Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Blogger documents rural Japan's population decline and imminent decay with striking photographs of abandoned cities, drab farms, and crumbling structures that make Youngstown, Gary, and Detroit look cheerful  (guardian.co.uk)	(25)

		Prada denies allegations it fired old, fat and ugly store managers from its flashy Japanese outlets for being old, fat, and ugly  (news.yahoo.com)	(13)
		Japanese Olympic Committee rips national skiing team for their embarrassing "hip hop" antics at Vancouver games, lack of morals  (news.yahoo.com)	(30)

Mythbusters launch new Japanese spin off, mannequin  (youtube.com)

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Mother Nature spins the earthquake wheel, and it comes up....wait for it....northern Japan, congratulations Japan, have fun with that 6.6 magnitude shaker  (news.yahoo.com)

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Glenn Beck explains how the US started WWII and why Pearl Harbor was justified  (mediamatters.org)

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In Japan, the billboards read you  (thesun.co.uk)

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(ScienceBlogs)

Proving yet again that suckers and their money are soon parted, people are paying a New Mexico spa over $100 to smear Japanese bird poop on their faces  (scienceblogs.com)

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Your daily WTF is brought to you not by Japan this time, but by Germany, where this teenage girl can identify any of 80 Star Wars Lego minifigs using only her mouth  (youtube.com)

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Japanese professor invents completely painfree water-soluble micro-needles for medical injections  (upi.com)

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		Hugh Jackman may play Lyndon Johnson in a movie about Martin Luther King before he does Wolverine 2? Whaaaa???  (chud.com)	(34)
		Gogo Yubari released her first CD in Japan this week, which is impressive considering the condition Beatrix Kiddo left her in  (kotaku.com)	(30)
		Citing the fact that it is just too darned tasty, Japan announces it will not comply with a proposed worldwide ban on fishing Bluefin Tuna designed to help save the potentially endagered species  (news.yahoo.com)	(167)

		I see your WTF and raise you a WTH (from Japan of course)  (youtube.com)	(34)
(Some Guy)		In today's recession, pet washing machines are all the rage in Japan.....Yes Japan (w/video of sad cat getting fluffed)  (blogs.app.com)	(126)
		Not news: Japan Airlines battles black market in flight uniforms. Fark: there is a black market for uniform fetishists in Japan  (telegraph.co.uk)	(34)

Proving it can keep pace with the Japanese auto industry, GM recalls 1.3 million cars    (msnbc.msn.com)

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Japan's most bizarre museums feature parasites, luggage, vintage advertising, tobacco, salt, socks, and laundry. Not all at one time, of course  (smh.com.au)

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Come, visit beautiful Japan, with sparkling oceans, beautiful vistas, and flocks of majestic panties flying in the breeze  (youtube.com)

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(Iowa Independent)

"Manga" collector sentenced to 6 months in prison. And when they came for the Japanese Rapist Tentacle Monster Comic Collectors, I did not speak up, for I was not a JRTMCC  (iowaindependent.com)

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		Poll shows that Americans think China will soon dominate the world economy, echoing polls in the 1990s when we were convinced we'd all be speaking Japanese and eating live baby octopuses  (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(53)
		The president of the company is named Toyoda, but their product, which is named after the family, is called Toyota. Why? Here comes the Japanese science  (washingtonpost.com)	(55)

Obama starts process of bringing Japan's bullet-train system to America, based on fact that it's tried-and-true technology, has never crashed, and is greener than cars. "U.S. bullet trains would probably require larger seats"  (search.japantimes.co.jp)

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		Legendary director/actor/artist/comedian Takeshi Kitano (MXC's "Vic Romano") publishes autobiography, claims he would have become yakuza if it hadn't been for his mom  (google.com)	(56)
		Japan's reaction to worldwide ban on bluefin tuna: What worldwide ban on bluefin tuna?  (nytimes.com)	(64)

Nestle to introduce 19 flavors of Kit Kat to Japan, including sweet potato, green tea, and used schoolgirl panties  (independent.co.uk)

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(Zero Hedge)

We can relax now. China dumped $34.2 billion worth of T-bills, so we're back to being mostly owned by the Japanese now  (zerohedge.com)

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(Galesburg Register-Mail)		WWII soldier with balls of steel talks about battling the Japanese, fighting cancer today. "I grabbed him by his head and snapped his neck." Look out, cancer  (galesburg.com)	(277)
(Some Guy)		The Captain of the now sunk Ady Gil has boarded a Japanese Whaling vessel demanding the arrest of its Captain and $3 million in damages for his ship. Surely this will end well  (seashepherd.org)	(642)

Japan's obsession with using power of technology to mask embarrassing toilet noises may date back 200 years to feudal times  (search.japantimes.co.jp)

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It's like Cash for Clunkers in reverse: Japanese drivers spooked by the Prius recall can get a 250,000 yen ($2,780) subsidy if they buy an imported "green" vehicle --- the 4700 pound, 16 mpg Hummer H3  (nytimes.com)

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Most bowls broken with one finger in one minute. China gives Japan a run for their money in WTF?  (youtube.com)

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Apparently the Battle of the Java Sea was so chaotic, the Japanese navy didn't notice the small tropical island moving around  (boingboing.net)

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		UN recommends a ban on bluefin tuna exports. Take that, Japan  (abcnews.go.com)	(156)
		Toyota's chief apologizes for Japanese sneak attack  (msnbc.msn.com)	(28)

