The J-Punk Screaming TaraTara
{ Demon baby }
{ Sega robot }
{ Boyfriend pillow }
{ Key-chain doll for USB memory stick }
{ Portable Heated/Water-Spraying Toilet }
{ Fake leg }
Peanut snack package with pandas swimming while drinking beer (with dried noodles in the background). It makes sense.
Snack package with a J-punk screaming ‘TaraTara’ (wordplay on the fish called Tara) plus one guy in the audience wearing sunglasses.
{ J-Punk } “J-Punk stands for Japanese Punk. One subgenre of J-Punk is characterized by chaotic guitars and half screamed/half sung vocals.”
{ Punk Inquiry & Study Site (PISS) } “Recently I have struck an unlikely friendship with a schoolgirl who claims to be Punk and in dress and music sense she is flawlessly so. But she doesn’t understand the lyrics to the songs and spends most of her free time e-mailing and chatting on her mobile phone. I have tried to explain to her a few of the inconsistencies between her image and her character really because I want to understand the attraction of being a Punk in Japan.”
{ left } The Panic Straw keeps the drink a surprise to the drinker through a mangled center bringing five tubes together.
{ right } Lollipop package named “The Candy That Makes You Horny” (it tastes like flavored condoms).
{ Human vending machine in Tokyo }
{ Kaba Kick, russian roulette for kids } + { Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world }
{ Pokemon jet }
{ Harrip }
{ flickr | Pinkaholic girl } In a sex shop in Akihabara in Tokyo you can buy costumes of anime characters.
“Developed by Koreans for the Japanese, Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is the first arcade game that combines assaulting assholes and fortune-telling. You select from eight characters like “Girlfriend”, “Mother-in-Law,” “Con artist,” and “Child Molester” and then you ram a giant plastic finger into an ass that protrudes out from the arcade unit next to the words “HAVE A FUN!! ENJOY.” As you poke, spank, and probe, the game plays an animation of your victim wailing in pain.” { Continue reading }
{ Wild Swan } + { Translation }
“Squeeze! The swan’s head pops out!! Be the king of the party with this towering swan!
Rapidly Expanding Mysterious Balloon
Materials for connecting not included”
{ Doritos bag: a crotch noogie done with the foot }
{ Souvenir cookies made of jellyfish powder + Space yogurt (made of two types of lactic acid bacteria that spent 10 days in space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket last spring) }
The Basashi Icecream (left) is a dessert made from horse meat. The company that makes it is known for its unusual ice cream flavours, many of which have limited popularity.
+ { Peach Menthol cigarettes }
The Apricot washer, an advertising by TOTO for their apricot model line { Toilet in Japan } + previously { Toilet seats with real personality }
{ It’s Like Catching Snow on My Tongue }
{ Faux marble peeing drink dispenser }
February 17th, 2007 at 3:14 am
good stuff …
April 4th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
a couple of them not Japanese
April 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
the guy, in the audience, wearing sunglasses… it’s me.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Only two aren’t Japanese, the one with the kids in the cars, and the one after that.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
old crap
April 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
lol a lot of them are novelty or are intended to be a joke. The horse one I can vouch is 100% fake, when I was in Osaka I was puzzled at things like that until I found out they’re meant as prank/jokes.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
someone needs psychotherapy
April 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I actually have the “Let’s Party” fish snack. Aside from the ingredients (Sardines, Flatfish, Shrismp, Sesame Seed, Sugar, Salt, Seaweed, Red Pepper, MSG), the oddest thing about it is the nutritional information.
Serving size: 1/2 pkg
Servings per container: 1.6
April 5th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
yeah its funny, but if you go to any prankstore in the states you can find rediculous packaging as well. Its just a matter of perspective.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Um, any of you figure out why the Japanese economy has gone tits up? The really cool Japanese are living in North America now.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:02 am
this is close to being the stupidest analysis of japanese immigration to the US i’ve ever read in my life
April 6th, 2007 at 5:21 am
mmmmm, kicked-in-the-crotch flavored doritos…
April 6th, 2007 at 7:46 am
gotta love the Japanese….
April 7th, 2007 at 4:44 am
i dont think anyone would be caught dead shoving a plastic finger up a pretend ass…
April 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I don’t want to sound gay but I want those ice creams that girl is eating. I know it looks like dick but it also looks kinda tasty.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Ok, media literacy, here, people! Use some of your own discretion. Clearly some of the products are just novelties, as Spirochite points out for us.
* The arm-pillow comes from a joke inventions book called “chin dou gu”. Every now and then, some smartass thinks the book is serious, because they can’t read Japanese, scans it and turns it into an email forward, saying “what a crazy country, eh?”
* The fish snack is actually quite nice, in case you’ve never tried them, I recommend it with a cold beer. When I saw this, I was trying to find what was wrong with the picture - same thing with the sign warning train passengers not to get their hands caught in the door pocket.
