After six looooong years in Japan, Bobby Valentine, will now leave the Lotte Marines to drop back to the bottom where they naturally belong.
DayLife.com—
Bobby Valentine talks with the media Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, in Cleveland. Valentine, the most experienced of the finalists for Cleveland’s manager’s job, got his second interview with the Indians…more...
Somebody with an overactive imagination in Cuckoo Clock Land is attempting to sell this so-called Belt Belt watch that the company says is:
“The first watch in the world that money can’t buy!*”
The shady deal is….
In order to buy this watch for 3,000 Swiss Franks (2,966.94 USD), you must first submit “proof” of your black belt certificate listing its issuing date, Dojo, Sensei, and Federation. 
However, as you can see on the right, anybody make up a fake black belt certificate and email it to the Belt Belt watch company.
There is no way for the watch company to check to see whether the certificate is real because there are a bazillion small martial arts studios and dojo—Martial arts “Federations” do not keep records of students who are not competing).
Therefore, I, Taro the Terrible, 9th-dan, proclaim all readers of the 3Yen.com are Black Belts!
Go ahead and fill in your certificate.
Idea and link thanks to stylecrave.com
Day Life.com just posted a bunch of these Japanese females at the Japan Bodybuilding Championships held in Tokyo October 12, 2009.
FOR COMPARISON…
Embiggen to 610×446
Speaking of Monkey Girls in the previous post…
3 professional wrestlers accused of abusing pet monkey at gym
Mainichi Japan September 1, 2009
KOBE – Police here will send documents to prosecutors on three professional wrestlers over allegations they abused a pet monkey kept at a training gym…Around April, the monkey — a female 10-year-old Japanese macaque — was subjected to various acts of abuse at a gym run by Kobe-based wrestling group Dragon Gate…more…
This abuse came to light many months ago and the wrestlers seemed to think it was acceptable enough to post on their official website as described below by Wrestling Truth magazine.
wrestlingtruth.com June 1st, 2009 … wrestlers constantly tease the monkey and have:
- Choked him by the neck until it passed out.
- Burned the monkey with charcoal.
- Threw him into a tub of boiling hot water.
- Blew air into his mouth so it would defecate itself.
- Gave the monkey sake (Japanese alcohol) regularly until it would pass out.
- Dragged it around by a chain on its neck.
- Attached fire crackers to him and lit them
- And locked him in a box and sprayed antiperspirant inside, causing it to freak out.
The wrestlers implicated are Shingo Takagi, Akira Tozawa and Katsuo/Yuki Ono, after they openly blogged about the abuse…more...
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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This is amusing—Sumo wrestlers getting bullied by their hairdresser!
WTFBBQ! The Japan Sumo Association needs to start recruiting hairdressers.
Sumo stablemaster questioned over assault on hairdresser
July 25, 2009 – The Mainichi Daily News— The Japan Sumo Association is questioning sumo stablemaster Oitekaze over the discovery that he and some his students assaulted a sumo hairdresser in March,…the stablemaster and several wrestlers attacked the hairdresser at the lodging facilities of the Oitekaze sumo stable in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, hitting him several times in the face….
…Commenting on the incident, Oitekaze indicated that the hairdresser had bullied wrestlers. ...more…
Yaguranage (n) inner thigh throw
Suomen Kuvalehti 2009/07/25/
Grand champion Asashoryu, black belt, jerks up champion Harumafuji before applying a rare sumo technique, from right to left in this consequence, to throw him out during a bout at Nagoya, central Japan, on Friday July 24, 2009…more…
The rest of the story is that this fancy move was performed for the first time in 34 years in competition by the “bad boy” foreigner, Asashoryu, who’s Mongolian who enjoys thumbing his nose of the sumo establishment. Most likely Asashoryu used the rare sumo move to show up the Japanese sumo traditionalists that have always derided foreign sumo wrestlers for lacking any finesse or deep understanding of the sport.
Andre the Giant Has a Posse was a massively successful street art campaign based on a 1986 design by Shepard Fairey. Andre The Giant appeared for the last time on a card in Japan in December 1992 at the celebration for 20 years of NWA/WCW wrestling on Japanese TBS TV network.
Fuji circuit withdraws from F1, report says
Agencies | 2009-July-2 —Toyota-owned Fuji International Speedway is reportedly planning to pull out of hosting the 2010 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix…
…Toyota has been hit by the global economic downturn….the current fiscal year through March 2010 to be its worst ever financially, forecasting a net loss of US$5.7 billion.
Fuji Speedway hosted the Japanese Grand Prix in 2007 and 2008 for the first time in 30 years, replacing the Honda-owned Suzuka circuit. The 2009 Japanese Grand Prix will be held at Suzuka, near the city of Nagoya. It was expected that the race would alternate between Suzuka and Fuji beginning this year…more...
Say “sayonara” Speedway—”bye-bye” to F1 in Japan. Sayonara see you again adios bye bye Cha Cha!
Local population flees in terror!
Godzilla refuses to respond to calls for help.
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