Everything in Japan has to be cute, even the Japanese police forces’ have their own kawaii kid friendly police mascots communicating the are “good guys” in the community.

Luscious Japanese beauty Nao Nanao 七生奈央 started her career as a sexy Japanese race queen in 2001.  The Yamagata born beauty with measurements 82 – 56 – 82 cm was a RQ for Raybrig, Denso, TEAM GAIKOKUYA and FK Massimo between 2001-2003.

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Get ready for another Japanese gorefest flick. Take 3 veteran directors  Noboru Iguchi (Machine Girl, Robo-Geisha, The Ancient Dogoo Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Robo-Geisha, The Ancient Dogoo Girl), Tak Sakaguchi (Sakigake! Otokojuku, the star of Versus), producer Nikkatsu and pretty Japanese gravure idol and actress Yumi Sugimoto and you have Mutant Girl Squad 戦闘少女 血の鉄仮面伝説 MGS  (Sento Shojo: Chi no Tetsu Kamen Densetsu).

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In 2008, Japan Post issued a set of  stamps featuring Japanese anime  and manga Patlabor, the Mobile Police 機動警察パトレイバー,. The set of 10 commemorative stamps was created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Kazunori Ito (Ghost in the Shell), mechanical designer Yutaka Izubuchi (RahXephon), director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), character designer Akemi Takada (Maison Ikkoku), and manga artist Masami Yuuki (Birdy the Mighty).

The ten 80-yen (about US$0.74) stamps feature the Ingram and Zero labor units as well as the characters Noa Izumi, Isao Ohta, Shinobu Nagumo, Asuma Shinohara, and members of Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Special Vehicle Section 2.   The manga received the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1991.  Read more...

Yuko Shimizu (also Yuuko Shimizu 清水ゆう子 is a very pretty 22 year old Japanese gravure idol from Kanagawa prefecture.  Yuko is a 154cm tall D-cup beauty with measurements 84 – 54 – 84 cm who grew in popularity after becoming part of the Nittelegenic 2009 日テレジェニック2009 idol group.  Read more...

Every year Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo’s “Escaped Animal Drill” is one of Tokyo’s oddest and most popular events.

Each year, zookeepers dress up as different animals and then make a break for it while up to 150 of their colleagues, together with police and emergency workers, practice how they would handle the situation if an animal really were to break loose.

Recent years have seen fake tranquilizer darts shot into fake zebras and rhinos, and nets thrown over men in monkey suits. The once-sober safety drill has now become such an attraction in its own right that other Japanese zoos have started to copy the idea.  Read more...

We’ve featured enough gyaru or gal fashion posts before but did you know there is a men’s equivalent called gyaruo ギャル男?  Tokyo hip hop artists Policeman pay an irreverent tribute to the men’s gyaruo ギャル男  subculture in a funky animated video for “GAL-O Sengen,” a track from their first mini album “Keisatsu” released earlier this year.

Policeman GAL-O Sengen video

Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan has long had a big following in Japan.  All his movies have been dubbed or subtitled and he always draws a crowd when he visits Japan.  Here are some movie trailers and promos in Japanese (including classics like Police Story, Project A, City Hunter etc.)  Read more...

Did you know that Japan has the  largest catalog of Beatles records in the world yet the  Beatles only ever once played in Japan in 1966?

At the start of their 1966 World tour before they toured the US, the Beatles arrived in Tokyo Japan on June 30th 1966 to play two concerts at the  Nippon Budokan Hall (Martial Arts Hall).  The Fab 4 arrived at Haneda airport, Tokyo at 3:40 a.m and stayed at the Tokyo Hilton where they occupied the Presidential Suite.  Read more...

Junko Fukuda 福田淳子 is a pretty 26 year old Saitama gal who is a former race queen and gravure idol and currently lead singer for Jpop group Shanadoo.

She debuted in April 2002 as one of the 9th Generation Miniskirt Police gals and then became a race queen on the Super GT circuit in 2004.

Junko was then picked to join all girl Super GT/Avex Trax promotional  group Vivace ヴィヴァーチェ consisting of Fukuda, Chika Shibuya 渋谷千,  Kotomi Ban 番ことみ and Manami Fuku 福愛美 which eventually evolved into Japan-German, dance, euro-beat, parapara group Shanadoo in 2006 with the same girls except Marina Genda 源田マリナfor Kotomi Ban.  Shanadoo have released 7 singles and 5 albums from 2006-2009.  Read more...