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10/5/2009

‘NO BLOOMERS, NO LIFE!’ Huh?

Now this is perfect gift for the Japanese otaku/perv– a wallet made of schoolgirl “bloomers” (gym suit bottoms).
The Japanese Akiba blog describes them (machine translation) in the following breathless prose: “Romance for a man is new lifestyle product–a cute item of the palm size that is simple and is full of beautilities of an elegant design…just the thing to show it off your friends and the workplace.” The perv-wallet is packaged with its related “Strawberries” manga as though it is a special edition comic.

japanese-perv-wallet

Japanese wankers buy these burusera/bloomers (Wiki) for their fantasy romances with pre-high-school girls. Eew.

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9/2/2009

1923 quake memorial day in Japan

Tokyo elementary school children, wearing fire-proof dunce caps for a nationwide earthquake drill. These disaster drills are held every year around the the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 to prepare for the next Big One.

drill-japan-kids

Japan conducts quake drills on 1923 quake memorial day
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Tokyo: An estimated 795,000 people from Tokyo and 30 other prefectures took part in annual anti-earthquake drills conducted by the central and local governments Tuesday, the 86th anniversary of the 1923 killer quake...more..

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8/26/2009

Origami dinosaur in Tokyo?

origami beast in tokyo play

World’s largest origami dinosaur
(25/08/09 — Reuters video 02:24 min.)
Volunteers fold paper to create a replica of a Spinosaur at Tokyo’s Dinosaur Expo 2009.


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8/22/2009

Japan has a lot of assearth

Frequent commenter here on 3Yen, MARKed TRAIL, sent in these gems of engrish signs in Tokyo centered around the Japanese spelling of Ass/Earth, which are homonyms in their Katakana writing system.

First is a security company, “A.S.S.”
ass-security-japan

Second is the Assfairy fragrance—“The perfume the snares the man for whom Miss Hippopotamus aimed at in an instant.”
Japanese Ass Fairy

And finally is the perennial engrish favorite, “Asse Chocolate.”
Japanese ass girls


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8/17/2009

Japanese drowns during concrete canoe testing

concrete canoe japan

Student drowns while testing concrete canoe
Mainichi – August 17, 2009 OSAKA – A university student here died after a test on a concrete canoe in the Yodogawa River went disastrously awry on Sunday afternoon...more

Ok, ok, if you stop giggling so will I. Creating concrete canoes are common engineering competition throughout the world—the idea being to make the seemingly unfloatable float—It’s considered integral part of a civil engineer’s education (Wiki).

concrete-canoe-making
concrete-canoe test

Ok, you may go back to giggling about drowning during a concrete canoe test (because I certainly am).


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7/15/2009

Bowling is pronounced ‘boring’ in Japanese

Today, I stumbled across this odd photo of a “gutter pin” from a huge bowling center in Yokohama* that is being torn down.
gutter pin Yokohama

One of the oddities of Japan is that almost all bowling alleys here have the same giant 5-meter bowling pin made of fiberglass mounted on their roofs.

bowling-pin-building
For some mysterious reason, these massive bowling pins never fall off during typhoons even when the building it is mounted on is severely damaged (too bad Japanese buildings are not created with the same quality as these advertising objects).

*Here’s an urban exploration video of ruins of the “gutter pin” building taken last year.

Odd EngRish factoid:
If you look up the Japanese translation for “bowling,” you will find it has the almost the same pronunciation as “boring”—Most Japanese cannot distinguish or say either word correctly. This results in all sorts of fun confusion when Japanese people ask an English speaker anything about bowling or ask gaijin/foreigners to join them.
bowling vs boring  in Japanese

And of course, bowling and boring are not to be confused with Japanese department store bimbos’ bowing
japanese dept store girl bowing
Click for full size photo, 500×666.

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5/13/2009

Elephant Safety in Japan’s convenience stores

poster for japan safety-station
The Elephant Kid aka “ESUZOU-kun” is supposed be posted on the front window of most convenience store”SAFETY STATION” signs.

Open 24/7, convenience stores are wrangling with Japanese government officials to curb their late night operations to help combat global warming. However, the Japan Franchise Association is countering with this Elephant campaign saying that….”Convenience stores that stay open 24 hours serve an essential role as a refuge for potential crime victims or simply for people in need of help. Convenience stores provide a refuge for lost children or women seeking to escape stalkers…” –japantimes .co.jp
safety-station homepage


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3/10/2009

University of Tokyo promotes their robo-receptionist to a robo-teacher

Saya, fem-bot In our 2006 report Robot Love, the 3Yen covered a robot called, “Saya,” who was propped up as a receptionist at the Science University of Tokyo. Judging from the the expression on the face Saya the fem-bot, she did not have much job satisfaction. Now looking at her face, Saya seems much happier as a robo-teacher at a demonstration primary school in Tokyo (even though they did force her to wear the same yellow women’s suit for the past five years).

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Robot teacher that can take the register and get angry
–School pupils are to be taught by the world’s first robot teacher in one of the most radical uses so far of android technology.–
Telegraph.co.UK 06 Mar 2009— Robot teacher: Named Saya, she can speak different languages, carry out roll calls, set tasks and make facial expressions. The device, created by scientists after 15 years of research, is being trialled at a primary school in Tokyo.
Named Saya, she can speak different languages, carry out roll calls, set tasks and make facial expressions –including anger– thanks to 18 motors hidden behind her latex face.more


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2/15/2009

Monkey business of Japanese Ministry of Education

Thanks to the always educational Erosblog NSFW, here is a great still photo from the Japanese Ministry of Education….
monkey-girl of Japanese Ministry of Education Click for full-size photo.

According to the Erosblog, the Japanese Ministry of Education made two movies on a ‘girl Tarzan’ theme. The above photo comes from the book Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema by Jasper Sharp (2008), nothing survives of these movies except a handful of publicity stills such as this one from Cave of Lust with the actress Aki Ema and her lucky monkey.
Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema

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Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema by Jasper Sharp (author), 2008


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2/4/2009

The ‘Pollen-Robo’ hoard patrols Japan with glowing LED eyes

The Japanese weather forecasting company Weathernews is deploying nationwide 500 of these “Pollen-Robo”—pollen counting robots to monitor to pollen levels as the allergy season begins in Japan.

robot pollen device

The Weathernews will ask volunteer monitors to place the Pollen-Robo robots outside their dwelling to record in real-time the pollen, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, which will then be relayed via the Internet back to the Skynet company. To a “benefit” to the volunteer monitors, the Terminators Pollen-Robo will light up through a range of five colors to indicate pollen levels and for added fun it will have two glowing LED eyes.


Visit the Weathernews’ Pollen Report.pollen-news

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