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Valentine visits

Seeing as it’s Valentine’s Day, the nation’s love hotels will probably have a busier than usual Monday. So in honour of the occasion, here are a few statistics I came across recently.

There are 37,000 such hotels in Japan, and nearly 500 million couples visit them each year. Which apparently works out at 1,370,000 couples using a love hotel everyday. A figure that is more than double the number of people who visit the disturbingly popular Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea combined.

And as far as expenditure goes, the average couple is said to spend about 8,000 yen (40 pound) a visit. Adding up to a phenomenal 4 trillion yen in yearly sales. Which works out at about 1 trillion yen more than the annual takings of the Japan Racing Association.

Make of those figures what you will.

If anything.

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The key to success

Chocolate is the Valentine’s Day present of choice in Japan, but for the slightly more imaginative, Triumph International has come up with this racy little number.

chastity belt

The Little Evil Angel’s Bra as it’s called was a big seller last winter, and the bra sported the words, “You are the only one who’s got a key to open my heart.” But as you can see from the picture, this year’s design has gone one step further and actually included a real lock to open.

Meaning the person lucky enough to be given a key should be able to get those undergarments off quicker than you can say “modern-day chastity belt.”

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Equestrian electronics

Whilst a quick stroll or a relaxing bike ride is my decidedly low-tech approach to keeping fit, it appears that some people prefer to include a bit of electronic engineering with their exercising.

The Joba produced by Matsushita Electrical Works does just this. The indoor horseback-riding machine moves about (like a horse presumably) and allows users to strengthen their dorsal and abdominal muscles.

But despite the benefits, the Matsushita employee below skillfully shows that it’s not the most flattering of devices to use in public.

joba

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Fake fish

Why bother with real fish that require feeding and cleaning when you can install their equally colourful yet much easier to maintain electronic cousins?

electronic fish

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Fondling farmer

Perhaps spending too much time alone in the rice fields has affected 37-year-old farmer Hiroyuki Matsuoka’s sense of what’s right and wrong. As in the early hours of Tuesday morning he approached a woman from behind and hugged her. But this was no innocent cuddle, as the frustrated farmer used the moment to cop a feel of the lady’s breasts.

The word cop however is especially significant. For starters the incident took place behind a police box of all places. And to make matters even worse, the woman involved was actually a cop, but having just popped out for a drink she’d put a jacket on over her uniform.

Oh dear.

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