Hot Japanese Girl Drives Super-Fast Train

What's better than a video of an attractive Japanese girl? A video of an attractive Japanese girl who also happens to conduct a train on Japan's high-speed rail system, Shinkansen! Watch as she revs things up to a cool 270km/h. More »

Your Japanese WTF Video of the Day

Japan is so weird! Seriously. Well, not everything about Japan is weird, but some of their commercials/viral videos sure are—like this one, which appears to be a commercial for green tea that... makes you grow boobs? Video inside. More »

Who Knew That Dripping Water Could Look So Cool?

The beauty of video is that you can share something awesome with others, even from across the world. Case in point: this mesmerizing Japanese water display, filled with an endless cascade of shapes, symbols, words—even animals! Video inside. More »

Breaking News: Japan Is Still Weird as Hell

WTF Japan, Seriously?! The aforementioned is not only an appropriate question for the country that produces some of the web's weirdest video, but it's also a YouTube channel full of odd examples—like the commercial inside this post. Onward! More »

Instructional Memoirs of a Geisha

Learning a foreign language is an excellent way to enhance cross-cultural understanding and foster communication amongst diverse groups. Becoming a prostitute is an even simpler way to open yourself up to wholly unknown worlds. Why not try both at once? More »

Short Documentary Japan the Strange Country is Sheer Infographic Joy

Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Tanaka put together a short animated documentary that highlights some of the social and environmental problems that face his country, ranging from alarming food waste to chopstick consumption to an alarming suicide rate. More »

Japanese Game Show Forces Contestants to Remake "We Are the World"

Somehow the Japanese can still get away with publicly donning "black face." This hilarious clip shows what Americans look like to the Japanese. And yes, that's a fat version of Stevie Wonder. More »

America's Next Top Model Puts Japanese Game Shows to Shame

America's Next Top Model is no longer about modeling. It is about shaming aspiring models with ridiculous physical challenges. Last night: Walk down a runway with giant swinging pendulums. It's exactly like Japan's MXC, only funnier. Mashup proof inside. More »

Cheer Up, Freak Dog Loves You

Nothing puts a smile on a child's face like a full grown man dressed as an Afghan Hound frantically trying body-morphing, terror-inducing tricks in the backyard, while simultaneously shilling potato chips (or some strange Japanese bastardization thereon). More »

The Kaiju Funk of 40,000 Years

During auditions for the long-running Japanese Ultra Series (think of it as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' primogenitor), the hopefuls erupt into a fully costumed recreation of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, taking their Ultra Monster mash to the streets. More »

Lady McDonald, Burger at Your Breast

The sole indicator of this silent woman's corporate ties is her ketchup and mustard ensemble. Her existence and back-story—her relation to Ronald and her placement in fast food mythology—are, like so many Japanese imports, shrouded in mystery. More »

Nicolas Cage: Big in Japan

What happens when a worst actor contender is exulted by the country that's culturally craziest? Witness this weirdness summit in the series of Pachinko game commercials from Japanese brand Sankyo, starring our own freakish national treasure, Nicolas Cage. More »

The Business of Cats

Tragically, travel accommodations for kitty businessmen have always been sorely lacking... until now! With the continuing wonders of Japanese culture, feline professionals have their own hotel and transit consultants to cater to their every wish and whisker. More »

This Is Not My Beautiful House, This Is Not My Murderous Lampshade

In Hausu, six schoolgirls stay with an aunt/geisha/vampire at her spooky estate and are killed off in ludicrously horrific manners. For the final showdown, the remaining girls confront pure evil: a lampshade and a demonic cat vomiting endless blood. More »

The Japanese Game Show All About Animals and Insanity

Japan continues its cultural dominance over the entirety of American broadcasting with a game show in which animals navigate through a racecourse of dominoes while humans look on and cheer nervously. More »

One Man's Lonely Manic Dance

Japan has given the world many unique and culturally valuable contributions: Haiku, the first novel, Kabuki and Noh theater, various martial arts, sumo wrestling, sushi, etc. Surely as important as all those is this bikini-clad man's lonely spastic dancing. More »

A Charlie Brown Chili

Though an American institution, the Peanuts crew is not exempt from inexplicable appearances in Japanese advertising. Here, Snoopy and the gang's girls hawk hot pepper sauce with a song catchier than anything Schroeder ever played. More »

Fish Eggs: Worse than a Lump of Coal?

Commercials for Tarako, a roe product marketed with marching kewpie dolls and children's choirs, are always strange, in keeping with Japanese advertisement standards. In the full-length Christmas ad, children chant incessantly while visions of fish eggs dance on their heads. More »

Boy Sings Beatles' Songs On Korean Television

Sometimes these novelty acts really suck, but this kid is really good once he warms up. Plus it's so cute hearing him sing English songs he learned phonetically. More »

Quentin Tarantino Right at Home in Nonsensical Japanese Commercial

It's really hard to tell what product Quentin Tarantino is even advertising here. And the language barrier doesn't make it any easier. It just involves the director, a talking dog, and a samurai suit. More »