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The cheapest menu

Gusto goes the whole hog. As of now, the Japanese restaurant chain offers up to 8 December, a full children's menu for only 39 yen. Junior gets served the family for some. So a typical children's menu at Gusto includes a hamburger, fries, rice, a juice and a dessert. Also a chip that receives the child with a toy from a vending machine is one of them.


The revolt against the old guard

Tsuneo Watanabe is the Japanese equivalent of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The 85-year-old pipe-smoking man is president of the Yomiuri Group since 1991, while editor of the associated Yomiuri Shimbun, with a circulation of 14 million units, the largest newspaper in the world. Formerly a political reporter, he maintains a relationship network that reaches into the highest political circles.

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A manga about the tsunami

Santetsu is a regional, small railroad company, as it exists everywhere in the rural areas of Japan. At exactly two lines, one north and one south, their trains meander the coast of Iwate Prefecture along. Financially, the railway company has long struggled for survival, but the tsunami of 11 March 2011 made everything worse.

In line for a cell phone

“For three days I am here. I am delighted anew iPhone, then I will but first “go home to sleep, an exhausted client told the Tokyo Apple Store for about ANN News. Hardly a week after Steve Jobs death has begun in Japan to sell the new iPhone 4S.At least 800 Apple fans queued patiently for hours for it.

The Rice Panic

With the upcoming rice harvest in late summer and autumn presents itself among consumers in Japan, the anxious question, whether even the traditional staple food is absolutely affected by the radiation emerging from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.The concern is great. Just recently the government had to prohibit the export of beef from four prefectures.

Japan drinks whiskey

2008 had the clever idea to advertise Suntory the highball highball in a major advertising campaign. Dating back to the United States drink in Japan is always mixed with whiskey, carbonated water and ice cooling. The Japanese beverage manufacturer used a long drink as a marketing ploy to boost the sale of the house Kakubin whiskeys.

The power plant in skyscrapers

Roppongi Hills building complex with 238 meters high skyscraper in the center since its opening in 2003 is a landmark of modern Tokyo. That this architectural masterpiece is also a power plant was still up to the nuclear disaster almost entirely unknown.Roppongi Hills suffered in contrast to other skyscrapers never a power interruption.

The mini-Noah's Ark

The tsunami has According to official figures from the 23rd May 2011 15,000 people dead. Around 9,000 other people missing. Many died because did not have enough time to get from the floods in protection. Many elderly people and children often lack the strength to run for a warning on a hill. The Small Business Industry Ise from Aichi prefecture is now waiting with a creative idea on this problem: One capsule defying the waves, which can be placed in house.

“Then renounced power!”

By increasing public criticism of Tepco, the operator of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima, life is for many an employee of the power producers at a daily gauntlet mutated. It is said a 30-year-old employee of the Postal News Seven that were already slashed the tires of company cars. Vandals to occur, he has an equally self-adhesive Tepco away from his car.

A Nazi costume for Christmas

The Japanese discount chain Don Quijote makes shopping for once not to talk to its low prices, but with a controversial sale of the product. For Halloween and Christmas, the department store, a Nazi costume, wrapped in a plastic bag with a Hitler figure and the statement has “Heil Hitler”, offered for the best.