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Imagine you are having drink with your Japanese friends and they set down these snacks in front of you: Foot long (28cm), salmon-flavored, pretzel sticks coated with an almost-glowing orange radioactive, fishy powder. Yum! Japan Auction & Shopping Service: Giant Glico Salmon Flavored Pretz

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The Easter Bunny in Japan is nearly as strange as our post two days ago on Good Friday. Learn more about Rabikurin, the Japanese Easter Bunny and view additional photos in the Comments section.

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Have a happy Buddha’s Birthday, Japanese style, which is today on April 8 (or May 8 since nobody in Japan is fussy about religion). Embiggen for a better Buddha bonner (The above photo is called Dances devant le Bouddha, by Manasse.) In Japan, Buddha’s birth is celebrated according to the Buddhist calendar but using the [...]

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Just outside of Tokyo at Itabu railway station in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture now has the new “world’s largest public toilet.” According to Google Translate of the TV Asahi news report (below), “the world’s largest [public] toilet self-proclaimed” is a glass-walled privy in the middle of 200 square meters open space. Although the currently this [...]

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. . The Anime News Network reports that the fun-loving folks of the Gundam Project (3Yen/2009-07-14) will be rebuilding a the full-sized, 16 meter tall Gundam again in Tokyo’s “DiverCity” in the Odaiba district (Google Earth). The “Gundam Front (gundamfront-tokyo.com) theme park will be reopening on April 14. According to ANN there [...]

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US Coast Guard Sinks Japanese Ghost Ship fauxABC News | 2012/April/06 The U.S. Coast Guard fired its guns on a derelict Japanese spy pirate fishing boat today, sinking it to the bottom of the ocean after it was decided it wasn’t worth towing for salvage… …The Japanese ship, Ryou-Un Maru, floated across [...]

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Today is Good Friday so let’s be sacrilegiously Japanese with this NSFW (Not Safe For Work) p0rn version of the Crucifixion of Ultraman. Embiggen at your own risk (NSFW). .. Embiggen (NSFW). .. For other Japanese twists on Good Friday and Christmas, check out the previous 3Yen posts about Jesus Saves Tokyo (3Yen / 2007-12-07). …and the Crucified Claus (3Yen / [...]

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Five-time, Nathan’s hotdog chomping champ, Takeru Kobayashi (3Yen / 2005-07-04) tackles the greatest non-food food in the history of man, toxic yellow Peeps (left), in his latest Easter eating challenge. Link to the Peep-geeking challenge in a disgusting Facebook video… .. —BuzzFeed Eater-in-residence takes on World Competitive Eating Champion Takeru Kobayashi in an Easter eating [...]

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Gloomy Bear’s fame has fallen forcing him to take a job as a victim/stunt double with the Tokyo Metro. I spotted this new series of Tokyo subway “manners” posters* that has started in April, the beginning of the new Japanese fiscal year. original Fair Use — Parody As I [...]

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Dead whale dinners drop as the Taiji Japan’s whale museum has made “improvements.” Taiji museum holds memorial service for dead whale Japan Times | April 3, 2012 SHINGU, Wakayama Pref. — A whale museum in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, held a memorial service Monday for a whale that died there shortly after its birth in fiscal 2011…manager of [...]

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McDonald's Japan Aug. same-store sales down 8.2% Sept. 9, 2011 | TOKYO (MarketWatch) – McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) said Friday that same-store sales in August declined 8.2% on year, falling short of the year-earlier level for the second straight month and declining at an even steeper pace than after the disasters in March… More… McDonald's Japan has [...]

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Just buy my fucking book. a story of a little japanese girl who gets mistaken for a local, who landed herself in Los Angeles. . . . —via justbuymyfuckingbook .. Embiggen to 800 x 620 px.

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Miss Universe Japan 2011 Maria Kamiyama pre-tapes in her national costume onstage at Sao Paulo according to 2SPACE.NET – Sep 8th, 2011 .. As posted here before in Miss Greater Co-Prosperity Universe (3Yen | 9/2/2011) is once again going for the kinky samurai look that has served Japan so well in previous years (3Yen [...]

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To quote this Japanese fellow’s other Youtube video… There are only two types of people in the world, The ones that entertain and the ones that observe. Tip-of-the-hat to Oyajikun

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In the upper right corner of the photo below is captured a UFO flying over downtown Tokyo today. .. —The joke of this re-tweet about the former Prime Minister “Hatoyama expresses outrage, demands to see wife” this that his wife wrote a book in which she claiming to have ridden, “…on a triangular-shaped UFO and went [...]

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I can’t imagine why… but Dwight Howard “Giraffe Dunk” at a mall appearance at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo dunks a stuffed giraffe.

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If you have ever riden on the Tokyo Metro and watched the passengers passed-out over each other, you would know that the Metro’s “Manners Poster” for September does not need any of my “improvements.” .. cirquebass‘ flickr |

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The 3Yen gets inquiries all the time from young people about wanting to come to Japan to live. From now on I think I will just send them the link to this short film. link via EX-SKF Kickstarter-funded short film project “BLIND (post-nuclear Tokyo commute)” was created in Japan by Jamie / Sho …more at … —Turning [...]

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As much I would love to see this on the market for people with amputations, I also love the Youtube comments: Can it masturbate? Can you do nose picking? IMPRESSIVE!!!!! They took primitive technology, and fooled people into thinking its not primitive technology, WOW, HOW INNOVATIVE. I AM SO IMPRESSED. Previous fun robot hand reports from the 3Yen [...]

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REUTERSPICTURESonline The Miss Universe pageant going to be held in Brazil on September 12. However, Miss Japan, Maria Kamiyama, has POWNED the competition at you can see this pre-release of the video of the contest at Sao Paulo’s Beco de Batman Na-Na-Na… ..

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