US Coast Guard Sinks Japanese Ghost Ship
fauxABC News | 2012/April/06
The U.S. Coast Guard fired its guns on a derelict Japanese spy pirate fishing boat today, sinking it to the bottom of the ocean after it was decided it wasn’t worth towing for salvage…
…The Japanese ship, Ryou-Un Maru, floated across the Pacific Ocean after it was ripped from its moorings by the tsunami last March. It is floating roughly 195 miles south of Sitka in the Gulf of Alaska…more...

View a news video of the ghost/spy/pirate ship in the Comments section…
Probe finds high radiation in damaged Fukushima reactor
←Workers inserted a probe into reactor two on Tuesday to assess conditions—
BBC News | 28 March 2012
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has said damage to one of the reactors is much worse than previously thought. A probe inserted into reactor two at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant revealed lethal doses of radiation and that the level of cooling water inside was far lower than expected...more…
Ok, let’s run that through the 3Yen’s advanced, Japanese video enhancement…
Yikes, it’s a mutant tentacle of the Evil Ones!
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DaylifeReutersPhoto—March 25, 2012: Kamuii Kobayashii, a Formula 1 driver for Team Sauber, is shown smiling as he makes a “deposit” while checking into the Sepang Track for the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix outside Kuala Lumpur.
← (Fair use/Parody—View original photo.)
More interesting is Kobayashii’s reporting strange dreams of World War III and “Shotguns” before his big race according to his twitter account and subsequent reporting by Jalopnik.com.

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When scanning the Japan-related news feeds today, I was startled by the engrish headline:
Fukui Prefecture Operates [sic] Nuclear Power Plant Evacuation
Additional photos about the alarming nuclear event were nearly as worrisome as you can see below.
Fukui Prefecture Operates [sic] Nuclear Power Plant Evacuation!
SankeiNewsGettyImages | 18 Mar 2012 | OI, JAPAN: A safety crew struggles to connect a prophylactic hose over a mutant bulb pseudopod to supply sea water for cooling down the reactor during the nuclear power plant evacuation exercise at Kansai Electric’s Oi Nuclear Power Plant. This is a preparation for an unexpected power loss due to the huge earthquakes in Fukui, where three nuclear power plants are located…
The-real-rest-of-the-story…

Public broadcaster NHK and all the local news outlets are reporting a daring prison break from Tokyo’s “Big House” aka Kasai Rinkai Aquarium.
Since Sunday morning people have been sighting a lone fugitive penguin swimming in the nearby Old Edo River soaking in the toxic waste and radioactive sludge from the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown*: Freedom Comes with a Heavy Price.
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(Video in Japanese and Penguinese.)
Penguin pix via Penh’s photostream on flickr |
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Here’s a new video promoting toursim in radioactive Japan.
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Rabbits, randy and radioactive as well as rabid, have been problematic in Japan for some time, as evidenced by the previous 3Yen posts…
. . . • Bunny pounding, Japanese style (3Yen / 2011-05-23)
. . . • Zombie Easter Bunny (3Yen / 2009-03-16)
. . . • Pervy ‘Rabbids’ do Japan (3Yen / 2007-07-28)

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. . . • Etc., etc., etc.
When I spotted this new Japanese battle tank as a thumbnail labeled “Prototype 4″ in one of my random Google searches, I thought had discovered a military secret.
Japan has had great trouble fielding battle tanks from the US and NATO because none of them can fit on narrow Japanese roads. Although this self-propelled, mono-wheel artillery piece is woefully unarmored, it would fit well on Japan’s tiny back roads and it could maneuver easily through narrow Japanese hamlets. I found out this prototype was called “SPIRAL ZONE Monoseed II” (”Rimfire Cannon” in its US variant).
“Cool!” I thought to myself, until I discovered that this secret, unknown, Japanese tank was based on a toy line made by the Japanese company Bandai Toys and the subsequent American science-fiction animated series called ” Spiral Zone” produced by Atlantic-Kushner-Locke in 1987 (Wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Zone). D’oh!
Put on your tinfoil hat and your lead-lined long-johns. Listen to this to this exciting tale of foreign intrigue and nuclear destruction as Israel agents installed concealed several nukes inside enormous security cams inside the Fukushima nuclear reactors, ri-i-ight.
Israeli Nukes Triggered Fukushima Quake, Crackpot Claims
Danger Room | Wired.com | 2012/Feb/1
…Japan’s massive, 9.0 magnitude earthquake… triggered huge tsunami waves, and those, in turn, catalyzed a series of nuclear accident…Jim Stone, a self-professed former National Security Agency analyst with an “engineering background,” has a different explanation: The whole thing was a deliberate and dastardly act of nuclear war…more…
The 3Yen’s astute reader, MARKed TRAIL, just sent us this chuckle about the new Dearest Darling Leader of Best Korea*, Kim Jong Unchi.

North Korea’s Dictator Is So Dragonball
Kotaku.com | Jan. 12, 2012 by Brian Ashcroft
…One thing that North Korea's neighbor China knows is that Dear Successor totally looks like a Dragonball bad guy.
← The left image is a current meme sweeping Chinese nerddom. Its origin is unclear, and it is possible the image was made outside the country.
A Kim Jong-un photo was altered to look like Dragonball's Android 19 of the Red Ribbon Army. While their appearances might look similar, The Great Successor cannot fire lasers from his eyes …more…
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