Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
[Warning, Links NSFW] Japan is home to enough world achievements to make any patriot proud. This isn’t one of them. Masanobu Sato of Tokyo, Japan won the 9th annual World Masturbate-a-thon on May 2, 2009, clocking in at 9 hours and 58 minutes. Metropolis TV videotaped a brief documentary on his daily life where he “trains” for two hours with a tenga in front of his girlfriend and cat. (You read that correctly). Wait until the end of the video though. That’s when it gets really depressing. He expresses that “A real female of course, smells, is dirty…because it’s a human being…So we have this anime, isn’t it clean and pretty? Masanobu Sato, a living, breathing, forever alone meme.
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Lucky Bags happen everywhere in Japan on January 2nd. Just a few years ago I made the trip and saw Lucky Bags even in a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop. Yes, you can get a Lucky Bag of ice cream. People line up for almost every shop, Uniqlo, Muji, and more, and in the end, you don’t know exactly what you’re getting. January 2nd is as hectic as any crowded mall Christmas shopping day in the US. People are everywhere trying to land that special bag of goodies. It’s true that some bags are better than others. When I heard that there’s an Apple Store bag, I was curious and found a blog who reported what they got. Yes, long lines formed for a chance to buy a bag that might have a MacBook Air or an iPad 2, but if you don’t get those special items, you do get a Touch, cases, a Porter bag, t-shirt, headphones, buttons, remote, but is all this worth the $400+? Perhaps, dollars and sense wise, but really, no unless you land the special bag. Either way, the curiosity of what’s in that Apple Lucky Bag is solved and getting in line for one is just a game of “wallet roulette.” (penn-olson – Apple Bag)
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A lot has been made of this photo of a sale in Japan. Yes, words like this get used in a more ironic way than they would elsewhere. Signs like this are easy to make, put up and take down. But there’s been too much support for this little bank of signs! Yes there’s a Fuckin’ Sale. As a store owner, this is exactly what we say behind the scenes. A Fuckin’ Sale… it is. Fuckin’ left over merchandise we hope to fuckin’ blow out.
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Bust Size? Bra That Makes Big Breasts Look Small sells units and according to “survey” 10% of 21-40 year old Japanese women want slimmer breasts. Sales are strong according to the company, Wacoal who reports 86,000 units sold. The commercial is funny, with their before and after photos. Other than this piece of news, that’s all there is to see here and it’s less than meets the eye. It’s reduced but at the same time, the recidivism of the breast curious gazers may stay the same. (Rocket News – Bust Reducer)
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You want to say good job. It appears that Japan is the foremost plastic recycling nation in the world. According to PSFK, “At 77%, Japan’s plastic recycling rate is about twice that of the UK, and well above the 20% figure for the US, which still depends largely on landfill, according to institute spokesman Takushi Kamiya. One major driver has been the lack of space for landfill close to crowded and sprawling metropolitan areas.” (psfk – Recycling in Japan) Everywhere you go, you do see recycling bins next to almost every vending machine which dot all landscapes. That’s just for the PET bottles (which are also changing little by little to being 100% recyclable), but there’s still room for improvement for the household plastics, and everywhere you go in Japan, you’ll see plastic.
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