At the Autumn/Winter Collection on the opening day of Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, we finally have the answer to, ‘Who killed Cock Robin?’
…designed by Kazuaki Takashima of Tokyo’s fashion house Ne-net…
—via Daylife.com AP Photo – Monday, March 23, 2009
Also check out Bad Hair Day in Tokyo…
–Mass exercises with “Gari-Gari” Brother, check.
–Beer-bong helmet, check.
–Superman t-shirt with diaper, check.
–Japanese TV show, check…
The comedic idea here is that Gari-Gari Brother (”garigarigarikuson”) must really know his exercise because his is an otaku NEET who really needs exercise.
Check out the crappy Japanese website of comedian garigarigarikuson (machine translation) and rough/direct translation of the YouTube info that reads: “Expo of laughter — exercises of a NEET”.
as onomatopoeia for grinding or gnawing but more currently it has become a humorous buzzword for meaning a grasping person or being overly needy.
Sexy Subaru Photo Shoot
The “concept” of the website is that you are an “Official Photographer” at a Sexy Subaru Photo Shoot. While the “Sexy Sumo Supermodel” shows off the Forester’s features, you can use your mouse scrollwheel to zoom on his butt zits, right-click to take photos, and submit them to their contest gallery.
The Subaru sumo super model in this Canadian TV commercial for the Forester SUV is Byambajav Ulambayar, who wrestled under the Japanese sumo name of “Daishochi”. He left Japan at age 20 years old when he reached the top Makunouchi division (the top 42 men in Japan). Now he is the current and two-time “World” Sumo Champion.
Be sure to enjoy all the sexy videos and “extras” on the website of Subaru Canada…
Holy misfortune in Japan is shooting Hole-In-One at a golfcourse. In fact, they sell insurance if the misfortune hits—This cop thought he might profit.
Officer ‘profited from false hole-in-1 claim’
The Yomiuri Shimbun – Sept. 20, 2008 —A Hyogo Prefecture police officer is suspected of falsely claiming to have shot a hole in one at golf to cash in on an insurance policy … scheme to defraud the firm of 700,000 yen...more...
The rest-of-the-story is…
In Japan, you have to buy Hole-In-One Insurance because it is customary to buy gifts for your foursome, all the drinks that night, AND you have to send 10,000-30,000 yen gifts to all your corporate “golf friends.” My golf buddie, ‘Greji’ explains:
“It’s also customary to leave a commemorative marker such as a tree, or bush, planted behind the hole with a plaque. This can be the most expensive of all the trash that is required.”
“THE DUKE’S WALK WAY”
It’s a 3-day holiday weekend and the “Duke’s Walkers” are out in force on the glitzy streets of Ginza yesterday and today.
DUKE’S WALK is the brainfart of the walking guru Duke Saraie shown above as he energetically leads his flock of marchers in yesterday’s “Dukeswalk” on the closed to vehicles streets of Ginza—Walking Paradise (Duke Saraie’s website).
The main idea of “Duke’s Walk” is to walk with a proper erect posture, head back, and a full arm swing (Japanese stick their necks out like turtles, stare at their feet, and women take mincing pigeon-toed steps). His brainfart claim is that 300 “proper steps” of Duke’s Walk is sufficient daily exercise.
Read more about Duke in, The Japan Times Online – Walking back to happiness
Sound advice from the Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing ….
Japan fans warned not to fly naval flag
Fri Aug 8, 2008 / BEIJING (Reuters) – Japanese fans attending the Beijing Olympics have been advised not to display the country’s “rising sun” naval flag for fear of provoking a backlash from Chinese hosts. The flag is seen by many in Asia as a symbol of Tokyo’s wartime militarism. “We explain in a safety guideline for Japanese tourists coming to see the Olympics that the old military flag may cause trouble…more…
Additional sound advice might include:
—Don’t fly the Confederate flag in front of the national NAACP convention.
—Avoid wearing a swastika pigskin jacket at the Wailing Wall.
For more information see Wikipedia’s article on Japan’s Kyokujitsu-ki/Rising-sun flag and other nationalist symbols.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago 
, in the 1980s and early 90s, Japanese movie director/ comedian Beat Takeshi used to do a wildly popular comedy routine were he would yell “Comaneci!” and do what he thought was the Nadia Comaneci’s leotard “pose”. In the gag, the hands are thrust diagonally like the bottoms of a gymnast’s one-piece leotard. Now it has become an exercise routine on Japanese TV (rather than old shimoneta/dirty joke).
Now according to my friend Mulboyne, this ‘Comaneci’ exercise has suddenly become insanely popular on Japanese YouTube. It is called the “Yakitoro Jiisan Taiso” (やきとりじいさん体操)—an exercise routine derived from Fukushima City’s yakitori (skewered chicken) campaign song.
Here’s the “traditional” shimoneta/dirty joke version of Beat Takeshi’s Comaneci gag.
Japan’s Air Purifier: Olympians to Wear Dust Masks!
medindia.net – Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:25:10 AM — The Japanese Olympic squad seems to be taking no chances in protecting itself from the pollution in Beijing. The delegation will carry 500 dust masks for industrial use to guard against the Chinese city’s notorious air pollution, a corporate official said Monday. Koken, a major Japanese maker of respirators, gas masks and air purifiers, has provided the masks for free to the Japanese Olympic Committee for possible use in training at the Beijing Games…more…
Japanese wearing masks to cope with Beijing’s filth. Sure…. they look like terrorists trying to hide something, but hey it’s China so they will be safe…..ri-i-i-ight.
The Japanese sure do love their face masks that I previously previously covered my reports on the 3Yen.com like the Masked flu-fighting – Japanese Nanoblock(tm) and the
Get well soon mask. 
And, be sure to check out this video of the Japanese Olympic Teams practicing their entrance into the Games’ opening ceremony wearing their gas masks, ha, ha.
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Back in the 80s and early 90s, Japanese movie director/ comedian Beat Takeshi used to do a wildly popular comedy routine were he would yell “Comaneci!” and do what he though was the Nadia Comaneci’s leotard “pose” where hands are thrust diagonally like the bottoms of a gymnast’s one-piece leotard. Now, as you can see in the above video, it has become an exercise routine on Japanese TV (rather than shimoneta/dirty joke shown below).
Soccer-Baseball-Sumo-Cycling-Tennis-Pole-Vaulting-Sprinting-Umpiring-Horsemanship-Whatever for Japanese Gatorade
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