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Miko Girls

(via www.dannychoo.com) 3 days ago

Miko Girls

Miko [巫女[みこ]] are young female attendants who can be found at Shinto shrines performing ceremonies and other odd jobs such as staffing the shrine shop.

Tags: japan, video, love, girl, girls, anime, english, media, free, female, review, water, ceremony, otaku, birthday, jobs, beach, kawaii


Downtown Tokyo tent city population goes over 300

(via www.japundit.com) 4 days ago

Downtown Tokyo tent city population goes over 300

A temporary tent village set up at a central Tokyo park has drawn more than 300 people without jobs or homes since it was set up on New Year's.

Tags: new, people, tokyo, economy, new year, population, jobs, village


Fake prostitute bar scam artists go to trial

(via www.danwei.org) 7 days ago

Eight people, including a bar manager and five women, went on trial yesterday in Beijing on fraud...

Tags: people, chinese, 2008, man, beijing, government, style, girls, police, women, online, business, sex, artists, scandal, fake, jobs, trial, fraud


Japan production in historic plunge amid global slump

(via news.yahoo.com) 8 days ago

Japanese production fell at the fastest rate on record in November as firms closed factories and cut jobs due to slumping demand brought on by the global economic crisis, according to data out Friday.

Tags: japan, japanese, record, global, rate, jobs


Teenager Prefer Cellphone Keypad to PC Keyboard

(via asiajin.com) 11 days ago

Teenager Prefer Cellphone Keypad to PC Keyboard

For many Japanese adolescents, cellphone is inseparable partner of their lives, you might have heard. Different from PC, kids can have their own (not-shared with your family/siblings, not filtered by home-broadband)...

Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, 2008, movie, popular, home, 2007, school, family, culture, future, students, student, mobile, college, contest, youth, software, jobs, usb, cellphone


Girls' Generation is popping all over Seoul

(via www.allkpop.com) 12 days ago

Girls' Generation is popping all over Seoul

Girls' Generation has been popping up all over Seoul, causing many other things to "pop up." Like what popped up this morning when I woke up and checked my email, and found a link to the best forum thread ever on soshified.com.

Tags: girls, seoul, jobs


K-Pop's Dirty Little Secret: Plastic Surgery

(via www.allkpop.com) 25 days ago

K-Pop's Dirty Little Secret: Plastic Surgery

Korean celebrities are widely known throughout Asia for three things: the hallyu wave of dramas and soaps, the expanding pop music scene conquering regional markets, and their extensive use of plastic surgery...

Tags: japan, new, china, people, world, korean, music, korea, asian, single, star, tv, popular, singer, actress, asia, list, photo, celebrity, hollywood, secret, boa, celebrities, jobs, rumor


Sony slashing 8,000 jobs amid global downturn

(via news.yahoo.com) 29 days ago

Sony slashing 8,000 jobs amid global downturn

Sony is slashing 8,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its global work force, aiming to cut costs by $1.1 billion a year as a global downturn and stronger yen batters profits at the Japanese electronics maker.

Tags: japanese, global, sony, jobs


Sony to cut 8,000 jobs, slash $1.1 billion in costs

(via www.reuters.com) 29 days ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp said it will slash about 4 percent of its workforce, scale back investments and pull out of businesses as it aims to cut $1.1 billion in costs out of its ailing electronics operations.

Tags: japan, tokyo, google, sony, jobs