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Last December I covered the Japanese international weirdo/superstar, Koji Matsumoto, in his video Calling Captain Underpants (singing in Japanese and engRish). Well, here’s another–Captain Underpants singing and Turbo Toilet 2000 on the drums. Enjoy. The official website of Captain Underpants (scholastic.com). The real story of Captain Underpants: “Behind the Waistband” (Youtube).

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Back in the mists of time (1973), the avant-popster group “Slapp Happy” sing their faux-japaneseque “HAIKU” song… Listen/download to the MP3 (2.4MB) of “HAIKU” here or … ‘Yeah, I think I’ll write a haiku…’ Tokyo snarkCast

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Andre the Giant Has a Posse was a massively successful street art campaign based on a 1986 design by Shepard Fairey. Andre The Giant appeared for the last time on a card in Japan in December 1992 at the celebration for 20 years of NWA/WCW wrestling on Japanese TBS TV network.

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NEW AND IMPROVED! SCUMBALL SODA NOW WITHOUT BALLS! This year’s new pink guarana soda on the left features the ball-free character “Mokorin” which is said to be cuter than the tradional “Marimokkori,” the lake scumball character that is based on marimo lake algae balls of Hokkaido Japan. The Marimokkori character is found [...]

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Indo-Japanese film falls through, Asin is fuming Bollywood–Titbits-santabanta.com July 8, 2009 Kamal Haasan has apparently pulled out of the big-budget Walt Disney production. Asin’s prestigious Indo-Japanese project The 19th Step is apparently shelved, leaving the comely actress Asin with tons of time that she had set aside not only to learn and practice the ancient art [...]

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Meet the Mori Girls, A New Japanese Subculture By Rebecca Milner - Trend Researcher, Tokyo — fashionsnoops.com JUNE 17, 2009… Meet the Mori Girls, a new band of women with a penchant for layers of delicate vintage and DIY fashion. In addition to knitting, journaling, and haunting second hand bookstores, these urban dreamers can be found [...]

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Terrified of being seen alone, students eat in toilets IHT/Asahi: July 7, 2009 … a notice banning the consumption of food in university toilets is more sad than scary. A little research sheds light on a growing phenomenon: Some students are so lonely they shut themselves inside toilet cubicles to eat. The notice, with the same [...]

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July 5, 1946 Bikini introduced history.com/this-day-in-history Sooooooo, here you go… Embiggen this Hello Kitty micro-bikini

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My friend “Mulboyne” found this photo of the “Kegadol Empress”, which was originally posted by the blogger “Ofellabuta.” Empress Michiko (1964) Of course I have to answer with the real Queen of Japan, the Kega (injured) (i)dol royal, Damaged Hello Kitty. embiggen

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Over on the twitter, 3Yen reader “zhanglizhen” and I have started exchanging photos of Japanese beauty salon with odd, dangerous sounding engrish names. 3Yen’s Twitter And my all-favorite, “SNOTTY BOY BARBAR” (sic).

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“Bagelheads“! Yikes, we manufactured a Japanese fad! “Bagelheads” is just a name that was made up to joke about this body modification, but the mainstream press took the name as real, as you can see from the reports below. Bagelheads the latest fad for Japanese teens: Mom hopes it stays in Japan New Jersey On-Line — by [...]

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According to ElliteChoice.org, Sega Toys of Japan are offering these indoor projector generated, green and non-polluting “Uchiage Hanabi fireworks.” (more info)

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Move over Mothra. Bugzilla is spotted in Yokohama daylife.com YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - July 4, 2009 A Huge locust-shaped attraction is seen during the Yokohama-port Opening Festival Y150…. the port opened in 1859, as the result of the signing of Treaty of Amity and Commerce between United States and Japan in 1858. Check out Mothra disguised as seagull [...]

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Ok, I admit it— I hate Japanese ramen since I was forced to subsist on it all during my university days. Now, with this creepy ramen-bot I have a real reason to hate it. Two-minute ramen via robot July 3, 2009 - Mainichi Shimbun (machine translation) In Japan’s Minami Alps of Yamanashi comes the “Momozono Ramen [...]

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Living in Japan sometimes is like living in a campy science fiction program–In this case “Thrall Collars” for Japanese factory slaves…. Wearable Sensors Help Analyze Behaviors of Factory Workers July 3, 2009 - Nikkei Tech-On! – DSS Co Ltd, a Japanese firm that edits and processes digital maps based on survey data, started a service of recording [...]

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Not unlike the new film “UP” …Here’s the traditional Japanese answer. What you are looking at is an odd twist to “Tanabata“ the Japanese star festival (ripped off from the Chinese star festival, Qi X) when Japanese write their wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on “tanzaku”, small pieces of paper, and hang them on [...]

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embiggen pix daylife.com - July 3, 2009… hyper rescue robot “T-53 Enryu”, developed by Japanese robot venture Tmsuk… Kitakyushu Fire Department deployed the 2.8-meter tall, three-ton robot which can be operated manually by a person aboard it as well as by remote control to lift heavy objects with its two arms. The earlier, smaller version of [...]

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Giant mutant Japanese cook threatens to paddle passersby in Chuo-ku Niigata Japan! A huge replica of Yukiko Kobayashi was unveiled in Chuo-ku’s ”NEXT21” in Niigata Japan according to Mainichi Shimbun of June 29. I have no idea why Yukiko Kobayashi, the C-List star of “Space Amoeba,” is now a giant paddle-welding mutant cook terrorizing the streets [...]

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The advertising revenue is getting a little thin for this Tokyo train. actual pix

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embiggen 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 [...]

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