I wonder if these semiheptagonal Japanese plastic bottles pack better or something, like you can fit more on a flat on the back of one of those tiny pickup trucks to restock your konbini
I like how even with Nintendo setting per-publisher quotas they would just localize whatever they had on hand on the NES era. “Does anyone in America know who Golgo 13 is? No? Great, here’s a Golgo 13 game.”
i learned that there’s a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)
you eat me and i perfectly dodge all of your digestive enzymes and stomach acid and i sprint out your asshole fully intact
I like that in Japan the “you stop masturbating long enough to give your fantasy more backstory than it really needs” phenomenon is responsible for several major media properties
Hot take: insofar as it represented domestic capital and labor overcoming divisions to cooperate in a project of national uplift amidst liberal use of canned slogans and mass gatherings and the suppression of leftist mass action, Japan’s postwar recovery was more fascist than its interwar period
This is what I’ve been talking about when people don’t appreciate Japanese summers: setting aside all the beach swimsuit vacation episodes and the “visit your grandparents in the hot southern countryside” ones, notice how every anime has a heat wave episode aired in the summer where the (relatable) theme is just “it’s hot”?
So when I talk about how you can go to Seattle and tell Japanese from Japanese-Americans on the street by subtle personal style touches—
Look at that 6th picture, from philtrum through ribcage. No way is that lipstick a Japanese style, yet that hair definitely is.
Which how do you explain that? Well, looking it up she’s a model in Tokyo – where she gets the hair – who works the Insta/OnlyFans online pinup circuit, which is the international community she takes shoot makeup cues from.
One thing behind the Japanese practice of treating houses as consumable rather than capital goods, intended to last one lifetime and then be replaced, is the legacy of centuries of urban culture in which it was understood that every building would be destroyed in a fire about that frequently so there wasn’t much point in using more relatively more precious building materials in trying to push durability further.
The longest non-JR train line in Japan runs a limited extra-slow service that’s themed as a parody of their limited express service
wait does Japan have the rabbit/turtle metaphor for fast/slow too?
Machine translated Japanese Wikipedia has this to say:
It is believed to have flowed into Japan after the latter half of the Muromachi period, when trade with Western Europe flourished, and it began to be known in the early modern period through translations of Aesop’s fables and the Tales of Isoho . It became known to the general public after it was included in textbooks in the Meiji era. It was published under the title “Absurd Great Enemy” in the Japanese language textbook for elementary school during the Meiji period . [1]
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Beautiful.
Now I’m crying thanks
and a new cat was hired right?
yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy
she works very hard
Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.
Law
I’m crying at 11pm over train cats
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.
^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama
Yontama.
a legacy
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back
“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better
You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.
The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.
Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama
Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)
you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.
You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)
So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.
And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.
Pictures making me realize that before the culture totally digested how to stand before an arcade console, probably one of the closest precedents around was urinal stalls
When did Japan start doing sit-down arcade consoles? Or was it always and the big wood boxes were an us thing?
