DEAR JAPANESE PEOPLE

More Octopus! TV Show for Japanese Kids includes wacky slapstick skits about the oppression of the workers, dictatorship, torture, the dangers of digging up unexploded bombs, and voodoo!

It’s sort of a Japanese Krazy Kat too: both the octopus and the peanut are in love with the walrus. You know.

WFMU has more and the videos at this link

He’s a bunny. She’s a Japanese college student. THEY’RE COPS

HIPPETY HOP

paaaaaarrrrrrrrrrts…

Shot of Kato Cycle in Nagoya, Japan by Yohei Morita. Now that’s a bike shop.

Yohei’s pictures are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spastica/

GIANT JELLYFISH ATTACK

400 KG SUPERJELLIES ATTACK TOKYO!

aaaaaaaaaa

Seaside communities in Japan have tried to capitalize on the menace by developing novel jellyfish dishes from tofu to ice cream, but for some reason the recipes have failed to take off.

or maybe some paracetamol

Don’t mess with Icelandic women: On October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women refused to work, cook or look after children.
Don’t mess with Japanese guys: A Japanese man was so enraged by an acquaintance’s failure to address him with an honorific that he stabbed the man to death with an umbrella.. It was the second killing with an umbrella in Japan in less than a month.
Neurofeedback techniques are being used with music now too.

linko the clown-o

“It’s an unexpected combination, but a taste that children will like,” a Nissui official said. “Strawberries go well with minced fish.”
Who here thinks that being a “Vietnam War Buff” and doing reenactments is in poor taste? Anyone? EVERYONE? (via defensetechblog)
Check out the very, very large desk (via The Null Device).
Missile defense is just like football. Mmm-hmm, yep. (defensetechblog again)