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.”
The phone giant, NTT-DoCoMo, plans to utilize the ’surplus wood’ of Japan with mobile phone named “TOUCH WOOD.”
To quoth the Immortals, Beavis and Butthead:
“Whoa dude. Did they just say touching their wood?”
–Cue the the sound of Beavis and Butthead sniggering…DOCOMO Develops Mobile Phone Prototype Using Surplus Wood
Tokyo, Sept 24, 2009 – (press release) – NTT DOCOMO announced today it has developed the mobile phone prototype made with the surplus wood …The authentic cypress wood body of the prototype, which is named TOUCH WOOD….more…
PRIOR ART
Fair use – Parody
Refer to UrbanDictionary.com :Wood.
Oh noooos!
Japanese terrorist ninja cuts down the Statue of Liberty.
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The funloving Japanese government and telecom-music industries are planning to ‘brick‘– render cellphone incapable of playing the music—if the user is tries to download illegal music.
Govt, private firms to tackle cell phone music piracy
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Sep. 7, 2009)—The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the telecom and music industries plan to jointly introduce a system to prevent cell phone users from downloading illegally distributed music files to their cell phones via the Internet…
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…the envisaged system, when users download music files to their cell phones, the song’s ID information will be sent from the cell phone to a computer server, which will check the information….If a user continues to download music, the server will either terminate the downloads or render the phone incapable of playing the music after it has been downloaded.
On the road in Tsuchiyama in the middle of Japan today, a friend snapped this photo of a “Ninja Kan-cho car.” The “ninja” boy on top of the van is about to perform the dread kan-cho .
What’s a kan-cho?
The insidious kan-cho 
is a prank played by performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone’s anus when the victim is not looking (similar to the wedgie or a goosing) and often executed simultaneously as the offending party loudly yelling “Kan-CHO!” (Wiki).
Also check out www.kancho.org
‘BOMB A SALE’ days in Japan
Just in time for Japan’s atomic bomb days of August 6 and August 9, 1945, I received an RSS notice, which in funky machine translation reads as follows.
The sale at HYSTERIC GLAMOUR starts at last! Furthermore, I still show an upsurge. Some shops now are holding the “BOMB A SALE” with sale items are being blown out!
An item sold out, the newly arrived items dropped on the stores one after another, too! Please enjoy shopping in BOMB A SALE and keep an eye on it still more.
Today, I stumbled across this odd photo of a “gutter pin” from a huge bowling center in Yokohama* that is being torn down.
One of the oddities of Japan is that almost all bowling alleys here have the same giant 5-meter bowling pin made of fiberglass mounted on their roofs.
For some mysterious reason, these massive bowling pins never fall off during typhoons even when the building it is mounted on is severely damaged (too bad Japanese buildings are not created with the same quality as these advertising objects).
*Here’s an urban exploration video of ruins of the “gutter pin” building taken last year.
Odd EngRish factoid:
If you look up the Japanese translation for “bowling,” you will find it has the almost the same pronunciation as “boring”—Most Japanese cannot distinguish or say either word correctly. This results in all sorts of fun confusion when Japanese people ask an English speaker anything about bowling or ask gaijin/foreigners to join them.
And of course, bowling and boring are not to be confused with Japanese department store bimbos’ bowing…
Click for full size photo, 500×666.
At the official opening of the Tokyo GUNDAM last weekend, the tabloid Sankei.co.jp created a VR panorama that allows you to fly around GUNDAM from any angle. Wait a minute for it to load and enjoy….
Click to view
Also you can view a video of Tokyo Gundam below.
Also, refer to the Tokyo Reporter’s…Giant Gundam gives Tokyo ‘green’ ally , which explains the weird claims for this, “Green Tokyo Gundam Project of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s push for a more environmentally friendly future.”
NEW AND IMPROVED!
SCUMBALL SODA NOW WITHOUT BALLS!
This year’s new pink guarana soda on the left features the ball-free character “Mokorin” which is said to be cuter than the tradional “Marimokkori,” the lake scumball character that is based on marimo lake algae balls of Hokkaido Japan. 
The Marimokkori character is found in souvenir stores throughout Japan. This green little character is best known for his impish grin and famous bulging balls as the 3Yen reported about in:
–Buddha’s big bulging balls busted,
–Captain Hard-on of Hokkaido, and
–Goodness gracious great green balls of Japanese scum!.
Check out the new Honda website featuring “ASIMO 360° – a computer-generated model depicting ASIMO’s capabilities” that have been improved recently.
Asimo.Honda.com/insideASIMO
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