9/12/2009

Saccharine-sweet Japanese magazine scans

Go ahead, I dare you…
….Just try not OD on saccharine-sweet Japanese magazine scans of Tokyo street fashion at the photo-scan blog ☆GIMME CULTURE~♪
(japanesemagazinescans.tumblr.com)

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1. Behan Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

   I just came down with diabetes from just looking at all that kawaii-ness! :)

   What is it with the obsession with ‘kawaii’ here?

2. Taro Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

   Sick, hey?

   The obsession with cuteness/kawaii must be a drain on the overall productivity in the economy like drug use in the West.

3. Behan Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

   I think Marx said of Japan: “Kawaii is the opiate of the masses.”

4. Taro Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

   

5. Behan Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

   A lot of girls are bowlegged here. Is that a genetic thing or from something they do? I think I remember someone talking about that before.

6. Greg Kaiser Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

   Japanese girls are bowlegged from all the sex they are having.

7. Taro Says:
   September 12th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

   Behan Says:
   A lot of girls are bowlegged here.

   Back in my report Japanese Oh Legs, I covered the odd predilection of Japanese women to walk and stand pigeon-toed/bowlegged.
   The Bottom Line from Japanese orthopedic surgeons was that Japanese women think it looks cute and Japanese are more likely to have curved tibia (lower leg bone) than Caucasians.
   Refer to:
   

   SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
   O-kyaku (walking pigeon-toed)
   JapanTimes.co.jp – Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006….according to Dr. Makoto Kamegaya, head of orthopedics at Chiba Children’s Hospital. “Sitting with the legs tucked under or to the side doesn’t cause bowlegs,” he assured me, “and neither does pechanko-zuwari, although that position is linked to uchimata hoko (walking pigeon-toed with the feet turned in.)” Bowlegs can’t be blamed on how you sit, he asserted, and except for very rare cases, nutrition isn’t a factor either. So what gives?
   “What looks to foreigners like a high incidence of bowleggedness among Japanese is really just a racial tendency to lower legs that curve outward, perhaps combined with a cultural preference for a slightly pigeon-toed stance,” Kamegaya told me, explaining that it’s easier to walk when wearing kimono if you turn the toes slightly inward. “That also produces what has long been considered a graceful, attractive gait. Few women wear kimono anymore, but the preference remains.”
   All humans are born bow-legged, but in most cases the legs straighten out naturally between ages 2 and 4. “Japanese are more likely to have curved tibia than Caucasians, and a certain degree of curvature is considered normal in both children and adults,” according to Kamegaya.

   

8. Cbass Says:
   September 13th, 2009 at 2:58 am

   aahhh.. Japan,always taking urban tribes to the next level of insanity :D

   P.S: I loved the forest girls <3 can you send me one by regular mail, preferably wrapped =)

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