Google Earth Pics of Japan before and after the Tsunami

Bizarre Banana Carvings

Japanese artist named Suu transforms regular bananas into 3D sculptures.

Scary three-dimensional characters are carved into ripe bananas.

Reporter Toya Chiba Survived the Japanese Tsunami

When Japanese reporter Toya Chiba was asked by his paper to investigate the damage caused by the earthquake to the port city of Kamaishi he knew it wasn't going to be just another day at the office.

But the intrepid hack could never have guessed just how close to the action he was going to get.

This incredible sequence of pictures, taken by a nearby building's CCTV camera, shows Toya's unbelievable escape after he suddenly found himself at the mercy of the raging waters.

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How to Cool Down a Car Under Direct Sun with a Japanese Door Trick

It's summer, and if you live anywhere the sun shines, science dictates that it gets stupid hot inside your car when it's closed up and baking in the sun. According to this Japanese video, rolling down one window and opening and closing the opposite door a handful of times will quickly and effectively cool down a hot car.

The video's only two and a half minutes, but unless you understand Japanese (or can read the Chinese subtitles), jump straight to the 1:52 mark to get the picture. Reddit user binarysolo offers this loose translation:

Roll down a window on a side of the car. Let's go with the driver's side window. Go to the opposite side door (in this case, passenger side) and open/close it ~5 times. Just do this normally.


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Japanese School Makes Kids Clean Urinals Barehanded

A school which is making schoolgirls clean their male classmates’ toilets barefoot and barehanded is arousing widespread disgust amongst Japanese, both for the humiliating nature of the practice and its complete diregard for hygiene, amidst accusations that a bizarre toilet-cleaning cult run by an elderly millionaire is actually trying to infiltrate the nation’s schools.

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Japanese Rooms

A lot of 2ch forum users (2ch is the biggest forum in Japan) live is similar rooms. These Japanese rooms will tell you a lot about their owners. They love technology and a lot of manga cartoons, that’s for certain.