Doctors in Japan are increasingly being called upon to treat people who are getting carried away with sexual experimentation.

According to this article (which originally appeared in the Mainichi Daily News), doctors tell of a woman getting a glass rod thermometer lodged in her urethra, a man with a metal band wrapped tightly around his member, vaginal specula being used as sex tools, and people requiring their assistance to remove everything from including mini vibrators, to old used condoms, light bulbs, vegetables, eggs, cigarette filters, and dry cell batteries from various body cavities.

Doctors blame the trend on the easy availability of adult entertainment, which has caused young people to start experimenting at an earlier age.

Remember the Giri Giri girls? How about the T-Back craze that swept Japan in the early 90’s? Sorry you missed it? Well, you’re in luck - RobPongi has kindly posted Japanese TV T&A highlights from yesteryear here.

Check it out before all of his bandwidth is gobbled up!

Remember - you read on Japundit first. However, Robyn Lim, who teaches at Nanzan University in Nagoya and is a former Australian intelligence analyst, has written a chilling column for the Japan Times on one possible future for East Asia:

Toward a nuclear Japan?

The United States cannot stop nuclear proliferation, even though Japan and others will expect it to keep trying. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has allowed North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons on the sly. What will Japan conclude from this?

Japan, in order to balance the rapidly growing power of a nuclear-armed China, will have to acquire offensive capabilities. That may include nuclear weapons, although that is not yet inevitable.

Sh-i-t-t-y, as the kids today say, although people have warned about a possible Japanese nuclear weapons program for about a decade.

Anyway, you can read more Robyn Lim here and here.

More on plutonium here.

Well, they’ve finally done it:

Japanese scientists have pulled off a major coup by getting the first snaps of a live giant squid - 900 metres beneath the surface of the North Pacific. The elusive monster Architeuthis - which measures up to 18 metres - was previously known only by examples washed up on beaches or captured in fishing nets, Reuters reports.

Kubodera and Mori also suggest that the giant squid is “much more active predator” than previously thought, so perhaps those tales told by old Tars of tall ships being dragged down to Davy Jones’ locker by multi-limbed sea monsters are not so fanciful after all.

The squid was caught on film in 2004 off of Japan’s Bonin Islands.

More on Architeuthis here and here.

The word otaku doesn’t have quite the same meaning among anime fans in America as it does in Japan, though even in Japan, with the success of shows like Densha Otoko, anti-otaku sentiment is changing.

Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo shows Westerners where to go and what to buy in Tokyo in order to fulfill the dream of being a real otaku.

With this book, you too can be a geek, Japanese style.

Here’s another one of those Japanese beauty aids that really gets you thinking that the women of this country have entirely too much money along with a woeful lack of self-confidence and self-esteem to go long with it.

Introducing HICO - The nose heightener and corrector (Hanataka Kyosei)!

Japanese women often complain about the shape of their noses, saying they want one that is takai (that is, “taller,” as in having a higher bridge). Apparently, HICO was developed to cash in on the Japanese nasal complex, by convincing women that they can heighten their noses by building up its cartilage - something like nostril crunches.

Here are the instructions for using HICO, as translated from the Japanese on the site where it is sold.

Use HICO while relaxing at home or before you go to bed.
1. Rotate the adjuster dial to the left to move the lift-up supporter downwards, and expand the opening.
2. Insert the lift-up supporter into your nostrils as far as it will go.
3. Rotate the adjuster dial to the right and slowly lift up the silicon part of the supporter.
4. When the supporter is at the desired height, leave it there for about 10 minutes.

And that is all there is to it. According to the manufacturer, a mere 10 minutes a day is enough to make your nose more takai, without expensive surgery.

There is no word on the site as to whether the company plans to come out with a variation of the gimmick for people who think their nose is too large. . .

Source: Odd things from Japan

Click here to see a flash presentation of clothing that allows a woman to instantly transform herself into a Coke machine.

This can really come in handy when. . . Um. . . Uh. . .

Well, anyway, it’s pretty amazing!

Thanks to Hedgie for the tip!

ZakZak reports that 150 people have been evacuated from a city park in Sapporo after bear shit was discovered there.

An elementary school in Sapporo was shut down after bear footprints and bear droppings were found there as well.

More on Japanese bears here.

“Would it make you feel any better, little goil, if you knowed dem people was throwed outta windows?”

– Archie Bunker, in response to his daughter’s concern over how many people are killed in the U.S. each year by guns

Some people are fond of singling out the A-bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, almost as if they were the only attacks on the Japanese mainland that produced civilian casualties. But did you know that there was another plan that came close to being implemented back then, which its creator claimed would have been even more devastating?

The Bat Bombers
According to The Bat Bombers, a report written by C. V. Glines, the U.S. planned, studied, and came close to implementing a project that called for dropping thousands of bats (which are capable of carrying an external load nearly three times their own weight) fitted with small time-delayed incendiary bombs from airplanes over Japanese cities. Theoretically the bats would instinctively take refuge in the nooks and crannies of Japanese city dwellings, the bombs would go off, and the city would be faced with thousands of small fires breaking out all at the same time.

Oversight of the bat bombers passed between services for a while, and finally ending up under the U.S. Marine Corps.

