Sex Trend: Elder Porn

2008-06-19T13:26:32Z

Shigeo Tokuda, 74, is, in fact, his screen name — he prefers not to disclose his real name because, he insists, his wife and daughter have no idea that he has appeared in about 350 porn films over the past 14 years. Besides his glowing com...

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