Clean Water - Charity:Water, World Hunger - World Food Programme, Immunization - GAVI-Alliance, Alleviating Poverty - KIVA

If we sell 100 copies we will support $500, if we sell 200 we will support $1000...You get the idea and now it's up to you how much we support.

Things Japanese: A collection of short stories (Volume 1)(Paperback)

A collection of short stories that celebrates contemporary writing on things Japanese. These stories will warm your heart, leave you feeling fuzzy and warm, and crave things Japanese. The stories are rooted in direct experience of things Japanese that explore relationships, perceptions, attitudes, culture, identity, and desire. Theses stories confirm that Japan continues to fascinate and touch people on many levels.

20 Books sold so far!* 80 to go until we reach our first goal of 100. Keep it up!

*updated daily

Stefan Chiarantano (Author, Creator, Editor, Introduction, Contributor), T. Graham Westerlund (Creator), Margaret Grant (Contributor), Setsu Nagatoshi (Contributor), Mindy Mejia (Contributor), Colin O'Sullivan (Contributor), Sonia Saikaley (Contributor), Emily Juniper Ward (Contributor), Jodie Schewitz (Designer)

To close, click the Close button or hit the ESC key.

Home » Food, Drinks, & Snacks, News, Only in Japan, Pop Culture, Products

Yakuza Gots My Baby

Submitted By: AstroGirl 4 September 2009 556 views 2 Comments

Wakayama Higashi Police Department arrested Hiroshi Inaba for stealing a bunch of Peko chan dolls from Fujiya Arimoto in Wakayama on September 1st. The dolls are 43.3 inches tall and weigh in at 24.2 lbs apiece.

Inaba came into the shop with another man, and took the dolls and drove away. But a clerk remembered his car’s license number, so Inaba was easily arrested.

The police department found eight Peko chan dolls that Inaba seems to have stole and was selling for 200,000 Yen each in an antique shop in Osaka.

Peko chan has been the symbolic character of Fujiya Sweets Company for more than 50 years and has always seemed familiar to Japanese people. There are about 650 Peko chan dolls in Fujiya shops all over the country. Five of them in Wakayama, three of them in Osaka, and two of them in Hyogo were stolen from January to February this year alone. (It is odd that Peko chan dolls are such valuable things. Who is going to buy them…Who do you think?)

If you are interested in Peko chan, there is an exhibition in Fujiya Ginza building from August 24th to September 6th. You will know more than just the history about Peko chan. Admission is free.

http://www.fujiya-peko.co.jp/museum/index.html

Others Are Reading

Tags: Drinks, Food, Drinks, & Snacks, Fujiya Arimoto, Fujiya Sweets Company, Hiroshi Inaba, Peko chan

2 Comments »

JapanSoc said:

Yakuza Gots My Baby…

Wakayama Higashi Police Department arrested Hiroshi Inaba for stealing a bunch of Peko chan dolls from Fujiya Arimoto in Wakayama on September 1st. The dolls are 43.3 inches tall and weigh in at 24.2 lbs apiece….

# 4 September 2009 at 11:38 am