The first Marine Corps bomber-bat experiments began on December 13, 1943. In subsequent tests, thirty fires were started. Twenty-two went out, but, according to Robert Sherrod’s History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II, “four of them would have required the services of professional firefighters. A new and more powerful incendiary was ordered.”

More destructive than atomic bombs?
Though bats never saw actual combat during the war, Dr. Lytle S. Adams, a dental surgeon who originally conceived the idea of using bats in combat, thought they should have been.

[Dr. Adams] maintained that fires generated by bomber bats could have been more destructive than the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended the war. He found that bats scattered up to twenty miles from the point where they were released. “Think of thousands of fires breaking out simultaneously over a circle of forty miles in diameter for every bomb dropped,” he said. “Japan could have been devastated, yet with small loss of life.”

So the question remains to this day - Was Dr. Adams really a genius visionary? Or was he perhaps just a little batty?

Thanks to Duo for the tip!

GirlsF4, that busty Taiwanese group of airhead promotion girls, are not giving up their fight or right to show some skin, despite the nation’s president’s wife dissing them in public for causing social malaise with their outfits.

In this new photo, taken just the other day in Taipei, the four lasses, who are known primarily for their ample and prominently displayed bosoms and slinky sex appeal, present local fans with cakes shaped after their most notable features. They were appearing at a launch to promote their new book titled This is How We Grew Up.

This summer saw the return of the yukata, a traditional summer kimono. Everywhere you went, it seemed, young people were wearing yukata — men and women.

When I told friends that intended to take my yukata to Japan for the Gion matsuri, their immediate reaction was concern: “Are you sure you know how to put it on?” They were particularly worried that my male friends knew how to tie his obi, as there are numerous “correct” ways to tie the obi on to a man’s waist.

The yukata is actually more complicated than it looks, and knowledge about how to wear a yukata and tie the obi has not exactly been transferred to the younger generation. Like many things Japanese, wearing any kind of kimono is an art; you can’t just throw the thing on and hope for the best (well you can, but you’d look sort of silly).

Numerous magazines and websites popped up to give advice. But there was also one ingenious Japanese invention which made the whole thing much easier: the “hook on obi.”

One side of the obi has a hook which attaches to the band that goes across your waist.

The other side of the obi is pre-tied into the bow, eliminating the need to wrangle the obi into a nice shape.

In my own case, I still required the help of a “professional.” Someone padded my back with a towel so my kimono would fall in a nice line from my shoulders to my ankles. And we learned that men look better in yukata if they have a small beer belly; my friend’s stomach was padded with a towl.

Once dressed, we got on the with the business of enjoying edamame, and working on the beer belly.

Today’s JAPAN TIMES carried a news brief off the AP wires, which reports that Singapore has taken the diplomatic bull by the. . . ummmm. . . horns by presenting a gift of quality bull semen to a Chinese province named (quite appropriately one might say) Shandong.

It is meaningless if those who are wanted do not come.

But those who are wanted to come do not appear easily.

Some people would have us believe that pornography is a relatively new phenomenon.

Click here to visit the Greg Kucera Gallery, (Not safe for work! Adults only!) where you will see that there is truly nothing new under the sun.

Come on, everybody now:

In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease

Six Maritime Self Defense Force members of submarine crews have been arrested on suspicion of possessing and trafficking illegal drugs, such as marijuana and MDMA, or Ecstasy, reports the Daily Asahi.

Police said the brother (of one of the suspects) reaped naturally growing marijuana from fields in Hokkaido and sent them to his brother at the MSDF.

The Japanese-language version of the Asahi (the story will probably appear in the English pages by the end of the day) reports the Defense Agency has announced that 800 submariners tested positive for drugs, after the agency recently conducted urine tests of the sailors.

This photo from Agence France-Presse, a French news agency, shows three Japanese women dressed in kimono during an international tourist promotion parade in Beijing the other day.

Geisha travel well, make-up and all.

Here’s something that’s guaranteed to make any PETA supporter go absolutely bananas - a game machine whose object is to catch a live lobster!

The Marine Catcher game was picked up by Endgadget, where they reported it under an “in Japan of course” headline, suggesting that only the Japanese would be weird enough to come up with something like this.

Problem is, live lobster catching games are also alive an well in the good ‘ole U.S.A where they have a version that goes under the name “The Maine Lobster Game.”

According the blurb on the U.S. company’s website:

This game can produce in upwards of $2000.00 per week making it the vending machine in highest demand.

JAPUNDIT STORE has added two new mimikaki earpick items to our lineup of products.

• Black Cotton Swabs

The cotton tips of these swabs are colored with a nontoxic dye black dye that makes ear debris easier to see. The tips are shaped to make ear cleaning easier and more efficient.

110 swabs to a container.

Price $9.00 (includes shipping and handling)

• Steel Mimikaki

This is a quality instrument you can take along anywhere to clean your ears whenever you need to.

The spiraled tip is perfectly shaped to clear your ear canal of wax and dry skin.

As shown in the photo, you can detach the cleaning rod and insert it into the handle, creating a compact configuration that slips into your pocket or bag.

Pull out the black plastic cap on the other end of the handle and you have a soft nylon brush for cleaning ear debris from the loops.

Price $45.00 (includes shipping and handling)

We now return you to regular programing. . .