‘Maruyaman’ is yet another Yuru-Chara, that is a yurui-character (lit. loose character)—the tacky furry mascots that populate the Japan with the HAPPY (3Yen / 2010-10-20).
Via the mega-funky Google Translation of Japan’s Sapporo Maruyama Zoo’s “Maruyaman”—The “mascot” zoo-keeper Sapporo Maruyama Zoo
■Born : Enya Minoru (Big round and Mitsuru)
■Age : 50 years
■Date of Birth: May 5th
■Occupation: Maruyama Zoo-keeper
■Specialty: Observation of animals so will not lose to any to escapes!
Mr. Enya Minoru (Rotund and Mitsuru) is just an average 50 year old man—a typical onjisan. He’s usually a quiet and handsome, but does love sequins and animals…And by the way he’s addicted to Japanese canned coffee after work.
Therefore it’s not hard to imagine, Yoshiki, the leader of the Japanese rock band X-Japan was showing off his YOSHIKIMONO collection at the Asia Girls Explosion fashion show (see below) on March 6, 2011…
When last we visited the Geminoids android project of Osaka University, Professor Ishiguro was working on a Japanese robot-girl fashion makeover as a way to have Robo-3way with lesbian twins(3Yen / 2010-04-04) as shown on the right.
Now the Geminoid project has expanded to create the first gaijin Geminoid robot copy of Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark…
All over the Internet for the past few days has been news of the new Panasonic LUMIX FX77 camera that has a “beauty re-touch” feature that can whiten your teeth, change the size of your eyes, and add rouge, lipstick, or eye shadow. Which reminds me of the quite real problem with previous “beautifying” digital cameras that tended to insult users…
The longest career as a magazine cover designer for the same magazine goes to Keizo Tsukamoto who has illustrated the covers of SHUKAN MANGA TIMES without missing a single issue since April 1970. In July 2008, Tsukamoto received the Guinness World Record for this longest run illustrating a magazine’s cover.
As you can see on the right, he is still going strong with this week’s cover of SHUKAN MANGA TIMES. In recent years his art is only featured on the edges of the magazine cover such as the girls smiling on the bottom left of this week’s cover.
Alright, alright, I know that Steven Seagal is an incarnate tulku Tibetan lama* and not a Japanese Buddha, but hey…
Seagal was a practicing Buddhist when he lived in Japan as a 7th-dan black belt master operating an aikido dojo in Japan. On that tenuous Japanese connection let me present the Steven Seagal Recycling T-Shirt…
Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International wants you to “talk to the hand.” Ahhhh, the wonders of government sponsored research…
Elfoid, A Pocket-Size Android That Talks and Wiggles, Might Be Your Next Cellphone IEEE Spectrum | March 3, 2011-A pocket-size android shaped like an embryo might be your next cellphone. Meet the Elfoid, a miniature anthropomorphic robot unveiled today in Japan that works like a cellphone, but which is designed to transmit not only voice but also “human presence.” More…
In response the 3Yen’s report about the the Tokyo Metro celebrating February 31st and being several days late in their subway “manners” poster, they posted this warning of the dread Japanese schoolgirl menace after lunch today… View original.
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A Rinkya Blog:| March 07, 2011
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