How to become a spy? -Use this camera!



As you see the photo, the necktie has got a video camera!! You can record what your boss said with this camera. It can record a video for 1 hour at one time. The memory is 4GB. Althogh it depends on the situation, you can record from 7 hours - 30 hours totally.
It cost 12,800 yen.

ネクタイの中にビデオカメラ!?--サンコーから新スパイグッズが登場 [JP]

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Plane Crashed at Narita Airport.

landing cargo plane crashed at Narita Airport, because of strong wind. Fedex 80, from Guangzhou, China. still worring about the crew is alive or not.

*update*
Two crew were killed.
Other Airlines cancelled many flights due to the accident. JAL 27 flights, ANA 10 flights.

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FC2 released human-aided translation site.

FC2, multi-web service provider in Japan released which human-aided translation site. FC2翻訳

Although a lot of translator sites have produced on the internet, most of them are machine-aided, like google translate.

Human translation should take much time to get the result of interpreting the websites. However there're some advantages, such as accuracy and readability.

Akira Sasaki egages in Ski Cross.

Akira Sasaki, one of the best alpen racer in Japan, will participate in Ski Cross World Cup Series, to be chosen as a racer of Ski Cross Olympic event, Vancouver 2010, according to the news source.

News Souce(Japanese):
佐々木がスキークロスに本格参戦 五輪のメダル獲得が目標

Sasaki has already applied to both categories Alpine and Free style in last Novenber. The 6th race in this season will be His first race in Ski Cross, held in Norway in next Feburary.

Ski Cross has got the place as Offcial Olympic Event from Vancouver 2010.

Barriers to Foreign Travelars in Japan.

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan has released a survery which says 40 percent of hotels don't accept foreign travelars in Japan.

News Source:
Japan survey shows 40 percent of hotels, inns not accepting foreign travelers

外国人旅行者:ホテル・旅館の4割が受け入れず…全国調査


Most major reason is the difficulty of communication with foreign languages, which is 75.7%.
Next, their facilities don't suitable for foreign travelars, 71.8%.
The third is that they feel nervous when the problem happens, 63.4%.


Althogh it isn't on suevey, some Japanese feel that these tendencies are strong in rural areas of our researches.