Meguro City in Tokyo takes disaster survival seriously! When you become a resident of Meguro City you are issued with the Disaster Survival Manual. The manual, using subtle semiotics, describes how to “handle” your fire extinguisher in the event of fire. The important point to learn is ‘Step 2′, that is, the best way to combat those raging flames is to make sure that you hold the fire extinguisher as if you were in the starring role of a porn movie.

So the question is, when fighting fires what matters most? The size of your hose or the way that you use it?

The Wank Pole! I know what you are thinking. A place where otaku congregate to share a good choking of the chicken, waxing of the dolphin, spanking of the monkey or a polishing of Vader’s helmet. A place where you can ‘turn Japanese’ as suggested in the 1980 hit song ‘Turning Japanese‘ by the band The Vapors, popularly interpreted to be a euphemism for masturbation.

Sorry to disappoint. The Wank Pole is a place to tie up your ‘wanko’ outside of convenience stores in Japan. ‘Wanko’ 「わんこ」 is an affectionate term for dog in Japanese. So it is merely a post to clip your dog’s leash whilst you go conbini shopping. If you look close enough at the sign the ‘o’ in ‘wanko’ is actually a paw-print. So, was this a typographic mishap or a sinister ploy by some evil gaijin designer? Perhaps the same evil gaijin who brought us Nuts Bang!!!?

Love hotels are a short-stay hotel found in Japan that are designed for sex and are renowned for their focus on the privacy of their customers by providing anonymity to those seeking to engage in discrete intimate liaisons. Not the love hotel Banana & Donut (バナナとドーナツ) it seems. This Kyushu-based romance hotel, whose logo is a symbolism of sexual representation depicting an over-exerting banana on the verge of penetrating a coy looking donut, brazenly advertises on billboard-style highway signage this union of the phallus and yoni. They might as well have a big neon flashing sign saying “people getting laid here”. And what do you tell a car full of kids when driving past? Hey look children, this is how Mister Donut make those yummy banana donuts! But Mister Donut doesn’t push the banana in too far otherwise it will turn into a Krispy Kreme.

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