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11.03.2009 7:00 am

Monkey in a suit gets his own talk show

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is what I suspect the fourth hour of the “Today” show is like.

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10.16.2009 1:44 pm

Eat your noodles, warns army of baby carrots

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09.25.2009 7:00 am

Red Riding Hood dances with giant woodland creatures

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Doesn’t the headline really say it all?

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06.09.2009 8:00 am

Robot teacher debuts in Japan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

More robot news from Japan: Students in one Tokyo school are being taught by a robot named — no, not Ms. Roboto — Saya.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

She — or i t — is multilingual, can organize set tasks for pupils, call the roll and get angry when the kids misbehave. In fact, she can express six basic human emotions: surprise, fear, disgust, anger, sadness and happiness.

The humanoid is the result of 15 years of research by science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo. Kobayashi originally developed Saya to replace office workers�

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06.08.2009 7:00 am

Zombie family can’t even have a civilized meal

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

(The Interwebs say this clip is from a short-lived Japanese sketch-comedy show called “Vermilion Pleasure Night.”)

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04.10.2009 8:00 am

Performance art: crawling Japanese businessman robot

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Check this out: NewYork-based performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu set this battery-powered, crawling robot loose on the streets of Sydney, Australia, to symbolize the crash of Asia’s economy.

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01.23.2009 12:13 pm

Monkey can haz stilts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Man, they have the best stuff on Japanese TV.

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01.12.2009 1:38 pm

Weird English lessons in Japan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Have a bad case of diarrhea? If not, you will after you watch this next video — and you’ll be able to sing about it.

PopTub Daily’s take:

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12.05.2008 12:06 pm

Santa swims with the fishes in Japan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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11.24.2008 5:19 pm

Belly up to the bar, kids

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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