All the rest of my fellow aliens/gaijin are all a tither about Flashbak.com‘s Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life…
m0Ar!~
Japan’s Miss Universe 2015
Who can forget Miss Universe in ninja high heels (3Yen / 2006-07-19)? Miss Japan, Kurara Chibana, won the national costume competition in her ninja bikini back in 2006. →
This year’s Miss Japan, Keiko Tsuji, wore striking Ashigaru armor (Wiki) as her “national costume” in the preliminaries of the MISS UNIVERSE competition this Sunday (Jan. 25).
As posted here before in Miss Greater Co-Prosperity Universe (3Yen | 9/2/2011) is once again going for the kinky samurai look that has served Japan so well in previous years (3Yen / 2006-07-19)/
STILL CRAZY radioactive AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Ever since the three nuclear reactor meltdowns caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima—things are still crazy after all these years…
Tokyo Electric to miss March deadline for filtering radioactive water
The Japan Times (KYODO) Jan. 24, 2015Continues…
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Story idea via Shogannai (@Shogannai)January 25, 2015
Previous fcuked Fukushima fun on the 3Yen includes the following:
• Fukushima is the bomb (3Yen / 2014-08-06)
• Japan’s ‘Great Wall’—drip, drip, drip (3Yen / 2014-06-13)
• Fukuppy™ Fukushima’s new mascot (3Yen / 2013-10-12)
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Japan’s noise tribe — the ‘Bosozoku’
The dying bosozoku subculture still managed to organize a noisy run to greet the first sunrise of 2015 on New Years Day. The video below shows the so-called “violent running tribes*” of custom car and motorcycle gangs on Highway 20 coming out of Yokohama.
* bosozoku (暴走族), literally the “running-out-of-control
(as of a vehicle) tribe” motorcycle and car customizing,
often illegal, and making lots of noise (Wiki).
Here’s another video of different bosozoku group’s New Years run on Route 134 leaving Enoshima Aquarium and heading to Utsunomiya.
Previous baka bosozoku reports on the 3Yen include:
• nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, BATVAN!
(3Yen / 2010-11-16)
• Japanese slingshot car for noisy delinquents
(3Yen / 2010-03-13/)
• End of Japan’s noise tribe, the BOSOZOKU
(3Yen / 2007-01-12)
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Yikes! They’re coming for us!
Yikes! A robo-centuria—100-robot tactical unit—is coming for us!
Robot dance troupe does ‘the robot’ in Tokyo
The Guardian | 2015/jan/20
Also check out the previous 3Yen report about Tomotaka Takahashi’s obviously evil, robo-child soldiers at: (3Yen.com / 2005-11-04)
Humanoid Robot Wars
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Get the upskirt skirt . . . only in Japan
Den4, the 3Yen correspondent-at-large reports…
Just when they didn’t want to have perverts photographing up skirts in Japan, they come out with this.
New light-emitting, color-changing “hikaru skirt” illuminates your legs for the world to see
rocketnews24.com 2015/Jan/19
…Hikaru skirt (hikaru means “shining”) is … a skirt with LEDs attached … the light created a pleasant illumination effect on the wearer’s thighs…there are miniature gyro sensors (which sense rotational motion) inside the skirt. In other words, every time you move, the pattern of lights and colors in the skirt also changes! …
m0Ar!~
photo: hikaruskirt.tumblr.com
Learn more about the Hikaru skirt on the official Tumblr website of the skirt’s designer/inventor, Kiyoyuki Amano…
Previous upskirt reports on the 3Yen include:
• Hello Kitty ‘upskirt’? (3Yen / 2012-02-02)
• Very friendly girl bunny was selling… (3Yen / 2010-09-05)
• GUNDAM UPSKIRT!?! (3Yen / 2009-07-19)
• Mousing around under a miniskirt (3Yen / 2007-04-03)
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I love to eat Japanese crap
Know what goes into those simple karinto snacks? @star_lobster had a look at the back of the packet. pic.twitter.com/EXpRAQ5x9g
— Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) January 18, 2015
Q: 
What goes into those karinto* snacks?
A: POODLE POOP, deep fried.
Slogan: Once you get past the smell, you have it licked™.
Once you get past the smell, you have it licked™.
*Karinto is a traditional, sweet and deep-fried, Japanese snack food that is made primarily of flour, yeast, and brown sugar. It has a deep brown and pitted appearance, and takes the form of a short cylinder…aka Poodle Poop (Wiki).
CC BY 2.0; by DFTDER
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Japan Railways Kyushu to make stations staffless
Japan Railways (JR) Kyushu operating in the most southwesterly of Japan’s four main islands is suffering from depopulation and stagnation, which has resulted in drastic economic measures such as…
JR Kyushu to make stations staffless
The Tokyo Reporter | January 18, 2015 — JR Kyushu will by 2016 operate its 100 biggest stations without any staff. The company, which plans to go public next year, is looking for ways to cut costs and improve efficiency. The first 50 or so stations will go staffless this spring…{big snip}…So without staff, what happens to stations? One has solved the problem by making a ↓ goat ↓ stationmaster. Full story…
yagi ekicho by breakingjp3
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Other “goaty” 3Yen posts include:
• Monkeys and goats, oh my! (3Yen / 2014-09-30)
• Robo-goat for Tokyo losers (3Yen / 2007-11-02/)
• Sony’s Silence of the Goats (3Yen / 2007-04-29)
• Goats. Sex. Harajuku Girls. ↓ (3Yen / 2006-12-02)
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Oh no, not Noh.
… Wooden masks hang on the wall. Most resemble those used in noh plays but one is most certainly batman…‘Avatar’ series of wooden masks by Kenichi Asano.
— Spoon & Tamago | 2015/01/15: Five Sculptors: an exhibition surveying contemporary Japanese sculpture
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Learn more about the exhibit at:
• spoon-tamago.com
• hpgrpgallery.com
• Kenichi Asano’s website www.k-1asano.com.
Also check out the previous “Bat Posts” on the 3Yen including:
• Ukiyo-e of the Man-Bat (3Yen / 2012-09-09)
• The secret history of Batman in Japan (3Yen / 2008-10-28)
• Japanese Karuta for Batman (3Yen / 2009-11-27)
• nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, BATVAN! (3Yen / 2010-11-16)
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One hundred sizzling Japanese maids in action: ‘Good job.’
Check out the one hundred sizzling Japanese maids in action…
The cast of maids is from the Maidreamin chain headquartered in Akihabara that claims to be the “No.1″ maid café having about 500 maids in 18 cafés around the world. The choreography is provided be the “new generation” girl’s dance unit, Chu-z. The helium-infused singing is by the “idol” group amorecarina of 15 girls.
Learn how they made the commercial in the following video:
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