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Looks like the Kim regime in North Korea has ended. Rumors of a military coup.

You never know. Japan today could have a working nuclear weapon in less than 12 months by some estimates.

Still one of the greatest Olympics of all time. 50 years ago in Tokyo Japan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2731768/Robots-need-learn-value-human-life-dont-kill-Future-droids-murder-kindness-engineer-claims.html

Atlas: See! What did I tell you! They don't trust us!

Astro: You're fear mongering again.

Little know this year was the passing of the last Rankin brother, Arthur, who died last February. Much of the success of anime in America is owed to Arthur and Julius Rankin's animated specials in the 1960's and 1970's, almost all of them made with the help of Japanese animators. http://www.mangauk....

Now this picture would be a close representation of what a B-29 bomber crew saw in April 1945 as they flew over their target, The massive Imperial Arsenal grounds surrounding Osaka Castle. [img] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/dannavy85/b-29strikeonosaka_zpse679e6ff.jpg[/img] [/IMG] [img...

[img] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/dannavy85/museumoverhead_zpsb124a674.jpg[/img] [/IMG] Here's a nice overhead picture of the Tezuka museum and the amusement park (google Earth obviously) [img] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/dannavy85/museumground_zps6e80f133.jpg[/img] [...

I wanted to update some of the photos I've taken regarding Tezuka's World War II and Occupation period. [img] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/dannavy85/Bivoacofthe24thID1945takarazuka_zps57534586.jpg[/img] [/IMG] This photo is taken from the bridge that leads to the Takarazuka opera hous...

Well it can't go on forever you know. Old Hayao is one of the last surviving "old guard" animators from the golden ages.