Some not-so-good news from Japan recently... blunders, scandals and bad news...
Bad/blundering civil servants..
Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport
Somewhere in Japan, someone is walking around with 142g of cannabis (worth 1 million yen), "complementary" from Narita International Airport's customs department...
Government official molests woman on train
Quoting what the suspect said to the police: "It's true my hand struck her five or six times, but I did not molest her". Well, if that is not molest, then what is???
Unsafe food..
Cream puffs mistakenly sprinkled with detergent
Needle found in retort pouch curry
Senba Kitcho 'served leftovers for 20 years'
Stressed out "salarymen"
Record 268 compensated for job stress / Work-related suicides double over 5 years
But it is not all gloom and doom in the land of the rising sun... :)
Japanese skier Miura reaches summit of Mt. Everest at age 75
Robot powered by long lasting batteries scales Grand Canyon
Family gives hospital 5 mil. yen for 'saving lives'
Japanese conductor's multiethnic orchestra helping to build new Kosovo
Japan pledges $560 million to Global Fund for AIDS, TB, malaria
Toyota building battery plant in Japan to rev up hybrid production as oil prices soar
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