Ssirum VS Sumo
VS First Sumo Exhibition Held Amid Cheers and Guards

Korea Times, South Korea - Feb 15 --The first-ever sumo exhibition in South Korea got off to a successful start despite early concerns and controversy. The seats in Changchung Stadium were mostly filled on Saturday but many were taken up by Japanese tourists and residents and older Koreans.

They cheered all the players, especially home-grown star Kim Sung-tak, known as Kasugao in sumo. He was defeated in the second round by Mongolian Yokozuna Asashoryu on Saturday... big issue is the rivalry between the traditional forms of wrestling in the two countries. As ssirum and sumo have some similarities, it's natural for them to be compared with a good measure of national pride. Fanning the flames, the sumo exhibition received attention that ssirum never gets.

"I don't think most ssirum people care seriously about the sumo matches in Korea"

40% of Japanese girls are wearing these Feb 14th

Japanese Boots!

"These boots were made for walking"?

Cafe Cat in Kanto

K-cool braille reading cat

"A cat joins its owner reading a book at a Tokyo cafe Friday, Feb. 13. 2004." --- Via (AP Photo/Fri Feb 13,11:54 AM ET)

GET'S GANG WAR!

Akebono tribe vs Sapp crew

On TV tonight Sunday Feb 15, at 8pm on NTV (Nippon Television Network Corp, ch4 Tokyo), it will be the Sapp gumi vs Akebono gumi fighting K-1..just their gumi/gangs not them.
VS


See also...
K-1 rematch against The Beast? Ake baby, say it ain't so
By DAVE WIGGINS Special to The Asahi Shimbun

Oni no nen butsu

Oni no nembutsu

The meaning a "devil's praying".

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Two digcams, two girls, one box of Kleenex...

2 digcams + 2 girls + 1 box of Kleenex + 1 pair of panties + 1 bed = 1 strange party

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Or visit the original bolg at siuyee.com

Are you gettin' any?
As well known, Valentine's Day is when men judge their worth by the number of boxes of chocolate they receive at their Japanese workplace. However, today is Friday the 13th, many guys won't be in the office to collect their love bounty and many OLS will be snaking out of the giri-choco/chocolate obligations.

Today's the real measure of your worth: Are you gettin' any?

Japanese ramen is evil!

Japanized Ramen is scary.

CRAPTACULAR Tokyo!
Via Rob Pongi's comments on the FG about the "Absolutely brilliant photography here 'Tokyo At Night'

Tokyo at its CRAPTACULAR best!

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Note the sign with Rob Pongi on it offers "Full Service Lovers" and the vertical blue sign to the right of the mannikin offers "VIOLENCE MASSAGE."

Googlism of me

Googlism for: taro

taro is noted for its colorful purplish
taro is used to make
taro is living in tokyo/tokyo taro
taro is back
taro is onze shar
taro is a technical journalist taro is like any technical journalist
taro is my senior design project
taro is to be potted
taro is taro

Thanks to
http://www.googlism.com/

Sacrilege! Japanese Scalper Page
One of the few esthetic
pleasures here in the Land-of-Concrete(tm) is long hair. Oh, the sacrilege!

Welcome to Haircut Fun Page.

"Please enjoy "Haircut"
Makeover step by step ... Do you like it?
All are young Japanese models.
You can see them who become beautiful by cutting the hair. You might be surely satisfied. Thank you. "

Woman Announcer Insult Relay! III

Woman Announcer Insult Relay! III

Via SomethingAwful.com "You might be wondering what any movie - let alone a pornographic one - would be doing with a title like that."

Why, oh Buddha, why?

Caustic wrote on the FG:

Dakimakura! They're not just for horndogs anymore!

Oh why do these guys go for foam?

See Dakimakura/pillow love...

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Pillow talk for gamers

Getting in Bed With the Customer

WIRED / 02:00 AM Feb. 06, 2004 PT...to celebrate the Japanese release of Dead or Alive Online next month, Microsoft is rolling out a special edition Xbox set with an extra-special bonus -- a dakimakura, or "hugging pillow," that features a life-size, front-and-back print of teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini.

"For relaxing times.....make it Suntory time."

Wry Whiskey Humor NY Newsday / Liz Smith / Feb 5

FORGET ABOUT the Oscar; Bill Murray has other concerns. The "Lost in Translation" star says, "I keep looking in my mailbox to see if Suntory whiskey is going to send me a check for doing the commercial in the movie!" .... "I'm still drinking the alcohol, but no offers from Japan for commercials yet!"

Just a normal game and TV cartoon

Nothin's normal here in Japan.

Via very kool site
http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gamessex.html

Get's Tinfoil Hats!
Japan's nearly-dead airline industry looks for more expenses...
FLY ME! Save me!

Airplane crews seek state steps for protection from cosmic rays

Kyodo / Friday February 6, 10:41 AMPilots and cabin crews of Japanese airlines on Friday urged the government to take steps to protect them from exposure to cosmic radiation, measures they say are long overdue.
The Airline Pilots Association of Japan and the cabin crew association presented the request to science minister Takeo Kawamura....

Does the "carpet have to match the drapes"?
Japan Factoid: It's much higher percentage now, but....
"one [2001] survey that 68% of women in Japan had dyed hair".
Via NIPPONIA No.12 / March 15, 2002
Who Said Japanese People
Have Black Hair?

Via MDN: WaiWai By Ryann Connell / August 1, 2002
... Hair dye sales have two boom periods over summer in Japan -- once at the start when young women gear up to go on overseas jaunts and kids on holidays escape ...

Safety Pooping, DRINK Kirin!

Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-Free

Fri January 30, 2004 05:12 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking beer or eating certain components found in the beverage seems to protect against colon cancer in rats, new research shows.... In the new study, Dr. Hajime Nozawa, from Kirin Brewery Co. in Yokohama, Japan, and colleagues assessed the ability of beer or its components to prevent a type of chemically induced colon cancer in rats. The results are reported in the International Journal of Cancer.

YES! This is what Tokyo is all about.

Eat your hearts out.