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7/3/2009

‘…when handling fun bags on the train.’

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tokyo train manners 2009 july

View the original/unaltered version of July’s Metro Manners poster here.


The poster above for July is one of a monthly series of the Tokyo Metro aimed at cajoling the so-called ‘rude’ Japanese public to have better train manners.
In previous months, posters reminded riders of their manners:
Please PISTON outside
Don’t read newspapers
‘Please refrain from snotty…’
The official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season
No romance on the train, please
Train posters–sometimes I can’t explain ‘em.
And many, many, more….


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7/2/2009

The real Saint Mishima now on sale

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Mishima stuff to be auctioned
July 2, 2009 - StraitsTimes.com
TOKYO -
A Japanese bookseller will on Sunday auction off letters and photos of the nationalist author and poet Yukio Mishima, famous for his writings and his public samurai-style suicide in 1970…
….The 1967 and 1970 letters, addressed to his American friend Jan von Adlmann, an art museum director, hint at a possibly intimate relationship between them…
…Mishima in both letters spoke of Saint Sebastian, a third-century Roman martyr and an oft cited symbolic figure of homosexuality…Mishima enclosed black-and-white photos showing himself posing naked as Saint Sebastian, with his wrists tied up over his head and bleeding with arrows piercing his bodymore...
saint mishima

Although the news reports about this don’t make it clear, the photo above of Mishima as Saint Sebastian seems to be, “One of the photos was made public for the first time,” according to antiquarian bookseller Shigeru Natsume, who went on to say that, “I suppose it was not allowed to be published as it shows his naked lower body, although Mishima seemed to have liked it better.”

That photo is certainly more-over-the-top than the “standard” Saint Sebastian photo that Mishima’s estate had released years ago (below).
Mishima as Saint

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7/2/2009

Nyah, nyah, nyah, missed me!

 North Korea shoots missiles ssm 1 Pongi

North Korea fires two short-range missiles –July 2 (Bloomberg) .


Nyah, nyah, nyah, missed me!

nyah-nyah-nyah boy

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7/2/2009

The Asian Blow Burger

Coming soon to Burger King Japan
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The copy from the above ad of Burger King Singapore actually reads (via Fox News)…
“…
Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled with the NEW BK SUPER SEVEN INCHER. Yearn for more after you taste
Need I write more?


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7/2/2009

Fuji Speedway / Toyota pulls out of F1 in Japan

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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 yearmore...

Say “sayonara” Speedway—”bye-bye” to F1 in Japan. Sayonara see you again adios bye bye Cha Cha!


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7/1/2009

Robogeisha!

If you loved “Tokyo Gore Police” or “Machine Girl” you must watch this.

youtube trailer robogeisha

Link idea via a tweet from my friend, “Mulboyne.”

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6/30/2009

Sneaky sneaker snatching

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FANS STEAL LEONARDO DICAPRIO’S SNEAKERS
nypost.com - June 29, 2009…. During a visit to a hilltop shrine in Kyoto…DiCaprio was asked by a couple of fans to pose for a picture — but he declined, pointing to a sign prohibiting photography on the premises. Feeling slighted, the fans waited until he removed his Nike Dunks to enter the temple and then stole them.”more...

Click here for a close-up of the lost Nike Dunks still on DiCaprio.
For more exciting photos of Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, and David Blaine in Japan, wearing yukata, drinking sake and hanging out, literally hanging out. (NSFW)

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6/30/2009

Extreme make-overs on Fuji TV’s ‘Beauty Coliseum’

The crazies over on 2-Ch posted this gem…
Fuji TV’s Beauty Coliseum summer ‘09! (machine translation)
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NOTE: Page way down to the middle to see all the Before-vs-After photos.


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6/30/2009

Fist of Japan

 Japanese fist gadget

Guess the Japanese Gadget!
This fist shaped gadget actually does something. What is it?

ANSWER at the Rinkya blog.


No, no, no, this Japanese gadget does not have anything to to do with the previous 3Yen reports on the Robot hand-job or the always fun venue in Tokyo once a year, the Adult Treasure Expo.

WANKERING MACHINES IN ACTION at the Adult Treasure Expo AET 2007


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6/29/2009

Real-time control of vehicles using just your brain waves

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Combine this brainwave control with Toyota’s i-Real electric vehicle covered on the 3Yen yesterday (2009-06-28), and BINGO, you have a winner.

BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center Develops Real-time Control of Wheelchairs with Brain Waves
June 29, 2009 - RIKEN - TOYOTA …succeeded in developing a system which utilizes one of the fastest technologies in the world, controlling a wheelchair using brain waves…new system fuses RIKEN’s blind signal separation1 and space-time-frequency filtering2 technology to allow brain-wave analysis in as little as 125 ms, as compared to several seconds required by conventional methods.more


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