Re: Random Japanese Signs

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:10 pm

Finally, a solution to Japan's laid-back economy...

Japanese wartime slogan :
"Lower living standards, raise the flag!"
lower-standards.jpg
--MT @ThinkSmart2011 @masafumi_yoshi 今日の安倍政権を見ているようだ pic.twitter.com/TcNaovlpnL-- Anthony Davis (@ozAntinnippon) September 3, 2014

by **matsuki** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:22 pm

wagyl wrote:I put my hand up and say that until very very recently that would have passed my native check. Same with Spade. The anglosphere is not monolithic.

But they have "International" in the name?

I saw an SUV the other day with "HFJKDHFJKDHFL Company Co. Ltd." on the back. I thought they stopped handing out 有限会社 certification but you have to love the extra effort to Engrish the name by adding not only "Company" but "Co. Ltd." as well.

Taro Toporific wrote:Finally, a solution to Japan's laid-back economy...

Japanese wartime slogan :
"Lower living standards, raise the flag!"
lower-standards.jpg
--MT @ThinkSmart2011 @masafumi_yoshi 今日の安倍政権を見ているようだ pic.twitter.com/TcNaovlpnL-- Anthony Davis (@ozAntinnippon) September 3, 2014

How prophetic can you get?

by **Taro Toporific** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:09 am

"What kind of Sorcery is this?"

sorcery-signage.jpg

via--- JapanBlogList(@JapanBlogList) September 6, 2014

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:17 pm

I am asshole, hear me roar

Osamu Mukai is a well-known drama and commercial actor in Japan, best known for playing heart-throb types on prime time TV. He also apparently does not speak English or pay much attention to his fashion choices, as a recent appearance on what seems to be a typical Japanese evening talk show proves.

While the majority of the Japanese audience probably had no idea what the English on the actor’s drab green T-shirt meant, one eagle-eyed Twitter user seems to have noticed, and thus immortalized, Mukai’s unfortunate fashion choice for the world to see.

In the screenshot, Mukai is pictured standing next to a particularly petite Japanese talento actress looking down at something and laughing. Quite whether he’s in on the joke, we’re unsure, but his smile pairs incredibly well with his T-shirt, whose message reads: “PLEASE TRUST ME. I AM ASSHOLE.”

asshole.jpg

by **matsuki** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:20 pm

This is no laughing matter...it's the best advice evar! Don't trust the manko if she says she's on the pill! PLEASE TRUST ME, I AM ASSHOLE"

by **Taro Toporific** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 2:16 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I am asshole, hear me roar
... T-shirt, whose message reads: “PLEASE TRUST ME. I AM ASSHOLE.”

Seen on a NHK gardening show yesterday morning...

NHK-gardening-show.jpg

... Is this how NHK tests the effectiveness of their language learning programs?

by **Russell** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:26 am

It is grammatically correct, isn't it?

:lol:

by **matsuki** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:44 am

I wonder if there is a market for T-shirts with similar sayings in Japanese...

by **IparryU** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:07 pm

i need to make my way over to enrish.com and get some more amusement... at least they are not tattooed with silly enrish...

by **Taro Toporific** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:54 am

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via

by **Taro Toporific** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:28 am

"I’m worried that the message here could get lost in translation."
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pic.twitter.com/EnbDF0ZrA2 Mike Clarke (@Mr_Mike_Clarke) September 29, 2014

by **Taro Toporific** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:07 am

you-buff-we-paint.jpg

"You Buff, We Paint" Harajuku by tokyofashion, on Flickr

by **TennoChinko** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:05 pm

From http://www.trans-jiro.com/2014/07/20/553/

by **Taro Toporific** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:15 pm

TennoChinko wrote:From http://www.trans-jiro.com/2014/07/20/553/

I like the website blames gaijin for the sign: "外国人「日本でよくI♡WEEDのシール見かけるんだけどwwww」" :roll:

by **IparryU** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:31 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:
TennoChinko wrote:From http://www.trans-jiro.com/2014/07/20/553/

