
City’s poop patrol making slow progress against negligent dog owners
Scheisse fausting schplitzing JapanToday (2013 May 04)
…adjacent to Kansai International Airport, the streets since last September have been patrolled by pairs of elderly men wearing distinctive yellow jumpers [reading] “Hochi-fun G Men.” “Hochi-fun” means droppings left behind, and the role of these G-Men—for which an annual budget of 4.6 million yen has been allocated–is to deal with residents’ complaints over the the proliferating piles of poop befouling the city’s streets.…
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According to report of Mainichi Broadcasting (2013/03/25 | Google Translate) there’s plenty of Resentment of among the Poop-monitoring “G-Men “.
Three times a week, the volunteers of the Poop Patrol keep an eye out for the evil puppy deposits , but their efforts have been to no avail. According to the G-Men, the instances of street “fun” —the Japanese word for animal poop have increased with the number of poop patrols.

And, the “yellow card strategy” of marking the places where the Poop Patrol has removed the doggie deposts has have no effect either. Maybe the signs are too cute to cause the intended shame in the offending doo-doo dogie owners.

You can read plenty more poop about this on the Japanese press (Google Translate)…
…held on Sunday April 28th the parade celebrates the diversity of the LGBT community and raises awareness...more…

Read more at The Japan Times / April 29, 2013: Gay pride march kicks off first ‘Tokyo Rainbow Week’
The “Tenga” shown on the left is the perfect materbation Multi-tool for Japanese ricers (3Yen / 2012-09-15).
The TENGA has been one few new export successes for Japan in health industry and for several years running it has helped Japan capture the title as the World’s Greatest Wankers at the Mastasturbateathon (3Yen / 2008-05-30) .
As silly as the Japanese Tenga seems makes it even more amazing to see a blatant Chinese copy, the Tenca (shown below), which was exhibited at the 10th China International Adult Health and Reproductive Well-being Exhibition” according to News-PostSeven.com (goofy Google Translate).
And for scientific comparison, here’s the original Japanese Tenga…

www.tenga-global.com
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To learn more about the Japan Tenga refer to the previous reports on the 3Yen including:
• Danny Choo waxes his dolphin (3Yen / 2010-07-17)
• Japan’s beats off all to win the product design Red Dot Award
(3Yen / 2012-03-18)
• Transforming transexual TENGA Twist ↓ (3Yen / 2011-09-21)

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Shown at Kagawa pref. police headquarters … Kinak0 (C) was appointed with her daughters as a special member of the prefectural police’s education team. She worked as a police dog for two years…having previously failed the test for 6 years running.
Back in January 2011 the Japan Times explained the-rest-of-the-story as,
…Kinak0 gained popularity for her persistence, despite continually failing due to making mistakes such as falling head-first while trying to jump over obstacles. In her 7th try in Nov. [2019] she finally passed…
—The Japan Times | 2011/01/07:
Doggedness pays off; cops swear in their Lab
Gee, maybe somebody oughta tell ‘em that April Fool’s is a bad launch day for a serious NPR documentary about so-called “yellow fever”—white guys’ obsession with Asian women.
They’re All So Beautiful is a six-part web series with eposodes be released one per week leading up to the national broadcast of Seeking Asian Female on Independent Lens on Monday, May 6, 2013…more...
April Fool’s PR Pranks No Laughing Matter for Major Media
BusinessWired – 2013/03/28
… “We don’t consider April Fool’s jokes to be very funny,” says Tom Kent, standards editor for the Associated Press. Kent says while others may consider it lighthearted fun, “We have a responsibility to get the facts right.” According to Kent, the AP takes that responsibility very seriously all year round …more…

Shoe poison ‘murder attempt’ in Japan
AFP / March 28, 2013
… allegedly tried to kill a woman he was stalking by putting poison in her shoes has been arrested police…Tatsujiro Fukasawa, 40, allegedly put hydrofluoric acid, a highly caustic chemical, in her shoes … the chemical, which is used in oil refining or to dissolve rock, at his workplace…more…
Previous 3Yen reports of “Cruel Shoes” include:
• Foot ‘Inspirations’ (3Yen / 2012-06-06)
• Kinky Leather (3Yen / 2012-02-14)
• Cruel clogs..from Japan of course ↓ (3Yen / 2012-05-27)
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Thanks to wonders of goofy Google Translate, we can learn of Japan’s new fashion fatties in the debut/
of the niche magazine, “la farfa.”

Why can some chubby woman be popular, while others are not?
What makes the difference?
Weekly SPA! | 2012/Mar/18
{WARNING: This link contains NSFW advertising.}
(Giga-goofy Google Translate)…
In Japan, both men and women have thought that a person cannot be both popular and fat…That may be changed with the recent launch of ‘la farfa‘ fashion magazine for larger women. In that new magazine interviewed Ms. Habayashi*, a 103kg, self-proclaimed ‘Love Counselor,’ who said that, ‘…a decade ago, men who professed plump love were treated as fetishists. However, in recently …men can easily say that they like a woman plump…more…

Linked to the Weekly SPA story were screenshots of a Japanese TV program showing the results of a survey of 100 people revealing that “chubby” popularity has overwhelmingly increased—88 to 12.
SPA magazine went on to say that women being, “plump, proud and popular” has become, “rampant in society” and that this could be, “evidence of reverse brainwashing by the media in recent years…”

On NHK-G, the General TV channel of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, had this bit of charming harassment of a child on a sumo wrestler, which was aired during the coverage of The 46th NHK Grand Sumo Charity Tournament that aired today.

Embiggen to a huge, 1440 × 808 pixel photo in high definition.
The great thing about the NHK Grand Sumo Charity Tournament is that they always invite the kids (boy and girls) to challenge the sumo wrestlers—often entire gangs of kids get to attack all at once. See below.
Homeless, jobless forced to take refuge under Golden Arches
Asahi News | Jan. 31, 2013
Japan’s long-moribund economy has spawned a new breed of jobless and homeless people dubbed “makudo nanmin,” or refugees at McDonald’s.
Mostly in their 30s and 40s, they typically spend the night at a McDonald’s restaurant…for 100 yen over a cup of coffee.
Many of the makudo nanmin graduated from school during the employment “ice age” from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, joined the labor market as temporary workers and eventually lost their jobs.
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Image ripped-off from DannyChoo {sorry}.
I know quite a few of these “refugees”—contracted “code monkeys” who were at Hitachi but never hired full-time. Now if they have a short-term contracts at Softbank/Docomo/whatever, they sleep under their desk after midnight. Otherwise, they sleep at McDonald’s (or grandma’s farm) until they scrounge up their next subcontract and have a new temporary desk to sleep under.
The key question is:
Would you dare to spank this?↓

Female wrestlers say Japan’s national judo team was beaten by coach
japandailypress.com / January 31, 2013
The All Japan Judo Federation released a statement this week confirming that national team head coach Ryuji Sonoda physically abused his female wrestlers prior to last summer’s London Olympics…15 female judo wrestlers sent a letter of complaint to the Japanese Olympic Committee in December detailing their harassment and abuse…more…

Ok, ok, ok, the All Japan Judo Federation apologizes for its head coach and coaching staff harassing and physically abusing its top female athletes. This is a bit weird because judo coaches always physically abuse their male athletes—It’s a tradition (and a real shock the first time my Japanese coach wailed on me and the rest of the students with a bokkan/wooden sword occasionally drawing blood).