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TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) PlayStation 3 by more than 3-to-1 in Japan in July, a game magazine publisher said.
Nintendo sold 171,851 units of the Wii in the four weeks ending July 27, compared with 54,823 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Friday.
In the handheld game market, Sony sold 256,765 units of its PlayStation Portable in the month, while sales of Nintendo’s DS came to 217,639 units, the publisher said.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin
Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan killing over 80,000 and injuring tens of thousands more.
President Harry Truman made the decision to end the war because Japan had not unconditionally surrendered.
Truman felt that a prolonged war with Japan and our allies having to fight them on the mainland would cause mass casualties, so at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time the bomb was dropped.
The name of the atom bomb was called “Little Boy,” and a subsequent bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki Japan a short while later.
Over 60,000 more Japanese would die from radiation fallout within a year’s time from the first blast.
Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who worked on the bomb quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita.
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”
“Japan, China pledge to bolster ties with Hu’s visit
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TOKYO (AFP) — Japan and China pledged Friday to build on a recent thaw in icy relations when President Hu Jintao visits in May, setting aside differences over Tibet, disputed gas fields and poisoned dumplings.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and other top officials as part of a trip aimed at clearing the way for Hu’s trip, which will be the first visit here by a Chinese head of state in a decade.
‘China would like to build a framework with Japan through the visit (by Hu) so that the two countries will prosper in the long term,’ Yang told reporters.
‘I showed my appreciation to Prime Minister Fukuda as he said he supported a successful Olympics in China,’ he said.
The ministers appeared to have largely steered clear of the sensitive issue of Tibet on the second day of Yang’s visit, though the Japanese government’s number two, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, said he had raised it briefly.
‘I only said there was a problem’ in Tibet, Machimura said. ‘I hear the foreign ministers discussed the matter for quite a long time last night.’
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura called for more transparency and dialogue over Tibet when he met his Chinese co”
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var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Japan_orders_Apple_to_investigate_exploding_iPod_nanos’; Uh oh. Japan’s trade and economy ministry is now officially investigating the explosive nature of the iPod nano. The culprit is model MA099J/A — AKA, the old black and white plastic model already reported to spew “chest high flames,” cause bedroom fires, and explode across the floor. The Japan incident occurred in January when an iPod nano reportedly “shot out sparks while recharging.” At this point, all odds are with the nano’s lithium ion battery. Apple Japan has been ordered to investigate the issue and report back to the ministry with the cause. Kind of like asking the fox what it was doing in the hen house, eh?
Update: Apparently, the Japanese ministry “strongly warned” Apple for failing to report the incident (as required by law) when it occurred. Apple’s filing with the ministry came on March 7th.
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