Iconic Photos Of Pearl Harbor Attack

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here are some stunning images of the event that brought the United States into World War II. 

(AP / File Photo)

(AP / File Photo)

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Inside Fukushima Dai-ichi Exclusion Zone

In June, National Geographic sent AP photographer David Guttenfelder into the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, which was badly damaged in the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. He captured images of communities that had become ghost towns, with pets and farm animals roaming the streets. 

Later, in November, Guttenfelder returned to photograph the crippled reactor facility itself as members of the media were allowed inside for the first time since the triple disaster last March. In some places, the reactor buildings appear to be little more than heaps of twisted metal and crumbling concrete. Tens of thousands of area residents remain displaced, with little indication of when, or if, they may ever return to their homes. 

Collected here are some images from these trips.

After the disasters of March 11, tens of thousands were ordered to leave their homes in the vicinity of the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, some of their footprints now frozen in the mud. (© David Guttenfelder /National Geographic) 

Two dogs scrap on Okuma's empty streets. In the early days of the crisis the no-go zone was alive with roaming farm animals and pets: cows, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, even ostriches. Often defying police patrols and barricades, volunteer rescuers rounded up and decontaminated some pets, returning them to their owners, and fed others. But by midsummer, a number of the pets had perished of starvation and disease. (© David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)  

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Japanese Geisha Girls Retro Photos

It is rather interesting to see what passed for or was considered beautiful in Japan in the old days. Oh well, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Collection of retro photos of Japan Geisha Girls.

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Burger King Pizza Size Burger

McDonalds has the Big Mac and MegaMac, Wendy's offers double and triple "hot & juicy" burgers, and Burger King topped 'em all with its seven-patty meat monstrosity, the Windows 7 Whopper. Since the sky's the limit as far as stacking burgers goes, what's a burger chain to do?

Wide is what you get with Burger King Japan's 8.8 inch (22cm) diameter Pizza-Size Burger. Note that only the buns are extra-wide, in between are four regular Whopper-sized beef patties arranged in a four-leaf-clover pattern. The fillings and toppings are also normally sized but at least they're provided in abundance.

Fresh Avocado

You can order the Pizza-Size Burger in two different styles, though both styles are served in an odd half & half format with one half featuring the everyday Whopper's toppings: tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup and so on. Slices of fresh avocado are added to the Fresh Avocado version and tortilla chips, cheese sauce and jalapeno peppers occupy half of the Cheese Nacho version. Cut it up as you would a pie and dig in.

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World Scariest Haunted House

The world's scariest haunted housed, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records is located in Japan inside Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park. Only a certain amount of people are let in at a time and it can take you up to 1 hour to find your way out of the maze. It was reported that you need to stand in line to get in. And while waiting, you can see people running out of the house, crying and screaming.

The Japanese love hunted houses and it's true. This haunted house apparently is a hospital and it is believe that they remade the exact building as the real hospital which is believed to be haunted. They made a superb walk through in the hospital with only charges of additional 500 Yen.

I doubt many people makes it all the way through.

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Japan Harajuku Fashion Show

Japan was famous with their bizarre stuff and tradition and also in fashion style. Japanese people love to mix and match a fashion style to become the most unique one. We can see many Japanese fashion trends on Harajuku. the teenagers there wears an amazing insane outfit and also the people in the street. they wear a weird and unique costume.

Harajuku street style is promoted in Japanese and international publications such as Kera, Tune, Gothic & Lolita Bible and Fruits. Many prominent designers and fashion ideas have sprung from Harajuku and incorporated themselves into other fashions throughout the world.

For those who seek for the latest Japanese fashion trends should be check pictures below, you can get an idea for a Japanese Street Fashion Style or often called as a Harajuku Fashion Style. so you could find a Harajuku Fashion Guide. and how to dress harajuku style

Here's a collection of an amazing insane Japanese Street fashion style enjoy it.

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Spectacular Japanese Rice Field

We all know about the crop circles and seen them on television, movie, or maybe in real life. But in Japan you can see much more spectacular crop than alleged alien creation. Japanese farmer from village of Inakadate create masterpiece from their rice field since 1993 and now, the art of rice field have spread throughout Japan.

The art are created by planting rice in different patterns and using different sorts of rice for color. Different types of rice to create recreations of classic art pieces, or something wholly of their own design. The results look photoshopped, but are totally real.

To provide better view of the Tanbo art, 22 m tower was constructed near the fields. Villagers and volunteers help plant four varieties of rice that grow in different colours. The farmers use computers to plan their art before planting so that they know exactly where to place the different coloured rice plants in order to create the giant images. Planting generally takes place in May and the images look their best by September.

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Lastel - Japanese Corpse Hotel

Across from a noodle shop in a Yokohama suburb, Hisayoshi Teramura's inn looks much like any other small lodging that dots the port city. Occasionally, it's even mistaken for a love hotel by couples hankering for some time beneath the sheets.

But Teramura's place is neither a love nest nor a pit stop for tired travelers. The white and grey tiled building is a corpse hotel, its 18 deceased guests tucked up in refrigerated coffins. 

The daily rate at Lastel, as it is known, is JPY12,000 (USD157). For that fee, bereaved families can temporarily keep the dead bodies while they wait their turn in the queue for one of the city's overworked crematoriums. In Yokohama, the average wait for an oven is more than four days, driving up demand for half-way morgues such as Lastel.

The hotel stores and chills encoffined corpses, delivering them through hatches and into a viewing room, day or night, whenever friends and family come to pay their respects.

An employee of funeral operator Lastel shows a kitchen of a condominium lodge where bereaved family members can stay

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