With Japan’s continued ban of dancing in clubs (3Yen 2014-07-12), Japan’s Jaxx Industries presents a twerking robot, the TW3RK-BOT, that never-says-never to dance.

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The quickest way to insult a Japanese is to say they’re Korean and vice versa. The two groups despise each other. So, you can imagine how horrified the the Japanese reporter in this news segment was to find K-pop being promoted at the Japanese government sponsored “Cool Japan” Expo in Paris.
Of course, how could the French know the difference between K-poop and J-poop?

The Japan Expoo has Korea content
fnn-news.com | 07 / 24 / 2014 (in Japanese)
Japan Expo was held in France Paris at the beginning of July. The Japan Expo of Japanese culture of Europe’s largest but at some of the venues there was a surprising sight—Some booths at the Japan Expo Hall had "K-pop" products on display …more…

Mr. Mukimuki Mouth Exerciser asks:
Q: How do you show off your muscles?

Football great Ronaldo reacts to the above Japanese TV eccentricities…

Click to play GIF animation.

Some of the other 3Yen reports of wacky Japanese mouth exercisers include:
   • Japanese in your face—Sucks and Blows (3Yen / 2014-01-29)
   • Whore-ray faceLift Bra™ (3Yen / 2013-10-09)
   • Japanese face tune-up (3Yen / 2012-07-07)
   • Japanese WTF goods
      (3Yen / 2012-02-01) ↘

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Doraemon (L) has been Japan’s most beloved character since 1969 (3Yen / 2014-02-14). However, Doraemon has gone turncoat and has announced he will be working for Disney Corporation (Examiner.com), meh.

Unexpectedly satanic Doraemon

at Roppongi Hills

pic.twitter.com/JwNftCxS7F — Dusan Farrington(@quillspatter) July 19, 2014

In case you were wondering what the joke is all about…
The satanic passport is a parody of the Japanese passport (right), and Roppongi Hills has Japan’s highest concentration of foreign firms and whinging* foreign employees.

*For most part, they’re rightfully whinging
employees since Japan has an unenviable
working (& living) situation compared to
the upper-middle class environment that
the foreigners came from (or aspire to).

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. —Warsan Shire

Ah Japan, you never disappoint.

According to RocketNews24’s report, Man questioned by police after building “girl” out of plastic bottles, taking her out on a date, the “inventor” Showta Mori solved all his forever-alone problems by creating Lisako, his ‘PET bottle lover,’ who he takes on a fun series
of romantic dating: adventures that would have David Lynch scratching his head and saying, ‘Now, that’s just weird.’

Enjoy the real Japan.

• Single diners get stuffed (3Yen / 2014-05-10)
• Dream date for Japanese Valentines Day (3Yen / 2012-02-03)
• Japanese romance (3Yen / 2011-05-31)
  
  Japanese wanking-bots ^↗

Peko-chan^* vs Hello Kitty:

There can BE ONLY one.^†

最近一番二度見したやつ 口… pic.twitter.com/u3deki36WK

— ヒメユリ (@Himeyurrrrry) July 21, 2014

 
*For more information about Peko-chan, refer to:
Peko-chan perpetually six years old is turning 60—Damn, Japanese ladies look young (3Yen / 2009-08-24) & (Wiki).

†“There can BE ONLY one.” is the motto among the immortals in the Highlander film series (Wiki).

We are having a happy Marine Day ( – Umi no hi) holiday in Japan today. So…

Lucky Dragon No. 5 by Ishihara Nanami

Japanese contemporary art coming to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA! http://t.co/vFGGMO05Jg http://t.co/FC7bcRCQCo pic.twitter.com/rHjZNAgfZx— Tokyo Fashion (@TokyoFashion) July 19, 2014

Note:
“Lucky Dragon No. 5″ refers to the unlucky Japanese fishing boat, with a crew of 23 men, which was exposed to nuclear fallout from the thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954: wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Dragon_No._5 The incident was referred to in the opening scene of the first Godzilla movie: badassdigest.com/2013/07/28/lucky-dragon-5.

Opening scene, Godzilla (1959)

 
 
← Our report on the mascot Brisky getting frisky at a Nippon Ham Fighters baseball game (3Yen / 2005-08-20) has been an all-time favorite with readers. That is to say, sekuhara/—the Japanese-engrish abbreviation for sexual harassment—is the national pastime in Japan like baseball.

Just recently I noticed that Brisky-kun has some real competition in the pervy department.
Move over for the hot babe “Buffalo Bell“— The new bovine kigurimi mascot of the Orix Buffaloes baseball team has proven such a sensation that she has attracted her own up-skirt problems…

sankakucomplex.com (ÑṠFW): Buffalo Bell – And You Thought Dollers & Furries Weren’t Hot!

It’s July 20th—traditional Japanese HAMBURGER DAY!

So, here’s Hello Kitty’s burger buttbudies at Sanrio Corporation…
“Dokidoki Yummychums™”…


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Our previous years’ reports of Japan’s traditional Hamburger Day include:
   • Wo0t! It’s Hamburger Day, again (3Yen / 2013-07-20) Part II
   • Japan’s HAMBURGER-DAY is July 20 (3Yen / 2012-07-20)
   • HAMBURGER DAY in Japan (3Yen / 2011-07-2)

Also, check out the Infinite Burger Generator website…

Click to play/eat!

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The Huffington Post | 07/17/2014

Mount Fuji is primed to spew.

“Our work does not say that the volcano will start erupting, but it does show that it’s in a critical state,” lead author Florent Brenguier, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences in France…more...

The last time Mt. Fuji blew was the Hōei eruption was in 1707 and comparatively not many people lived nearby and no deaths (Wiki). Today, a larger eruption would affect a 80km radius—Several million people could be hit because the base of Mt. Fuji is now an urban area of the city of Gotemeba. One estimate predicts that a major eruption would cause 750,000 refugees (Japan Today / 2014Feb09).