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Spicy Condiment Fights Deadly Pancreatic Cancer with Accuracy

If you love to eat sushi, and particularly the green mustard with a kick which comes with most Japanese dishes – wasabi – then you could very well be fighting one of the most deadly types of pancreatic cancers around.
Otherwise known as Japanese horseradish, wasabi has been shown to kill human pancreatic cancer cells with accuracy. Specifically, the active compounds of wasabi:

Architect Uses Cardboard to Build Usable Bridges, Pavilions, and Emergency Housing

At first glance, you would never imagine that Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban’s bridge over the Gardon River in Southern France was made of cardboard tubes. Its design is simple, though elegant, and the bridge can soundly hold twelve people at one time. This isn’t Ban’s only claim to fame, though. The architect also takes the homeless man’s cardboard box to a new level with his emergency housing design.

Bitcoin researcher who has lived in Japan says the name Satoshi Nakamoto was chosen for a reason, and implies a team of founders

With the Newsweek claim that they have found the purported founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, starting 15 minutes in to the interview with Tim Richardson on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, he states: “I also happen to know a little about Japanese culture; I’ve lived in Japan, speak Japanese.“ And regarding the name Satoshi Nakamoto: […]