September’s Tokyo Metro Manner(sic) poster needs no Photoshop.

Tokyo elementary school children, wearing fire-proof dunce caps for a nationwide earthquake drill. These disaster drills are held every year around the the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 to prepare for the next Big One.

Japan conducts quake drills on 1923 quake memorial day
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Tokyo: An estimated 795,000 people from Tokyo and 30 other prefectures took part in annual anti-earthquake drills conducted by the central and local governments Tuesday, the 86th anniversary of the 1923 killer quake...more..

The charming ‘Piko-Piko Hammer’ is a favorite of nasty little (and big) Japanese boys along with the dread koncho. The vile toy is benignly described by J-List as, “Part clown toy, part stress reliever, this wacky toy can be found in almost every corner of Japan…great for bopping hecklers, naysayers, or friends on the head when they say something stupid.”

Obviously then the Piko-Piko Hammer is a favorite tool of Japanese game shows and drunk salarymen, and thanks to Japan’s hi-tech engineering, there is now ‘Piko-Piko Hammer’ detector in the form of a Contact Detection Sheet…

Beans Lab Shows Off Fiber-like Contact Detection Sheet
Aug 24, 2009 Nikkei Microdevices–Beans Laboratory, a cooperative association for technology research in Japan, developed a contact detection sheet using a fiber-like device…[that]… can detect pressure and position where pressure is applied, it will possibly be used for artificial skins and body sensors…more…
Embiggen for the concept of the device

And here is a delightful little Japanese boy wielding killer ‘Piko-Piko Hammer on his sister…

(And, Japanese folks wonder why they have such a problem with ijime/bullying, sheesh.)

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Previously, the 3Yen has uncovered beating off the Japanese heat with ladies loincloths and traditional Japanese butt festivals.

However, the fundoshi girl below is not exactly the sexy effect that she was looking for…
She looks like she has a half-full load developing in her adult diaper.

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50,000 people push and shove in a swimming pool of this summer
Chunichi Shimbun – August 14, 2009 09:06 (wacky machine translation)…People greeted this O-Bon vacation at a seawater swimming pool of the Nagashima Spa… full of the best about 50,000 people in families and couples this summer…

Every O-bon holiday in August, the news sources write the same report about Swimming with 15,000 of your closest friends (3Yen). Today’s report remarks that this summer there are approximately 10% fewer guests in comparison with an average year.
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No smorking* [sic] campaigns of Japan Tobacco (former government monopoly and present quasi-monopoly) along with their “Smokin’ Clean©” program of the past 20 years seem to have taken effect finally.

Japan’s smoking population drops to record low; under 25%
By nasdaq.com Dow Jones Newswires 08-14-090357ET —The percentage of smokers in Japan has fallen below a quarter of the adult population for the first time, with both men and women lighting up less, according to the results of a nationwide survey released Friday by Japan Tobacco Inc… …the world’s third-largest tobacco producer by volume, 24.9% of respondents considered themselves to be smokers. The result is lower than last year’s figure of 25.7%…

(Explanation of “smorking.”)

On the road in Tsuchiyama in the middle of Japan today, a friend snapped this photo of a “Ninja Kan-cho car.” The “ninja” boy on top of the van is about to perform the dread kan-cho .

What’s a kan-cho?

The insidious kan-cho is a prank played by performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone’s anus when the victim is not looking (similar to the wedgie or a goosing) and often executed simultaneously as the offending party loudly yelling “Kan-CHO!” (Wiki).

Also check out www.kancho.org

Sometimes it is better to not try to explain Japanese manhood.

“Drink milk” of Hatsune Miku fame—Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) being the Vocaloid2 (Wiki) .

The friend of the 3Yen, Rob Pongi writes:

Be sure to see this award-winning film before
it gets taken down from Youtube (semi-(NSFW).

The Great Happiness Space – Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

…an eight-part documentary by Jake Clennell on the life of being a male host in a club….

Thank Buddha you weren’t born Japanese.