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Drink some delicious Placenta Blue!

slater — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:42:09 -0800

Clearly you are not yet beautiful enough. Not to worry, there's help from Japan & Kyrgystan: Placenta 30,000 contains 30,000 mg of 100% undiluted horse-origin placenta. Apparently you drink the stuff: "Replenishes nourishment to physically fatigued or exhausted bodies. Having no overt aroma the fresh flavor is easy to drink."

Like a Virgin... Rehymenated for the very first time!

crossoverman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:10:26 -0800

WTFJapanFilter: Artificial Virginity Hymen. Jezebel and Salon discuss.

Sugar and Spice and OH NO! PILEDRIVER ONTO THE EXPOSED CONCRETE!

StopMakingSense — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:36:06 -0800

Meet Obasan: Adorable demon-possessed little girl and Japanese professional wrestler for the horror-themed Triple Six promotion. More highlights: (1) (2)

Armbands are back in fashion everywhere, these days...

Rothko — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:33:23 -0800

Nihonjinron in images - despite being the second-largest entity in a global economy, Japan's cultural xenophobia has been said to contribute much to nihonjinron, what some describe as a near-fascist-like obsession of a small group of its citizens in restoring Japan to a monocultural, miltaristic, pre-war empire, despite one Japanese academic's contrary view of history.

3000 Cartridges

nthdegx — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:26:25 -0800

His name is Mr Freetime, he has 2,967 copies of Moero!! Pro Baseball for the Famicom. He knows how to use them.

Strange Solutions For Population Decline

hammurderer — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:22:02 -0800

I am STUNNED by this story, highlighting recent comments by a former Japanese cabinet member. In a discussion about the declining number of children in Japan, Seiichi Ota of the Liberal Democratic Party said that gang-rape is a sign of virility, and that its perpetrators are "close to normal."

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:32:55 -0800

When I read about this it made me feel ill. "Life as a human punching bag." A man in Japan is deeply in debt, and rather than filing for bankrupcy he is raising money by letting people try to hit him for a thousand yen per minute. He defends himself but does not hit back.

lagado — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:08:49 -0800

Strangest Story Ever Told - The Weird Legend of Jesus in Japan
Little known religious fact #2: Jesus didn't die up on his cross at Golgotha. That was actually his brother. Christ himself fled across Siberia and, after a brief detour through Alaska, landed in Japan, where he got married and raised a family.
Warning: some wacky religious notions will be mentioned in this article.