Culture of Japan

Jurie Roux, the CEO of SARU, explained that the new model contained three key elements: Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer will be able to sign as many as 30 players on Springbok retainer contracts. In previous years only 10 to 20 Springboks had been contracted.  

THE South African Rugby Union (SARU) has reached agreement on a ground-breaking new remuneration arrangement for 2012, which will see SARU’s financial commitment to Springbok player costs increase to R57,6m. The deal was signed with the South African Rugby Players’ Association (SARPA) and Sarpacom Pty Ltd (the players’ rights management company) after several weeks of negotiation and will be applied retrospectively from January 1, 2012. Jurie...  

APMount Fuji as seen from an airplane window GOTENBA, Japan -- Parts of Japan's Mount Fuji could collapse if a newly-discovered fault line under the mountain shifts, a government report warned Friday. A three-year study by seismologists discovered a previously-unknown active fault under the mountain, a Japanese national symbol...  

#photography Fuji's beautiful new mirrorless camera, the X-Pro1, suffers from a lack of available lenses. But come June, you'll be able to easily mount a host of equally desired Leica M-Mount lenses to it for your photo-snapping pleasure. More »  

The Camry generates operating profit margins of about 2 percent to 3 percent for Fuji Heavy, while the Subaru Legacy and Outback yield margins exceeding 10 percent, according to estimates by Koichi Sugimoto, a Tokyo-based analyst at BNP Paribas SA.  

Sneeze the moment with a cute & clever Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case! The 100% cotton case designed by Tomohiro Ikegaya for Goodbymarket relies on users to provide the case's one moving part: the tissue paper poking out from Mt. Fuji's snow-capped summit.  

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said on Thursday.A survey commissioned by the ministry found a 30-km fault beneath Japan's highest mountain, believed by many to be sacred, and research results indicate it was likely to be active, a ministry official said.If the...  

The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sport was reassured on Tuesday that the Southern Kings would participate in the 2013 Super Rugby competition. Sport24 A delegation of the leadership of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) made a scheduled appearance before the committee to discuss a number of issues, including the Southern Kings. “The Kings will play in the competition in 2013, but not at the expense of one of the other franchises...  

After announcing it was working on an adapter at CES in January, Fuji has officially announced the Leica M-mount device. The adaptor enables the Fujifilm X Pro1, the company's first compact system camera to be used with Leica M mount lenses, or those built to M mount specification. Fuji says that the adapter has been designed to ensure the best possible results can be achieved from the lenses and the body, and has been crafted with precision...  

Japan will see its first major solar eclipse in 25 years on May 20. Panasonic — one of Japan’s largest electronics producers — wanted to celebrate the celebrate this rare natural phenomenon, by live streaming the event...  

Looking at this dismantled Fuji X100, it quickly becomes apparent that staring at exploded gadgets will never get old. Left for dead after suffering fatal water damage, the X100 donated it’s body to the internet, providing eye candy for us all to ogle at. Photographer James Maher took the camera apart piece by piece — which involved removing 130 screws and 152 parts — and photogr ...  

Let me give you all a piece of wisdom that I recently learned the hard way. If you go on a fishing trip called 'Hit em' Hard' and the captain tells you that you should take your bag off and put it in the 'dry container', what he really means by 'dry container' is a place that will fill up with seawater after he accidently clogs the drainage pipe, ... (Read on Source)  

Parts of Japan’s Mount Fuji, a national symbol and key tourist attraction, could collapse if a newly-discovered faultline under the mountain shifts, a government-commissioned report has warned. A three-year study by seismologists discovered a ...  

From the Y1,000 bill to the opening title screen for movie studio Shochiku, Mount Fuji is a peak with unparalleled significance to the people of Japan. The source of inspiration for countless works of art and a centerpiece in the nation’s ...  

TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan's AOC Holdings said its Fuji Oil unit plans to refine 8 percent more crude oil in the year to end-March 2013 than a year earlier, to meet firm demand for low-sulphur fuel oil for power generation after the March 2011 earthquake.