Tokyo Damage Report

Archive for April, 2010

TRANSLATION OF 2006 JOHNNY’S JIMUSHO EXPOSE

This article is from the 2006 issue of “heisei nippon no tabuu taizen” (Modern Japan’s taboo journalism collection of 2006). Sort of the Japanese equivalent of the “top censored stories of 2006” like they have in America.
 
It’s a pretty awesome fuck-you to both Johnny and the whole mass-media, but it’s from a tabloid, so the [...]

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updatezzz

1) I'm back. Shit was funny for a while. Moved to a new server.
2) updated the tokyo tour guide page with no less than ten new shops: art books , Carnivale costumes, kitsch museums, body piercing bars, haunted houses. . . . There's around 135 places in it now! Including a whole section on Asakusa-and-around-there.  [...]

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folk art

Random posters:

 

 

The poster's mascot above respresents . . . .guess what? A municipality is seeking a mascot!
$3,000 to the resident who draws the new mascot. What are the odds that the mascot they choose isn'T half as cool as ms. Mystery Egg here?
Below: a parrot warns you to not play on train tracks.

Now for some [...]

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