Man-Eating Sushi

"In Tokyo, sushi is finally getting its revenge."

- Andrea Sachs
This is possibly the greatest quote ever :)



What is this all about? And how has this "sushi" finally exacted its diabolical revenge on mankind?!



The bizzare story begins in Ooedo-Onsen-Monogatari, a hot spring in Odaiba...

















It was a sunny day in May 2006, the elementary school children were marching along to their schools in their little yellow traffic safety hats, salarymen in their near-identical black business suits were hussling to work en mass, and a mysterious turkish package was arriving at the doorstep of one of Tokyo's swankiest spas.



Little did they know, it was a package that would strike "mild horror" in the hearts of spa-goers and that's contents would be described as simply "disturbing".



Are you ready?!
























As the first brave soul dipped his hand into the mysterious tank dozens of black creatures warmed!

Oh, THE HORROR!

Like something straight out of the pages of a sci-fi thriller, the Garra rufa hunger for human flesh! Dead human fleshhhhhh!

Hey wait, before you run for the covers, I'm talking about dead skin.



Garra rufa, if you want to get scientific, are natives of the river basins of the Northern and Central Middle East, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. They are an internationally-sought-after, rare and highly protected....
Fish

That's right a fish, but not just any fish, a "Doctor Fish"

These bizzare little "sushi" actually eat the dead skin off of one's fingers and toes, while leaving the live skin clean, refreshed, and most inportantly, intact!

What a way to get a manicure!

All part of the new excitement at the spas and hotsprings of everyone's favourite odd-ball country.

And so, in a deliciously (or disgustingly) ironic turn of events, in the spas of Japan, the sushi eats you!

- - -
-ToRI

p.s. If you want find more info on this here are some interesting searches using nipponster
Japanese skin-eating fish manicure
Doctor fish
others for you to try on your own:
Doctor Fish Japan Limited
sushi getting revenge

How Japanese Search Engines Work :P

"Every Morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running."
- African Proverb


On that note, this is "How Japanese Search Engines Work" HEHEHE :P




(It's little dodgy at end)
I think this is perfect video for Nipponster because we are Japan-enthusiast search engine. And we are learning whether we are "a lion or gazelle" to be successful we better start running (update quicker, release new thing quicker).


Thank you all for continued support,
Keitaro

A change of lipstick

We made a few (as we see it) humourous changes to the homepage today.

"Shake things up a bit" we thought.



Put on some new "lipstick" as it were.



Doesn't she look beautiful?



-James







p.s. Yes, we are just stalling because we are behind with our updates and the new hot search archive. There! Are you happy now?! ^^;

Hasta La Vista Schwar-chan!!!

Awww. It's been a good run for the Governator.

Our Arnold Schwarzenegger hot search "Arinamin V" has been fairly popular, but now it's time for him to say goodbye (or at least "hasta la vista").

If you missed our earlier post about him and the hilarious (And I mean HILARIOUS) video clip of him in the Japanese Arinamin V commercials, check it out

arinamin V

"Daijou-V!"

Oh, I love Schwar-chan! So of course we are glad that he is the next hot search.

and here is a video, just for fun :)




TokyoMango explains

Make way for High Tech Toilets

Mr. Hearn would not be happy to know that we bumped him off the hot searches to make room for of all things, toilets (see the previous post if you're lost).

But if you've been to Japan you have likely seen odd gadget packed toilets like the one on the right (pic from wikipedia article)

I won't tell you much about them here, instead I'll let you check out the search results.

BUT, I will give one quick personal story...

My Dad was visiting Japan for my graduation and he went into the washroom at the hotel and met with one of these gun-slinger toilets :)

I was standing right outside when he went in. The next thing I heard was a click and a flash of light from his camera. Silly foreigner...