Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

As a former Sony worshiper, all I can say now is DIE SONY DIE!

In a “waterfall of the fire,” angry Japanese villagers torch the Kamikura Shrine in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture.
2009.feb.6 22:39 — Sankei News

Real story (machine translation)

Just in time to welcome in good fortune for the new year, here’s Kaiju-Taro’s New Year’s Fortune Cat, the DHARMA Version. Just to explain, the maneki-neko /”beckoning cat” is a common Japanese ceramic sculpture having a raised right paw that supposedly attracts money and fortune.

REAL HEAD Fortune Cat NewYear’s TARO Exclusive.
The size is about 7.2 inches.
New Year’s of kaiju-taro Limited product. This is DHARMA Ver.

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See more Kaiju-Taro Exclusives at his Flickr site.

Live-action video for the song “Calling Captain Underpants”, by self-proclaimed, international superstar, Koji Matsumoto. In English and Japanese.

The official website of Captain Underpants (scholastic.com).
The real story of Captain Underpants: “Behind the Waistband” (Youtube).

Here is the spirit of Japanese Christmas that I captured with my cellphone camera las weekend. The photo on the left taken in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district shows that in Japan even Rudolph can get nailed with a parking ticket and be forced to sign off for the infraction.

The new Tokyo parking regulations and the new deputized civilian have become very strict in the past two years. The parking wardens have been handing out parking tickets starting at 20,000yen ($200USD) and up. Even stricter is the photo below taken by Tokyo’s indubitable otaku, Danny Cho, showing Tokyo-Akihabara’s parking wardens issuing a ticket to this lame itasha/car.
I said “lame” because the hard-ass parking wardens are incorrectly issuing a ticket to a car with what looks to be a white-and-silver Handicapped Parking Permit on the dash.

Note:
Itasha are Japanese cars plastered with anime stickers and other forms of otaku freakazoid decoration to show their lolicon pride (fetish). View the Youtube video below of an itasha meet, and see more photos of itasha/cars on Google-Image.

Here’s the Tokyo Metro’s September poster for “Train Manner” (sic).

Click to view real poster.

As I have mentioned before, this is a monthly series of posters in the Tokyo subway cajoling the so-called ‘rude’ Japanese public to have better train manners. In previous months, posters reminded women to “Not torture eyeballs on jostling trains” and “DON’T SWIM IN FRONT OF THE TRAINS“.

TOKYO UNDER MARTIAL LAW! (NOT)
Japan PM Fukuda resigns in surprise move,
The Age – September 2, 2008 – 6:54AM

AP – Yahoo! News Photo Sunday Aug 31, 2008– Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force vehicles arrive at the main street of Ginza…large-scale anti-disaster drill, mobilizing about 15,000 people, was conducted at various places in the metropolitan Tokyo area to test preparedness against a possible major disaster.

THIS IS A TEST, ONLY A TEST ….
This was an earthquake drill. Last Sunday Tokyo marked the 85th anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake—the Big One:
–100,000 to 142,000 deaths
–8.4 on the Richter scale
–Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1.9 million homeless
–Managed to move the 93-ton statute of Buddha at Kamakura…. slid it forward almost two feet

In Japanese the word for decorative carp is “Koi,” but koi are really just goldfish kept outdoors.

HONEYMOON COUPLE ATTACKED BY GOLDFISH!
Weekly World News – 28 July 2008 – BOSTON, Mass. — Last month, following a lovely dinner at Japaneteria, David and Jane Bennett were celebrating their honeymoon in the middle of Weller Lagoon when David’s amorous advances …. tipping the boat and sending us both into the water… we were enveloped in goldfish,” said David. “They got in my shirt, my shoes and my pants. In the light of the full moon, I glimpsed their soulless, little eyes rushing past me, felt their puckered lips sucking on my skin…”…more…

Take a look at this YouTube video of a goldfish/carp/koi feeding frenzy.

Previous fishy reports on 3Yen…
–Koi Koi (love carp)
–Robotic carp lurk in Hiroshima factory pond
–glow-in-the-dark florescent green carp
–Goldfish catching robot
–Goldfish exercise machine

Thanks to the Flickr photostreams of TruShu and jcolman for the killer koi pictures.

Via Kyodo News Photos (Aug. 06, 2008), hee, hee, ….

Ok, ok, here’s the rest-of-the-story.

Japan’s Air Purifier: Olympians to Wear Dust Masks!
medindia.net – Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:25:10 AM — The Japanese Olympic squad seems to be taking no chances in protecting itself from the pollution in Beijing. The delegation will carry 500 dust masks for industrial use to guard against the Chinese city’s notorious air pollution, a corporate official said Monday. Koken, a major Japanese maker of respirators, gas masks and air purifiers, has provided the masks for free to the Japanese Olympic Committee for possible use in training at the Beijing Games…more…

Japanese wearing masks to cope with Beijing’s filth. Sure…. they look like terrorists trying to hide something, but hey it’s China so they will be safe…..ri-i-i-ight.

The Japanese sure do love their face masks that I previously previously covered my reports on the 3Yen.com like the Masked flu-fighting – Japanese Nanoblock(tm) and the
Get well soon mask.

And, be sure to check out this video of the Japanese Olympic Teams practicing their entrance into the Games’ opening ceremony wearing their gas masks, ha, ha.

Click to view video.