Giant mutant Japanese cook threatens to paddle passersby in Chuo-ku Niigata Japan!
A huge replica of Yukiko Kobayashi was unveiled in Chuo-ku’s ”NEXT21” in Niigata Japan according to Mainichi Shimbun of June 29.
I have no idea why Yukiko Kobayashi, 
the C-List star of “Space Amoeba,” is now a giant paddle-welding mutant cook terrorizing the streets of Chuo-ku in Niigata, but perhaps she now is now the owner-chef of Kitchen PLANET Five.
FANS STEAL LEONARDO DICAPRIO’S SNEAKERS
nypost.com - June 29, 2009…. During a visit to a hilltop shrine in Kyoto…DiCaprio was asked by a couple of fans to pose for a picture — but he declined, pointing to a sign prohibiting photography on the premises. Feeling slighted, the fans waited until he removed his Nike Dunks to enter the temple and then stole them.”…more...
Click here for a close-up of the lost Nike Dunks still on DiCaprio.
For more exciting photos of Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, and David Blaine in Japan, wearing yukata, drinking sake and hanging out, literally hanging out. (NSFW)
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
How to cosplay correctly?
DON’T.*
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO COSPLAY THE RIGHT (JAPANESE) WAY
–by Lisa Katayama gadgets.boingboing.net — Tuesday June 16, 2009…Here, a six-step cosplay guide based on my previous research:
1. PICK THE CHARACTER YOU WANT TO COSPLAY.
The more obscure the anime, the more wow’s you will get…more...
*If you are normal American geek, you are waaay to fat to pull off cosplay any anime and manga character except Homer Simpson (and only then if you are a geekette).
In addition, only Japanese kids can afford the costuming costs that average 700,000 yen ($7,000 USD). Cardboard box Gundam was only funny once–a whole convention of cheapshit costumes is pathetic.
eBaum’s World has a fun photo collection of Really Bad Cosplay such as….
Fan of the 3Yen and my mixi friend, “Professor” Shoko Nakagawa ‘Shokotan’ is Japan’s expert “Otakuologist” specialist featured on Japanese TV. As a self-proclaimed “super blogger, voice actress, and illustrator” Shoko Nakagawa, “the gal famous for smelling her cats’ asses” or at least eating them.
Idol 'Shokotan' promotes summer date event at Tokyo Dome
TOKYO, May 20 KYODO
Pop idol Shoko Nakagawa, more widely called ''Shokotan,'' promoted a summer event at Tokyo Dome City on Wednesday aimed at helping youngsters meet boyfriends and girlfriends.
''I feel 'giza' happy,'' Nakagawa told reporters, using one of her enigmatic signature phrases that means ''very'' and referring to her role in the July 18-Sept. 13 event as ''a special cupid'' to help potential young couples arrange dates…
Version 1: Mosburgers‘ MOSDO
–the burger with a hole–
Wacky Machine Translation
It is totally a hamburger visually.
In chocolate with U.S. puff patty,
Strawberry whip &
In a strawberry source a tomato,
I express a lettuce,
It is sand to the doughnut cloth which I likened to vans.
A nourishment ingredient(1 article area) Energy 211kcal
Protein 3.2g
Lipids 11.8g
Carbohydrates 23.0g
Salt substantial amount 0.3g
Version 2: Mister Donuts‘ MOSDO “Do-nutBUR-GER-” (sic)
–fat-fried faux burger–
At a mere 219 calories and 168 yen, the “MosDo” must be all hole.
Albert, ny friend and sometimes reporter for the 3Yen just released this interview with Utada Hikaru in Miami in which she talked with him in depth about her new CD release, ‘This is the One.’
UPDATED URL:
“Muscle Koushinkyaku” (Muscle March) for the wii by Namco Bandai…
There’s even rainbow road as part of the gameplay for the muscle men and polar bear in a thong.
According to GameSpot the player must: “chase down a thief in possession of their prized protein supplements…Players will have to match the poses with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk if they want to follow cleanly through the walls and catch up to the protein-pilfering perpetrator.” Ri-i-i-ight.
The official site is at muscle.namco-ch.net (in Japanese).
Art Imitating Life— This is a photo of a Tokyo policewomen (aka the “Miniskirt Police”) helping conduct a bicycle safety program for children during Traffic Safety Week in the springtime.
The reason why I say that this is “Art Imitating Life” is that the more famous “Miniskirt Police” started as a late-night TV sketch in the mid 90s in Japan. The “joke” was fake police girls in miniskirts arrested men who were guilty of heinous crimes such as illegal bicycle parking as a pubic service (yonaoshi, “social improvement”). I touched on this topic in my post in 2006: Japanese Girls ‘n’ Guns
By the 2000s, the “Minisukapolice” had become a direct-to-video porn concept and yet another Japanese fad fading into Japanese cultural history. However, the Miniskirt Police live on frozen in time as a perennial favorite of Japanese cosplayers (see endless examples of cosplay here).
For more info and videos clips from the late 1990s, see Japansugoi’s article: “Japanese late night TV, the Miniskirt police video collection.”
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