1 Jun, 2009  |  Written by joseph tame  |  under blog, video

Japan is always ahead of the game when it comes to hair care. With more hair per square kilometre than over 76% of the earth’s surface, Japan takes it’s hair seriously, thus, when hair-loss situations arise, a whole variety of techniques have been developed to combat it.

Here’s one I tried last night – as you can see, it was a great success!

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2 Jan, 2009  |  Written by joseph tame  |  under Uncategorized


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Thanks to Roger for the link.

19 Dec, 2008  |  Written by joseph tame  |  under Uncategorized

I arrived at Kudanshita a little early this morning, and was astonished to stumble across the legendary Salaryman Ninja Squad.

Managed to sneak a shot of them holding their Chou-rei (morning meeting) without getting my head sliced off by one of the razor-sharp computer keyboards they all carry under their coats.

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Needless to say, Pepe was pretty interested in this phenomenon too, and using his penguin charm was able to attach gps trackers to the insides of their umbrellas.

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9 Nov, 2008  |  Written by joseph tame  |  under Uncategorized

Recent breakthroughs in Brainy Animal Research Kommunications technology (or BARK for short) has enabled residents in Tokyo’s Meguro-ward to enroll their dogs in new reading and writing classes. The move is part of an effort to educate the canine community in street manners – notably those connected with unchi (poos).

Here we see one of the new signs now being introduced for the educated class of wanwans along kerb stones telling them not to do do-do’s in inappropriate locations.

9 Nov, 2008  |  Written by joseph tame  |  under Uncategorized

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What I want to know if why has the salary man replaced his eye balls with golf balls?

(This is one in a series of posters on the Tokyo Subway encouraging good manners. See the whole series here)

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