Sumo wrestlers are estimated to weigh an average of 120kg – far more than the 70kg average Japanese person. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
Sumo wrestlers are estimated to weigh an average of 120kg – far more than the 70kg average Japanese person. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
While many English-speakers in Japan will have encountered hilarious – and often nonsensical – slogans on bags and T-shirts, the group is most concerned about the negative impact that official miscommunications could have on tourism and Japan’s growing foreign community in the case of an earthquake or a medical emergency. Since launching their group several months ago, the seven women, mostly grad
“They don’t see humans, except keepers, and they have started forgetting about humans,” it said on its Twitter account this week. “Garden eels in particular disappear into the sand and hide every time the keepers pass by,” it said, adding that their oversensitive nature was making it difficult to monitor their health. “Here is an urgent request,” the aquarium wrote. “Could you show your face to ou
On 30 April 2019, Emperor Akihito of Japan is expected to abdicate the chrysanthemum throne. The decision was announced in December 2017 so as to ensure an orderly transition to Akihito’s son, Naruhito, but the coronation could cause concerns in an unlikely place: the technology sector. The Japanese calendar counts up from the coronation of a new emperor, using not the name of the emperor, but the
One day, the wall shelves in my office collapsed. This left books scattered all over the floor and a jagged, half-dislocated metal frame that once held the shelves in place dangling over my desk. I’m a professor of anthropology at a university. A carpenter appeared an hour later to inspect the damage, and announced gravely that, as there were books all over the floor, safety rules prevented him fr
German schools are increasingly asking unruly and hyperactive children to wear heavy sand-filled vests in an effort to calm them and keep them on their seats, despite the misgivings of some parents and psychiatrists. The controversial sand vests weigh between 1.2 and six kilograms (2.7 – 13Ib) and are being used by 200 schools across Germany. Advocates of the vests, which cost between €140 and €17
Papa Massata Diack, centre, is alleged to have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on jewellery in the days following the 2016 and 2020 votes. Photograph: Vincent Tremeau/AP Papa Massata Diack, centre, is alleged to have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on jewellery in the days following the 2016 and 2020 votes. Photograph: Vincent Tremeau/AP
Undercutting the ageless tradition of sugaring ethical lessons with endearing animals, new research suggests human protagonists are needed to change behaviour Forget the morals that millennia of children have learned from the Hare and the Tortoise and the Fox and the Crow: Aesop would have had a greater effect with his fables if he’d put the stories into the mouths of human characters, at least ac
The accident occurred on highway 101 just south of Depoe Bay in Oregon early on Thursday afternoon. No one was injured, according to police, but multiple cars were affected and one lane of the highway was closed while the cleanup took place. According to the Oregonian and the fire department, the animals were hagfish – creatures with skulls but no jaw or spine, which produce slime through glands o
Israel, Jordan and Palestine have signed an agreement on an ambitious and contested project to replenish the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea by transferring in water from the Red Sea along a 110-mile pipeline. Israel's energy and infrastructure minister, Silvan Shalom, said it was "a historic agreement that realises a dream of many years... [and] is of the highest diplomatic, economic, environmental an
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