Random Japanese Signs

[Taro Toporific]

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rest-of-the-story

[GomiGirl]

How about all those idiots pushing onto the train before the passengers have got off..

[Coligny]

How about all those idiots pushing onto the train before the passengers have got off..

I call them targets...

[wuchan]

I grew up playing ice hockey. No problems here...

[matsuki]

How about all those idiots pushing onto the train before the passengers have got off..

I call them targets...

I grew up playing ice hockey. No problems here...

Exactly....I gave up on being polite with them and plow over them when they decide they have no patience or manners

[GomiGirl]

Speaking of manners - on the MTS in Bangkok - EVERYBODY offered me a seat when I got on with my toddler son in the front sling. None of this, "I gots me a seat and I am not giving it up for anybody" attitude. I wasn't looking around for the single person who was paying attention to see if there was anybody in need of their seat. Everybody was paying attention.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not really a sign, but this would have to be the ultimate in "Japan"-inspired furniture

http://www.octopustable.com/

kick ass! I would so buy that if it was not designer price... maybe if it was at a flea market or sumptin.

That mother fucker weighs 500 lbs.

[Coligny]

That mother fucker weighs 500 lbs.

IT'S A TABLE... you'ze not supposed to carry it around all day long...

[Taro Toporific]

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Just for comparison...

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KOMO News | AP Photo--- Rude surprise: French fed up with own incivility
Paris subway operator RATP, shows a campaign poster in a Paris subway station...with a summer-long publicity campaign poking fun at gallic incivility.
Poster reads: "Shoving 5 people out of the way, will not make you go any quicker."

[yanpa]

Clearing out some old photos... Taken in 2008, probably still there:

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[Taro Toporific]

Clearing out some old photos... Taken in 2008, probably still there:
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The sign was still there as of April 7, 2010. Now its proper name is the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, ITAR-TASS aka ИТАР-ТАСС. The Tokyo Bureau is located at 1-5-1, Hon-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.

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Google Street's watermark saids this was taken the Fall of 2010 (1-5-1 本町東京都 渋谷区 151-0071) http://goo.gl/maps/2aS8i

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Far East and Australasia 2003 - Eur - Google Books
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vasily-golovnin/34/22a/29b
Vasily Golovnin, Tokyo Bureau Chief, ITAR-TASS News Agency
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BOTTOM LINE: SOVIET SUPREME outlasted TIME magazine, CBS News, ABC News, et al.

[yanpa]

I lived just down the road for a couple of months. Remarkably big compound for a news gathering operation...

[Taro Toporific]

I lived just down the road for a couple of months. Remarkably big compound for a news gathering operation...

I am sure that ИТАР-ТАСС is still busy with their primary mission of "information gathering."

The satellite view shows a tony neighborhood that's just around the corner from the "secret" West Gate of Meiji Shrine.

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[GomiGirl]

Oh - I can see my apartment in that second photo!! See the long brown building above the Sangubashi label? That is where I live!!

That meiji west gate is so not secret. I used to walk through there daily to get to my office in Sendagaya. That was BB (before baby) as now I have to swing by day care on my way to work. It is an awesome short cut right through to the Kita-sando exit and past some lovely gardens and lakes with ducks and fishies... far from the madding crowds as they say.

[yanpa]

Oh - I can see my apartment in that second photo!! See the long brown building above the Sangubashi label? That is where I live!!

I can see my old apartment in the first photo. Beige building half-way up the right-hand side with the convex-looking facade (actually "balconies". Gave me an excellent view of the Casio HQ opposite, whose peons were regularly graced with a display of my freshly-laundered underwear flapping in the breeze.

That meiji west gate is so not secret. I used to walk through there daily to get to my office in Sendagaya. That was BB (before baby) as now I have to swing by day care on my way to work. It is an awesome short cut right through to the Kita-sando exit and past some lovely gardens and lakes with ducks and fishies... far from the madding crowds as they say.

Ssshh, don't tell everyone about it!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

This thread is starting to remind me of the old Jesus joke where he's up on the cross, calling out to Peter, who gets a limb lopped off every time he races up to answer the savior's call and when he's finally allowed to roll up below the cross as a sign of sympathy, Jesus tells him he can see his house if he stretches his neck a little...






....shoulda just told the whole fucking joke....

[yanpa]

So you're saying less house-spotting, more random Japanese signs?

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

So you're saying less house-spotting, more random Japanese signs?

No, I wasn't. I'm incapable of such subtlety. I enjoyed the photo, though!

[sublight]

Ice cream parlor in Harajuku:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/36731106@N02/7967408628/

[sublight]

Lunch truck near my office. Gave it a try the other day, wasn't very good.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/36731106@N02/7978505329/

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Ice cream parlor in Harajuku:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/36731106@N02/7967408628/

Exclusivist, racist bastards! (I can, however, understand, empathize and support their stance against conservatives...)


** Super, triple snot to sublight for this pic. A fucking bewdy going straight to the pool room.

[Taro Toporific]

Sushi shop sign too offensive for neighbourhood
QMI Agency | Sept 15, 2012
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court flipped the bird to sushi restaurant Fukyu.
The name "Fukyu" might be a Japanese word for a form of martial arts, but a judge ruled in August that it was "clearly inappropriate" in the Montreal context.
More...

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[Taro Toporific]

The main entrance of Japan Automatic Door Company’s Okayama Sales Office.

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[yanpa]

As mentioned in The Independent, one thing that really burns me is Japan’s public policy of GROSSLY inflating Japan’s number of “employed robots” and claiming to have more working robots in the world.

I remember another country which inflated its figures like that...

Um den technischen Fortschritt zu beschleunigen, verlangte der Zentralist Mittag, die Betriebe müßten mehr Roboter und Computer einsetzen. Das Resultat: Jeder Fahrstuhl wurde nun als Roboter ausgegeben, jeder Bildschirm in CAD/CAM-Arbeitsstation umbenannt.

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13491324.html

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Not strictly a sign (except of my utter madness), but....
And this author's blurb is irresistible...

"I think constricting anus 100 times and denting navel 100 times in succession everyday is effective to good-bye depression and take back youth. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway. I have known 70-year-old man who has practiced it for 20 years. As a result, he has good complexion and has grown 20 years younger. His eyes sparkle. He is full of vigor, happiness and joy. He has neither complained nor born a grudge under any circumstance. Furthermore, he can make love three times in succession without drawing out."

[yanpa]

Is this the official site?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Is this the official site?

That is a classic! And it's even better that the bloke takes the piss out of himself, too! Ripper find!

[Taro Toporific]

Is this the official site?

That is a classic! And it's even better that the bloke takes the piss out of himself, too! Ripper find!

Please, a moment of silent reverence for the former fucked...

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Cubed--Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:20 am: Re: How To Good-Bye Depression

Sadly the "Group Anal Constriction" video is as far gone as the its creator who has followed the proverbial path back to the Homeland.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Whoa! Sorry, Rob and thanks Taro for pointing out my faux pas...I would dearly have loved to have seen the group anal constriction...reminds me of that old tune....I'm being swallowed by an anal constrictor