“Blownies“—now with green tea antioxidants!

Via photozou.jp

Japanese green tea Blownies are a great way to prevent St. Patrick’s Day hangovers.
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See more fun photos of Saint Paddy’s Day in Japan below in the Comments section…

An entirely new train station appeared overnight—”Pachinko Gundam Station”—Tokyo’s newest tourist attraction on the JR Ome Line in the Akishima distict according to the iPhone 5’s official Map app.

New iPhone’s default mapping software displays facilities at wrong sites
Mainichi News | 2012/09/22
…iPhone 5 of Apple Inc. has been struggling to fix the popular smartphone’s new default iOS6 mapping application, which many users said was displaying some facilities at wrong places and had other errors…the new Maps app, developed by Apple itself, showed Hibiya High School on the premises of the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, while the company “Daio Paper” appeared in an area that is actually Haneda Airport …more…

I guess the Japanese government plan to build Gundams (3Yen / 2012-06-27) has become a reality, ri-i-i-ight?
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Related Gundam News:
   • GUNDAM RETURNS TO TOKYO! (3Yen / 2012-02-03)
   • So many Gundams that a hotel was needed (3Yen / 2012-06-07)
   • Gundam’s Big Gun (and bigger balls) ↓ (3Yen / 2007-07-20)

↑ Rare view in the above photo is Gundam’s
dual-ball, base-mounted cannon—the secret
prototype of his “large mega PLEASURE particle gun x1.

Making maki , Japanese rice rolls, is easy especially with the right tools that we reported on yesterday—The Smart Han in hand (3Yen / 2012-09-15). One of our readers, Coligny, astutely pointed out that the “Smart Han” (L) device has, “got nothing on the Fleshlight*.”

However, the pure product of Japan tech, the “Tenga EGG” is superior for Japanese balls … rice balls and others.

As perfect multi-use tool for Japanese ricers, the various types of Tenga shown below are already setup to press out Japanese balls, large and small.

Using the Tenga EGG — twister orange
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A hell of load of hemp!—Four and half tons of a new sacred hemp rope is shown below being lifted into Kaguraden Hall of the Izumo Taisha Shrine on July 9th in Taisha, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. According to The Asahi Shimbun (via Getty Images) the Shinto shrine’s rope was renewed for the 1st time in four years and it took six and half hours to get it into a “high” position of hemp-full worship.

Notice the hot hemp maidens praying for love in the lower half of the above photo. Izumo Taisha is one of the most important Shinto shrines in Japan and is thought to favor those hoping for luck in love.

Learn more about the shrine at wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-taisha.

Shimenawa at Izumo-Taisha Shrine via Wikipedia

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As you can see in the above Google Image Search and in the navigation column on the right, the Tokyo Metro’s “Train Manners” posters are a continual source of amusement to the 3Yen, especially the classic “Please do it at home” series by the Japanese graphics artist, Bunpei Yorifuj, (3Yen / 2009-08-06).

You can imagine my delight in seeing the Queensland Rail in Australia has decided to copy the Japanese poster campaign for train manners as tweeted by “Durf” below.

Via twitter.com/Durf

UPDATE: Oops, I’ve been had!
Read the rest-of-the-story in the Comments…

The Tokyo Reporter just reminded^* me that today the kitschy Tokyo “Sky Tree” was officially recognized this week by the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Tallest Stalinist^† Freestanding Tower (Asahi News).

†Refer to the previous 3Yen posts on Tokyo’s grim gray Stalinist style of concrete architecture:
. . . → ☢ A Sky Tree Grows In Tokyo (3Yen / 2010-04-15)
. . . → ☣ Ill Machine Tokyo (3Yen / 2008-01-22 )↓

Tip-of-the-hat to Mulboyne for this “What’s that? ‘Not enough ‘Hello Kitty’ o0ooooK, ooooK?”

For some odd reason, the Japanese keep rising to the occasion and these TENGA tales keep popping up so to speak. However, I think this story about a transgendered TENGA device has all the others* beat.

Wily woman works out way to wank with Tenga sex aid
The Tokyo Reporter | 2011/09/20
Female cartoonist Shungiku Uchida (age 52) …in her column in Yukan Fuji (Sep. 21) she informs fans of a fantastic way for females to pleasure themselves using a male sex aid. Specifically, a Tenga 3D.
…Uchida managed to pull off a major coup by taking a tubular Tenga 3D— which is basically a synthetic vagina designed to accommodate a penis—turning it inside out, and smearing the silicone surface with a liquid lubricant...more…

*Previous wanking reports on the 3Yen include:

. . . • Danny Choo waxes his dolphin (3Yen.com / 2010-07-17)
. . . • Japan beats all! (3Yen.com / 2008-05-30)
. . . • Wanker Expo (3Yen.com / 2007-08-01)

One of the all-time favorites on the 3Yen in terms of vistor hits is Pikaku’s Privates (3Yen / 2008-09-09) →

So, you can imagine my delight to stumble across the photo posted by a Hitachi kohai/coworker* of a Shinkansen vagina. Sorry, but I just had to steal and repost without permission this photo of an inflatable bullet train vagina.^†

Japan Rail (JR) had a promotional campaign in front of the Kagoshima-chuo station…
Three Steps Over Japan blog: 2011 July 26, Kagoshima

Ok, let’s go for a closeup of the money shot.

† I use the word “vagina” in the loose vernacular sense because calling it the “Shinkansen vulva”or the “Gaping labia of the bullet train” is a bit much, isn’t it?
For more on vagina abuse, please refer to the Grammarist.com.
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