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回天特攻隊 Kaiten Tokkoutai the naval equivalent of the suicide plane, the kaiten was a one-man submarine packed with 1.7 tons of explosives.
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Sushi brought the concept of a Japanese 'kaiten' sushi bar that delivered food to customers via a conveyor belt travelling 8cm per second to the masses, and became the original and most famous sushi brand in the UK.
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"kaiten" who were put into action at the end of World War II.
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For dinner that night, we went to a little kaiten sushi (conveyer belt sushi) place in Shinagawa Station (the very large train station right next to our hotel).
Tokyo, Japan: Ueno Park, Akihabara… oh, and a giveaway! 2010
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I used to live in Japan and conveyor-belt sushi (aka kaiten-zushi) is near and dear to my heart.
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I enjoy “kaiten” style sushi as well, and was really disappointed by this place.
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There are a few small restaurants with expert sushi chefs, but a cheaper option is one of the kaiten zushi establishments, with their conveyor belts.
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Blue C first turned to RFID as a way to deal with a common challenge for kaiten restaurants: monitoring how long a particular plate of sushi has been on the conveyor, to ensure that everything diners eat is fresh.
Business Solutions 2009
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Waste is another big problem for kaiten restaurants.
Business Solutions 2009
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Blue C Sushi is a chain of five kaiten restaurants in the Seattle area.
Business Solutions 2009
chained_bear commented on the word kaiten
"There was excitement aboard the submarine, and clustered about the captain were the Kaiten pilots begging for permission to be launched against his enemy ship. These fanatical young submariners—like their airborne brother, the kamikaze pilot—had sprung into existence during the war. The Kaiten was, in effect, a midget submarine weighing about eight tons. The entire forward section was the explosive warhead of a huge torpedo with the pilot and the power plant occupying the after section.... Once launched from the mother sub, there was no turning back. The suicide submarine was equipped with a small periscope that allowed the pilot to keep his target in sight until the final moment when torpedo and ship exploded. Should he miss his target, the pilot was doomed anyway. But his end would not be the glorious death so appealing to the Japanese warrior. He would simply continue running until the fuel supply was exhausted; then slowly the human torpedo would sink, and as it went deeper and deeper, the mounting pressure would cave in the bulkheads and the pilot would suffocate."
—Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 37
This is unbelievably depressing.
November 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kaiten
*shudder*
November 14, 2008