		Video of the largest salamander you'll see... uh, ever  (news.bbc.co.uk)	(20)
(kfbk)		The cutest cat on a business trip to Japan you'll see today. Meow  (kfbk.com)	(11)

Today is February 3rd, so happy Bean-Throwing Festival to all you really, really odd Japanese Farkers (with video)  (boingboing.net)

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Over 20 years ago, the groundbreaking anime Akira shattered box office records and arguably saved Japanese cinema. And here is a six-second argument for why it still holds up  (youtube.com)

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(Topless Robot)		Star Wars + canned tuna + Japan = Your WTF of the day  (toplessrobot.com)	(14)
		If you have ever wondered what "If I were a rich man" would sound like in Japanese, wonder no more  (youtube.com)	(15)

(yomiuri.co.jp)

Japan's Kirin Holdings Co. decides it's not yet Suntory time  (yomiuri.co.jp)

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(Some Guy)

A year with Japanese snow monkeys. You've never seen so many amazing pictures of macaque    (totallycoolpix.com)

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Japan invades Caturday  (youtube.com)

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(Some Guy)

Japanese scientists invent squishy, stretchy water. Next step: form it into tentacles  (news.brunei.fm)

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		First shipment of "highly radioactive waste" leaving UK bound for Japan. The Japanese deny any allegations that it will be used in experiments on Monster Island  (news.bbc.co.uk)	(36)
		Finally, a real working jetpack, courtesy of our friends in Japan  (gizmodo.com)	(44)

Wild animals vs. dominoes. C) Japan  (youtube.com)

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Further proof that Japanese TV is farking weird, but still better than anything you'll see on a major primetime reality show in America  (liveleak.com)

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(Some Guy)		"(N)ot only unique but superior," that its citizens are "a chosen people, divinely ordained to lead the world to betterment... " Nazi Germany? Imperial Japan? No, try Texas  (texastribune.org)	(142)
(yomiuri.co.jp)		Japanese scientists discover blood protein associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Apparently, slacking is in your blood  (yomiuri.co.jp)	(41)

In this video from Japan a chimpanzee in overalls fondles a statue's penis then walks five dogs to pick up a cake at a bakery. Then things start to get weird  (youtube.com)

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Japan blubbers it needs to krill whales for research porpoises. Aussies says "cetacean needed"    (news.bbc.co.uk)

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Imagine if FDR had said: ""Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - Japanese naval and air force suspects allegedly bombed Pearl Harbor"  (article.nationalreview.com)

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"I'll be in my tiny, doorless plastic bunk"  (nytimes.com)

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In electrifying discovery, Japanese scientists greatly increase shiitake mushroom production by zapping crops with high-voltage artificial lightning  (search.japantimes.co.jp)

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(Xinhua)

Transparent goldfish produced in Japan to reduce the need for dissections in school. Tastes like chicken  (news.xinhuanet.com)

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(Some Guy)

Japanese man sets a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper. For those born in the internet-age, go ask your father what a paper airplane is  (mnn.com)

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(Bleeding Cool)

Alan Moore is a Japanese schoolgirl. That's the punchline  (bleedingcool.com)

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The best japanese jazz opera you'll see for the rest of the decade  (youtube.com)

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US and Japan agree on open air policy. You would too if your diet consisted of rice, sprouts, and seaweed  (news.bbc.co.uk)

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For Sale: Japanese island. Great fixer-upper, non-radioactive and monster friendly. Priced to move  (mdn.mainichi.jp)

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(Some Guy)

Lin Rong had the fingerprints from her left hand grafted on to her right to help her fool biometric scanners and sneak into Japan. She got caught anyway, proving you still need at least one right to make a Rong  (insidetech.monster.com)

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Say, Henry, do we have an appropriate photo for that article about the $274bn Japanese stimulus?" "Not that I'm aware of." "What the bloody hell am I supposed to put, then?" "*Shrug* Be creative."  (telegraph.co.uk)

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Japan's huge stimulus package to be unveiled next week, amid concerns it will look so small in comparison with gigantic American stimulus package    (google.com)

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		Japanese consumers discover frugality as their economy tanks, are now buying only new panties out of machines rather than the more expensive soiled ones  (abcnews.go.com)	(27)
		Japanese scientists unveil safe pufferfish, despite objections of some fugu chefs. "It's obviously more than a little exciting to go to a restaurant knowing that it might be the last meal that you ever eat"  (upi.com)	(35)

(Core77)

Japan unveils self-healing paint for cell phones, based on similar technology for cars  (core77.com)

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(Some Guy)

Guns 'N' Roses announce string of Asian concerts, proving that it only took them 16 years to reach the point where they're big in Japan    (metalunderground.com)

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(asahi.com)		Deadly Australian redback spider thought to have invaded Japan, with tangled web of bureaucracy allowing it to enter major cities. Crikey  (asahi.com)	(58)
		Economic downturn forces Japanese robot makers to concentrate on utilitarian machines that will take your job years ahead of schedule (pics)  (timesonline.co.uk)	(19)

77-year-old Japanese man who lost his Guinness World Record as oldest Everest climber to 78-year-old Nepalese man pretty damn piqued, vows he will climb Everest again at age 80  (google.com)

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Japanese anime industry is struggling. Will be pushed to the brink of defeat before finally using its once-per-episode superweapon  (online.wsj.com)

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