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Solar powered: Japanese golf courses find new life

Japan hasn’t really got much use out of it’s golf courses in recent years. Nor has its society been too crazy about nuclear energy–especially after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A “green” source of energy is looking like the way to go. There was a golf boom in the 1980s, but now stretches of golf courses …

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Mitsubishi offers apology for WWII US POWs forced labor

Japanese auto corporation Mitsubishi has made a formal apology regarding their use in World War II of US POWs as forced labor. Senior executive Hikaru Kimura expressed regret at a ceremony in Los Angeles that prisoners had been put to work in mines operated by the company. One of the few surviving POWs, James Murphy, 94, was …

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Japan loves these “Sea Bunnies”

Japanese social media (especially twitter) has gone crazy over what probably wins (by a landslide) the award for cutest sea slug Called Jorunna parva, the sea slug’s “bunny ears” are actually rhinopores (chemosensory scent/taste organs). These “sea bunnies” can be found in the Indian Ocean from the Philippines to Japan. Image Credits & to see more

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