Foxy Digest: Cosplay, Rockets, Maps

Anime

• Tokyo Anime Fair 2009 Video and Photo Coverage (ANN)
• Blogger Reportedly to Be Paid for Posting about Natsu no Arashi (ANN)
• Anime ‘Galaxy Express 999’ mural put up at station (The Black Ship)

My Highlights / Updates

• New Anime Spring 2009: Naked Men with Toxic Assets (Updated some trailers)
• Tokyo International Anime Fair 2009: Cosplay (Updated with new links)
• Confession: Romi Paku and Rie Kugimiya I posted this recently, but it is worth mentioning again because it is so fun 🙂

Japan

• Tokyo Marathon Cosplay (Quirky Japan Blog)
• Lotte Fit’s Gum Dance Contest (CScout Japan)
• Japanese Graduations: Spring 2009 (Ken Lee Writes)
• Fire breathing baby robot (CScout Japan)
• Japanese population drops, first decrease in female population in almost 60 years (Mainichi)
• Elderly man officially recognized as double hibakusha (Mainichi)
• Discover Your Inner Geisha (Lesley Downer)
• Sword Demonstration (Japundit)

Film

What Defines a Korean Drama? (The Grand Narrative)

Politics and Economy

Japan

• Global Recession Survey: Survival Tips and Business Opportunities (Global Voices)
• 77 percent of jobless people in Japan not receiving unemployment benefits (Mainichi)

Korea

• Sixty Years After Division, Korean Language Has Gone in Separate Directions (Voice of America)
• A guide to voting in North Korea (Japan Probe)
• Can missile, debris be destroyed? / Altitude, speed, direction of N. Korean rocket could complicate interception (Yomiuri)
• Pictures Emerge of N. Korea Launchpad as Warships Move Into Area (Fox)

USA

• Obama’s Special Olympics comment (CNN)
• Obama is flunking economics (CNN)
• GOP means ‘Got 0 Plans’ (CNN)

Science and Technology

• High-Resolution Maps of Science (Visual Complexity)
• Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education (TechCrunch)
• Dragons kill Indonesian fisherman (CNN)
• Can Robots Be Programmed to Learn from Their Own Experiences? (Scientific American)
• Top 10 Time-Lapse Videos Show Nature at Work (Wired)
• Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet (Slashdot)

Sep/24/2006 in British Columbia, Canada.

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