The Whatis goes in the Whozits?

…Japan's cosmetics giant Shiseido displays the new skin care sheeted mask called 'Revital Granas Platinum System'

via Photo from Getty Images – 2009 Oct 14

UPDATE:
One of our readers asked how getting this “facial” works…

In the midst of a declining Japanese comics industry and a world-wide recession, who’s hiring the ‘hikikomori‘ in the comics field? That is, who wants a job being a butt-boy for a freakazoid “manga executive”?

Comic Book Jobs: Who’s Hiring? Tokyopop, VCU, Hollywood & Warner Brothers!
comics.gearlive.com — Tuesday October 13, 2009 10:35 pm
….If you love the manga and you don’t mind getting coffee or picking up the dry cleaning for the busy manga executive on the go, Tokyopop just might be your place. They’re looking for a “Personal Assistant, Office of the CEO” who can “support all facets of the CEO’s activities, including administrative areas, business development areas, creative areas, personal and time management areas, and any other areas required by the CEO…more...

Sound warning.

Fair use – Parody

For your enjoyment, Japanese flying panties, tastefully done of course.

Link thanks to Mulboyne.

The video is the ED theme to Sora no Otoshimono episode 2, Misaki Meguri by Sohara Mitsuki’s seiyuu Mina. If you want to learn the “secret” of flying pantsu, start at episode 1 on Youtube (English subtitles).

Here is torrid Tokyo some women have been wearing high boots all summer, but with the start of the fall kinky boots have become de rigueur.

Related 3Yen reports include:
—Tokyo’s pigeon-toed goth fashion show
—Japanese “O” Legs

Day Life.com just posted a bunch of these Japanese females at the Japan Bodybuilding Championships held in Tokyo October 12, 2009.

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Rob Pongi, master of all things Japanese (except his ex-girlfriend) offers this iPhone app for Japanese sexual harassment writing to us:
“Here is a WONDAFURU video of the all-new Japanese Up-Skirt iPhone application.”

Nothing says Yokoso/Welcome to Japan more than a squid…and better yet, a ROBOT SQUID!

Pink Tentacle…Hakodate showcased a pair of squid robots designed to attract attention to their area…. some entertaining tourism promotion videos...more...

ALL HAIL ROBO CTHULHU!

And of course, here is 3Yen.com’s all-time favorite squid news:
—The Kraken attacks Japanese parking lot!
–TASTES LIKE CHICKEN or squid
–The Kraken attacks Japanese parking lot!
–Japanese drinks with ‘tempting aroma of squid’

Following the tradition here on the 3Yen of the past 12 months of Tokyo Metro Manners posters, please enjoy the creative efforts of AK47.tumblr.com.

Click to view full-size version on AK47.tumblr.com
–Further explanation about “Yuri play (Wiki)”–

It’s hard to tell the purpose of the “Ancients” in creating this gold artifact, but it’s amusing to think of all the trouble the Japanese company had deciding what to call this gold geegaw .

Photo from ReutersPictures – 2009 Oct 7….Japan's top bullion house Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo, looks at a gold artifact using 15kg of pure gold in total …more...

Here’s a more mundane definition of “artfact,” but I am sure that somebody thought it would be good for marketing.

Previous 3Yen reports related to the mysteries of the Ancients include:
—Japanese Stargate mysteriously appears in Australia
—Stargate Mt Fuji
—Japanese schoolgirl contemplates the Stargate
—Tokyo Ginza’s Goa’uld Sarcophagus Salon

The Mainichi has a slide-show of the Tokyo “Itasha G Fesuta“: Itasha is the Japanese word for cars with freakazoid paint jobs* with characters from anime and manga and video games, and Fesuta is the mangled Japanese pronunciation of the word “festival.” The event also featured cosplayers dressed as popular female characters (but half of the cosplayers were male).

Click to view slideshow.

Photos: Anime fans rev up ‘otaku’ car festival
The Mainichi Daily News -October 5, 2009

*Full Disclosure:
Here is a photo of my Hello Kitty Itasha—my pink 1962 Cadillac Coupe de Ville.