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“Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft. ‘I still don’t feel like I’ve really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best,’ Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. ‘My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively.’” [Link]
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“Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters. Within a week he has gathered more than 1000 signatures through. ‘I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,’ he wrote. ‘However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?’” [Link]
“Tokyo’s Nikkei index briefly tumbled more than five percent, dropping below the key 10,000 points level for the first time in more than four years on fears that government efforts to end the crisis may be too little, too late. Across the region dealers’ screens were awash with red as markets suffered heavy losses in the wake of steep falls in the United States and Europe.” [Link]
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