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Odd

Jun 22 2009 3 Comments

Decidedly fancy dog food

For whatever reason, these days it definitely seems de rigueur for dogs in Japan, especially those of a diminutive nature, to not even consider leaving the house unless they are donned in duds of some description.

Japanese dog clothes

A fad that thankfully hasn’t been followed by their feline friends. Well, apart from the really cool cats that is.

Japanese cat clothes

However, while peaked caps and pullovers might be just about passable at a push, canine cakes,

Japanese dog food

sorbet,

Japanese dog food

and even scones,

Japanese dog food

arguably make a frilly little frock seem far from silly — sensible even.

Japanese dog clothes

Sort of.

Categorized: Food and Drink, Odd

Jun 05 2009 11 Comments

Canine cleaning contraption

With dogs from a Spanish speaking country in North America still by far the biggest players in the seemingly perpetual Japanese pet boom, it’s perhaps appropriate then that when it comes to convenient — and indeed comical — canine cleaning contraptions, one sent from Spain is seen as suitable.

At least for the master.

Japanese dog washing machine

If not necessarily the mutt.

Japanese dog washing machine

Categorized: Odd

May 18 2009 8 Comments

Horrific Japanese haircuts?

Prospective customers of this particular barber may well believe that as the proprietor now clearly manages without mannequins to hone new hairstyles on, they can be confident of a considerably accomplished cut.

Japanese barber mannequin

However, on the other hand, those after one of the fella’s famed flat tops,

Japanese barber mannequin

may well get a bit more than they bargained for.

Japanese barber mannequin

And then some.

Japanese hairdresser mannequin

Categorized: Odd

May 10 2009 11 Comments

Japanese men kneeling for a number one?

When it comes to weeing, I will personally admit that after one too many lagers my aim can be a bit awry to say the least. And, judging by the often liberally sprayed floors of public lavatories, I’m not alone when it comes to the odd poorly aimed pee. Yet that said, surely no man’s misses can be that badly directed or bring about such a deluge that he be subjected to the indignity of this device.

Japanese peeing pillow

A contraption that rather comically is called the Angel Lap Pillow (天使のひざ枕), and while it helps stop splashes from a rather lax leak, it also prevents spillage from even a pinpoint piddle.

Japanese peeing pillow

But either way, a man having to micturate in this manner is surely tantamount to taking the piss.

Japanese peeing pillow

Categorized: Odd

May 07 2009 9 Comments

Sensationally silly sidecar?

Or rather than silly, is it possibly the cutest drum-cum-Thomas The Tank Engine-cum-sidecar the world, or at least western Tokyo, has ever seen?

Japanese Thomas the Tank Engine sidecar

Categorized: Odd, Photography

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