I’m feeling a little guilty for not posting anything all day, but hey, hey, it’s Friday night in Tokyo…
IchigoPartygirl, GomiGirl, and many Farkqued Gaijin are gathering at the Araku bar deep in the bowels of Golden-Gai Kabukicho–sort of the model for “Blade Runner”—Shinjunku’s sleeze district.
Anyway, since you are not enjoying the games of Kabukicho’s sleaze, enjoy this CG bit of Japanese baseball game fun.
Weather bureau makes heavy metal song to plug earthquake early warning system
Mainichi News - April 16, 2008, SENDAI — The Sendai District Meteorological Observatory has produced a heavy metal song to promote a recently developed earthquake early warning system...more...
Singing the catchy, headbanging “Earthquake Early Warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho” 
*, here’s my special extended remix of the so-called “Heavy Metal” version of the public service announcement.
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Watch and listen to 15-second “Earthquake Early Warning” public service announcement in the WMV format provided by the official Sendai Meteorological Observatory in either of the two following styles:
—”Heavy Metal” or
—”Piano” (with squeaky bimbo chorus)
And here’s an alternative way to download and listen to my special remix of the “Heavy Metal” verision of the earthquake early warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho.”.
Click here to get your own player.
* 緊急地震速報 means Earthquake Early Warning in Japanese kanji.
The hinky Japanese movie, Exte: Hair Extensions (IMDB)is the ultimate bad hair day with horror-hair that carries grudges and starts attacking. 
In the film Exte[エクステ], the amazing Chiaki Kuriyama (KILL BILL’s Gogo Yubari) is an apprentice hair stylist whose clients are found dead, inexplicably and very violently murdered by their own hair. Yep, it is as dumb as it sounds in this parody-sometimes-ernest cult film –official website: www.exte-movie.jp/
Trailer for Exte: Hair Extensions
“Kega suru zo!—Ya gonna get hurt!” Hello Kitty (and the local PTA) warns absentminded Japanese schoolkids.
I ‘m going to burn for posting three randy topics in a row, but if you hurry before the YouTube censors ban this, check out the “Invisible Man” Japanese style.
“Happyhorizon san, the author/poster of this video says in Japanese that the video, “…is only slightly naughty, such a mischief seems to be OK.” (The video came from a recent variety show on Japanese TV.)
Click to view.
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.
Boobies are so hard to catch in Japan that they came up with this new “UFO Catcher”—a claw vending machine or toy crane machine.
via Mil’s flickr[1]
This arcade game lets the player manipulate the controls for a minute or less trying to grab a prize, usually plush toys and occasionally more “creatively” in Japan, silicon boobies like these, as well as live animals such as lobsters or turtles. See our previous report: Robot dog catcher debuts in Japan .
And, if you can’t catch ‘em, buy ‘em….
… Buy your own booby from Rinkya Stores via this product’s page.
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[1] View the original, full-sized photo on Mil’s flickr photostream.
The Japanese word “Kimoi” creepy was invented to this CGI and Photoshop Mario.
pixeloo.blogspot.com super-real-mario-world
Click for the original full view.
Update…
The Tokyo Tiki-God invasion of Japan continues and is joined by a stoned Cyclops!
A man walks past a giant sculpture on a downtown Tokyo street, in Japan, news.yahoo.com (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
In the previous report, ‘Borat turning Japanesey and Moai-Tiki gods concur’, you might have been wondering why there a fake Easter Island Moai tiki god statue in hyper-trendy Shibya, Tokyo. 
Me too.
I’ve been bumping into Moai statues and wondering about these fake Tokyo Tiki gods for many years now. Besides the famous Shibuya Moai (above left & below right), I have several Moai by my Ota Ward Office (below left).
Actually, the Ota Ward Office and Kamata Station area of Tokyo has a full alien invasion of Moai statues and I have taken the photos below of just a few of them.
All these Moai statues seem to be rather out of place in Tokyo. Finally, a few days ago I stumbled across the very “Japanese” reason for all of them.
It seems that back in 1988 the Tokyo island of Nijima gave all these Moai statues to Tokyo to commemorate 100 years of being under Tokyo’s administrative supervision. The only industry of Nijima Island is tourism and quarrying Koga (rhyolite) stone, which is mostly used to make “moyai art.” In this case, public works to give jobs to the otherwise unemployed in the off-season Nijima folks by making hundreds of Moai heads that are given as public art “gifts” all over Japan.
I love it when this Thai group called, “Neko Jump”, does cutesy, twin-idol, “moe” better than the original Japanese hyper-saccharine music. As the French blogger Tengoku calls it: “L’attaque des clones.“ 
NEKO JUMP (Cat Jump) [ネコジャンプ] is Thailand’s answer to PUFFY and their Thai video is complete with Japanese background, lettering and graphics. Here they are singing their song, “Pu”—pronounced ‘Poo‘—and they kiss and lose their tops by the end of the video of course.
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