2008

twitter’s fotolife -...

(via bobloblawslawblog) “Don’t Put That Stuff...

After 12 years of wanting, but never having the chance to...

12 Americans Trapped in Elevator

NAGASAKI—Unable to understand an automatic warning in Japanese, 12 Americans overloaded an...

Cyberella I need me this comic. I wonder if there’s a...

kayfabe: mudwerks: Neatorama | Bolivian Wrestling Forget...

tessar: Resin Kits (via Danny Choo) Love GHOST IN THE...

Found these sweet images online @ Aggressor Brad looking...

The astonishing photowork of Hong Kong architecture by...

“249 ：以下、名無しにかわりましてVIPがお送りします：2008/08/02(土)...”
— 裏クロスブリード) (via tessar)

Japanese Cell Phone Tech to Go Global?

From "Defective Yeti"

kayfabe: “I barrel over the summit at 40— no, 90 miles an hour! The cab of the vehicle briefly...

アイドルの黒塗り画像ください ： アルカン速報 Get your Japanese Nudity-Censored...

ku: Cosplay hazard… (via akihabara_p)

Red Eye Photo

日本にいるメリットがない (There are no Benefits to...

tessar: お笑いも、ジャニーズも、J-POPも、テレビも、アニメも、マンガも、パチンコも嫌い。（正確にいうと、それぞれに好きなものがあることもあるが、少ない）日本にいるメリットがない 日本は...

planettampon: via stephandeprouw

(via planettampon) Too much awesomeness going on here.

「焼き場にて」 ジョー・オダネル 1945年...

szymon: Yasuhiro Yamashita

szymon: more Bizarre Bento Boxes

Japanese Asian companies are upping the ante in the war to...

kayfabe: American Morgue Chocolates

tightgrip: via benjamincarre.free.fr

tightgrip: Gary’s weather forecasting stone. via...

Diet set to let parents change sex on...

WOW! I’m clearly impressed with the sheer number of great new laws being passed in Japan this...

Japanese 'Nationality Law' Found...

I’m happy to see that the Japanese are continuing to question their own laws. Every country...

Sonoko - Short Fiction by Michael...

Frankly, I’m impressed at how well Mr Hoffman has not only captured the Japanese in character,...

feed2ch: hazy-moon: wnw45: vaac: 1211403120898.jpg...

feed2ch: hazy-moon: babypanda: THIS IS LOVE PPL ...

In Japan, as of June 1st...

two newsworthy items: 1) A new seatbelt law goes into effect. ALL passengers in a vehicle, no...

ego-technique: ‘gender’ Illustration by Kristen...

angelspukeinyourbrain: I would buy this and put it in my...

feed2ch: nevver: Ashley Wood / AtHerDiscretion

feed2ch: DeLorean DMC12 Back To The Future Replica (via...

antoinetta: (via mentalillness)

Itasha ("Painful Cars") are Japan's...

‘Anime’-decorated cars latest ‘otaku’ fad By MINORU MATSUTANI Staff...

Boobs Busted Over Boob Boobie

4 busted after bogus big boob scam falls flat KAWASAKI — Four people have been arrested for...

applearts: FFFFOUND!

applearts: FFFFOUND!

applearts: via www.cwebh.com

Man Lets Off Steam -- By Shooting Girls...

Man nabbed for squirting high schoolgirls with soy sauce-filled water pistol MAEBASHI — A man...

Flasher Gets Pissed at Unimpressed...

FTW?! In Japanese this kind of situation is known as 逆切れ (gyakugire, or getting angry at someone for...

(via aco)

vhudy6tx4dik9ol: 相模湖畔商店街 (via syasara)

vhudy6tx4dik9ol: 元町高架下商店街 (via muzina_shanghai)

inky: Hong Kong, by Bennett Ho

milhouse: i like where this is going AHAHAHAHAHA! As a...

[Japan Suicide Watch] 150 Suicides by...

Japanese news sources cited last night that suicides via hydrogen sulfide for the past two months...

Doctor Death and Monster Husbands:...

