Why, oh Buddha, why?
Oh why do these guys go for foam? See Dakimakura/pillow love...
Friday, February 6, 2004
Pillow talk for gamers
![sex pillow](https://www.angelfire.com/droid/taro/images/pillow1_f.jpg) 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!"
Get's Tinfoil Hats!
Japan's nearly-dead airline industry looks for more expenses...FLY ME! ![tinfoil hat](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:jMWhsO1dsr8J:zapatopi.net/afdb/lizhurley.jpg) Save me! ![Aibo's Japanese tinfoil hat](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:esfc6Doloy0J:www.aibo-life.org/visorg/shindig_07/richard_02/tinfoil008.jpg) Airplane crews seek state steps for protection from cosmic raysKyodo / 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"?
![bright red hair Japanese](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:KpMYCrDBaTIJ:www.mynippon.com/lover/images/red-hair.jpg) 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!
![beer rats drinking](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:9KAQ3UY_LuQJ:www.petrats.org.uk/images/joke/RatBeer.jpg) Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-FreeFri 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.
![](https://www.angelfire.com/droid/taro/images/nkbb20040118002610.gif) Eat your hearts out.
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Harry's new Firebolt is being sold next to my office
![Harry Potter's Firebolt from Azkaban](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:CbRiaETV9JAJ:www.hharryppotter.com/photogallery/11.%2520The%2520Firebolt.jpg) First look at Harry's new Firebolt from 'Azkaban' PopularCharmed By Dan / Feb 4, 2004,11:05 PM ... A Japanese shop that offers official Harry Potter merchandise and memorablilia had its grand opening, and she shot some wonderful pictures of the eventopens in new window, including a couple of props from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The store, Harry Potter Collections, is located in a mallopens in new window at Queens Square Yokohama.... I will try to find it in 45 minutes.
'JAP' ad for AT&T Japan
![bad words like JAP](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:dUJqWz8RAEkJ:web.singnet.com.sg/~orbitalx/bad_button.JPG) AT&T Wireless sorry for ad gaffeTech Digest / Feb 5--AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has put itself up for sale, apologized for newspaper ads using an abbreviation for the word Japan that it said was misspelled "in an offensive way." The ads used the abbreviation "JAP" in a chart referring to prices for calls to Japan.
Chicken Flu Fighter for the coming Tokyo funk flu
Avian Infuenza? Bah. Humor is the best medicine!I present Rob Pongi and his new, improved SUPER COMEDY CHICKEN PROP Six foot six inches of rubber chicken fun! ![super six foot rubber chicken](https://www.angelfire.com/trek/taro/images/SuperRuberChickenFlu.gif) Via the Japanese Tokyo Fuku-blog.
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