3yen

McDonald's Japan Aug. same-store sales down 8.2% Sept. 9, 2011 | TOKYO (MarketWatch) – McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) said Friday that same-store sales in August declined 8.2% on year, falling short of the year-earlier level for the second straight month and declining at an even steeper pace than after the disasters in March… More… McDonald's Japan has [...]

Just buy my fucking book. a story of a little japanese girl who gets mistaken for a local, who landed herself in Los Angeles. . . . —via justbuymyfuckingbook .. Embiggen to 800 x 620 px.

Miss Universe Japan 2011 Maria Kamiyama pre-tapes in her national costume onstage at Sao Paulo according to 2SPACE.NET – Sep 8th, 2011 .. As posted here before in Miss Greater Co-Prosperity Universe (3Yen | 9/2/2011) is once again going for the kinky samurai look that has served Japan so well in previous years (3Yen [...]

To quote this Japanese fellow’s other Youtube video… There are only two types of people in the world, The ones that entertain and the ones that observe. Tip-of-the-hat to Oyajikun

In the upper right corner of the photo below is captured a UFO flying over downtown Tokyo today. .. —The joke of this re-tweet about the former Prime Minister “Hatoyama expresses outrage, demands to see wife” this that his wife wrote a book in which she claiming to have ridden, “…on a triangular-shaped UFO and went [...]

I can’t imagine why… but Dwight Howard “Giraffe Dunk” at a mall appearance at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo dunks a stuffed giraffe.

If you have ever riden on the Tokyo Metro and watched the passengers passed-out over each other, you would know that the Metro’s “Manners Poster” for September does not need any of my “improvements.” .. cirquebass‘ flickr |

The 3Yen gets inquiries all the time from young people about wanting to come to Japan to live. From now on I think I will just send them the link to this short film. link via EX-SKF Kickstarter-funded short film project “BLIND (post-nuclear Tokyo commute)” was created in Japan by Jamie / Sho …more at … —Turning [...]

As much I would love to see this on the market for people with amputations, I also love the Youtube comments: Can it masturbate? Can you do nose picking? IMPRESSIVE!!!!! They took primitive technology, and fooled people into thinking its not primitive technology, WOW, HOW INNOVATIVE. I AM SO IMPRESSED. Previous fun robot hand reports from the 3Yen [...]

REUTERSPICTURESonline The Miss Universe pageant going to be held in Brazil on September 12. However, Miss Japan, Maria Kamiyama, has POWNED the competition at you can see this pre-release of the video of the contest at Sao Paulo’s Beco de Batman Na-Na-Na… ..

The most pathetic Wapanese whine* is: “WHY DOES JAPAN GET ALL THE GOOD STUFF?” Himasoku blog via Google Translate: Women power up – with image! Girly-looking PCs Embiggen to the full size, 668×1075 px. *You might think the reason why Japan-gets-all-the-good-stuff-first is that it’s all made here and Japanese need time to translate everything before they send it out [...]

For some fun reason, Japanese call a baby buggies, strollers and baby carriages a “Baby Car”/

Japan’s homeboy*, Steven Seagal, as a re-incarnate tulku/lama and Japanese Buddhist* better not come back as a puppy… Steven Seagal — Legal Threats Over Tank Raid TMZ.com | 2011/08/30 The blood of a dead puppy is on Steven Seagal's hands … according to an Arizona man…Jesus Sanchez Llovera…who claims the actor participated in a [...]

Even though the film ‘Mukade ningen’ aka “Human Centipede” has been out for two years, Japanese love the whole idea as proven by this display at a recent showing of film in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Human Centipede (Google Translate) Also refer to the previous 3Yen reports: —The Golden Turd & Tokyo’s other public art marvels [...]

Japanese mannequins are always so much fun*, especially as a monster typhoon approaches. restofthestory At noon today (August 30, 2011) Typhoon No. 12 aka “Talas” is bearing down on Tokyo for a direct hit. No. 12’s strength is listed at “Strong” which may turn out to be a Category 2 or 3. For updates of my impending doom, [...]

At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards yesterday, the Wapanese winner was Nicki Minaj wearing her Hannibal-Lecter-meets-Japanese-Barbie outfit with a geometric metal armored dress and graffiti face mask. When asked about her unique dress she said, “Harajuku is something I have been absorbing for a very long time…Tokyo inspires this outfit.*” According to the – Fashionista [...]

Finance Minister Noda wins Japan party vote, to be PM AP News – Aug 29. 2011 …. So, who the fuck is “Noda”? Is this Japan’s new Prime Minister Noda? …Noda

Embiggen to the full, uncropped photo, 756×530 px. The model shown is Risa Jozuka, Queen of the Weird. For more info, refer to her modeling agency, gunns. Embiggen to 956×1228 px.

This PR campaign of Fuji TV, whose corporate logo is an eyeball (L), has been pushing this “mysterious beauty” with anime eyes in their advertising posters and TV commercials since the beginning of this summer. The rest-of-the-story is … The-rest-of-the-story is that the glamorous photos are of the comedienne Emiko Kawamura (age 31) of the [...]

As Japan is entering its third “Lost Decade” of economic collapse (Wiki), most Japanese pundits have been wishing for ‘Japan as Switzerland’—a shabbily gentil honorable decline into wealthy obscurity, However, this Japanese bureaucrat’s wetdream is that Japan “has-become-just-like-Belgium” is just huh? Japan as Belgium The Diplomat | 2011/08/26 —‘Our country has become just like Belgium,’ a Japanese academic and [...]