The Woman Who Wants to Give Birth to a Shark
Vice.com | 2013May17
…the human uterus is just the right size to hold one fetus. I've been speaking to a gynaecologist about ways of making it bigger. I believe humans could use their uterus as an aquarium or incubator…
…We don’t need any more humans, there are too many already as it is. Mostly, it’s a way of preserving endangered species...more...

Also check out her previous piscine projects including:

   • I Wanna Deliver a Salmon… (and eat it)
       (aihasegawa.info | 2011 March)

   • I wanna deliver a Tuna…
       (aihasegawa.info | 2011 March)
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I am sure if the artist Ai Hasegawa (not to be confused with the bimbo, Hasegawa Ai, the Japanese ‘idol’) is really into modifying her uterus to carry sea creatures to term, I am sure the Deep Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos (Wiki) will oblige her as the 3Yen has covered in in our reports of…
   —Cthulhu’s minions foiled (3Yen / 2012-07-09
   —Solar lantern of the Cthulhu Mythos (3Yen / 2011-07-11)
   —Call of Cthulhu in Tokyo (3Yen / 2007-01-06)

Does a bear shit in…
…school in Japan?

Bear shot dead after entering school in Ishikawa
JapanToday | May 17, 2013
A bear was shot dead after it wandered into a school in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Thursday…the bear entered the Morimoto school building at around 7 a.m. and then ran toward the playing field…
…The bear was an adult male, one meter long and weighing 40 kilograms…more...

Whoa! This dangerous “adult” male bear was only “one meter long ” (39.37 inches) and weighed a whopping “40 kilograms” (88 lbs.). WTF?! That’s smaller than my dog.

One of the great Mysteries of Japan is “O-kyaku—Japanese “O” Legs (3Yen / 2006-02-06)“—the odd pigeon-toed stance that Japanese women take whenever they are out of the house. Now there’s news of the prehistoric “missing link” to this amusing Japanese affectation.

Australopithecus sediba walked upright, but with an unusual shuffling, 'hyper-pronated' gait all its own. The species rolled the outside of its feet with each step, causing excessive strain on the spine (see right).
Scientists Unveil Human Forerunner Australopithecus Sediba
– WSJ.com

Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa had a major press conference to announce the official naming of a new human-like species, Australopithecus sediba. Using 3-D modeling of the researchers show a new “ape-like human with pigeon toes” that walked with its feet and knees rotated inward…just like Japanese girls, which the 3Yen has reported on several times before such as:
—Tokyo’s pigeon-toed goth fashion show(3Yen / 2008-08-31)
—Japanese “O” Legs(3Yen / 2006-02-06)
—Japan’s Princess Pigeon Toes suffering anxiety attacks (3Yen / 2010-06-10)

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
O-kyaku (walking pigeon-toed)
The Japan Times – Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006 …more….

Meat-eating Aichi plant new species
The Japan Times / 2013Apr07
—A carnivorous plant found only in Aichi Prefecture has been confirmed as a new species…The pitcher plant with purple-red flowers was initially believed to be a variant of the white-flowered Drosera indica, designated as an endangered species…
m0Ar!~…

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Details:
‘Dokudalian’ (Toxic-Dahlia), mutant man-eating flower is one of the Shocker’s (Wiki) evil minions in the campy, classic tokusatsu (Japanese monster TV show), “Kamen Rider.”
{Episode 32—”Cannibalism Flower,” Dokudalian→ }

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR^* AGAIN!

*Wo0t^!
On the plate are “l’il Cthulhu”—bioluminescent Firefly Squid who normally live with Cthulhu’s Deep Ones†, but once a year waves push them to the surface in Japan’s Toyama Bay from March to June. YUM!

From more information, check out the previous squidly 3Yen report of 2012 ↗:
   •Masses of radioactive tentacles crawl onto the beach

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Report by 3Yen correspondent-at-large, Den4

Several years ago the 3Yen reported on Japanese interest in methane hydrates in: Ice-that-burns reserves of natural gas off the coast of Japan (3Yen | 2/21/2006).
Back then in 2006, Japan had just discovered and started to explore its new fart fuel—Methane—in the frozen methane hydrates in the deep ocean trenches of the nation’s Pacific coast.
Now, Japan is announcing a breakthrough in farty resource recovery…

An Energy Coup for Japan
–’Flammable Ice’–
NYTimes.com / March 12, 2013
Japan said Tuesday that it had extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate — sometimes called “flammable ice” — a breakthrough that officials and experts said could be a step toward tapping a promising but still little-understood energy source.
The gas, whose extraction from the undersea hydrate reservoir was thought to be a world first, could provide an alternative source of energy to known oil and gas reserves. That could be crucial especially for Japan, which is the world’s biggest importer of liquefied natural gas…more…

Sadly, mining methane hydrate destroys the fragile habitat of the deep ocean bottom, and even worse it releases methane with twenty times of power as a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere of global warming planet. The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane hydrate (aka methane clathrate) deposits has been hypothesized as a cause of past and possibly future climate changes. Events possibly linked in this way are the Permian-Triassic extinction event and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, meh. (Wikipedia)

Lacking anything better to do, JAXA–Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency–is preparing to send the toy KIBO astro-bot to the International Space Station with their astronaut, Koichi Wakata, to help him with “communication.” Ri-i-i-ight.
Specifically, the little andr0id is programmed to recognise Wakata's face and to communicate in Japanese…[as well as]… take photos during the trip. (The Standard / March 11, 2013).

Weightless test …for the KIBO astronaut robot

Learn more at the official KIBO ROBOT PROJECT website at: kibo-robo.jp/en

Pedestrian-mounted Brake Lights and Turn Signals??
At first glace, the upcoming Augmented Human International Conference ‘13 in Stuttgart looks to be an attempt of Japanese researchers to troll the science community with a Chindogu–Japanese “unuseless” invention: Brake lights for your butt.

The Journal of Improbable Research today offered links to a great story: Pedestrian-mounted brake lights: March 8 in Stuttgart (Improbable Research–blog | 2013/02/27).

At the “Augmented Human ‘13″ conference, Japanese researchers, Hiroaki Sasaki, Tsutomu Terada and Masahiko Tsukamoto will present: A System for Visualizing Human Behavior based on Car Metaphors (link). The researchers will, propose a system for visualizing the user context by using information presentation methods based on those found in cars, such as wearing LEDs as brake lights, which can be seen by surrounding people. Ri-i-i-ight.

This cute Giant isopod—a sea-dwelling woodlouse the size of a poodle, 29 cm in length—has been on hunger strike at a Japanese aquarium for just a while…

According the recent RocketNews24 article, Giant Underwater Pill-Bug Refuses to Eat for 4 Years, Scientists Puzzled, The Toba Aquarium houses two giant isopods. One of them which they affectionately named “No.1” has been on a hunger strike since January 2^nd, 2009. More...

Leave it to Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the world’s largest telecommunications company*, to get into the kinky, electrode-studded, lingerie business as part of their mission, to conduct research relating to the telecommunications technologies that will form the foundation for telecommunications of the Japanese Nation. (NTT.co.jp)

New Electrode Material Suited to Be Woven Into Underwares
Nikkei Electronics | Feb. 13, 2013
…NTT developed an electrode material that can be woven into clothes such as underwares [sic].
The material is made by coating the surfaces of silk, synthetic fiber fabric, etc with the “PEDOT-PSS” conductive polymer. It has high flexibility, hydrophilicity and strength. It does not cause skin problems or discomfort feelings [sic] even when closely attached [sic] to human skin…more...