Japon: un soutien-gorge porte-baguettes pour réduire les déchets
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Friday, 09 November 07 - 01:34 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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TOKYO - Les femmes japonaises soucieuses de protéger l'environnement pourront bientôt transporter leurs propres baguettes accrochées à leur soutien-gorge et réduire ainsi la consommation de baguettes jetables.
Le fabricant de sous-vêtements pour femmes Triumph a dévoilé mercredi à Tokyo un modèle de soutien-gorge dont les bonnets représentent un bol de riz et un bol de soupe miso, avec de part et d'autre une petite pochette contenant des baguettes compactes.
Surnommé "My Hashi" (Mes baguettes), le sous-vêtement a été conçu pour encourager les Japonais à renoncer à utiliser les baguettes jetables en bois fournies dans les restaurants et les magasins.
La société a souligné que le soutien-gorge porte-baguettes n'avait pas qu'un rôle écologique: les baguettes placées de part et d'autre des bonnets permettent de resserrer les seins en "accentuant ainsi le décolleté".
Pour le moment, toutefois, Triumph n'a pas prévu de mettre le prototype sur le marché.
Sloshed in beer, Japanese style
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Monday, 15 October 07 - 09:26 PM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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HAKONE, Japan - Having a cold beer after a hot bath is a nightly ritual for many Japanese, and now the country has found a way to further indulge -- soaking in the cold suds themselves.
In this mountainous hot spring resort just a day trip from Tokyo, a spa park is offering a bathtub, shaped like a beer mug, filled with heated amber water and white foam with the aroma of hops and barley.
The Hakone Kowakien Yunessun is also pouring and spraying real beer into the bath and onto the customers three times a day until December 31.
The beer bath installation, which began late last month, pays homage to the "beer fights" of professional baseball season winners, much like the champaigne fights of their US Major League counterparts.
"We wanted ordinary people to enjoy the fun," the spa said in a statement.
The facility says the beer bath moisturises and cleanses the skin.
The theme park-style facility, which features various tubs of hot spring water, annually celebrates the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau with a real sommelier pouring the fresh wine into its open-air "wine spa."
The Yunessun also offers baths of coffee, tea and Japanese sake.
Le stress nuit au goût du thon
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Wednesday, 11 July 07 - 09:12 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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TOKYO - Des chercheurs japonais cherchent des moyens de diminuer le stress des thons lors de leur prise, ce qui rendrait leur chair plus goûteuse. Un thon se défend vigoureusement lorsqu'il est pêché, ce qui, de l'avis des scientifiques, augmente sa température, rend sa chair moins parfumée et en diminue le prix de vente. Les gens veulent manger du thon aussi frais que possible, mais s'il lutte, sa fraîcheur diminue", a expliqué Kunihiko Konno, professeur à l'université de Hokkaido, qui dirige ce projet. Les thons se débattent particulièrement lorsqu'ils sont pris en nombre dans un filet ou élevés dans des fermes aquatiques. Bien que les scientifiques ne soient pas parvenus à des conclusions définitives, Konno préconise un moyen simple de réduire ce stress. "Il faut les tuer très rapidement", suggère-t-il.
Japan celebrates folklore's disaster warning systems
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Wednesday, 20 June 07 - 10:24 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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TOKYO - Japan has one of the world's most sophisticated systems to predict disasters, but there is always room for help from the animal kingdom.In a bid to build public awareness, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency has collected hundreds of folk beliefs associated with calamities in the disaster-prone nation.
They range from "a swarm of ants climbing trees spells major flooding" to "if bees make their nests low, violent winds will hit."Other sayings include "when pheasants cry, a quake will come" to the unconvincing "women's dirty underwear on the roof saves the house from thunderbolts."
The folk beliefs are part of a database that pulls together nearly 2,000 pieces of disaster advice handed down by word of mouth or in writing for centuries.
It also includes traditional sayings such as, "In a tsunami, let go of your greed and run!". The prime reason for the database is to encourage people to take precautions, an agency official said."The beliefs are not necessarily true scientifically, but there may be something to count on in a saying," he said.
