Attuworld - japan

Extreme Makeup - Harajuku Girls

Cybermaster — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:06:55 +0200

In Japan, it is certainly not easy to get attention. Therefore, many girls use a lot of makeup and then look like this...

Japanese Buns of Steel

Attu — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:33:43 +0200

In the early days of the interwebs we got to see Japanese girls breaking chopsticks with their asscheeks. But now that Uri Geller has made his comeback, the Japanese girls came up with a trick to honor him. This is called Japanese Buns of Steel.

1000100101 Black

Attu — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:19:20 +0200

Straight off the wrist of a Moon Base Commander from a 1960's Sci-Fi classic, this watch features all the things that you'd expect. Flat metal panel, cryptic flashing lights, carbon fibre style strap and display that looks like it's gauging your oxygen level.

This is the new all Black & Blue model. The case is brushed IP Black with all Blue LED's. Extra markings have been made on the face to distinguish the hours & minutes.

World Record Slam Dunk?

Attu — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:50:07 +0200

This is a crazy video from Japanese TV of a little Asian guy jumping off a trampoline to slam dunk a basketball. This very well may be the world record slam dunk from a trampoline! This looks like so much fun, I need to find a padded gym so I can try this without breaking my neck

Japan's 'geisha guys' the latest accessory

Attu — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:13:07 +0200

At first glance, the man and woman at the nightclub look like any other couple on a date. He flirts and pours champagne. She looks at him and laughs.

This isn't a date, though. It's business.

The woman, a successful executive, has joined a growing number of professional women in Japan are forking out $1,000 to $50,000 a night for male companionship.

They meet their "hosts" in hundreds of clubs that have sprung up around Tokyo - the industry says only compliments are exchanged. The women pay for a man to lavish them with undivided attention.

Japan Gets First Blogging Cat

Inventor Spot — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:05 +0200

Diary of a mad house cat? Hatch-chan, a six-year-old former stray cat, isn't so much mad as he is spoiled... with attention. And yes, he has a diary - an immensely popular blog (in Japanese, yet) that gets 50,000 hits a day.

Meet Hatch-chan, Japan's First Blogging Cat

Japan needs astronauts

Attu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:20:04 +0200

Japan's space agency began recruiting astronauts for the first time in nearly a decade on Tuesday amid growing interest in the space program spurred by a Japanese astronaut's journey on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour.

Japan's space program was in tatters in the late 1990s after a series of mishaps, but it sent its first lunar probe into orbit last year in hopes of putting the program back on track.

The first piece of a new Japanese laboratory was also installed on the International Space Station last month, paving the way for more Japanese astronauts to work in space.

Super Pii Pii Brothers

Attu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:34:41 +0200

As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised…but it was quite unusual to see the “strap-on” style accessory and peeing action that Pii Pii Brothers provides.

Leave it to those crazy Japanese to come up with Super Pii Pii Brothers, a game for the Nintendo Wii that lets the ladies pee standing up like us dudes!

This is Tentacle Love

Attu — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:42:43 +0100

I absolutely have no idea what this is all about. All I know is that it is from the Land of the Rising Sun and pretty much everything that comes from Japan is utterly weird. And this is no exception. So what is this Tentacle Love all about?

Marshmallows in Japan

Attu — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:05:27 +0100

They have been weird for centuries, they will be weird for ages. The Japanese and their idiotic gameshows. This is marshmallow eating in Japan. Just what is the puprose of this gameshow?

SWAROVSKI ginza by tokujin yoshioka

leopoldogolba — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:55:15 +0100

Tokujin Yoshioka recently unveiled his design for the new Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. The shop features a facade covered in layers of mirrored stainless steel. Its sparkling appearance is intended to resemble a 'crystal forest'.

Big breasts win verdict for Japanese pin-up

Attu — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:55:34 +0100

A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career -- they also helped her overturn a court verdict.

The bikini model, who goes by her professional name Serena Kozakura, was cleared after a court decided she was too well-endowed to squeeze into a room through a hole, as she had been found guilty of earlier.

"I used to hate my body so much," Kozakura, who has appeared in product commercials on television, told the private Asahi network in an interview aired Tuesday.

"But it was my breasts" that won in court, she said.

More Serena Kozakura pics and video at read more

We are the World in Japan

Simon Iddol — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:42:00 +0100

We Are The World been performed live in a japanese TV show. No more words needed...

art photography from japan

leopoldogolba — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:34:28 +0100

These pictures were made in the period from 1852 to 1912. It is understandable that they actually were originally in black and white. Painted them manually.

Is your mom like a schoolgirl?

Attu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:30:32 +0100

We know the Japanese are weird. And it's not likely to ever change. I mean, would you like your mother to dress like a schoolgirl in every day life? Probably not. But would you want her to enter Japan's hottest school girl mom contest?

2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, copter mobilized for car chase in Osaka

Attu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:20:40 +0100

Police on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopter. Hirofumi Fukuda, 27, who had been wanted for assaulting police officers on Jan 21, was arrested after a chase through central Osaka. Around 11 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a car was driving recklessly, ignoring traffic lights. When a patrol car approached the vehicle in question, it took off.

Police were mobilized throughout the area and a helicopter called in. The chase ended when Fukuda's car crashed into a bridge column. He sustained light injuries but no one else was injured in the chase.

Will Boomerangs Work in Space?

Inventor Spot — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:11:27 +0100

Can a boomerang do in zero gravity what boomerangs do down here on Earth? We're going to find out! Takeo Doi intends to test the theory once he arrives at the new, Japanese-made "Kibo" science module on a scheduled mission this March. You see, spaceflight isn't all rocket science!

