I can laugh? yes maybe

The Japanese Hotel Mikazuki has a 1.2 million dollar Golden bath. You can take a bath at no fee, but it has a time restriction and the guard would stand at the door. How can I relax in that? Then yesterday it was stolen. It would be melted and made into bars already. Bye bye, vulgar shiny bath.

I checked the Japan page of Uncyclopedia. Ha! It is getting funny and worse. Recently I found some foreign topics about Japan and Japanese.

This is an article from Wired: "Fetish Cafes Cater to Geeks." Originally "Shomuni" was a TV drama about office ladies in uniform; this is their DVD. Hmm, you want to them to serve your shabushabu? ....orz

"Eigo de Shabera night" (Can you speak English? ) is an English study and entertaiment TV program of NHK(national channel). Not only studying English, they have good contents sometimes. I picked this before. Recently they introduced BBC TV shows about Japan. Ahh, really? I admit they are funny but I have never gotten a fish in return for chocolates ....orz

Pato Fu is a popular Brazilian Rock band. ( I didn't know them though.) Their song "Made in Japan" has weird lyrics and a strange video. Here it is. Here are their lyrics. I will add them to my Japan/Tokyo in music collection..

Pato Fu - Made In Japan
Up to now, human beings have had terrible experiences
Japan was the only one that received a hot atomic bomb
They sell good, inexpensive, pretty products to the world
It is revenge for the atomic bomb

A genuine America-made amplifier
is a surprise to open
almost all of it is made in Japan
I thought, "It can't be helped."

made in Japan, made in Japan, made in Japan

There is a secret in the project
NASA has the solution to this
I am relieved about this
NASA is always by our side

人間は、今まで恐ろしい目にあってきた
熱い原爆を一人で受けた日本
良くて安くてきれいな商品を世界に売っている
原爆のあだを返している

本物のアメリカ製のアンプ
開けてびっくり
ほとんどの部品は、日本製
私は、思ったの「ああ、仕方がない」

メイドインジャパン・メイドインジャパン・メイドインジャパン

プロジェクトには、秘密がある
これは、NASAが解決する
これで私は、安心だ
NASAは、いつも私たちの横についてる。

Comments

[Mari]

Everything made in China...I want to know that. Some say small parts in chell phone, they are all made in Japan still now.

[skunk]

that band must be behind the times cos nowadays everything is made in china :P

[bshock]

I sometimes wonder about the lives of men who visit those so-called "Fetish Cafes." How is it that they are not too embarrassed and self conscious to enjoy the experience?

In the U.S., the closest thing we used to have to this was the old "Playboy Club" (the origin of the "bunny girl" waitress), but this was closed long ago, I believe. These days, perhaps something similar is a chain of sports bars called "Hooters." Once three of my coworkers took me to this place for lunch. Our waitress was a young woman less than half my age, dressed in a very tight t-shirt and very short shorts. She made quite a show of leaning over our table and acting interested in us. I found it unbearable. How could a girl like this even pretend that four fat, foul-smelling, middle-aged computer geeks were not repulsive to her? All the previous patrons of that place must have been much better tippers than I am.

I suppose strip bars are also distantly related to the Fetish Cafe phenomenon, but then strip bars are probably the same in Japan and the U.S. These places never made any sense to me at all. Why would men want to become sexually excited in the same room with a bunch of other men?

[Roaf]

I'm from England and I enjoy the TV BBC show, Japanorama. (Actually, it's not so different to your site, Mari!) You can watch it on YouTube. I also recommend another BBC show, "Adam and Joe Go Tokyo", which is really funny.