Japan, which experiences 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes, prides itself on its disaster planning.In March, Japan's earthquake early-warning system swung into action for the first time as a 6.9-magnitude quake struck. The system detects the first underground tremors that come before the main quake and estimates their intensity before big seismic waves reach the surface.
Strip-tease anti-Burberry à Tokyo
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Friday, 15 June 07 - 09:41 PM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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TOKYO (AFP) - Trois jeunes militantes en faveur des droits des animaux ont effectué un strip-tease vendredi en plein Ginza, le quartier commerçant ultra-huppé de Tokyo, pour protester contre l'utilisation de fourrures de lapin par la firme d'habillement Burberry.
Japanese taste nostalgia in adult candy shops
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Saturday, 26 May 07 - 07:13 PM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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It's every child's dream: you find yourself in an abandoned sweet shop and can finally wolf down as many lollipops and marshmallows as you please. Tokyo's all-you-can-eat "dagashi" or "cheap candy" bars make that childhood fantasy come true, giving stressed-out Japanese a chance to relive the good old days when their biggest problem was deciding between fizzy sticks and sour plums. The dagashi bar in Tokyo's trendy Ebisu neighborhood is styled like an old corner shop with dark wooden walls lined with glass jars full of Japanese childhood favorites like chewy soybean candy and pickled squid on a stick. Faded posters, a black-and-white TV and a menu that also offers pasta with ketchup evoke that special 1960s "natsukashii" or nostalgic feeling. "This is good old Japan, something I haven't even seen myself because we've passed that era," said 24-year-old Natsuko Kohashi, a consultant, as she sat with a glass of beer and a basket of sugary goodies. "People dream about this peaceful time, 20 years after the war, when things were kind of slow but people had hope," she said. "The economy started to recover and everyone got richer, but it wasn't as aggressive as the bubble economy." Tokyo is dotted with places catering to downtrodden office workers who yearn for the years before the financial bubble of the 1980s, when stock markets and property prices soared and then collapsed, leaving Japan in a slump for most of the next decade. There are cafes where waitresses dressed as maids play childish games with customers, and theme parks that recreate school cafeterias and 1960s living rooms At another table at Ebisu's dagashi bar, a lively group of men and women in their 20s, some wearing suits, picked at a selection of sweets. "I used to eat this as a child," one of the men said. "Now there's all this stress. When we were children, there was no stress, so we're comforting each other."
Japan Toilet Makers on Hot Seat
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Friday, 20 April 07 - 07:44 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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Smoking toilets and burning bidets have put two Japanese porcelain giants on the proverbial hot seat. Toto, known for its high-tech washlets with warm jet streams, blow-dryers, air purifiers and all the bells and whistles, said 26 malfunctioning toilets emitted smoke while three more caught fire, adding no one was injured.
Serial lingerie thief arrested in Japan
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Friday, 16 March 07 - 09:56 PM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women's underwear. Police believe that Shigeo Kodama, 54, amassed the 3,977 panties, 355 bras and 10 pairs of stockings over a six-year period. He was arrested in February after he stole underwear from two houses, and police later raided his home. "Since he was a construction worker, as long as he had a place to put his feet he was able to climb, so he had no trouble getting up to the second floor of apartment buildings," a police spokesman in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima said.
着物 (Kimono)
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Wednesday, 14 March 07 - 12:54 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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着物 (Kimonos) are the traditional garments of Japan. Originally kimono was used for all types of clothing, but it came to refer specifically to the full-length garment that is still worn by women, men, and children. Kimono are T-shaped, straight-lined robes that fall to the ankle, with collars and full-length sleeves. The sleeves are commonly very wide at the wrist, perhaps a half meter. Traditionally, on special occasions unmarried women wear kimono with extremely long sleeves that extend almost to the floor. The robe is wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right, and secured by a wide belt tied in the back, called an obi. Kimono are generally worn with traditional footwear (especially geta, thonged wood-platform footwear; and zori, a type of thong-like footwear) and split-toe socks called tabi. Beneath the outer kimono, another shorter kimono is worn as underwear, called a nagajuban.
NaiNai's Japanese Girl Tour for Foreigners [3/3]
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Wednesday, 07 March 07 - 04:53 AM (GMT +09:00) By Daniel Kun in Wonderful 日本国 |
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