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Japan’s new FACE SHUTTLE!

Check out these happy Japanese ladies on the Shopping Channel. Click to view the video in a new window. Yes, this face farce is really called the “Face Shuttle Yoga Roller.” Zillions of these bizarre beauty rollers are sold in Japan—none of which have any useful purpose or effect. View ...

Posted on August 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM

Backwards backside bottoms bubbles

My drinking buddy, Captain Japan, found this fad taking Japan by its nether regions… ‘Cosoa’ soap latest fad for keeping it clean August 27, 2008 - The Tokyo Reporter The term asoko is a euphemism commonly used by Japanese females when referring to their you-know-whats. Written backwards in katakana, it ...

Posted on August 27, 2008 at 4:35 AM

Pink Beer from Asahi Japan

Click to view the pink beer, pink kitty and pink elephants* in a new YouTube window. *Ok, ok, I lied about the pink elephants.

Posted on August 27, 2008 at 2:03 AM

Digital makeup for digital camera photos

Now that you have convinced your company to buy digital makeup for your videoconferencing, why no get war-paint built into your digital camera? Casio to Release Digital Cameras w/ ‘Makeup Function’ NIKKEI — Tech-On! — 2008 Aug. 25 ….The makeup function makes blotches and dullness less obtrusive by lightening the ...

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Chilling out in Tokyo

After two long months of temperatures higher than 30C/86F, last Saturday was shosho, the “official” end of Summer on the Japanese seasonal calendar and the cooling slide towards autumn. However, it’s still too damn hot as you can see in the photo below of a hot girl trying to chill ...

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Official PINK tartan for Japan

Japanese schoolgirls have been wearing tartan miniskirts for decades, but this is an “official” pink tartan for Japan… Pink tartan designed for Japanese BBC - Sunday, 24 August 2008 00:30 UK A designer has created a tartan for Japan which draws inspiration from the country’s fascination with cherry blossom… …with ...

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 5:56 AM

Problematic Pokemons

My previous photos (R) of Pikachu’s pooter in Japan were funny. However, the news report below of the emergence of the “Pokemones” in Chile is funny but quite as cute as the cartoon characters. Kissing-crazy ‘Pokemon’ teens shock Chilean society AFP: 21 August 2008 SANTIAGO– A band of kissing-crazy, spiky-haired ...

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 1:14 AM

Lightning burns down World Heritage temple in Kyoto Japan

The Buddha just wants a cut of the insurance money… Lightning strike suspected of starting fire that razed Buddhist temple hall Mainichi - August 25, 2008 KYOTO — A weekend fire that destroyed a hall at a temple designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site was possibly caused by lightning, ...

Posted on August 25, 2008 at 7:55 AM

Gotta love that Shiba Smile

The enigmatic Japanese Shiba dog smile….

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM

‘The Half Of [Japanese] Life Is Game’

“The Half Of Life Is Game” –a mobile phone game site is running their own kind of cell-phone tag with 500,000 yen ($4,545 USD) prize going to the people can tag their sawed-in-half “Han” mannequin. The first person to discover the mannequin and touch its arm with their mobile phone, ...

Posted on August 23, 2008 at 1:29 PM

Japan sleeps on 30 trillion in cash

In case you were wondering why Japanese burglars only take cash during break-ins and why Tokyo’s home burglary rate is one of highest in the developed world…. Home cash savings hit 30 trillion yen, says Bank of Japan August 23, 2008 / Mainichi Japan ….An expert attributes the increase in ...

Posted on August 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM

Ninja with a small prick

The Ninjapin is a push pin without an Attitude. That is, it hardly mars your walls and only leaves a tiny mark. Purchase it via Amazon Japan via Rinkya Stores only 840 yen ($8.15 USD) for 15 Ninjapins.

Posted on August 22, 2008 at 2:24 AM

Faux fotos of former flotilla, Nippon

Lovingly, digitally-colorized photographs of the former Japanese Imperial Navy (machine translation)…. Battleship Nagato 1942 Battleship-carrier “Ise” under air attack at Kure Island

Posted on August 21, 2008 at 11:20 PM

nano HOT POCKETS for Japan

HOT POCKETS! Japan Demands Probe Into Cause of Nano Flameouts MacNewsWorld - ECT News Network 08/19/08 3:42 PM PT…Several incidents of iPod Nanos bursting into flames have created consumer jitters in gadget-happy Japan. Apple is downplaying the problem, pointing out that no major injuries or damage have been reported. The ...

Posted on August 20, 2008 at 6:07 AM

Hobbit Housing offered in Japan

Hobbit Housing ® is now available in Japan! The PinkTentacle.com offered this photo of the Aso Farm Land resort village in Kyushu Japan, which uses about 480 styrofoam domes as lodging, recreational facilities and retail space. Although it may look like somebody had too many magic mushhrooms, and modular design ...

Posted on August 19, 2008 at 8:16 AM

Frozen-in-time Harajuku Psychobillies

My pro-photographer friend here in Tokyo, the incomparable Mr. Masa of the now censored Ninjashot and MasaMania websites, snapped a few photos of the Harajuku Rockakbilly Zoku/tribe. (See Wikipedia’s Harajuku Subcultures.) As though frozen in time since the early 1980s, the same twisting Rockakbilly guys have been dancing their best ...

Posted on August 17, 2008 at 3:16 AM

Sweaty Japanese biker ‘Warrior Corps’

Bikers decked out in traditional armor of samurai warriors raided the Matsumae Castle Festival in Hokkaido Japan a few days ago. (machine translation) 47NEWS 2008/08/13 17:42 More than 40 bikers in total participated in a parade coming from as far as Osaka and Tokyo as well as the loval area. ...

Posted on August 15, 2008 at 1:24 AM

The Hippo Car and other mutants of Japan

On the radioactive streets of post-war Hiroshima, the mutant Kaba car—hippopotamus sound car of Kabaya Confections (machine translation) trolls for children starved for sweetness in this photo taken in December 1946. Kabaya Foods (literally the ‘Hippopotamus Shop’) has promoted their caramels with a sound truck looking just like a hippopotamus ...

Posted on August 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM

You can never have enough Hello Kitty . . . NOT

Posted on August 14, 2008 at 3:33 PM

Japanese cellphones pop your brain

Here’s proof why people who always are yack-yack-yacking on their keitai/mobile phone are idiots. Pop Corn with mobile phone by sassiere And people wonder why I don’t carry a cell phone even though I have worked for many years in their Japanese manufacture, ha, ha.

Posted on August 14, 2008 at 11:40 AM