The new Japanese salaryman (3Yen / 2009-08-07) is now called a ″ Wallmonkey″…
This is a good way for the hordes of ″ restructured″ (3Yen / 2005-01-25) salarymen to be more at ease at home alone after forced early retirement (3Yen / 2006-11-14)—Amazon’s product description says that you:
″ …can transform your lonely walls…with freshly printed Wallmonkeys vinyl decals…″
Tokyonama, importer/distributer of original products from Japan–Geneva/Tokyo
↑ Youtuber “millna” has what she calls a DOLL HOUSE where: “I want to serve you people as a doll figure!” (ということでドール姿でみなさんを接客したい！—millna @mi_te_yo)
According to Reuters, this self-proclaimed “virtual doll” ″″…has taken it to a new level by creating a body suit that looks like a doll and lets you move like a human…″″
While the Reuters is totally off-base by calling this offshoot of “dolling” (3Yen / 2013-08-29) the “latest trend” in fashion modeling in Japan. Kigurumi/”dollers” (3Yen / 2015-03-06) have long been a tiny-but-dank subculture in Japan.
Omotenashi/おもてなし = hospitality
Japan’s Omotenashi Movement marches forward for the Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic “hospitality.”
Foreigner-Only Carriages To Be Introduced Ahead Of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
May 15, 2018 | @therisingwasabi
A few of our many stories about Omotenashi/hospitality include:
Tokyonama, importer/distributer of original products from Japan–Geneva/Tokyo
The mascot for the Hakodate Public Prosecutor’s Office is an eleven-tentacled squid named Happy. pic.twitter.com/VRDTGHPpES
— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) May 14, 2018
Squid have two arms and eight tentacles.
So.. “Happy,” the eleven-tentacled squid, is aptly named.
Happy’s 11th appendage is an example a squid penile elongation, which has been observed to be as long as the mantle, head, and arms combined.
Our previous squid tentacled reports include:
The Japanese term ‘Suma-Ho’ is a mangling of English’s “smart phone”:
suma[ato] = ‘smart’ + [tere]Ho[n] = ‘telephone’.
That is, this poster warns of dangers of “Smart Ho” walking, lol.
Rob Goss @RobGossWriter
—High-quality poster on the Toho Line. Though maybe it worked…I’m not posting this while walking. #sapporo 
This seems to be the first “live-action” appearance of “Dameyo Man”—the manga mascot of the Sapporo Transportation bureau—His head reads: ST ダ メ ヨ.
In my mind, I love to half-ass mistranslate the Japanese Dameyo Man” as ‘Damn-It Man’ lol. Actually, Dameyo (ダメヨ～!!) is better translated as “That’s no good!” or “You can’t do that!”
Our previous reports of Smart Ho” walking include:
Tokyonama, importer/distributer of original products from Japan–Geneva/Tokyo
In preparation for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo…
Japan’s new tourism
slogan …
Explanation of the above tourism problems in Japan:
1.) Free public WiFi in Japan is rare/annoyingly-spotty/nonexistent and using it always requires pre-registration using an internet connection. That is, you have to have WiFi to get WiFi, grrr.
2.) Credit cards are not accepted at more than 50% of the eating and drinking establishments in Japan as well as most small stores in Japan. In addition, {evil}foreign credit cards are often rejected by Japanese credit card processing systems (especially debit cards).
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Our other reports on tourism and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics include:
Near Oshiage Station*. 1968 or 2018?
@DaveSouthgate7
It’s 2018.
Those tiny 5.20 tires with pin-thin whitewalls didn’t become a thing until the 1980s in the Lowrider community. In 1968, a lowrider would have fat whitewalls mounted on five-spoke Cragars or Astro Supreme rims.
Our previous reports of Tokyo lowriders (Wikipedia) include:
The Tokyo Metro hired Japan’s most loved* manga and anime character, Doraemon, to be the mascot of their multilingual website called “susuMetro!.”
The name susuMetro! (すすめメトロ！) plays on word — “susumeru” meaning to “continue” or “move forward” and Metro.
* Declared most Japan’s No. 1 character by a recent survey of Japan’s netizens (soranews24.com | 2018/02/01).
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Our previous reports of dorky Doraemon’s jobs include:
Yet another of the great Tokyo train manners posters…This time promoting ass-to-face massages.
Previous posts of Tokyo train manners posters include:
BBC Science News: Super squid sex organ discovered
via @briandotjp