Remembered your first word when you were a baby? How about those kawaii Japanese Babies? XD

Results are based on a findings from the Baby Growth Diary, where new parents can write a journal of experiences bringing up their child ^^. The data is recorded from 398 infants, aged 10 months to 3 years old.
Their results showed that “manma” (food) was the first word to be spoken, usually around the age of 15 and a half months, with words like banana (19th), tea (25th) and milk (38th) coming in later on.
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If you haven’t heard, there have been cases in China where babies have been falling sick with kidney stones and experiencing complications after consuming the toxic milk powder. In the milk products, there contain a toxic called melamine.

Japan’s Marudai Food Co. has decided to withdraw three products containing milk produced by a Chinese manufacturer whose products were contaminated with the chemical melamine, which has been blamed for several deaths in China. All of the products were produced by a subsidiary in China’s Shangdong Province and imported into Japan. The milk …

Tokyo’s Arakawa-ku has proposed an ordinance banning people from feeding crows and stray cats, with fines for offenders, ward officials said. The local environment has been damaged with the feedings done by residents.

Under the proposed ordinance, the ward will investigate residents’ claims and issue a warning to offenders. If the offender continues, the case will be forwarded to a committee made up of lawyers and other officials, and measures such as issuing improvement orders and publicly announcing the person’s name will be taken.
A person can be fined up to 100,000 …

Who is a fan of Hello Kitty? Not me definitely. I heard of her many times in my life, and I just prefer my Fate from Nanoha series. LOL.

For homemakers who always wanted a Roomba but thought it too uncute, iRobot and Sanrio have partnered up to create a Hello Kitty-branded version of their robotic vacuum cleaner. Now you can start doing your chores! Because this is too cute to resist!!
The idea sounds fun and cool, and I will definitely start cleaning the house, if I get Fate on my …

A survey covered by Sankei reveals that while 60% of adults are against elementary school kids owning a mobile phone, 60% of elementary school kids say that they approve of them owning one. Some of the reasons why there was much disapproval was because that the kids should be able to pay for their own phone line.

But in Tokyo, you can spot many kids having mobile phones with them. Some parents want their kids to have the mobile phone so that they are able to keep tabs on their kid’s …

A female student was caught charging her phone at the train station while she was waiting for someone. She was “stealing” 0.015 watts of electricity. A passer-by saw this and called 110 to report her to the police. She was let off with a warning, knowing that it “was a bad thing to do.”

A spokesman for the police said “even if its 3 sen (0.3 yen), its still stealing.”
So is this called stealing to you? It might have been wrong to do so at a train station, but I see …

Many people in Tokyo of Japan cycles. And it’s MANY! So many that the bike parking garage is awesome.

The gigantic, robotic, underground bike parking garage utilizes RFID. People drop off their bikes at the garage, where a robotic arm reads their RFID card to identify it. It then brings the bike to its designated parking spot among thousands of other bikes stored there. At the end of the day, a swipe of the card brings the bike back to the surface in about 10 seconds.
And all this for around 18 …

I’ve always been Otaku, but it was in early high school years I became Omega otaku and refused to stop watching dubbed anime… My ears couldn’t take it any more after I learned what a nice sounding language Japanese is… (besides the fact Japanese Seiyuu are generally better than their American Counterparts.) I was in french class at the time; my school was so cheap they only had Spanish and French as second language classes. Studying french… a language that almost made me this crazy, I couldn’t help thinking how …

Remember back then when I blog about the movie Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea? Unfortunately that movie and two other Japanese Films wasn’t able to claim the Golden Lion Award at the 65th Venice International Film Festival! However, each movie did had a prize to pick up in other competitions ^^.

Quote from Mainichi New:
“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” took home the Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award and the viewers’ choice award. Mamoru Oshii’s animated film, “The Sky Crawlers,” earned the Future Film Festival Digital Award, and Takeshi …