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		<title>Tokyo: How To Get Up On The Wrong Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A professional window cleaner in Japan, slept on a bed that&#8217;s attached to a building for 20 minutes.The act was made as a publicity stunt for the hotel that launched special program to offer a more relaxing environment in the rooms and quality bedding. More after the break: Source: [Yahoo News] Tip: A new study [...]

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<p align="left">A professional window cleaner in Japan, slept on a bed that&#8217;s attached to a building for 20 minutes.The act was made as a publicity stunt for the hotel that launched special program to offer a more relaxing environment in the rooms and quality bedding. More after the break:</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-2.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-2-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="japan_tokyo_bed_2" width="295" height="426" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-3.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-3-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="japan_tokyo_bed_3" width="295" height="467" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-4.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/japan-tokyo-bed-4-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Japan_tokyo_bed_4" width="295" height="446" /></a></p>
<p align="left">Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080610/481/28e470f762bd4bfe8815b293a038d3e2/" target="_blank">[Yahoo News]</a></p>
<p align="left">Tip: A new study showed that sleeping between 6.5 and 7.5 hours, make you live longer. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080610/hl_time/howmuchsleepdoyoureallyneed" target="_blank">[Yahoo]</a> have the full story.</p>


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		<title>Go Out And Smell The Roses &#8211; In Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime the people in Japan are not so weird or bizarre as you might think. Take for example this beautiful event this days: the annual exhibition for rose and gardening is held in Tokyo. More than 250,000 people are expected to attend the International Roses and Gardening Show, which is celebrating it&#8217;s 10th anniversary this [...]

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<p>Sometime the people in Japan are not so weird or bizarre as you might think. Take for example this beautiful event this days: the annual exhibition for rose and gardening is held in Tokyo. More than 250,000 people are expected to attend the International Roses and Gardening Show, which is celebrating it&#8217;s 10th anniversary this year.</p>
<p>If you happens to be in Tokyo, free yourself a couple of hours take a tour to the Goodwill stadium which will be the home for more than a million flowers. </p>
<p>Video from the show after the break.</p>
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<p>Of course, you can&#8217;t really think will let you go without some unique Japanese twist on flowers, right? you might want to take a look at the <a href="http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/catalog/hanakotoba-plant-communicator-p-131.html" target="_blank">Hanakotoba plant communication doll</a>. For just $69, this doll (shown below) will interpret more than 200 hundred words from your plant to you. wonder if he knows the words: &#8220;You&#8217;re weird!&#8221;</p>
<p><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="253" alt="hanakotoba-communication-fl" src="http://www.japanite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hanakotoba-communication-fl.jpg" width="510" border="0"> </p>
<p> Source: <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/japanofile/news/20080514p2g00m0et005000c.html" target="_blank">[Mainichi]</a></p>


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<p>It&#8217;s only in Japan that one robot can fight another robot and it&#8217;s seems right for everyone.</p>
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