Coupled with this article about ‘Monster Husbands’, this article about the death of a...

Insane Japanese Law Doesn't Recognize...

As much as I love this country, and hate to say so, Japan can be the most assbackwards country at...

Two Recent Reviews of My Fiction...

Within the last week, both Social Media Trader and Planet Damage reviewed and/or featured my fiction...

danhacker: I  really need to play ‘Bioshock’ again.

ghostvirus: Shibuya, Tokyo Modern Japan simply was...

The Quicktionary 2 scans Japanese kanji and gives you the...

(via ghostvirus)

bullshit:

(via milhouse) FROG!!!!!! (first reblog)

adamo: try another hole (via) Always. ;)

6tx4xt6: Osaka055 (via A Posh Sentinel) If only the rest...

Sales surge for 1929 novel about labor...

From the ASAHI SHIMBUN… Perhaps reflecting discontent about current labor conditions, a...

Kerosene-soaked man dies after lighting...

Yahoo news gives us this little gem of horror… TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese man who had doused...

vinh: After the fall of the Empire, they found new ways to...

szymon: ‘my documents’ laptop case by 25togo

applearts: Interior design room: Selfillumination

ghostvirus: We’ve been very worried about you Johnny. Very...

kayfabe: (via phazerblast) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Great tits cope well with warming

tightgrip: Out of Blue by Kerem Beyit via...

In 130 Years (Part 2): In Japan, Pets...

In 130 years, the Japanese, as a cultural nation, will be extinct, and here’s another factor:...

nostrich: (via Balakov) NICE!

Porn Filmed at Saitama McDonald's (Part...

A recent translated Wai Wai article gives a little more information on the actual participants of...

Naki-zumo ("Crying Sumo")

This is a weirdly cute contest that pits two newborn babies against each other in a sumo ring. Sumo...

Unpaid School Lunch Fees in Japan...

Unpaid school lunch fees is a big problem right now in Japan, and to me, while the current honor...

Real Drive & Macross F on Animax

REAL DRIVE is coming to Animax (May 9th). Finally! I’m not sure why it’s running a month...

SIX More Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths Over...

This article reports 5, but there was a death in Joetsu, Niigata this weekend as well. A high school...

Assassins on the Rag

by Ash Lomen and Made in DNA Ana is a cold, hard bitch doubly so today she has a scar that dances...

Magic Fingers (Sci-Fi Flash Fiction)

Native Japanese Extinct by 2140 -...

Let’s see now, Japan has a population of 127.4 million (2007), and is losing 30,000 per year...

Japanese man under fire in Philippines...

MANILA — A 65-year-old Japanese man continues to face criticism in the Philippines after being...

365Tomorrows.com Challenge (Science...

I’ll posting a challenge called the 365tomorrows Challenge. No, I am not a staff writer there,...

Hydrogen Sulfide: The People's Choice of...

Hydrogen sulfide poisoning suicide on the rise here in Japan. All it takes is a little bags of...

bui: Robots made from sans-serif fonts - Boing Boing

supernice: Want! And an open road, a little music, Simon...

Spinning on the roar of an explosive crowd, she spotted a familiar android in semi-transparent black...

She caught sight of a Refreshment Bunny or two—copper-topped beverage tanks strapped to their backs,...

Mei strode confidently into the crowds of consoles, virtual rigs, and hologaming boards, her eyes...

Mei strode confidently into the crowds of consoles, virtual rigs, and hologaming boards, her eyes...

A towering world of arcade games embraced her with a blaring, blinking klaxon that deafened her. The...

Pling! Green confirmation of payment. Mei sighed relief and sprinted through the front entrance to...

She held her breath in the gaudy neon and the excited screams of patrons fighting to give their...

The taxi slipped up to the main entrance to TranSister’s. Mei punched in TranS’ payment@...

A natural with computer systems, she worked jobs for global patrons who wanted deniability yet task...

E-mail Confirmation

I hate fucking email confirmation. Just let me fucking log in already. And I hate when I am asked to...

Japan Files

Separation of Religion and State in...

