Available here in a choice of 24 different colors and patterns, and including a map of the Tokyo subway system, the Nagoya, Kobe, and Fukuoka subway systems, the Osaka and Kyoto subway systems, or the Sapporo and Sendai subway systems.
100% silk.
Price: 6,090 yen
A bit off topic, but how many times have you wished that you had a Bullsh*t Button on hand.
This is a real product that you can purchase here, and pressing it causes one of the following five alerts to issue forth.
“(Beep) That was bullsh*t”
“(Siren) Bullsh*t detected, take precautions”
“Bullsh*t level defcon 5″
“Oh come on now, that ain’t even bullsh*t, that’s horsesh*t”
“Warning, warning, bullsh*t alert”
Cool ad for a film festival.
This is one of those strange cases that came out of left field for me. I read about it and scratched my head in puzzlement. Ok here’s the story. A 37 year old Chinese woman working in a sex shop in Japan was kidnapped by a group of 4 to 5 men. The woman was apparently beaten and manhandled by the group.
She was released by the group only to be arrested for illegally living in Japan for the past five years. The Mainichi has additional details here.
An interesting compilation of some tricks from magicians in Japan. Some of the material is very very cool.
It’s golden week in Japan. A time for people to take a week off work and relax. Most people I know use this holiday to travel. Narita is usually really really busy during this time and sure enough I found an article from Kyodo News that describes what traveling can be like during this crazy time.
A massive exodus of holidaymakers started at Narita International Airport near Tokyo on Saturday, with its operator estimating some 727,000 people will go through the airport during Japan’s Golden Week holiday season through May 6.
According to a major travel agency, China is attracting many tourists from Japan as it enjoys a robust economy prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, while Hong Kong and Macao are also popular destinations.
Hiroko Morita, 35, from Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, said before departing for Greece with her family, “I’m planning cruising in the Aegean Sea and looking around monuments there.”
Japan Talk #067 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.
* Golden Week
* Dog? Sheep? Hoax!!
* Blackman verdict: Not Guilty!?!
* Tokyo taxi companies want fare hike
* Long-distance maglev trains coming to Japan
* Prius owner hack cars to increase mileage
* Election decided by drawing lots
* Two countries dealing with tragedy
* BBS owner charged for not deleting insulting message
* Men try to get residents to drink pipe cleaning agent
* Facemask fetish in Japan
* Man rapes woman aboard crowded train
* Bad bidets burn butts
Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Japanese Girlfriend, by Earwig
* Take You To Japan, by Davis Coen
* Hanging Out with the White Boys, by Jesushairdo
Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast
Contact: podcast@japundit.com
The Mainichi is reporting that a supervisor for an online bulletin board is facing criminal charges for allegedly not deleting a message that said a junior high school girl was “ugly”.
