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The woman on the right is the designer of Hello Kitty!

Promotion: Tohoku Shinkansen bullet trains are selling day passes for just 10000 Yen (US$120) for adults and 5000Yen for children

They're all-you-can-ride on the Tohoku Line for unreserved seats and up to two times for reserved seats

Example: Return ticket for Tokyo to Sendai usually costs 21180Yen and Tokyo to Shin-Aomori usually costs 30760Yen, now you can buy them for just 10000Yen

Tickets are good for June 11-20 and July 9-18

Riding on the super fast Yamabiko bullet train's unreserved seats to Sendai is about half the price of usual cost. Remember: offer is good till June 13

Handy toilets during disaster

made of cardboard and plastic

Can hold up to 300kg (660lb)

The trunk of this pine tree in Japan

looks like the Japanese hiragana character "no"

As of May 10, 3/11 quake and tsunami killed 14,949 people

Miyagi prefecture: 8941 deaths, Iwate: 4400, Fukushima: 1544

And 9880 people still unaccounted for, 117,085 people are living in evacuation centers

Air-con shirt!

Battery in the front pocket

vents at the back

Might as well get the air-con sun visor too

Stay cool this summer!

This map of Japan shows the famous thing represented in different regions

Fierce birds (forget what kind) like this one have been snatching food from people eating by the river in Kyoto

They look like this

This professor from Ehime University went to check on the workers at Fukushima nuclear plant and found disturbing things such as that they only have a bath every 4 days,

they keep on working even when the geiger counter alarm goes off, they don't know how much radiation they're exposed to, some get too scared to stay, they can't drink water because of the mask, they worry about getting very hot under the protective suit in summer

They just sleep on the floor in very cramped condition

most of them sleep in their protective suits