The name for the tower will be “Tokyo Sky Tree”, or Tōkyō Sukai Tsurii ,and it will be finished in 2011. 610 meters of concrete and steel, in the heart of Tokyo. If you also want a tower like this in your back yard, you should prepare some money. The cost of the tower is estimated in 60 billion yen or 555 million dollars (if you still believe in the dollar).

For those of you that are concerned what will happen to the tower during earthquakes, you should know that in the bottom of the tower you will find a five tier concrete “pagodas” that are supposes to withstand very strong earthquakes.

The tower will have some restaurants in the top, and a TV station – Nothing crazy or weird. What brings us to believe that until the tower will be completed there will be more weird news about robots that will live in the upper floor. We expect no less from the Japanese.

In the mean time you can enjoy more images (click to enlarge):

And a view from the top of the Tokyo Sky Tree

Here is a video of the name unveiling ceremony:

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]

(Image courtesy of Xenia)

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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