weird

If you’re in Harajuku and looking for a place to eat lunch, Shakey’s might be an interesting place to visit.

Japanese technology has always been a bit on the weird side. Now you can check it all out at one expo. Be prepared to be underwhelmed.

This is a montage promo of the last Design Festa vol 29.

Design Festa is one wild weird weeked of an eclectic gathering of artistic chaos of artists, musicians, craftsmen, performance artists.

The next Design Festa will be Oct24-25

Embrace your inner geek - in Tokyo a life-size Gundam almost 60 feet tall has been revealed in all its glory. Gundam for those not up on their anime nostalgia was an animated show which started in 1979 about a future where robots or mecha piloted by humans battle for supremacy or something like that (I never saw the show).

Chinese health authorities are putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes and cooked up for a supposedly detoxing meal.

In most countries, insect sprays are usually promoted with scenes of people killing insects, or cartoon characters of insects dying. In Japan, killing cockroaches is instead celebrated by weird dancing.

Poop trend in Taiwan highlighting the restaurant Modern Toilet in Taipei. The restaurant visitors sit on painted toilet seats and served food in the style of toilets or poop.

"Pit Stopper" has less to do with racing than running - running noses, that is. Those troubled by runny noses due to allergies or colds can simply plug their nostrils... with these ingenious nostril plugs.

A review of the offbeat headline news in Japan 2008. Plus original "photos".

While I was changing trains at a train station in Tokyo, I spotted a right jolly old elf, making his way quickly thru the station.

Sure enough, it was Old Saint Nick!

I got a bit of footage before he laid his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the escalator he rose then he jumped into a taxi and headed off to Kabukicho before they clean the place up.

Since 1986, the northern Japanese town of Hayakita has sent over 65,000 snow-filled styrofoam snowmen to those whose winters are without the white stuff.

Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.

A Japanese man upset by the death of his pet turned himself in after fatally stabbing a bureaucrat and his wife, Japanese police and media said on Sunday.

Video of an odd restaurant where you can eat your meal in a cell, and have a "lethal injection" cocktail served via cyringe. Just when you thought you'd seen em' all...

Tokyo-educated, Teru (name substituted), 31, is determined to change the perception Japanese people have of homosexuality... to demonstrate to the broad Japanese community that gay people are normal human beings.