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06 fEATURE<br />
Soup Stop<br />
tokyo<br />
By Brian MacDuckston<br />
03 THE SMALL PRINT<br />
05 UPfRoNT<br />
08 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
12 AGENDA<br />
18 MoVIES<br />
21 DINING oUT<br />
24 CLASSIfIEDS & JoBS<br />
29 HoRoSCoPE & MEDIABox<br />
30 THE LAST woRD<br />
Cover illustration & design: kohji shiiki<br />
listen to tokyo’s pulse<br />
metpod.com<br />
The Small Print<br />
by Reg Dunlap<br />
“<br />
iT’s OnLY nATURAL<br />
THAT OKinAWAn<br />
peOpLe dOn’T FeeL LiKe<br />
niCe WORK, FeLLAs<br />
ć A high school baseball coach in Chiba was suspended<br />
for breaking one of his players’ arms<br />
after the kid missed a fly ball in practice.<br />
ć It was later revealed that the same coach had<br />
“hit another first-year [player] in the face with a<br />
bat, knocking out his front teeth and splitting<br />
his lip.”<br />
ć The NpA said it dealt with a record number of<br />
cases of child pornography in 2012. Officials<br />
said that underage smut “is spreading via the<br />
internet.” Gee, ya think?<br />
ć A Tokyo-based bicycle importer was ordered to<br />
pay ¥189 million in damages to a man who was<br />
paralyzed in an accident involving his Italianbrand<br />
Bianchi bike.<br />
MiLesTOnes<br />
ć renowned anthropologist Masao Yamaguchi, a<br />
leader of the “new academism” movement and<br />
the author of the delightfully named treatise A<br />
Psychological History of Losers, died in a Tokyo<br />
hospital at age 81.<br />
ć Akira Watanabe became the first shogi player in<br />
17 years to win the prestigious Osho championship<br />
before his 30th birthday.<br />
ć Officials at Tama Zoo welcomed a pair of young<br />
$712.6 million<br />
Amount of money donated by US citizens for 3/11<br />
disaster relief<br />
kohji shiiki<br />
CeLeBRATing THe dAY”<br />
—teruo hiyane, professor emeritus at the university<br />
of the ryukyus, on the upcoming ceremony marking<br />
the restoration of japan’s independence following<br />
World War ii<br />
Photo of the week<br />
submit your snaps at http://metropolis.co.jp/photo.<br />
Chairlift Silhouette, by Aleisha Riboldi<br />
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Apr 12-25, 2013<br />
elephants from Sri Lanka as a gift commemorating<br />
60 years of bilateral ties.<br />
ć Executives at Honda say the latest model of their<br />
Odyssey minivan is the first vehicle of its kind to<br />
offer a built-in… vacuum cleaner.<br />
ALL 3/11, ALL THe TiMe<br />
ć Officials at the communications ministry say<br />
about 700,000 people in areas hit hardest by<br />
the March 11 disaster have lost their jobs or<br />
have been forced to take a leave of absence. That<br />
figure represents an astounding 27.8 percent of<br />
the workforce in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima<br />
prefectures.<br />
ć Authorities at the environment ministry<br />
announced that just over half of the 16.3 million<br />
tons of tsunami debris in those prefectures<br />
has now been removed.<br />
ć The MpD filed charges against four engineers<br />
for professional negligence over the collapse of<br />
a parking-lot ramp at the Costco in Machida<br />
during the quake. Two people died and five others<br />
were injured in the incident.<br />
ć Officials at Google reached an agreement with<br />
seven Japanese cities and prefectures, including<br />
Chiba and Kawasaki, to provide evacuation<br />
information to residents in the<br />
event of an earthquake or other<br />
major disaster.<br />
sAY WHAT?!?<br />
ć A 25-year-old Yokohama man<br />
who got into a quarrel with a<br />
stranger on a street wound up<br />
being beaten to death by a<br />
passerby who had been filming<br />
the argument with his<br />
cellphone camera.<br />
ć A mountain climber from<br />
Saitama who went missing for<br />
five days in Sumatra was discovered<br />
alive at the bottom of<br />
a 300-foot ravine.<br />
$570 million<br />
Amount of money Japan will loan to the Philippines to<br />
develop a light-rail system and airport<br />
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ć A research team led by a professor at the University<br />
of Tokyo warned that reef-building corals<br />
may completely die out by the end of the century<br />
due to acidification of seawater caused by<br />
carbon dioxide emissions.<br />
ć ANA and JAL passenger flights were forced to<br />
divert to a nearby US military airbase after an<br />
Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet got a flat<br />
tire while landing at Naha Airport.<br />
LAsT BUT nOT LeAsT<br />
ć An F.C. Barcelona-sanctioned soccer camp<br />
is opening this month in Katsushika-ku—the<br />
birthplace of Captain Tsubasa creator Yoichi<br />
Takahashi.<br />
ć Tsukimino station in Kanagawa will test a<br />
new-style safety barrier that uses long, thick<br />
wires that “rise and fall with trains’ arrival and<br />
departure.”<br />
ć Officials at EgyptAir have cancelled operations<br />
of the airline’s Cairo-Tokyo route, citing<br />
“major economic losses and lack of support<br />
from both governments.”<br />
ć After a six-month delay due to diplomatic tensions,<br />
Japanese and Chinese manga lovers<br />
finally staged a joint exposition in Nanjing.<br />
16,387<br />
Number of victims of child abuse referred to<br />
consultation centers last year by the NPA, a record high<br />
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