The ministry of tourism in Japan hopes that due to the popularity of this too-cute feline, tourists from neighboring countries will flock to Japan and spent some cash. As well informed readers of Japanite! already know the country offer tourist attractions like maid cafes and robot wars.

The mega cat is apparently 34 years old, and was invented by Sanrio, a toy company. since then, the kitty has appeared on 50,000 products in 60 countries.

This isn’t the first time that Japanese expect their drawn figures to bring them tourists. Just a month ago the Japanese foreign minister appointed Doraemon, the anime cat, as an “anime ambassador”.

We wish good luck to the cute cat, but still thinks that Nahoko Shimada, the McDonalds porn start might have been a better in attracting the sophisticated tourists.

More: [DailyNews]

The 57 years old man has been accused of accessing adult sex websites for 780,000 (that’s no mistakes) times starting June last year to February 2008. The employee works for the local council of Kinokawa in southern Japan.

The nasty habit reached its peak last July when he viewed 177,000 websites pages in one month. That’s about 10,000(!) pages per day. The man could continue doing his great work, unless its computer caught a virus.

The technical team that repaired the computer noticed the “little” sex addiction that this poor man had. What’s seems weird is how no one noticed the obsessed employee? Even if the numbers are in accurate, it’s still account for a lot of adult websites surfing during office hours. “Each desk is set apart from each other,” city official Tomiko Waki told AP news.

Amazingly he wasn’t fired, but was only given a suspension for three months and a $200 salary cut. Well, it is no surprise in a country well you can find sex even at McDonalds.

Source: [USA Today]

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The Trade Ministry of Japan has instructed the maker of Crocs to redesign the shoes. That’s after 65 complaints of about Crocs shoes getting stuck in escalators. To much concern in many of the accidents children were involved.

It’s seems that although more than 3.9 million pairs of Crocs were sold in Japan last year (according to the trade ministry), The Japanese government shouldn’t be worried too much. The latest financial results of Crocs shows that the world loses interest in the boring shoes. The company missed it’s sales target and (unfortunately) will be forced to fire almost 700 employees and close one factory. Hopefully this will lead to the disappearing of this ugly footwear from planet Earth.

This isn’t the first time that the Japanese government warns against the shoes. In September 2007 the Japanese government reported about 40 incidents on escalators with people wearing Crocs.

This shoes are hideous, expensive and can get you injured – so why do people still buys them?

More: [AP]

What can happen to a kid wearing Crocs: [FoxNews]

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