Brazilian student sold her virginity to a Japanese for US$780,000

Responding to an ad, Catarina Migliorini, a 20-year old Brazilian girl has decided to sell off her virginity to a Japanese man identified as Natsu for a sum of US$780,000 – he, apparently, was the highest bidder in the online auction. FULL STORY

JAPAN ROCKED BY NEW 7.1 MEGA QUAKE

A magnitude-7.4 aftershock rattled Japan on Thursday night, knocking out power across a large swath of the northern part of the country nearly a month...

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Radioactive: 'Minuscule fallout' reaches USA

Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant have reached the west coast but federal..

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Earthquake: 10,000 people missing from town of 17,000

Half of the population of a Japanese coastal town are still unaccounted for as the death toll from the massive earthquake and tsunami looks set to rise…

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8.9-magnitude quake triggers devastating Japan tsunami

At least 5 deaths confirmed; homes, cars, buildings swept away by waves..

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Japan's 'convict' monkey stages daring cage break

Officials in Mishima City said the monkey slipped out of the government-run nature park it had been kept at since its capture last October when a keeper was cleaning its cage.

The city published an emergency notice urging residents to lock their doors, though no new attacks have been reported…

China overtakes Japan as No. 2 economy

Japan lost its place as the world's No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum...

Mother killed her daughter by pushing her into a river, she then strangled a young boy..

A woman convicted of killing her daughter and a neighborhood boy in Akita Prefecture in 2006 showed a desire to appeal her life imprisonment sentence to the Supreme Court in a Wednesday meeting with her defense lawyers, despite their plan to give up doing so, they said.

Prosecutors have already decided not to appeal the sentence to seek the death penalty for 36-year-old Suzuka Hatakeyama, who was convicted of the deaths of her 9-year-old daughter Ayaka and 7-year-old Goken Yoneyama..

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Was Japanese Commercial Racist Towards Barack Obama?

From June 22, 2008 -

A controversy in recent days has been raging with expats in Japan over whether a commercial by a Japanese cell phone provider E-mobile, is a racial slur towards US Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama.

The commercial in question shows the company’s mascot, a monkey doing a parody of Barack Obama’s campaign stump speech about “change”.

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