In Japan, Teenage Girls Folding Paper Cranes Has Taken on a Whole New Meaning
In the children's book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a 12-year-old girl who had been living close to ground zero when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 is diagnosed with leukemia and given a short time to live. So she begins folding paper cranes; in Japan, it's said that if you fold 1,000 of them, you will be granted a wish. Sadako folds the cranes in the hope that she will
This May Be the Most Dangerous — and Most Costly — Photo in Japan
The above picture may be worth more than $1 billion in Japan. At the very least, it's worth a severe beating by gangsters armed with baseball bats. In September, the right-wing scandal sheet Keiten Shimbun obtained the photo of Hidetoshi Tanaka (left), the chief director of Japan University and the vice chairman of Japan's Olympic Committee. Sitting next to Tanaka is Shinobu Tsukasa, the head of J
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