Free luxury hotel in Hokkaido opens!
Asahikawa Prison completed — all private rooms goofy Google Translate of Hokkaido Shimbun Press 2016/Sept/10— Rebuilding of the aging facility of Asahikawa Prison, which has been underway since 2011,...
View ArticleTokyo court drops case against ‘Sperm Fairies’
Tokyo court drops public obscenity case over outdoor porn shoot The Tokyo Reporter | 2016/09/30 The Tokyo District Court last week dropped a public obscenity case against 52 persons involved in the...
View ArticleWE WANT YOU!
← A bit less boring and bellicose than Uncle Sam’s “I WANT YOU!” here is the recruiting poster I found in my Tokyo subway for Japan’s “I ☆ P’s” [sic] idols of the country’s ‘Self-Defense Forces’ who...
View ArticleMore poop on Japan
As this Japanese toilet signage says, ″ Good poo is born in a comfy place.″ (3Yen | 2014-10-28). That is, poo is precious according Toilet Japan‘s PR campaign. Toilet Japan.jimdo.com wants us...
View Article‘Premium Friday’— Japan’s new TGIF
Japan considering letting their slaves workers leave early for FAC*, which will be called in engrish, Premium Friday (プレミアムフライデ)—an only once-a-month Japanese TGIF. Japan looks to jolt consumption by...
View ArticleJapan’s Big Brother is watching
Everwhere you go in Tokyo you can see these stickers of the eyes of Japanese Big-Brother plastered on signs, trucks, delivery bikes, etc. Basically, these Kabuki-makeup eyes serve as a community watch...
View ArticleReal Japan: Bonenkai drunks at the end-of-the-year
It’s that time of the year again. BEWARE OF DRUNKS FALLING OFF THE TRAIN PLATFORMS! —embiggen above poster— Previous reports of Japan’s Scourge of December, end-of-the-year party/bonekai drunks,...
View ArticleHow to wrap Japanese Xmas presents
Thanks to Kotaku.com, here’s the newest way to wrap Japanese XXXmas presents—Otona Maki/おとなまき, lit. “adult wrapping”. Ok, ok, the claim is that this a Japanese therapeutic method emulates the...
View ArticleNo boozing please, we’re Japanese
As I have mentioned here many times, in Japan Drunkenness is Next to Godliness…even the Shinto gods love getting ripsnorting wasted. Especially salarymen, the Japanese are known as some of the worst...
View ArticleBiker gang rampages because of no dates on Valentine’s Day
An actual Japanese biker/bosozoku gang call to action… ″ Gang of guys without girls, let’s run wild!!″ Tokyo cops: No dates on Valentine’s Day sends biker gang on rampage https://t.co/25opzydN8a...
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