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Next Cosmo Fliegen

(FRI) July 18th, 2025

8:42 p.m. As it's a Friday, the barriers for Kokura Kinen has been drawn and released. But I haven't done anything yet! It's been another busy week.

Three potential front runners have drawn outer posts, which combined with the course feature might create a tight pace. If the pace gets tight, the trailers charging up from the outside will generally have the advantage. Such trailers, though could finish their races in the back of the field when the turf is power-consuming.

If the pace settles at average, the front runners will have the advantage just like Cosmo Fliegen in Tanabata-sho.

So, who'd be the next Cosmo Flliegen?

The End

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Pocketchange
Pocketchange - How to charge your left-over Yen to digital money

If you are ready to leave Japan but have your pocket heavy with leftover Japanese Yen, why not empty your pockets and feel light with Pocketchange?

Holidays

Holidays of July

  • July 21st (MON)
  • Marine Day

Food Catalog

Cream Anmitsu
Cream Anmitsu

Fed up with the heat? Here's a nice cold Japanse-style sweets to cheer you up! Cream Anmitsu is a delux version of Anmitsu, Kanten(Japanese gelatine) jelly and fruits with ice cream topping and Kuromitsu caramel sauce poured over it. And what's great, it's low calorie!

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airframe seen from side
Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.