Pendre shorts - fundoshi loincloth for women - the next trend in Japan?
A friend of mine just forwarded this post on JapanProbe about women’s fundoshi. My quickest description of a fundoshi would be traditional Japanese g-string loincloth underwear for men. According to Wikipedia:
Before World War II the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for Japanese adult males; however it went out of use quickly after the [...]
“Akihabara girls’ dorm” - Let’s play in our pajamas!
I went to Akihabara last month to help my friend buy a terabyte drive (only 17,500 yen now!) and external case (4500 yen for a nice one), where I was of course deluged with cute girls in costumes handing out flyers to come to their stores. Here’s the first flyer that I received, along with [...]
How Japanese search engines work (actual commercial for Goo search engine)
Sometimes you’ve got to love Japanese commercials.