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Tokyo’s Secret Underground Warehouse

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Great find on Pink Tentacle. This is a secret warehouse stocked with emergency supplies found some 65 feet underground. The space holds emergency supplies to be distributed to the public in the event of a major earthquake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0MiwzURMQ

According to the program the warehouse includes 5,000 blankets, 8,000 rugs, 4,000 candles, 300 cooking pots, 200 t-shirts, and emergency […]

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Tags: Culture

Sun Kil Moon

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

My earliest conscious memory of Korea was in 1982, when the Korean boxer Kim Duk-Koo fell into a coma after being knocked out my Ray Mancini. Kim died five days later. I was a kid at the time and remember being startled by the idea of someone dying while playing some kind of sport.
I was […]

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Tags: Music

Korean League Rankings

April 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Fans of the KBO will remember the incredible number of rainouts that kept the 2007 season going through the end of October and into early November. This week saw the cancellation of just two games (three on the year), but one of those games was between Samsung and Lotte, arguably the two hottest teams in […]

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Tags: Baseball - Korea

NPB Power Rankings

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll be putting together some Korean Power Rankings later today, but you can satiate your PR urges right now with Simon’s latest edition covering the NPB. A few changes and a new team at the top.
For no particular reason, other than a minor desire to see the debut of Ramon Ortiz, let’s start this block […]

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Tags: Baseball - Japan