Japanite! » Photo http://japanite.com Offbeat News and Weird Ideas from Japan Tue, 11 May 2010 10:14:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How did hotdogs came to Japan? http://japanite.com/how-did-hotdogs-came-to-japan/ http://japanite.com/how-did-hotdogs-came-to-japan/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:28:02 +0000 Japanite Team http://japanite.com/how-did-hotdogs-came-to-japan/

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]]> A new photos exhibition reveals that the Germans have taught the Japanese how to make hotdogs. It wasn’t part of a cultural exchange, but during World War I, where the German prisoners showed their guards how to prepare Germany favorite food.

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It seems it all started in June of 1918, when the prisoners showed their methods to Yoshifusa Iida, a government official that spread the techniques around the nation. Since then the hotdogs or susages, have made a round trip around the world, so in the end you can find this in Harajuku in Tokyo:

 

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Via [Mainichi]

Photo by InfoMofo

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]]> http://japanite.com/how-did-hotdogs-came-to-japan/feed/ 0 The Smallest Noodle Bowl in The World http://japanite.com/the-smallest-noodle-bowl-in-the-world/ http://japanite.com/the-smallest-noodle-bowl-in-the-world/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:18:16 +0000 Japanite Team http://www.japanite.com/2008/06/08/the-smallest-noodle-bowl-in-the-world/

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]]> japan_smallest_noodle_bowl Japanese scientists are probably don’t eat so much. That’s why they focus their research on creating nanofood – food that is so small it can be seen only in a microscope.

The scientist have create a bowl of noodles or ramen (the Japanese version for noodles) in the size of 1/25,000 of an inch. the bowl which was created in the university of Tokyo is an example of what can be done with nanotube-processing technology this days.

If you were hoping on taking a spoon and digging into the bowl, you’ll be a bit disappointed. The bowl is just a mockup, and the noodles are actually made of carbon, not a very tasty ingredient in your bowl. It wouldn’t get you over your hunger also. The “noodles” in bowl are only 1/1.25 million of an inch, so you’ll need about 1.25 million bowls to get one normal noodle.

What’s a bit more weird in this story is that the scientists kept this ramen bowl for themselves for almost two years. They’ve only exposed this photo when they wanted to get the bowl into a contest. If you are in the management of the university of Tokyo, get them a free meal at McDonald’s. They must be hungry after splitting this bowl for two years.

[Yahoo News]

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]]> http://japanite.com/the-smallest-noodle-bowl-in-the-world/feed/ 0 The Deadly 80 Hours Workweek In Japan http://japanite.com/the-deadly-80-hours-workweek-in-japan/ http://japanite.com/the-deadly-80-hours-workweek-in-japan/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 09:21:53 +0000 Japanite Team http://www.japanite.com/2008/05/25/the-deadly-80-hour-workweek-in-japan/

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]]> Tokyo_Shinagawa_Train_Station A new report by the government of Japan shows that the number of people who suicide because of work has doubled in the last five years.That is mostly due to the fact people in Japan work sometimes 160 hours of overtime in a month, besides their normal 40 hours workweek.

This office workers, or “Salary men”, as they known in Japan, are suffering from work-related stress and depression. Nevertheless, this high rate may not come as a surprise, as Japan is one the leading nations in the world in suicide rates.

What’s interesting to find out is that the due to the laws in Japan, the family of a person that killed himself because of work may get compensation from the government. In 2007 the government paid to the families of 81 people, and that’s beside another 392, that died from work related sickness.

The conclusion in the end is not so surprising: work less and get rest. It can get you killed in so many ways.

Source: [Yahoo News]

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