Chinese Hotel Features Urinals Shaped Like Japanese Soldiers’ Mouths

The Shanghaiist reports on a bathroom in China that lets men urinate in the mouths of Japanese soldiers:

“These controversial urinals, depicting kneeling Japanese soldiers with their mouths open wide, were recently snapped and posted on Weibo. Located in a Harbin hotel, they have been dubbed 靖国神厕, a reference to the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan.”

Although the blog post does not say so, the urinals look similar to characters from “Devil soldiers in Mao-er Mountain” (帽兒山的鬼子兵), a children’s cartoon that aired on China’s CCTV. The hotel with the strange urinals is located in Heilongjiang province, which also happens to be the setting for the cartoon.

The cartoon featured a theme song about torturing Japanese “devil soldiers” to death:

I irritate the devil soldiers
I playfully torture the devil soldiers
I play and irritate, with hits and kicks
I spoof / torture the devil soldiers to death!

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Anonymous

I would rather deal with Imperial Japan than Soviet China!

steve

I would rather eat a big ol’ bug, than ever take a stupid drug.

Hamachiman

Nice urinals
kufu

Japan deserves that, and thank the almighty that they can never wage war ever again.

Ponta

If they put Mao urinal beside them, I’d praise their sense of humor and history.

Ap

Let’s not forget Stalin and Hitler.

Anonymous

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.htmlYou will see that while Japan killed millions, Mao Zedong was actually the worst. Even worse than Stalin and Hitler

Claude

Can you fix your link, thanks. I’m guessing you are telling us that The Chairman killed 25 million or so with the great leap forward and other economic blunders. He killed 1 million landlords, if you didn’t give your land over for the betterment of the revolution you could be executed.

Adrianojapan

yuck! truly disgusting… rather pee sitting down..

Fireferret787

They might have one for that.
Comment

”yuck! truly disgusting… rather pee sitting down..”

Go ahead, but you are going to look pretty silly with your butt stuffed into the Japanese soldier’s mouth like that.

Claude

Anti Japanese sentiment plays a everyday role in Chinese life, I spent a year there and reading the China Daily is almost comical. Somehow they will turn a sports report into a subtle reminder on the atrocities the Japanese committed in China.
Tell people you lived in Japan? You’ll get an ear-full.The state will bilk it for all its worth to deflect the attention off themselves because they know the not so affluent masses are simmering.

Piglet

My wife is Japanese. She lived and worked for a while in China, and she never had any problem. On the contrary, most people she met were quite friendly and curious about Japan. Of course, the government is another story…

Well…

It really depends which region of China you’re talking about. The more northeast, the more anti-Japanese.

Piglet

This is very bad taste, but these are Imperial Japan uniforms, so at least it doesn’t relate to the modern country of Japan. It would be a bit like having Nazi urinals in France or Poland : totally useless, totally bad taste, but not insulting towards Germany, the modern country.
Joe

And how would you shape a urinal like a “Middle Eastern terrorist”? They don’t have uniforms.
Claude

Dave Spector is arguably the greatest professional Gaijin in history. Even though he was outed for falsifying his background on his CV in Japan ( he wasn’t the first and he wont be the last) He overcame that because he really understands his responsibility as a Gaijin. First: fantastic Japanese. Second: appearances appearances appearances. Third: appearances appearances appearances. Fourth: play to the stereotypes. Fifth: compromise your integrity. Sixth: tell them what they want to hear. He’s willing to play the soft critic when necessary, it’s his job to say the things that Japanese wont because they are to polite or the subject is too taboo. He does it with perfect timing, right place and time. Many Tarento aren’t refines to the degree dave is in that dept. he really understands the Japanese mind set, it’s a strange form of pandering that only someone like dave can pull off.
He really is a performance artist to the highest degree. You have to respect him on some level, it’s made him rich.

Claude

Whoa! antenna dilemma. had a wireless failure and my post skipped to here. Regarding Dave Spector and his star wars post.

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