“The cat’s just like… well, fuck.” — andyofcomixinc

“I don’t care what you guys say, this dog is awful at playing piano.” — jsndacruz

“You can do it, kitty!… you can do it… Nevermind!”

“He WALKED outta the sunglasses… WHAAAA?!” — ezziboo

“The Japanese have a wonderful relationship with their manhole covers: they treat them as art. Here is a selection of the ornate, the artistic and the slightly bizarre.” w/ photos

“According to their website, they made their own software: VARP 9 a proprietary audio-video re-synthesis software, developed by GranularSynthesis and Dirk Langheinrich in 1997-1999. It is a sample based MIDI software instrument that streams from RAM. It works in realtime in full PAL video resolution and frame rate. It allows accessing and allocating single frames at 25f/sec. At this video grain rate it is capable of audiovisual granular synthesis.” — Annexinema

“I watched this with the sound turned off. I have no idea why it was made. I don’t want to know.” — splimletlet

“Every year, during the cold winter months, snow monsters make their appearance on the snow covered slopes of Japan’s northern prefectures. But instead of running out of their way, tourists flock to these places to admire their natural beauty. Every one of these juhyou monsters is uniquely shaped by Mother Nature, who uses strong winds as her tools and thick layers of snow and ice as art mediums.” w/ photos

“While doorknobs are not generally considered as sexual objects, the images of a woman licking one seem to have caught the nation’s fancy. So much, that they were even featured on national TV. Some say that a doorknob represents the perfect phallic symbol, especially because it comes in all shapes and sizes. The pictures themselves are generally not very blatantly sexual. The women are fully clothed, with a variety of objects cluttered around them. They are sometimes dressed in a school uniform, and a few wear the attire of an office worker. Building the story behind the picture is completely left to the imagination of the viewer.” w/ photos

“I wonder how well this could improve the ‘the stranger’ masturbation technique.” — 450

“I drink a gallon of water everyday. I’ve been training my whole life for this.” — U.X.S.

“Only in Japan would they have f*cking top battles.” — CorporalHotdogs

“It’s like F1 but for the middle class.” — zousanai

“Chuck Norris wants his matches back.” — LegoLego35

“Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at Future University Hakodate, northern Japan, cultivates the slime in petri dishes and has discovered how the brainless organism is capable of finding its way out of a maze. The brainless organism is able to ‘organise’ its cells to create the most direct route through a maze in order to reach a source of food, according to his studies. The findings highlight how slime mould possesses information processing abilities shared by humans which are more sophisticated than the most advanced computers, according to Professor Nakagaki. “Humans are not the only living things with information-processing abilities,” he said. ‘Simple creatures can solve certain kinds of difficult puzzles. If you want to spotlight the essence of life or intelligence, it’s easier to use these simple creatures.” w/ photo

“Sometimes Japanese have universal comedy down perfectly! I don’t know what they’re saying but I get the idea and it’s very fucking funny!” — AbsolutePureEvil

“This special vending machine uses drips of coffee poured carefully through milk to form a face on the top of your hot beverage. In this particular case, it makes the face of a woman, floating in your foamy cuppa cappu. Apparently, that’s a pattern that Yojiya Cafe teaches its human baristas to make too. Here’s a video clip of the machine working it’s magic. Trust me when I say that since it does all of its tricks behind closed doors, it’s not very thrilling though.” w/ photos + video

“You won’t be driving cars this far in the future, the cars will be driving you.”

“Do you find yourself wishing that you could have had a little more practice before getting up to karaoke before all your friends?… private karaoke rooms could be just as fun and exciting for you. The single-person karaoke room, also known as ’1Kara’ in Japan, was launched late November, and has been gaining in popularity. The store is located in front of Kanda station in Tokyo and offers small, solo rooms, equipped with a table, chair, microphones, headphones and a small screen.” w/ photos + video

“It’s an interesting concept, but I don’t think it would be too safe for road travel. Looks very light and brittle. They should make a model S, which is more modern and is exponentially safer, with steel support beams and a metal fan instead of paper. In short, use the classic Japanese aesthetics, but with modern materials.” — LuwiigiMaster

“How well will it hold up when I shake the crap out of it to get my stuck bottle out?”

“Yes, one Maru is not enough! We need a whole army of Marus!” — charley388

“And so begins the penguin mission to render dogs useless. With dogs out of the way, they can make their ways into our homes and hearts to be tickled and fed as much as they want. Dogs have a sweet deal, and they want it.” — Rallikt

“This is very lovely, a beautiful woman doing her yoga and a beautiful cat keeping her company! You can see what a nice bond they have.” — YakimaGulag

“Exotic creatures lie at the bottom of Japan’s Suruga Bay, including spider crabs, chimaeras and lantern sharks.” — NatGeo

“Don’t worry… they replaced the dog a few days later.”

“The objective of the game is pretty simple. Players of the opposing team need to be knocked out with snowballs. But of course, there are more technicalities involved. For instance, the field on which Yukigassen is played is a 44 X 12 yard rectangle divided by red and blue lines, similar to the layout of a hockey rink. Three periods, three minutes in duration each, constitute the match. The team that wins two out of three is ultimately the winner of the match. A period could either be won by having more standing players than the team at the opposite end, or by capturing the other team’s flag without getting hit by their snowballs. Currently, there are over 2,000 Yukigassen teams in Japan alone. The sport is gaining momentum worldwide too, especially in the United States.” w/ photos + video

“This takes furrys to a whole new level.” — stalker7d7

“The most rubber bands stretched over the face are 74, and were achieved by Ayumu Kato on the set of Bikkuri Chojin Special #4, in Kanagawa, Japan.”

“And the next project will be designing and building a robot that can comb your teeth and laugh at your bananas.” — dpattiris