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Weird Japan. Where humans and Telenoids embrace. Where everyone pilots giant robot power suits to work. Where crazy toilet situations, extreme cosplay, and adult men taking their pillow “girlfriends” out on the town are par for everyone’s course. Or are they? One thing I love about this country is the great variety on the menu.

Recently a bunch of weird pictures found on the internet, allegedly from Japan, were posted on an English-language website, which claimed that the wackiest pics always come from Japan. We have the bizarre images below, along with some genuine Japanese reactions!

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Japan’s 46th general election is a little over a week away, and if there’s one demographic that could care less, it’s the otaku. For the obsessive Japanese nerd, it doesn’t matter what political party wins the election, so long as they can buy the latest shiny toys and spend quality time with their 2-D lovers.

Still, while otaku may feel like the major political issues of this election, like energy policy and social security, are of no concern to them, their lifestyle isn’t completely unaffected by the decisions of the higher ups. For example, some worry that joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) would bring changes to copyright laws that could threaten the thriving doujin, or fan-made works featuring licensed characters, market. You hear that, otaku!? No more Final Fantasy porn!

That’s right; you can always count on porn to get otaku moving. That’s why PC Shop MK, a software shop in Sapporo, Hokkaido that specializes in new and used erotic games, is offering huge discounts for customers who vote in the December 16 election.

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Horses are perhaps the most underrepresented demographic in modern gaming.

They respond to our calls, carry us across vast lands, and even sacrifice themselves so that we may keep fighting (Agro!), but when was the last time a horse was made the hero?

When was the last time the horse got the girl?

2011, actually, with the browser game My Sweet Umadonna ~I am Your Horse~, a Japanese visual novel where you play a rookie steed who strives to become a race horse under the care and training of three beautiful young women.

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If you’ve ever bought a phone in Japan, even an iPhone, you may have noticed that the annoying shutter sound can’t be switched off. The reason for this is so perverts don’t shove their phones up some poor girls skirt and snap a souvenir to take home. No joke. Japanese law actually requires manufacturers to make their camera’s shutter sound impossible to silence because of the frequency of upskirt photography incidents on the crowded trains and busy streets of cities like Tokyo.

This doesn’t stop the creepos though, who try to keep their cover with a timely (and probably obvious) cough or by using video instead of regular photo. But if you’re going to be discreet about it, at least take a look around lest you end up like the guy in the photo above, who had his picture taken while taking pictures of a young woman’s underwear on a train in Saitama.

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On August 24, Sapporo (Hokkaido prefecture) police arrested 32-year-old care worker Takeshi Furusawa on suspicion of 12 accounts of assault with tasty condiments.

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The Amazon.com product review section has become something a creative writing outlet for the witty and sarcastic. In the right hands, these hilarious parody reviews can actually helps boost sales of the product (for all the wrong reasons) or even turn it into an internet phenomenon.

Yet every once in awhile — and this applies to Japan in particular — there will be a product on Amazon with reviews that are so disturbing, you can only pray for the sake of humanity that they are an uncoordinated series of cruel jokes.

This navy blue girl’s one-piece swimsuit offered on Amazon Japan is one such product, and anyone familiar with the word hentai can probably guess why…

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