Over on the twitter, 3Yen reader “zhanglizhen” and I have started exchanging photos of Japanese beauty salon with odd, dangerous sounding engrish names.
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And my all-favorite, “SNOTTY BOY BARBAR” (sic).
“Bagelheads“! Yikes, we manufactured a Japanese fad!
“Bagelheads” is just a name that was made up to joke about this body modification, but the mainstream press took the name as real, as you can see from the reports below.
Bagelheads the latest fad for Japanese teens: Mom hopes it stays in Japan
New Jersey On-Line — by Fiona Charles — Thursday July 02, 2009, 8:50 PM
Japanese teens are shooting silicone in their head to morph their faces. They call themselves bagelheads.
Have you seen the latest fad for teens in Japan? They are called bagelheads. Teens in Japan are injecting themselves with saline, which causes bumps in their heads.
The lumps and bumps created by the saline can be shaped and molded. The teens are calling themselves bagelheads. The disfigurement only last 24 hours. I have a hard time looking at these teens, and I just hope it stays in Japan and doesn’t make it’s way over to the States.
New ‘Bagel Head’ Fad Is Crazy!
RantRave - July 2
OK, Japan, we get it. You’re the king of weird.
A new “beauty” fad in Tokyo clubs has teens injecting themselves with bags of saline, disfiguring their heads! They call themselves “Bagel Heads” or “bagelheads.” ….more...
A quick Google search for the joke name “bagelheads” or “bagelhead” written in Japanese katakana results in zero hits:
“Bagelheads” is a great joke name for this 4-person “Japanese” trend, but both the Western mainstream press and the blogsphere is picking it up and reporting this fake tread as real, sheesh.
In addition, both of the reports express the facetious hope that this “Japanese” trend remains in Japan, even though it originated in the West, ha, ha.
According to ElliteChoice.org, Sega Toys of Japan are offering these indoor projector generated, green and non-polluting “Uchiage Hanabi fireworks.”
(more info)
Move over Mothra. Bugzilla is spotted in Yokohama
daylife.com YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - July 4, 2009
A Huge locust-shaped attraction is seen during the Yokohama-port Opening Festival Y150…. the port opened in 1859, as the result of the signing of Treaty of Amity and Commerce between United States and Japan in 1858.
Check out Mothra disguised as seagull in this classy Port Festival poster.
View the original/unaltered version of July’s Metro Manners poster here.
The poster above for July is one of a monthly series of the Tokyo Metro aimed at cajoling the so-called ‘rude’ Japanese public to have better train manners.
In previous months, posters reminded riders of their manners:
– Please PISTON outside
–Don’t read newspapers
–‘Please refrain from snotty…’
– The official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season
–No romance on the train, please
–Train posters–sometimes I can’t explain ‘em.
And many, many, more….
Coming soon to Burger King Japan
The copy from the above ad of Burger King Singapore actually reads (via Fox News)…
“…Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled with the NEW BK SUPER SEVEN INCHER. Yearn for more after you taste…”
Need I write more?
Guess the Japanese Gadget!
This fist shaped gadget actually does something. What is it?
ANSWER at the Rinkya blog.
Don’t understand how I missed seeing this Japanese invention for 2+ years, but ….
Presenting “Amazing Japanese beer machine”!
The 3Yen did cover this lame Asahi Beer bot before…
Back in January 2006, the 3Yen covered ROBO WANTS KIRIN BEER.
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And, there is always this Japanese restaurant’s Apology-Bot 3000 (Click for youtube).
Kumi Koda’s ’secret’ is she is a transsexual.
Oops, I lied. My bad.
Generally anyone being over-the-top slutty as possible is a good sign of being tranny-transgendered-whatever. Kumi Koda’s real ’secret’ is that if you are going to listen to plastic pop, it might as well be as over-the-top trampish as possible.
Via Kyodo News - Jun. 28 TOKYO
The rest-of-the-story of Koda’s concert is that Japanese stocks don’t offer investors much in returns, either in dividends or price appreciation, so Japanese companies often offer perks such as clothing discounts for fashion industry stocks or free tickets to concerts/movies for entertainment stocks. There is even a resale market for stockholder freebies such as discounts on airline tickets. The Japanese language even has a term for such fiscal foolishness: “yutai-ken” that is, a “hospitality/generosity certificate.”
Anyway, enjoy Kumi Koda’s ’secret’ in the following video.
Leave it Japanese officials to inject a bit a humor into a death…
Japan gov’t spokesman retracts Jackson gaffe
abs-cbnnews.com 06/26/09
Japan’s top government spokesman hurried Friday to retract potentially controversial remarks about the late pop icon Michael Jackson, who he said did not appear to be black because of his pale skin. “My knowledge (on Jackson) was very poor, but I didn’t get the impression that he was a black man because his face was all white,” Takeo Kawamura told reporters…more…
Last moonwalk
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