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You don’t get any bigger in Japanese entertainment industry than the idol group ‘AKB48′—Japan’s version of singing high school hooker/cheerleaders who are high on bubblegum-flavored crack and hallucinogenic helium. AKB48 ‘Connected To Yakuza’ Sankaku Complex | May 24, 2013 (NSFW banner ads) The latest scandal to surface around “national idol” group AKB48 may be the most damaging [...]

R0cketnews24.c0m warns us of a, Horrifying Hello Kitty soap dispenser makes every restroom visit a test of will. View the full-size original on the R0cketnews24.c0m. According to a heads-up sent in from the 3Yen’s correspondent Den4, the Oh Hell Kitty dispenser with horror eyes is: Ghastly! Those eyes!

Saaa, only in Japan: CRACK for KIDS is sold by Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, Taisho … Embiggen. Are your kids sleepy or sluggish? Give ‘em an artificial boost! Taisho says suitable for 5 years and upwards: taisho-direct.jp/products/hm/00… — Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) May 22, 2013 In Japan there’s a saying that for school kids: Direct translation: “(Sleep) four hours pass, (Sleep) [...]

    Last year we told you all about Osaka’s sewer swimming in our report: ‘Dive Dotonbori’ (3Yen 2012Mar24). As shown on the left, folks in Osaka Japan love to jump off the downtown Dotonbori bridge into the toxic slime of the canal to celebrate the wins of the local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.       Osaka takes [...]

As mentioned before on the 3Yen*, the Japanese will put any shait on a bun and call it a “burger”—in this case panda fæces†, which was mistakenly called “panda faces” in the following news report… Japan’s newest bizarro burger includes spaghetti, panda faces fæces† now.msn.com | May 20, 2013 …Lotteria …[has]… another weird burger variation [...]

Today at the base of the Tokyo SkyTree (3Yen / 2011-11-18), the performance group “to R mansion” were out goofing around for the crowds. Somehow there’s a Japanese metaphor in this photo of the chaotic clowns Daisuke Ito (L) and Kayo Nozaki (R) of to R mansion’s street burlesque—HEADLESS SUITS [...]

At my first glance of this goofy green toy truck*, I had to just laugh—Then I realized it is a GACHAPINmobile. Gachapin is a beloved, bucktoothed dinosaur character on Fuji TV’s children’s program, “Hirake! Ponkikki” (Wiki ). Embiggen to 563×442px. Gachapin () has “energy balls” that enable him to fly, dive underwater, and gives [...]

Winner of the strange Japanese engrish headline of the week: Fish bukkake—milt is to be used to refine the rare earths that are critical to Japan’s high-tech electronics. Fish milt used to glean rare earths The Japan Times May 18, 2013 Japanese researchers…have found a better, cheaper way to smelt rare earth metals by using salmon milt, or [...]

The Woman Who Wants to Give Birth to a Shark Vice.com | 2013May17 …the human uterus is just the right size to hold one fetus. I've been speaking to a gynaecologist about ways of making it bigger. I believe humans could use their uterus as an aquarium or incubator… …We don’t need any more humans, there are too [...]

Does a bear shit in… …school in Japan? Bear shot dead after entering school in Ishikawa JapanToday | May 17, 2013 A bear was shot dead after it wandered into a school in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Thursday…the bear entered the Morimoto school building at around 7 a.m. and then ran toward the playing field… …The bear was [...]

Here’s a real Pacific Rim job—the robot reception at the REMM Hotel in the high-tech, otaku district of Tokyo’s Akihabara… Greetings from REMM Hotel Akihabara! according to the wonders of goofy Google robo-Translate, which goes not to say that: With these twin “Gemini” robots, the REEM Hotel is planning many robots visiting the hotel as [...]

A phony Pikachu (Chinese of course), a drinking straw, and an invitation to have a good time—Saaaa, such are the simple pleasures of living in the mysterious Orient. Embiggen. Yeah, yeah, I know this photo has been floating around on the Internet since at least last December, but it was “too good a time” to pass [...]

WILL YOU INVADE HER? Ple-ee-ease! Japanese pop idol, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (3Yen / 2013-03-06) officially released her new single yesterday, Invader Invader. Kyary says it is, “all about aliens*.” twitter.com/pamyurin… More videos and info in the Comments section…

This kimoi/creepy photo of “alien ham” was just sent in by the 3Yen’s correspondent-at-large, Den4. After little digging around on the Internet, I found the original Spanish website (Google Translate) that explained that this is a, "turkey with ham maki roll type of sushi stuffed with asparagus and flavored with a mustard sauce." The lack of rice [...]

Does the padded toilet seat make my butt look too big? The fashion of Japan’s Kentaro Fujiki takes the stage at the Audi Star Creation Runway Showdown at Tent@Marina Promenade on May 13th, 2013 in Singapore.

↓ Who was that Masked Man? The restofthestory is that on May 13, 2013, “The UnknownLone Ranger” held a promotional press conference at which the relatively-unknown-in-Japan actor, Armie Hammer (Wiki) came to Tokyo to promote the typically late, August 8th release of the film in Japan. (Japan always gets the [...]

Several years ago the 3Yen reported on Japanese interest in methane hydrates in: Ice-that-burns reserves of natural gas off the coast of Japan (3Yen | 2/21/2006). Back then in 2006, Japan had just discovered and started to explore its new fart fuel—Methane—in the frozen methane hydrates in the deep ocean trenches of the nation’s Pacific [...]

Thanks to the wonders of goofy Google Translate, we can learn of Giant pandas’ confirmed copulation! At Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo the giant pandas have entered their breeding season were allowed to live together to make ​​sure mate. 　Normally the zoo’s giant pandas, Sing Sing (female) Greeley (male) live in a separate enclosures and [...]

Lacking anything better to do, JAXA–Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency–is preparing to send the toy KIBO astro-bot to the International Space Station with their astronaut, Koichi Wakata, to help him with “communication.” Ri-i-i-ight. Specifically, the little andr0id is programmed to recognise Wakata's face and to communicate in Japanese…[as well as]… take photos during [...]

I just loooove Japanese “inspired” creations from the West like this furniture that is claimed to resemble Japanese “geta”–wooden clogs. Ri-i-ight. Geta furniture range by Arik Levy for Modus dezeen.com | 2013/03/05 …elevated solid oak bases of the sideboards and sofas on geta sandals, which are made of flat planks raised on wooden teeth…more… ≠       by annemarievanl, on [...]