POOP-DE-DO0! —FECAL FACIAL IS LATEST WACKY SKIN TREATMENT— April 29, 2008 — New York Post….just $216, Shizuka Bernstein will slather your face in feces for a full 50 minutes - what she calls the “Geisha Facial” - at her Midtown spa, Shizuka New York. The ancient Japanese cleanser - geisha and kabuki dancers have been using the bird poop to wash off their heavy white makeup…more…
My previous 3Yen report of August 5, 2005….
Let’s white happy!
While I’m in the drug store in Japan, I always find aisles devoted solely to skin whitening products. And my favorite traditional Japanese product for skin whitening is uguisu no fun aka swallow nightingale droppings. Being Bihaku ) or a ‘white beauty’ is hot shit here in Japan.
In a machine translation of the product description ofuguisu-no-fun, the cosmetics company uguisunofun.com says to whiten your skin you should take from 0.5 to 1.0 grams (about 1/3 of teaspoon) of the bird poop powder and mix it with soap in your palm and wash your face in the regular manner. Product No. 151 Container (26 g), price: 1,029 yen.
As Japanese love to quote the old Chinese saying: “Being white can cover/compensate for three times of ugliness. ” In the past months that I’ve spent in the hospital, the Japanese student nurses lube me up with NIVEA Whitening Body Lotion after my sponge bath and I always teased them I might disappear into the sheets.
For some women, it’s beauty and the bleach Concord Monitor—-
….Take a daylight drive through Asian immigrant enclaves such as Monterey Park and Irvine, and you’ll see women trying to shield themselves with umbrellas - even for the short dash from a parking lot into a supermarket. While driving, many wear special “UV gloves”- which look like the long gloves worn with ball gowns - to protect their forearms, and don wraparound visors that resemble welder’s masks….There are doctors who, for about $1,000, will use an electrical field to deliver vitamins, moisturizers and bleaching agents to a woman’s face in a procedure known as a “mesofacial.” Whitening products have been a mainstay in Asia for decades, but cosmetics-industry officials said they have emerged as a hot seller in the United States …..….more….
Typical Japanese bihaku ads for skin whitening products (mostly fraudulent and ineffective like my hospital’s Whitening Body Lotion).
Showbiz News - Life Style Extra - Tuesday, 8th August 2006, 13:19 Paris Hilton’s kitty clone
LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Paris Hilton has been turned into cat.
The blonde star has been transformed from super-slim hottie heiress into a ‘Hello Kitty’ doll by Japanese toy makers.
The soft doll depicts Paris as a white cat and has her trademark blonde hair. The doll is dressed in a pink coat, the ‘Simple Life’ star’s favourite colour, and even comes complete with a tiny Chihuahua dog, which looks like Paris’ former pet pooch Tinkerbell.
A whole range of accessories are available for the Hello Kitty doll as well, including handbags, a black ‘hoodie’ and a bow for her hair.
According to the Mainichi News, Nestle Japan is putting out a new killer can coffee, Golgo 13. The can coffee will be for sale starting May 15 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Golgo 13, Japan’s longest-running manga. Wiki Golgo 13 is sort of the James Bond of Japan—a professional assassin in the beloved manga as well as two live-action feature films, two animated films and a television series. Learn more about Golgo 13 [ゴルゴ13] in Wikipedia and you can view the video of the open sequence below.
Honda harness to take the strain out of strolling Register Hardware 23rd April 2008 12:36 GMT—Honda has developed a … “walking assistance device” is for “people who are still capable of walking on their own”, but it may also appeal to the elderly, the weak of limb… Only for two hours, though - that’s the limit of the rig’s built-in battery.
The strap-on combines angle sensors, CPU-controlled motors to lengthen the user’s stride and ease the effort of walking…more…
The idea for juxtaposition of Hopi Kachina Dolls in Phoenix, Arizona and Japanese Action Toys in a museum in Tokyo came from Benjamen Walker in the WFMU blog. However, I doubt if the original author, Mr. Walker, knows how close these “Holy Action Figures” are to the “truth” in Japan.
For example, at the Godzilla statue in Ginza there are always Shinto-eque offerings of sake, called “omiki.” left for the Godzilla spirit…Yeah! A drunk Godzilla Spirit–that’s what Tokyo needs!
It’s a toss-up whether Japan or Finland has the highest rate of cellphone use, but I can guarantee that the Japanese need to start wearing tinfoil hats if this scientist below is correct about the Keitai/mobile phone industry needing to reduce exposure to phone radiation (the Japanese spend hours each day crushed in Faraday Cages–train cars–with scores of keitai/cellphones in operation).
Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’ Independent.co.uk - Sunday, 30 March 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks…more…
Right now the cherry blossoms started to bloom and the Tokyo Anime Fair 2008 is happening. All the Japanese TV channels and studios promote anime.
A booth assistant dressed as “Doronjo” Yahoo! News Photos via Reuters
Thu Mar 27, 3:18 AM ET…. character that appears in the Japanese anime “Yatterman”, poses while visitors take photographs at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 March 27, 2008.
Read more on Yatterman (Wikipedia), one of the top three anime programs now running on Japanese TV.
Set to slow “simmer” is a how-to drawing from the Japanese bestseller with recent sales exceeding 30 million copies, “Practical Introduction to Slow Sex” (Kodansha, 2007).
–From bottom to top “simmer” (machine translation)
This lady is risking more than looking cheesy by posing with a Kappa water imp.
In Japanese lore, Kappa are well-known as mischief-makers who love pulling pranks such as passing gas and looking up women’s kimonos (as well as their more interesting eating habit of sucking out their victims’ shirikodama/life force, entrails, or liver through their anus).
A drunken salaryman with necktie wrapped around his head is the quintessential image of a Japanese party animal.
That image of tying one on is carried over to this hangover tonic, “NOMITAI me! Turmeric“—The pun is that the Japanese word for wanna drink, “nomitai” is pronounced nomi (drink) tie like necktie.
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For their new turmeric hangover tonic, Sangaria Corporation uses a picture of a drunk party animal with a necktie tied around his head like a salaryman-samurai with a hachimaki headband for kamikaze-style hangovers.
While driving, many wear special “UV gloves”- which look like the long gloves worn with ball gowns - to protect their forearms, and don wraparound visors that resemble welder’s masks….There are doctors who, for about $1,000, will use an electrical field to deliver vitamins, moisturizers and bleaching agents to a woman’s face in a procedure known as a “mesofacial.” Whitening products have been a mainstay in Asia for decades, but cosmetics-industry officials said they have emerged as a hot seller in the United States …..….more….
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Osaka has a full-blown shrine built for its faux-Kwepie god, a commercial, copyrighted, Kewpie-like 
A drunken salaryman with necktie wrapped around his head is the quintessential image of a Japanese party animal.
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