* The name of the candy is actually “candy the MIGHT make you horny”, indicating the manufacturer’s clear intention that this is a novelty product.
I could go on, but I will leave the rest to yourselves to figure out. Have fun.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ice cream.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
anyone else wondering what the HECK the first one is???
April 8th, 2007 at 5:18 am
The image of ice is a photograph in the festival of a certain place in Japan.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I am a Japanese, but there is not such a thing.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:36 am
The first one is the “Anal eye”, which apparently lets you see the inside of people’s asses…
April 8th, 2007 at 11:34 am
um hey im not trying to sound rude but um really im mean come one WTF?!?!?!?!?!? why would anybody make this stuff and who in their fucking right minds would indores this im mean its just WTF?!?!?!?
April 8th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
All You LOOSERS who say this is rubbish… You’re the ones who decided to look at it so don’t moan. Its Amazing ;D
April 8th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
THIS IS THE SHIZZIT
April 8th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
The pic of the girls eating the penis shaped ice cream is disgusting.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
If you think the ice cream bit is disgusting , then you need to get off the computer and go into the real world and hopefully find someone that will help you get laid….
April 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
haha
a lot of this stuff is so insanely ridiculous,
and I (sadly) wish I had it all ;D
April 9th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
i’m in tokyo now, and i can’t find any of this stuff. i really wanted to bring back a whole collection of weird stuff, but to no avail.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I get the fact that the second one is an alarm clock but why is there a slot in her crotch???
April 10th, 2007 at 3:07 am
I wanna go in that pokemon jet!
April 10th, 2007 at 5:11 am
the “crack sandwich” is a kind of wafer thing
you crack it in half into two tubes with filling inside
but it still sounds funny ^_^
April 10th, 2007 at 8:12 am
it’s the nuclear bomb during WW2.
the cause of why the japanese are mentally unstable..
April 10th, 2007 at 8:24 am
God I miss that place so much. Makes England seem so bland.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
i laughed so hard at the crotch attack doritos and the russian roulette gun. and im korean and i have no idea what they were thinking about sending a game that lets you stick virtual fingers in virtual assholes. as if some japanese people arent sex psychos already
April 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
MMMMMMMMMMMM Virtual Assholes!!!
April 11th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I thought I was turning Japanese when that song came out. Now that I see these pictures, I am most definitely NOT.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
yummy, dick shaped ice cream
April 12th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
mmm…i want some of that icecream ;D
April 12th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
WHY, for the love of god, would anyone want to look in someone’s asshole?!
April 13th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I own all of this stuff so it’s pretty normal to me
April 15th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I think the korean made arcade game where you ram the ass with a big finger is from the japanese game ‘kancho’. I used to be a teacher in Japan and kids would always sneak up on you and suddenly ram their fingers in your ass. kancho means enema, and enemas used to be very common practice for good health in japan.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:40 am
oh, I just read the more detailed description of the game… I think I was wrong. That ass is there for you to molest. What a twisted culture…
April 16th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
They look like fun people to me. Maybe not sexually repressed? I’d like to think so because I have found asian chicks hot since kindergarten. Though, I’ve never been on more than one date with one, man do I want to bang every asian chick I see. I suppose that sounds dehumanizing.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:33 am
koreans have something like kancho as well. we call it ddong jib (basically roughly translated to poo hole. probably derived from japanese culture.) and you ram your finger into ppl’s butts. kids to it for shits and giggles. i really dont know if the game is meant to represent molestation or to represent ddong jib.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
As someone has already mentioned many of these are probably jokes.Though I don’t know which as I don’t speak Japanese
One of the commonest mistakes people from one culture make about the other is
1. They have no sense of humour
2. The have sex in an ‘odd’ way or not at all
3. They are barbaric to children and animals
April 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Who cares?
April 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
holy shit
April 30th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
J love Japanesse very much!Beautiful people,funny also :)
May 1st, 2007 at 6:20 pm
They just funny and relaxed people and j like them very much :D
May 5th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Who cares? Half are jokes, half are serious-but all are funny!!!
May 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I want the fake leg, and the arm pillow thing. o_O;
June 4th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
i think i’m going to throw up
June 6th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I think Japan rocks!!!
Got all you talking, I think that was the point…
June 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Got that Som thing for men… Dumped my girlfriend.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
you are maniac….
June 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
These are all completely normal things I see every day. No big deal.
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8933/train2fs4.jpg
June 28th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I saw one of those fake leg things at halloween sticking out of a trunk, but i live in canada so…
September 26th, 2007 at 4:11 am
whoah… crotch noogie and boong ga boong ga!
why are those japanese thinks so weird?
i like the panda swimming while drinking beer though
January 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I love pikachu!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
my personal favorite are the pokemon jumpsuits. I MUST find an air port that does that!