Find out a little more about flying boomerangs, paper airplanes and more here.

The 10 Most Difficult to Read Tokyoflash Watches

Attu — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:32:32 +0100

Quick: what time is it? If you can glance down at your wristwatch and figure it out in, oh say, less than two seconds, it may just be too easy for you. And that’s a wasted opportunity to train your mind, my friend. Instead, wear a wristwatch that forces you to go to the equivalent of a mental gym whenever you want to know the time!

As timepieces go, the wristwatch has gone a long way since Patek Philippe created the first one in the late 1800s. It started out as jewelry for royalties, then evolved to fashion accessory, and finally to a mass-produced practical item. Now, thanks to the folks at Tokyoflash, watches can also be a symbol of geekdom.

Japan To Reboot Space Program With Paper Airplanes

Attu — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:14 +0100

I really don't know what to make of this story. University of Tokyo "researchers" and members of the Japanese Origami Airplane Association are trying to develop a paper "spaceplane" able to survive the flight back from the ISS to the Earth.

If that doesn't seem ridiculous enough, the prototype being tested in an "ultra-high-speed wind tunnel" at the University of Tokyo’s Okashiwa campus is a mere 3.1 inches long. What, they couldn't afford to spring for a full sheet of paper? I guess it was a little snarky of me to run down their wind tunnel, since it is able to subject test items to 5,300 mile per hour winds.

However, I find myself wondering if a paper airplane could even be subjected to 5,300 mph winds anywhere but in a wind tunnel. I'm thinking that the terminal velocity of a paper airplane is about twenty miles per hour.

Newsflash: The Japanese are Still Wierd!

Attu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:15:11 +0100

I’ve been fascinated with the Japanese culture for a long time. Their TV games shows, their movies and their food are all simply great. It seems like every time I come across a new Japanese video clip it just get’s weirder and weirder and I love it! I ran across this clip today of some dude that refuses to get himself a real girlfriend because he has a room full of those silicone artificial women……that he spent over $160,000 on!!

Tokyo Dance Trooper, the ultimate version

Simon Iddol — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:48:26 +0100

About 4 months ago, we posted about the Tokyo Dance Trooper already. At that time we haven't realized how big star is the Trooper in Japan. You have to check out his amazing photo galleries, especially the bikini girls VS the Trooper Idol Photo Session, the Tokyo Street Performance, the Shibuya Dance Trooper or his fight with the CokeMachineMan. In his latest video, the Trooper is dancing with NIKK, who is a famous Japanese dancer, celebrity. Well, may the Force be with you!

Russia and Japan Building Island Shaped Like Miniature Russia

Inventor Spot — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:33:33 +0100

Dubai's artificial islands are about to get a little competition: a miniature "Russia" in the Black Sea.

Off of Sochi, Russia, a new island will house athletes for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

If it's Japanese...

Attu — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:29:42 +0100

...it's weird. When the Japanese go fishing, they all go fishing. Do they realize the chances of ctaching something interesting are reduced to a minimum with so many fishermen, fisherwomen and fisherkids?

'Bogeyman' molests women at resort

Attu — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:05:19 +0100

A man dressed as a namahage -- a monster traditionally used in Akita Prefecture to frighten children into showing proper manners -- burst into a public bath here and molested several women on New Year's Eve, tourism officials said.

Furious Oga tourism officials have banned the neighborhood association the man belonged to from supplying namahage performers for three years.

But, thanks to an apology and expression of deep remorse, there will be no charges laid against the man who dressed up as the namahage -- roughly equivalent to the West's Bogeyman, but recognized by the national government as a significant intangible folk cultural asset. He has, however, received a severe reprimand for his behavior.

Inside the Tokyo Traffic Control Center

Attu — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:25:15 +0100

Tokyo traffic can be crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as it is frustrating, but it’s certainly a lot easier to get through the mess on a Monkey rather than in a car.

However, despite our gripes about traffic lights that seem very poorly timed, it turns out that the entire system is much more centralized than we could have imagined.

Japan's new rich party like it's 1989

Attu — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:32:15 +0100

They customize the headrests of their Rolls-Royces with "Harry Potter writing," sip martinis poured over diamonds and buy $130,000 watches on a whim.

Meet Japan's big spenders.

On a Wednesday night, carefully coiffed women in fur coats slide into a rooftop bar in Ginza, Tokyo's most exclusive shopping district. Ten floors below, the streets resound with the angry growl of a Ferrari stuck in a traffic jam.

In this setting reminiscent of the booming 1980s, it seems hard to believe that Japan is suffering from weak consumer spending.

Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice

Attu — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:15:31 +0100

What's cute, yellow, eats snow and poops out bricks of ice?

Meet Yuki-taro, a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows.

The cute little guy, about 5 feet long and 2 and a half feet high, simply plows into snowbanks, taking in the white stuff, compressing it and neatly stacking it in two-foot-long bricks on his rear bed.

Holy Shit: 150 inch Panasonic plasma TV

Attu — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:04:55 +0100

Japanese paper Yomiuri is reporting that Panasonic will unveil a 150-inch plasma to show the world who has the biggest flatscreen manufacturing capability. That above is the photo of the now second-place 103-inch plasma as big as a queen-sized bed. (Sharp has the current title of biggest at 108-inches).

Art from Japan

Attu — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:19:31 +0100

Okay, I know it's from Japan, so it is supposed to be weird, but does this qualify as art?

paper thin speaker

Simon Iddol — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:17:03 +0100

Japanese researchers have created a flexible, paper-thin speaker that reportedly produces faux surround sound. It is only prototype, but never mind , there is a looooong way to go till next Christmas.