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Be honest, you did at least once dreamed about stuff like that ;))
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It would be a perfect place for some shooter computer game like STALKER.
Different sewage tunnels are located in Russia and Japan and they are really creepy...
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This is a Japanese park called Hitachi Seaside Park. It is a big Park with numerous areas for different family activities - bike tracks (bikes for hire), sporting fields, Frisbee golf, rides, large ferris wheel. There is also a zoo, amusement park, swimming pool and much more.
Best seen (and busiest) in spring when daffodils are out in force along with many other flower gardens in bloom.
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These are works of Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida. He painted scenes of ordinary Japanese life, but with the protagonist (a self portrait) always trapped in a machine-like body, or treated as part of a production line.
Tetsuya Ishida died in 2005 after being hit by a train (possibly suicide).
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Some people might find Japanese street fashion a bit strange, odd and extravagant. However, this is very normal for Japan.
In case you want to see more of Japanese fashion, check out Japanese Fashion Street Harajuku.
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This is Kyoto University dormitory built almost a century ago, to be precise in 1913.Student squatters who live there pay an extremely low price: ¥2,500, about $27. Constructed at the southern edge of Kyoto University's Yoshida Campus, the dormitory was self-administered by the students who were in charge to select new applicants to live there.The building is maintained by students themselves, even though they did some little upgrades (like Ethernet cables in the corridors that lead to each room), but any of major building repairs have never been conducted and the building can't be considered safe, plus hygiene conditions are quite unsatisfactory.
Well, you’ll see it all inside the post.
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This famous Japanese festival is held every 6 years in the Lake Suwa. Onbashira means “the honored pillars” and consists of two parts: Yamadashi that takes place in April and Satobiki that is celebrated in May. Men prepare for the first part by cutting down huge trees that will be used as logs later on. During Yamadashi, participants have to drag these logs down the mountain. Young guys show how brave they are in “Ki-otoshi” ceremony by riding the tree poles on the slope. It’s rather spectacular.
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How long could you stay in this crazy house?
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The Japanese are incredible and wonderful people! Their imagination is so vivid and bright, that sometimes I get a feeling that they are able to create just anything. Inside this post, you will see unusual "body water".
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Here is another set of pictures from the series “Only in…”
And we will continue today this series with Japan, for a second time!
I love this country, it’s so different…
And there goes the first part (50 pics) for the few of you who missed it..
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Japan is such a small country it doesn’t have much space for building new houses. Thus Japanese citizens have to live in very compact, even “skinny” houses.
See more pictures after the jump.
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Waters of the east coast of Japan are occupied by swarms of giant jellyfish. The local residents say that they have never seen jellyfish of such enormous size. The jellyfish reach about two meters in diameter and weigh around 200 kilograms.
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This man is called Atsushi Nakanishi and he is 40 years old. It’s been six months since he’s been living in a Capsule Hotel where he sleeps in a tiny room rented and paid by his ex employer for $640 since the global economic crisis hit Japan. Atsushi Nakanishi has only five of his belongings to store in his locker.
There are only vending machines in the hotel’s cafeteria and it is full of smell of cigarettes.
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It’s the beginning of the end… As I often say, to each their own but I think I won’t be the only one to think that it’s sick!
A Japanese gamer known as ‘Sal9000’ officially married Nene Anegasaki, one of the different female characters of the popular Japanese Nintendo DS game ‘Love Plus’.
They held a small reception for friends, family and the media, and the event was livecast on Nico Nico Douga, a popular Japanese video sharing web site that allows commentors to post messages on screen.
Apparently, this event was not to be taken too seriously though, it was more like a multimedia project set by a gamer who was determined to officiate his devotion to the video game he loves so much… Well, anyway, it’s still sick to me…
Don't forget to watch the video, it's the best part...
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Recently, a strange robot could have been seen on the streets of a Japanese city.
Everything was fine, a crowd of curious children started to gather around the robot and then… OMG!
Well, see for yourself.
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I have never thought that something really amazing and cool can be done with such a thing as a bar code.
Japanese design company proved me wrong :)
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These 3D stereoviews were made in the late 19th - early 20th century by known Japanese photographer T. Enami.
Normally, stereoviews consist of two almost identical photos and when viewed through a stereoscope, it gives the impression of three-dimensional space.
Now let's look at these 3D steroviews, but the good thing is, we won’t need any stereoscopes as they are already animated, but the effect is still the same )) 
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Here’s a good example of culture differences. In Japan, it is something common to have such capsule hotels. It is made for businessmen in the first place, who don’t have time to go home and start working very early. Or for people who didn’t catch the last train. Their well developed train system shuts down around midnight.
So, here you go, little boxes where you can only be in a lying position. There’s even a small TV set at your feet.
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Tsutomu Tosuka is 74. His body constitution could make jealous men half his age.
He was crowned this weekend winner in the senior category of the Japan Masters Bodybuilding Championships 2009. He began practising bodybuilding at 40 and never stopped since. It’s really amazing to see the body you can have at such an elderly age.
Conclusion, you’re never too old and it’s never too late to have a great body!
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Harajuku is a famous fashion street of Tokyo with a unique street fashion. Young people dressed in a variety of styles including gothic lolita, visual kei, and decora, as well as cosplayers spend the day in Harajuku socializing. The fashion styles of these youths rarely conform to one particular style and are usually a mesh of many.
Many prominent designers and fashion ideas have sprung from Harajuku and incorporated themselves into other fashions throughout the world. Incredible pictures. Have to see them!
[ajpscs]
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From some of the rooms in the pictures it is clear that teenagers live in there, and some of the rooms are furnished with the latest technology and look more like an office of some serious company.
As they say, to each his own...
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Let's see how the architecture of Japan changed from the end of 19th, the beginning of 20th century till the present day.
The upper photo is how the place on the picture looked almost 100 years ago, at the bottom, how this same place looks today.
I wonder, how much will it change over the next one hundred years?
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The Japanese did the biggest fireworks in the world. It requires a huge charge to launch the fireworks - 120 cm diameter and 450kg weight.
It can reach 850 meters high and when exploding it makes an 800-meter diameter.
Inside the post, you will see a manufacture process of the mortar and a video of fireworks launch. 
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The Sapporo Dome is a stadium located in Sapporo, Japan, but it is not an ordinary stadium.
It is used for baseball and football and has 41,580 seats. The stadium cost $400 million and each "change" of surface costs $ 15,000.
To see the mechanism of transformation, watch the video.
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Yeah, in Japan during the rush hour, it is better not to use any public transport at all (especially the subway). It's really tight.
Especially, watch the first video 
