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kendoman1
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cornishmuppet
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| The best beer trophy ever, or an April Fools joke? |
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kdynamic
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| Theft of the icon has spurred an international outcry. Shibuya Ward's Sister City, the Sixth Arrondissement of Paris, France, expressed its "profound sympathy" and promptly offered to cast a new replacement for "le toutou fidele," provided Shibuya agrees to accept a poodle. |
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jademonkey
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| But where will all the kogyaru meet now? It'll be chaos, I tell you! |
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Genkikiwi
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: is Hachiko gone or not ? |
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hi .. whats the latest...was it a prank or not ? anyone know ...
any articles found would be great... wasn`t able to find any new ones |
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bornslippy1981
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: |
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I was down there today.
Hachiko is safe and sound.
I was talking with somebody who said he saw it last Thursday, and now the link to the news story isn't working, so I'm not sure if it was all a hoax. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| It was. The Japan Times runs an April Fools article every year- this one was a bit more convincing than past articles. |
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bornslippy1981
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Wow, they really got me on that one.
I wonder why the link doesn't work anymore? Maybe it got pulled for assuming it was the Chinese stealing it for Australia's swimming medals next summer. |
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furiousmilksheikali
Joined: 31 Jul 2006
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Location: In a coffee shop, splitting a 30,000 yen tab with Sekiguchi.
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| bornslippy1981 wrote: |
Wow, they really got me on that one.
I wonder why the link doesn't work anymore? Maybe it got pulled for assuming it was the Chinese stealing it for Australia's swimming medals next summer. |
Not only was the Japan Times article a hoax but I think there have been a lot of hoaxes about the Chinese stealing metal in Japan recently that are passing for real news.
People stealing drain covers to ship back to China? I don't really believe it myself. |
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wintersweet
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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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| I saw this in my news feed when it popped up, and had to go add it to Wikipedia's annual April Fool's Day page. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2007 ) The "poodle" bit was a dead giveaway! |
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ShapeSphere
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| People stealing drain covers to ship back to China? I don't really believe it myself. |
I do believe it. When I lived in China many unlit streets were full of holes where the drain covers had been. China's voracious quest for resources is well-documented in the international media. Check out the newspapers if you don't believe me. Due to the very nature of its massive population it is far more cutthroat than can be expected in the West. Any opportunity to make money is grasped with zeal and cool disregard for the law. The exporting of "free" metal from here to China would be a lucrative trade.
The Japanese like to blame the Chinese and Koreans for breaking laws. They are only doing what many other nations around the world do - that most crimes are committed by foreigners.
In the U.K. the media blames immigrants (East Europeans usually), in Germany I noticed they blamed Turks and East Europeans (again), in China they singled out Africans. |
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