I’m feeling a little guilty for not posting anything all day, but hey, hey, it’s Friday night in Tokyo…
IchigoPartygirl, GomiGirl, and many Farkqued Gaijin are gathering at the Araku bar deep in the bowels of Golden-Gai Kabukicho–sort of the model for “Blade Runner”—Shinjunku’s sleeze district.
Anyway, since you are not enjoying the games of Kabukicho’s sleaze, enjoy this CG bit of Japanese baseball game fun.
The 3Yen’s cracked correspondent-at-large, Kurohinge-san, just filed this report from sacred halls of Nagatacho, Tokyo, the Japanese seat of government.
April 8, 2005 - News 3Yen, TOKYO—The Japanese government has announced plans to get more women into jobs after a recent scientific study suggests that they can be trained to use tools and understand their functions.
“A conventional view holds that the use of tools is a high-level ability, but women can do it if they are trained accordingly,” said Kazoku Gakomaru, who heads the study team. The findings also suggested that a wide range of women could use tools, although it may be doubtful for those from Nagoya, he said.
Six adult females were trained at a laboratory at the Japanese government-funded RIKON research institute and all of them were able to use a T-shaped rake to retrieve food, it said, although their performance ability and times dropped dramatically when they became distracted by certain objects placed in their environment including a mobile phone, any “Hello Kitty” products and chocolate.
The new plan, prepared by the cabinet office, outlines a series of measures intended to gradually introduce women into government positions by the end of the 2010 fiscal year after the study challenged the view that only men, primates and some small, furry mammals are smart enough to perform government roles.
…the real story…
It’s the start of spring and all Japanese department stores are offering free, gaijin-size prophylactics at their entrances as shown below.
Read more about the above automatic dispenser for stores and cafes on the official website of the Japanese manufacturer, Makiden.co.jp (machine translated).
I prefer to use a Japanese Personal Rain Saver® (with cistern).
The above is a Japanese chindogu posted on the First of April in Japan.
Recently, 80 serious crimes involving samurai swords in the UK has prompted a ban by the end of this year.
However, that ban on samurai swords wasn’t soon enough to prevent this holiday season tragedy, as you can see in this chopped Kitty Christmas crime scene photo.
As I always say®, “You can never have enough Hello Kitty“…
Click for full effect.
“ LA LA la la la la I can’t hear you! LA LA LA la …” —Fingers in ears, Japan’s new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
Actually, Reuters says that this is just PM Fukuda adjusting his interpretation headset as he strains to listen during the final news conference at the 13th ASEAN Summit (Association of South East Asia Nations) in Singapore November 21, 2007.
Technological Marvels From the Animal Kingdom
WWN - April 1, 2006,
By Michaela Trebor
LONDON, England–Birds inspired the airplane and rabbits’ ears helped designers improve TV reception. Now, a new study from biologist Carl Navrin reveals a host of little-known animal species responsible for the best ideas of other human inventors…
Navrin has also studied the mating habits of a scaly, silver pufferfish able to rotate, capture sunlight, and spread it around the dark sea-bottom in search of females.
“The sparkly puffers were often stuffed and hung in German nightclubs during the 1920s, until a cheaper glass version of the fish, called the Mirrorball, or Discoball, became available.”….
Japan - Google News
Greenpeace Ship Heads to Japan to Continue Whaling
Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 12 minutes ago
I just looooooove it when the news-bots at Google News write headlines like this screenshot I took this morning. Even the non-truncated headline sounds fun, “Greenpeace Ship Heads to Japan to Continue Whaling Campaign.” Maybe the headline writer might have wanted to say, “Anti-Whaling Campaign.”
McDonald’s on Yahoo! News Photos
Reuters - Mon Feb 26, 4:53 AM ET—At a news conference in Tokyo February 26, 2007, “Donald” McDonald shows off McDonald’s Japan special promotion for Magic MacMushrooms(tm). Psychoactive, psilocybin-containing mushrooms will be offered at all their Japanese outlets by the end of March…the-real-rest-of-the-story…
Via the always fun Geisha-Asobi’s “Weekly Teinou [bee] Woman” blog, here’s “SHOGUN TORTURE” …. a fake grindhouse movie trailer with lots of red and titties.
Real story here
The Whales Strike Back
Ship Ablaze and Crewman Missing as Whales Fight Back
News3Yen.com’s reporter in the Australian Antarctic Division, KUROHINGE Ichi, 15 Feb, 2006—The Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, carrying up to 1,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, is drifting on fire in Antarctica after what appears to have been an attack by a terrorist group of whales. The group, calling itself “Whales of Mass Destruction” - or “WMD” - has claimed responsibility. The C.I.A. has been aware of, and trying to locate WMD since the late 1990’s.
About 20 crew are fighting the fire on the ship and 140 have been evacuated to other vessels in the six ship fleet. One crewman remains missing.
According to evacuated seamen, the ship was boarded late last night by a pod of whales wearing ski masks. “I . . . not sure, because they wearing masks.” said one crewmember. “Maybe Fin whale, but definitely foreign because they not speaking Japanese” he added.
Unconfirmed reports say that the ship’s owner, the Japanese Government’s Institute of Cetacean Research “ICR”, has received a demand from the WMD for “the return of all whales abducted by the Japanese”.
An unofficial source at the ICR revealed that they were taking the demand seriously and were putting together as many bento boxes as they could find, with the remains of whales recently “caught for scientific research”.
No comment was available from Australian government officials about any assistance they might provide to the stricken ship, although most pubs should close for the night in a couple of hours and a reply can be expected shortly thereafter.
However, as the Ross Sea lies in New Zealand’s search and rescue zone, the New Zealand Navy has confirmed that both it’s ships have “weighed anchor and raised sail” and they hope they will be in the vicinity of Antarctica “in about 3 months or so, if the winds are favourable”.
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