Golden arches lose their glitter as employees expose McDonald's greasing the labor laws - Mainichi Daily News

Golden arches lose their glitter as employees expose McDonald's greasing the labor laws - Mainichi Daily News: "McDonald's Japan is treating its workers like they're doing, well, McJobs, screams Friday (12/21).

The maker of the Mega Mac found itself in mega trouble with a scandal of Big Mac proportions late last month after it revealed that four restaurants in Tokyo had falsified the use-by dates on salads and used out-of-date ingredients in milkshakes.

McDonald's Japan's big cheese, chief executive Eiko Harada, was shocked, calling the incident 'unprecedented in the 36 years McDonald's has been in Japan.'

But the incident may only be a Junior Burger compared to the Quarter Pounder of a problem that Friday claims the fast food giant is causing by ignoring the Labor Standards Law, meaning those in McJobs are not a happy set."

Murdered Briton's killer Tatsuya Ichihashi still confounding cops nine months later - Mainichi Daily News

Murdered Briton's killer Tatsuya Ichihashi still confounding cops nine months later - Mainichi Daily News: "Fugitive Tatsuya Ichihashi, the prime suspect in the savage murder of a young British teacher in March this year, may have gone under covers in the sleazy netherworld of Tokyo's red light districts, according to Sunday Mainichi (12/30).

Ichihashi, 28, has been on the run since giving pursuing police the slip shortly after Lindsay Ann Hawker's naked body was found covered in sand in the bath of his apartment in Chiba Prefecture's Gyotoku district.

Ichihashi, son of wealthy medical practitioner parents, vanished with barely a trace, and remains unaccounted for in the nine months that have passed since Hawker's tragic death half a world away from home.

Even now, Ichihashi's apartment bears an address label, leaving residents of the condominium feeling nervous."

Preteen-panty pervert arrested for 1994 murder - Mainichi Daily News

Preteen-panty pervert arrested for 1994 murder - Mainichi Daily News: "Preteen-panty pervert arrested for 1994 murder

IBARAKI, Osaka -- A man under indictment for throwing away hundreds of pairs of little girl's underpants near homes around Ibaraki has been hit with a fresh arrest warrant over the 1994 murder of a woman at an Osaka hotel, police said.

Osaka Prefectural Police served the arrest warrant accusing 48-year-old Kazuo Oshitani of murder and robbery after his DNA matched samples taken from a hotel room in Osaka where a woman was robbed and killed in January 1994.

The breakthrough comes about a year before the statute of limitations for the case runs out in January 2009.

Earlier this month, Oshitani was arrested and indicted for breaking the Waste Disposal and Public Cleaning Law for dumping girls' underpants in homes in the western part of Ibaraki from September to October this year."

Popular personality presents prizes for '07's most improper puns - Mainichi Daily News

Popular personality presents prizes for '07's most improper puns - Mainichi Daily News: "Popular personality presents prizes for '07's most improper puns
Shukan Post (4-11 Jan, 2008)
Shukan Post (4-11 Jan, 2008)

As the year winds down, the vernacular media is full of articles that purport to bestow a 'Taisho' or 'Grand Prix' on various words, people and endeavors that made the news in 2007.

Appearing in the special double New Year's edition of Shukan Post (1/4-11), entertainer-cum-film director 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano gives an 'age 18 and over' interview that provides an unexpurgated peek of the year's most creative titles for adult videos and names of commercial sex shops, ostensibly to acknowledge their contribution to lowering the language.

Take the bestselling exercise video 'Billy's Boot Camp,' which sold over 1.5 million DVDs last summer. In short order, it promptly provided grist for the mill for a pair of porn parodies, including 'Zenra (buck naked) Boot Camp' and 'The Madonna Boot Camp,' the latter which was about a 'sex exercise regimen' for mature ladies 'to beautify themselves in seven days, through excretion of perspiration and vaginal fluids.'"

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