WOW! Now, why can’t we do this in the States? I mean, the Japanese Constitution is rooted...

Purchase MEDIA WHORES Online!

junkdnafiction: Deep beneath the seething, zombie-infested landscape of Nippon, the city of New...

Real Drive Episode 03 (Redive) Synopsis...

From the NTV...

Geisha Wars: The Return of the Maiko

Maiko (apprentice geisha) are making a comeback! With an increase in interest in traditional culture...

junkdnafiction: Quite True *snicker*

junkdnafiction: hydeordie: oh, i want some cheerios. i...

Was she delusional? She didn’t think so. She felt calm, certain. It must be the truth. But how...

At flashpoint, a cleansing serenity washed over her, as if the tears had been the antidote for the...

Selected flashbacks of the fight fueled that grip and so on until it was generating its own heat...

From that moment, with each passing moment, she believed she believed it, thus enforcing their grip...

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It hit her, like a bolt of lightening to water. But not here, not now. She needed to get to the only...

m1k3y: anyone second Vexille (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970472/)? a buddy just recommended it to...

Binary Porn Quicky

© 2008, Made in...

Porn producers arrested for filming at...

(JapanToday.com) Friday 11th April, 03:11 AM JSTSAITAMA — Police on Wednesday arrested an adult...

She wasn’t conscious of where the words had come from but she believed them when she spoke...

It was neither lack of conviction or courage that kept her from plunging to icy, dark depths, but...

Unexplained disappearances were a non-subject; it can’t a ‘disappearance’ if the...

‘Farewell’ tours to the city were popular; gigs arranged by companies who promised...

Yue Fong’s suicide rate wasn’t especially high, but it had its share of spots where...

How many others had thought the same thing and simply just disappeared forever? She certainly...

It wasn’t hard to imagine herself closing her eyes and letting herself slowly sink into the...

A wet-tongued demon lovingly licking its illegitimate child, but ever on the verge of angering and...

It would’ve been easy to step off the curb into the ocean waters that constantly lapped at Yue...

She’d waited more than an hour outside of Noris’ before she caught a taxi, all the while...

Big Trouble for Olympic Torch while in...

My wife (who is Japanese) believes that there will be nothing but big trouble for the Olympic Torch...

Shirow Masamune in Second Life

Or supposedly some of his characters/goods. Haven’t had the chance to visit the shop yet, but...

danhacker: lessee: seriouslythough: brooklet14: (via...

“What is it about Christians that compels them to bother...”
— Gregor Stronach discovers one...

Real Drive Episode 02 (Girl) Synopsis...

From the NTV...

dchly: This is the Omega Centauri star cluster. Scientists...

The Sex Position Master Digital Spinwheel

If you're in SF tomorrow morning

thillythenny: The Churchill Club is offering complimentary tickets to their Bot Plague breakfast...

tightgrip: Cityscapes “File under: Artificial Creativity....

Iron Penis Festival in Japan.

szymon: Polaroid replaced mirrors in shopping malls and...

Real Drive Episode 01 (Urashima Drive)...

Due to premiere at the ungodly hour of “25:29” (that’s 1:30AM for you normal folk)...

ghostvirus: Faceless creatures are the most frightening...

Dude takes 42 days to completely custom paint his car with...

danhacker: Now I can keep crooks out of my apartment and...

kayfabe: aatw: Jeremy Harris’s asylum photographs

(via bullshit)

(via milhouse)

danhacker: hydeordie: i’m sorry, i think this is...

planettampon: (via milhouse)

Bone the Clone

m1k3y: Where’s my goddamn backup clone body? This one needs to go in for a...

Creepy Tumblr Activity

Tumblr Staff Picks is one thing, but The Tumblettes (A Few Girls, Women, and Ladies we follow on...

Once dead, Noris could make good on his threats to sell her to a brothel or similar venue. She’d be...

Dead—the term used when a brawler had outlived her life in a stable if she failed to pay off her...

“Maybe Asian ain’t the flav-a-flav no more. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter, because you will...