Japan

Dear Japan,


I have a solution to this problem:

It does not involve hiring men.

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Yeah, it's like that...


If you think this looks wholesome...


…clearly you’ve never been in a Japanese video store.

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It’s porn, of course, so the youthful actresses are at least 18. Unfortunately, I can read the description at the bottom of the cover, and it’s basically a rape video (loosely, “‘Sparta’ training camp gang-bang of the flat-chested track team”). If it had just been three pretty young women in and/or out of their bikinis, I’d have been interested. Sadly, the product description on Amazon doesn’t even include their names, so I can’t find out if they’ve done any less-explicit work.

Good enough...


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A nice example of the common use of the 吾唯足知 expression. There used to be a shop in SF Japantown who sold these basins, but not in such a nice stone.

Samurai John Henry


Wrong day to fly coach...


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Kawaiiiiiiii...


Not what I’m usually looking for in the “cute girls in kimonos” genre…

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The quiet dignity of Morning Musume


This showed up on Takitumblr today, after being spotted on Twitter. It turns up in a lot of “wacky Japan” roundups going back years, and of course I immediately ID’d the color printer as Miki Fujimoto, a graduate of the Hello!Project School of Fashion. Seriously, who else are you going to hire to dress up like this?

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