Archive for the 'Japan News today' Category

Takuo Toda world record holder for flying paper planes

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

How long can your paper plane fly for?  In competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class and over 30 is the ultimate.  Japanese paper plane master Takuo Toda 戸田 拓夫 holds the world record of 27.9 seconds he set in Fukuyama city, Hiroshima in April last year.

Toda, an [...]

Japan Airlines JAL Doraemon plane to promote new Doraemon 2010 movie

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

From Tokyo MX news comes a feature about the new Japan Airlines 日本航空 JAL  Doraemon ドラえもん plane.  Despite being in all sorts of financial difficulties, JAL has a tied up with anime character Doraemon in a new marketing campaign whereby a Boeing 777-300 will be decorated with large 3.5X15m colorful image of Doraemon characters to [...]

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