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News To You Japanese Banks To Merge With Fast Food Chains Foreigners, Especially Foreign SARS Patients "Bummed" About Being Banned From Kumamoto Triathalon Publisher to Release Ayumi Hamasaki "Journals" Hello Kitty Replaces Ari Fleischer as White House Press Secretary Eeeek But It's Not in the Manual!: Tokyo fast food manager speaks out. Ask an Overworked Salaryman Who's Been Drinking All Night: new advice from a guy who's too tired to give it My Little Corner of Social Venom: New Column by Denen-Chofu pain dowager P>image copyright Paul Davis 2003

Features Urban Exploration and Ruin Japan: J. Riga on the differences in infiltrating abandoned buildings in Canada and Japan Extra: Interview with Taiju Fubuki, webmaster of Ruin Japan and seasoned urban explorer. Waking the Bitch: Lovey Howell butts heads with member of Tokyo's most dangerous terrorist group; the 'Obatarian' Darwin Awards: What 'intelligent design?' J. Riga finds the real proof for evolution. Schooling Sociopathy Mortimer Snavely, veteran writer for the gone but not forgotten zine The Alien on the dangers of an indulgent education system Friday at 13 Lovey Howell remembers growing up in a neighborhood complete with budding serial killer Forteana: The same spot on Highway 225 in Kagoshima is killing mothers, sons, and their little dogs too. Just a Thought: By Melissa Howard The Bouncer by Hex Johnson Saturday Class : J. Mole unleashes fire and the gnashing of teeth on slacking students I Never Thought I'd Say This...: Absurd textbook phrases from Lindsay McClean In Pictures Bob in Wonderland II by Lindsay McClean Tokyo Crush Cartoon by Paul Davis Separated at birth: Velma Dinkley and Prime Minister Koizumi