The Real Japan™ story on the six o’clock news right now is:
A man died because someone pumped compressed air up his anus.
via @nomikamura (2018 July 16)
Our previous reports of Japanese kancho play-with-prejudice include:
Cone life, Japan
The leader of the gang.
via — ONiLX (@TheONiLX) July 6, 2018
A few of our many previous stories of Japanese cone life — traffic cone craziness include:
- Cones of Japan (3Yen / 2016-10-09)
- Even road construction is cute in Japan (3Yen / 2013-07-10)
- Mini Giant Cone™ (3Yen / 2010-03-17)
- Japanese interceptor nosecones! (3Yen / 2005-09-22)
If only he could really…
It is with guilty pleasure I learned that the only Japanese who has ever tried to kill me*, Shoko Asahara, has been hanged.
(If only he could really fly.)
"Fake news"!
The Master could not be hanged…The great lightened Sonshi could FLY!!
*Back in the late 1980s, Shoko Asahara‘s doomsday cult crazies used to dance/sing/recruit at my train station…and then they killed 13 people with a Sarin poison gas attack on the same Tokyo subway I used to take to work.
I’m not a big fan of the death penalty, but good riddance.
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Our previous reports of Shoko Asahara and his Aum cult include:
- Happy Hats™ (3Yen / 2011-01-16 )
- Anti-terror tranny goat antidote (3Yen / 2007-07-25)
- Shoko Asahara: Lord Death’s Counting Song (3Yen / 2007-10-22)
‘OH MY GOD! They killed ASIMO!’
A bot by any other name
Is this the end of the line for Asimo, Japan’s famed robot?
Agence France-Presse | July 01, 2018
…Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported that the Japanese carmaker had terminated Asimo and dissolved the team making one of the world’s most famous humanoid robots.
More…
Is this the end of the line for Asimo, Japan’s famed robot?
Agence France-Presse | July 01, 2018
…Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported that the Japanese carmaker had terminated Asimo and dissolved the team making one of the world’s most famous humanoid robots.
More…
Of course Honda had to kill ASIMO. He didn’t do anything (except waste mountains of money of Honda).
As I was previously quoted complaining in the press:
Decades of creating fantasy robots, like Asimo, Aibo, Roborior et al, has bankrupted the research and development departments of Japan while not resulting in any viable products. —The Independent (2010-07-17)
Ok, ok, ASIMO did allow Honda get their investment back in RoboButtsecks (3Yen | 2007-12-21)
Also check out our previous post: ASIMO does stairs (and doesn’t) (3Yen | 2007-01-12)
Tokyonama, importer/distributer of original products from Japan–Geneva/Tokyo
I’m back!
The 3Yen was infested by spambot virus yet again, but now…
Kaettekitayo/I’m back!
Goofy umbrellas for Japan’s rainy season
With all the umbrellas fun in yesterday’s post, Rain…
Here’s an umbrella is designed to be rolled alongside you, like a suitcase, which provides a fun alternative to the ordinary method, which involves carrying the annoying thing around with you
via New “rolling” umbrella with wheels lets you take it for a stroll on rainy days | RocketNews24
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Our previous dorky descriptions of Japanese umbrellas include:
- “Don’t forget your umbrella!” nag Tokyo taxi robots (3Yen / 2013-09-04)
- Typhoon leaves 8 tons of dead umbrellas in its wake! (3Yen / 2011-09-23)
- Samurai sword umbrella returns! (3Yen / 2010-07-30)
Are we having fun yet?
Yui on the street in Harajuku wearing a handmade tie dye denim jacket over a "Are We Having Fun Yet" crop top, tie dye denim shorts, painted knee socks, sneakers, a round handbag & colorful accessories #原宿 #Tokyo pic.twitter.com/0bJqedDit1
— Tokyo Fashion (@TokyoFashion) June 12, 2018
Rain
Here in Tokyo we’re in the peak of Japan’s rainy season. Japanese folks always ask me* where’s my umbrella and answer with the haiku of the poet Santoka Taneda (Wiki):
降るままぬれるままで歩く
furu mama nureru mama de aruku
(image: Hasui Kawase)
furu mama nureru mama de aruku
(image: Hasui Kawase)
”kyō mo nurete shiranai michi o yuku”
” today again, soaking wet, / I walk on an unknown road ”
*I don’t and can’t use an umbrella since I walk on crutches, so asking me is, “duh.”
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Learn more at Japan-guide.com about Japan’s Tsuyu, the Rainy Season. Our previous reports include:
- Rainy season manners on the Metro (3Yen / 2014-06-05)
- Hinky rainy season in Japan (3Yen / 2013-06-26)
- Let’s Tera-tera-bozu happy! (3Yen / 2015-06-09)
Tokyonama, importer/distributer of original products from Japan–Geneva/Tokyo
‘Let’s f⌾ck!’
via 指原莉乃、外国人を落とすテクに「勉強になりそう！」『恋するサイテー男総選挙』6・12放送｜TVLIFE web – テレビがもっと楽しくなる！ . {"AbemaTV" (internet TV station) broadcast on Tuesday June 12 about a “f⌾cking” program by Rihara Shihara, “「I’m going to study!」 Technique to (f⌾ck and) dump foreigner lovers!”}
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Some of our other Japanese f⌾cking reports include:
- More Japanese fukking (3Yen | 2014-04-27)
- Getting fauked Japanese style (3Yen | 2013-11-27)
- justbuymyfuckingbook — Japanese girl gone ‘bad’ in LA (3Yen | 2011-09-09)
- wack / sack / fack … JAPAN! (3Yen | 2009-09-11)
WE’LL BE HAPPY!
Goofy Google Translate of fvj.co.jp/vending
The happy “Two-Down” vending machine that you often see on Tokyo’s street is Wex Corp’s private brand vending machine…with reasonable pricing. We are aggressively offering a “two-down” vending machine that finds new demand and receives wide support.
The-rest-of-the-story…
When I first came to Japan in 1984, the fixed price of drink was 110 yen ($1 USD) for a measly 190 ml (6.4 oz) can. In 1986, the standard-throughout-Japan price went up to 120 yen but over the next few years the normal 350 ml (12 oz) can was introduced. To pay 120 yen, you must use three coins: one 100 yen and two 10 yen coins.
The reason that these 100 yen vending machines are called TWO DOWN is that they only need one 100 yen coin for a drink, which is two coins “down” from the normally required three. The happy Wex-Man character carries a big mallet to “Hammer Down/ハンマーダウン” prices with Wex’s colorfully loud blue and yellow vending machines that, “anticipated the Era (of Japan’s endless deflation since 1992).”
