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Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo恩賜上野動物園 (in Taito, Tokyo) is located in Ueno Park, a large and popular urban park that also has museums, a small amusement park and other attractions. Every year one of the more comical sights in Tokyo is when Ueno Zoo performs an escaped animal drill.  A zoo worker dresses up in an animal costume and mimicks the behavior of the animal out of his enclosure while other zoo workers try to capture him.

It’s not just Ueno Zoo but other zoo’s in Tokyo  that hold similar drills practicing the capturing of  a tiger, rhino, monkey, zebra, rhinoceros and other animals that might make a break for freedom!  Read more...

More Takeshi Gundan goodness for you this week.  More clips  featuring wacky Japanese comedians (the Takeshi Corps  たけし軍団 ) split into red vs blue teams as they battle it out in this crazy contest which includes a tub of very hot water and a sexy bikini model riding a rodeoboy.

An amazingly rare and funny photo from the 1960s showing professional sumo wrestlers attending a local Undokai (School Athletic Meet, or “Field day”) to entertain the kids.  Instead of wearing their traditional Mawashi sumo belts 廻し, the sumo wrestlers have dressed up as cheerleaders including bras and majorette skirts!!!  Who says sumo is not entertaining?

Cerezo Osaka セレッソ大阪 is a J. League Division 1  professional soccer team. The team name Cerezo means cherry tree in Spanish, which is also the flower of Ōsaka.

As a warm up and entertainment for Japanese TV, the team took on 100 Japanese primary school children on the pitch.  Guess who wins?

All Gaijin, even alien space monsters want to meet and date pretty  Japanese women. Happy New Year from Japansugoi.com

Oppai ga Ippai おっぱいがいっぱい) is a popular children’s song from the 1980s which  literally means ‘full of breast’ in Japanese.  Below are some fun and wacky videos singing the praises to mother’s breast (milk).

Above, some big oppai gravure idols Mai Nishida and Kana Tsugihara

Oppai ga Ippai Song

From Jpop trio Beee地区

high school boys performing Oppai ga Ippai

The Pink Panther plays Santa Clause in Osaka, Japan but he doesn’t give away presents, he sells bicycles!

From Japanese TV, Japanese av idol Mihiro 朝美穗香 appears in one of Ken Shimura’s 志村けん hilarious comedy skits about airport security.

An Indian dude in a tiger cosplay outfit holding a sign advertising an Indian restaurant in Osaka.

One of the strangest yet most impressive things we’ve seen on Japanese TV is the story of Momotaro 桃太郎 (Momotaro Opera) オペラ 桃太郎  in modern Jazz モダン ジャズ form.

From the 1986  TV variety show 今夜は最高!  (WHAT A FANTASTIC NIGHT!) hosted by comedian and Jazz fan Tomori タモリ we have the show’s cast reenacting the popular Japanese fable Momotaro (Little peach boy).

Momotaro came to Earth inside a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it.  Read more...