Tag: Japan

Bastard Japanese Toliet Prank

Japanese toilet prank 

The Japanese have a strange concept of humor. It must be because of the lack of land available for living on or all the anime that is over there. Whatever it is, it produces this:

TV crew sets up a porta-loo (toilet) at popular locations in Japan and booby traps it with a uplifting surprise! Users get caught absolutely off guard with the ten second trap… Absolutely hilarious!!!A must see is at the end of the video, where a fast boat trip absolutely finishes off all the poor victims!

I mean, if you did this in the US you would become lawyer fodder faster than you can say whiplash.

Hilarious Toliet Prank!

Ghost in the Shell Tachikoma Robot

 

This broke my heart when I found out that this robot is just used to promote the upcoming Ghost in the Shell DVD "Solid State Society". Crud, I was hoping that it was a general release item (check out its specs). The robot, or ‘tachikoma‘ as it’s called in the series, is a police robots that is fast, agile, and sports quite a personality. Imagine a hyper Japanese school girl in the armored body of a high speed, gun toting robot. Cool, eh? Yeah! Well this robot model is about foot and a half long and has 19 degrees of movement. There are a few videos of it moving here and here. By the way, the designer of these guys is Tomotaka Takahashi. He’s kind of a God amongst robot designers. If you wondering why you should go have a look at some of his creations.

[via Robot Gossip]

US Offers Japan 80 Patriot Missiles

Patriot missile launching
Humm… ya know, this isn’t going to go well with Japan’s neighbors. If there’s one thing that that regions can’t stand is it’s an armed Japan. I wonder how this will play out.

 The United States has offered Japan up to 80 more Patriot interceptor missiles following North Korea’s rocket tests last month, a news report said Thursday. Japan’s Defense Agency intends to take up part of the offer as it accelerates the planned deployment of a missile defense system, the Kyodo News agency reported, citing unnamed sources.

US Offers Japan 80 Patriot Missiles