Japan’s speedskater, Miho Takagi, has a supper slick suit.
ViaSankei News. Vancouver 2010 Olympics 2010 Feb. 7th.

Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa dresses up his caddy to look like him so the sweet couple can have a super fabulous “Pair-Look” ().
More fun is Ishikawa’s driver’s head cover slips on by putting it UP THE BUTT of the Voodoo doll of himself.

In addition, the Ishikawa head-cover has its own sunglasses that can be adjusted over his eyes or atop its visor.
Photos and info via daylife.com, February 7, 2010…”final round of the Northern Trust Open PGA golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.”

I really cannot think of what other chances does Japan have besides this Winter Olympic Fisting threat from speed skater Miho Takagi at her arrival at the Vancouver Games. Via daylife.com — Feb. 4, 2010

The Ten Ugly Rivers of the World by zuzutop.com seems to be unaware of Japan’s OFFICIAL governmental directive called “The Fundamental River Management Policy.”
The photos above and below of The Ten Ugly Rivers of the World look scary but ….

Ganages

…Only two of the rivers of The Ten Ugly Rivers of the World are attributed to G-8 countries, and none of the rivers mentioned are in Japan, which can easily beat the 3rd World’s rivers like the Ganges for toxicity and ugliness.

This governmental policy has mandated destroying all of the Japan’s rivers and shorelines with concrete (as well as Japan Inc’s unofficial carte blache to fill their concrete river troughs with dioxin, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, etc).
Meguro-gawa
Tokyo
Shonan
Endoshima

—Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr, 2001:
“CONCRETE public works in the next five years will exceed that in the United States by 300 to 400 percent, despite there being only a twentieth as much land area to be manipulated. The Japanese lay 30 times as much concrete per square foot as does the United States”
—NewScientist.com: Land of the rising concrete – The concrete pourers of Japan are going berserk
—Concrete tetrapods japanfocus.org by Stephen Hesse

According to the 3Yen’s corespondent-at-large, ‘Den4′, the SANKEI News (Feb. 4th) reports that actress Keiko Kitagawa, right, and model Tsubasa Masuwaka, received Valentine Queen Awards 2010 in Tokyo. The event was sponsored by the confectionery company Glico, the maker of the Japanese chocolate stick with the kinkiest name, POCKY™.
Kitagawa won the Grand Prix award bemoaning the fact that she always gave more chocolates than she received at Valentine’s when she was in high school (which is normal in Japan on Valentine’s Day where Japanese women give chocolate to men [Wiki]).

Actually, Japan’s oddball Valentine’s Day tradition of women giving chocolate to men is “melting away” as more women show a preference for pampering each other instead of their boyfriends and spouses, according to Kyodo News ( Feb. 4, 2010): “The practice of giving tomo choco (friendship chocolate) has been highlighted as a new trend in a recent survey that found 74 percent of women plan to give a Valentine’s gift to a female friend but only 32 percent intended to buy something for a boyfriend.”

You can enjoy further details about the strange fun of Japanese Valentine’s in my reports:
—Chocolate cock!
—The perfect Japanese Valentine gift: the keys to her nether regions
—Japanese women dump on Valentine’s chocolates
—Are you gettin’ any? (Japanese “Choco”)
< --Screwing Valentine’s Day

UPDATE! 2010 Feb. 5
Unauthorized Star-Wars themed Commercial for Japanese Canned Tuna

Click to watch the facebook.com/video

Via the Star Wars Tuna Commercial (ads.3yen.com)

Get your 3Yen TUNA CAMISOLE

Japan admits killing more tuna than allowed
TOKYO (AFP)— Japan has netted more of a protected type of tuna than allowed, prompting the world’s largest tuna-consuming nation to tighten controls on its fishing industry…as much as 99 percent of the world catch circulated in Japan, farm ministry official Shingo Kurohagi said. An investigation found that Japan has already exceeded its limit by 1,500 tons in the fiscal year that ends in March…
…Australia and Japan are often at loggerheads on fishery issues. Australia helped lead opposition to Japanese whalers…Japan has also said it has suspicions about Australia as the amount of Southern Bluefin Tuna it exports to Japan allegedly exceeds what it catches. “The fish farmed by Australia become so big to the extent that is impossible biologically, if it is keeping its own limit of tuna catches,” Kurohagi said….more….

Damn, I better eat some grilled tuna for lunch before the only bluefin tuna that’s left is on my 3Yen.com mousepad.

In Japan today, sumo is Full of Beans!

Daylife.com reports that the foreign, sumo wrestler “Baruto” from Estonia was throwing packs of beans during a bean-scattering, “Setsubun,” ceremony at Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Japan today February 3. Setsubun is one day before the start of spring according to the Japanese lunar calendar. The Setsubun ritual drives away all the evil of the former year by throwing beans (generally soya beans) and yelling the phrase, “Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!” (”Demons out! Luck in!”).

More info at: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsubun

FINALLY there’s a use for vague Japanese documentation!
Oriental Co., Ltd. has come up with “The White Goat” a paper recycling machine that turns crappy Japanese paper documents into useful paper for the crapper.

Sadly the return on investment of The White Goat is about 11 years and 200,000 rolls before the Goat pays for itself.

It’s that time in Tokyo again for you to get your monthly Metro Manners (poster)…

The actual Tokyo Metro’s “manner” posters, which the 3Yen has featured since May 2008, seem to have lost their creativity. The Metro seems to be recycling their ideas and art. For example, the poster for February 2009 is much the same as this February’s poster in 2010.

Never fear, the 3Yen has no trouble with creativity and we’ll continue to supply you with crappy-but-original parody posters such as our previous lame attempts:
—Solution for those pesky handicapped passengers
—Beachin’ Tokyo trains
–‘Please refrain from snotty…’
– The official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season
–Don’t read newspapers
And many, many, more….

Who says that the rubber-suit monsters like Godzilla have all the fun?
Here’s a photo of the film great of Japanese Kaiju genre, Ishiro Honda, grabbing some tittie during the fliming of Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965).

More via the official Iishiro Honda website.