“It stood on one’s head and it drank milk.”
A machine-translated description for a weird YouTube video of a Japanese guy drinking milk:
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Categories: Odd / Strange
Asashoryu gets a divorce
Mongolian-born Yokozuna Asashoryu has announced that his marriage is over.
He had married his childhood sweetheart, Tamir, back in 2002 when he was not yet a grand champion. She came to live with him in Japan, but apparently their relationship had some trouble and they started living separately two years ago (some media reports said that domestic violence had taken place).
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Precarious bus parking in Japan
A bus company in Nagano Prefecture that parks its buses in a dangerous-looking manner:
The bus company wants to make the most use of its limited parking lot space, so it backs the buses up until they are nearly on the point of falling over the ledge. Drivers can monitor their progress via a rear camera.
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Categories: Odd / Strange
Mysterious sumo stickers appearing all over Tokyo
NTV’s “Real Time News” reports on sumo face stickers that seem to be popping up all over the place in Tokyo:
Their reporter walks around pointing out all the stickers he can spot. Their search finds a total of 87 in just the Ginza area. A short search of Roppongi also finds 10 stickers. They even find one stuck to a sign at the Kokugikan!
The illustrator who created the stickers seems to have produced many variations of the sumo face. Some smile, others don’t. Some are white, others are not. Most pedestrians find them neither pretty or cute.
An expert says the stickers first began appearing last summer. Their creator probably spent some time checking for reactions on the internet, and when they began to appear, he escalated his activities to build an even greater reaction. This act of vandalism is compared to a similar case of panda stickers appearing all over Fukuoka city, and both vandals are assumed to be seeking attention.
The person responsible has not yet been identified, but a taxi driver in Tokyo says he saw a skater putting up one of the stickers. Others say that it is the work of a famous graffiti artist who is in his early thirties. Whoever it is, they must be extremely happy to see their work has made it onto the TV news. (At the end of the report, the news anchors point out that their report may actually encourage further acts of vandalism — oops!)
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Categories: General Japan
Crazy guy blocks train at Shinagawa station
A Japanese man blocks a Yamanote Line train at Shinagawa station, screaming and throwing rocks until JR workers take him down (the video clip is from a year ago, but its still making its way through the Japanese blogosphere):
[via Zaeega]
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The World’s Biggest Hamburger
Congratulations to Miyazaki City for its creation of the world’s biggest hamburger:
The hamburger, which was made for a promotional event for the Phoenix Seagaia Resort, weighed it at 136.2 kilograms (300 pounds), beating the previous world record burger, which weighed a measly 84 kilograms (185 pounds).
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