what a bad news .
TOKYO — A FedEx cargo plane crashed early Monday morning amid heavy winds at Tokyo’s international airport and burst into flames. The pilot and copilot were taken to a hospital, and a local TV station reported they were both confirmed dead.

The flight from Guangzhou, China crashed onto a runway at Narita Airport and was immediately swarmed by firefighters and rescuers. The pilot and copilot — the only people onboard the flight — were extracted from the cockpit and brought to a local hospital, according to airport spokeswoman Misuho Fukuda.

TV Asahi reported that both had been confirmed dead.
Television footage showed the plane bounce and then burst into flames as it skidded to a halt on the runway. The twisted remains of the plane were still smoking hours after the crash.
The plane smashed into the longer of Narita’s two runways, which remained closed Monday morning with all incoming flights diverted, Fukuda said.
Local news reports said the plane was an MD-11.

Strong winds and turbulence have caused other recent incidents at the airport. Last month a flight from the Philippines was jolted by severe turbulence as it circled prior to landing, injuring 50 passengers and crew members.

Narita Airport is a major international hub located about 35 miles (60 kilometers) east of central Tokyo. It is Japan’s second-busiest airport, after Haneda Airport, which is also in Tokyo.

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s exports plunged the most on record in November as global demand for cars and electronics collapsed, signaling more factory shutdowns and job cuts are likely as the recession deepens.

Exports fell 26.7 percent from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said today in Tokyo. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predicted a 22.3 percent decline. The drop was the sharpest since comparable data were made available in 1980. (more…)

Every day is a shining day
Everything turns into beauty
Her every noisy voice may playing a beautiful melody
Since the boy meets a man

Pay your does win or lose
How is your material world?
Even if won there may be a sacrifice
Since the boy meets a man

Why are people scared?
He says everybody is alone
Whether they can warm up mutually?
Since the boy meets a man

Forever want to be with you in the same place
Forever want you to dry my tears
But how far is forever?
Since the boy meets a man

The volion repeating empty echo
Desperate angel falling from the sky
The oriental cherry says, Ah, I got blood.
Since the boy meets a man

The Tokyo International Film Festival kicked off yesterday with an
environmental theme and stars including American actress Julianne Moore
and Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai walking a “green” carpet made
of recycled plastic bottles. Japanese-Taiwanese heartthrob Takeshi
Kaneshiro, popular Japanese actor Satoshi Tsumabuki and film director
John Woo waved at fans during the opening ceremony at Tokyo’s glitzy
Roppongi Hills, one of the two main venues for the festival. (more…)

Tokyo game show is coming!
As the great game conference of Japan the Tokyo Game Show will seek to be the world’s largest computer
entertainment show once again in 2008, with exhibitors from across
Japan and around the world, and to serve not only as a forum for
exchanging information about world markets, but to increase in terms of
both scale and quality.

Let’s recall the picture of 4 years：

TGS 2005:
“Your front row ticket to the next generation of gaming”

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