I like the website blames gaijin for the sign: "外国人「日本でよくI♡WEEDのシール見かけるんだけどwwww」"

http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/2b4dge/i_heart_weed_stickers_around_tokyo_whats_the/

by **Taro Toporific** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:25 am

Mulboyne writes:
‘Neo Tokyo Fooding Bar Mysterious’ sounds like a parody Japanese restaurant name. It isn't: http://t.co/QThVY8rGpQ

mysterious-fooding_.jpg

by **Taro Toporific** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:41 pm

"Japan is so serious about tackling stalking, abuse and bullying that it dressed a cat up as a policeman."
stalker-kitty.jpg
pic.twitter.com/xpOt8O0xkV --- Richard Smart (@tokyorich) October 4, 2014

by **matsuki** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:01 pm

Obviously so sensitive to the subject??

field-of-weeds.jpg

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10 ... cf878e.jpg

Field of weeds?? WTF?

by **Taro Toporific** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:57 am

koban.jpg

koban-koncho_ani.gif

by **Mike Oxlong** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:09 am

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:06 pm

Blacker than the Black Ships -- Commodore Obama faces off the sacred cows of the JA.

"President Obama is Commodore Perry: Farmers want to welcome him, and the TPP proposal, with cannonballs."
---Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) October 13, 2014
Obama-Black-Ships.jpg

by **Marked Trail** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:37 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:Commodore Obama faces off the sacred cows of the JA.

Hey those are not, “sacred cows of the JA–Japan Agriculture Group.” Only the one on the left could be a “sacred cow” or a “sacred” bull(shit).
The one on the right above the canon is a Sacrilegious Swine.

mad-cows_sicko-swine.jpg

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:02 pm

Spotted outside a youth hostel.

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by **matsuki** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:54 am

Marked Trail wrote:
Taro Toporific wrote:Commodore Obama faces off the sacred cows of the JA.

Hey those are not, “sacred cows of the JA–Japan Agriculture Group.” Only the one on the left could be a “sacred cow” or a “sacred” bull(shit).
The one on the right above the canon is a Sacrilegious Swine.

mad-cows_sicko-swine.jpg

Totally reminded me of this...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BA8-ACZwEmE/T ... hicken.png

FUCK YOU COW AND CHICKEN!

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:36 pm

Doraemon wants to suck your soul...

evil-doraemon_.jpg
未来 pic.twitter.com/diR5xRg3kI -- ジロー@スマホでパシャパシャ (@juke69rock) October 22, 2014

by **Taro Toporific** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:46 pm

This Japanese magazine is sort of like a 'sign', ain't it?

"The amazing Tokyo of the year 2011"
Tokyo-2011.jpg
Nippon.com(@nippon_en) October 24, 2014

by **Russell** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:41 pm

Hmm, their iPads stand on poles, and they are not really pads.

And why do they all wear pyjamas?

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:02 pm

Russell wrote:Hmm, their iPads stand on poles, and they are not really pads.

And why do they all wear pyjamas?

I like the osprey landing pad.

by **Taro Toporific** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:55 pm

Russell wrote:Hmm, their iPads stand on poles, and they are not really pads.
And why do they all wear pyjamas?

These are jammies are trippy too. :shroom:

-Futur-Heureux-Au-Japon_1_original.jpg

___________

Future School with “Robot Teacher” in 1989

Futur-Heureux-Au-Japon_original.jpg

SHONEN SUNDAY Magazine, 1969
“This vision of the future, ominously entitled “The Rise of the Computerized School”, was illustrated by Shigeru Komatsuzaki for an article in a 1969 Shonen Sunday magazine. The “Computopia” feature predicted that by 1989 our lives would be equal parts carefree and terrifying thanks to the pervasiveness of computers, telecommuting teachers, and pugilistic enforcer robots.”

by **Russell** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:00 pm

I like the 自動アイロン with its two antennas. LOL.

How is that going to work in practice?!?

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