Shūkan Asahi and the Mankini

The Japanese weekly rag Shūkan Asahi (週刊朝日), a popular general-interest magazine, weighs in on the Borat mankini being a hit in Japan with the full-page advertisement below. The Shūkan Asahi has been published since 1922 by The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers.

The format of the publication usually combines soft news like scandals and affairs, some international rumours and relations, an occasional golf tip, a few comics that are a little erotic in nature and swimsuit models (usually on the front and back of the mag). The publication is generally targeted to Japanese salarymen.

As you can see in the image below provided by nateola from PinkNihon, it is full of high-quality content. This particular image is an advertisement that promotes a Japanese Adult Video (JAV) about a promiscuous orgy with the tagline “Sex–it’s supposed to be raunchy”. Here is the NSFW link to the vid イグイグ大乱交 (don’t click if you are easily offended).

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The Tokyo Shock Boys

Please laugh, we’re risking our lives

The Tokyo Shock Boys are a group of four Japanese entertainment stunt men who gained worldwide notoriety performing self-abusive and self-mutilating stunts. In Japan they are known as Dengeki Network (電撃ネットワーク ).

The group formed in Tokyo in 1990 when the four members put together some funny stunts for Japanese TV while working as roadies on Paul McCartney’s 1990 tour of Japan. They are the forefathers of dangerous, crude and self-injuring stunts coming well before groups such as Jackass and Dirty Sanchez. This year is their 20th anniversary.

The Tokyo Shock Boys are (in left to right order of the above photo):

• Nambu Torota: Lights firecrackers in his pants and also staples money to his head
• Danna Koyanagi: Breaks objects with butt muscles, expresses milk through eyes
• Sango Jugo: Puts out cigarettes with his tongue
• Gyuzo: Plunges his head into hot wax and plays with scorpions

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10 Weird Japanese Foods

1. Shirako 「白子」(Fish Sperm)

Shirako is the male genitalia of fish, a sack that contains its seminal fluid. A popular dish at most izakaya (Japanese pubs) and sushi bars. A few years back I had my own encounter with fish ejaculate that didn’t end too well.

2. Inago no Tsukudani 「いなごの佃煮」 (Grasshoppers)

“Inago no Tsukudani” is a traditional Japanese insect cuisine popular in the inland rural communities of Yamagata, Nagano and Gunma prefectures.

“Inago” is Japanese for “grasshopper” and when you stew your mouth-watering locust with “tsukudani”, a sweetened soy sauce simmered with mirin, you get the delectable bug banquet – “Inago no Tsukudani”.

3. Basashi 「馬刺し」(Raw Horse Meat)

Due to its deep pink color raw horse meat is called “sakura” or “sakuraniku”. “Sakura” means cherry blossom, “niku” means meat. However, when your equine is ponied up raw in thin sashimi slices it is called “basashi”. The prefectures of Kumamoto, Nagano and Ōita are famous for basashi, and it is common in the Tohoku region as well. Nice with some ranch dressing.

Straight from the horses mouth, there is also a dessert made from horse meat called basashi ice cream.

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