Watch This Yoda Cup Noodles Commercial, You Will

Here’s a new commercial from Japan (great start to any blog post) featuring Yoda intensely levitating and boiling a Nissin Cup Noodles, along with the strangely non-punctuated tagline “BOIL JAPAN”. It’s not quite as magical as Jamiroquai, but it makes about as much sense.

“Consume nine hundred percent of your daily sodium in one sitting, you shall…” 

What the What? These Underpants Claim to Help You Burn Calories

There are shoes that purport to burn extra calories. There are pieces of clothing that do the same. But--ladies!--underpants?...

These are not the actual calorie-burning underpants in question.

Calorie Shaper is an undergarment offered in Japan. It has a built-in resin-coated honeycomb spring that is supposed to help you burn extra calories doing normal day-to-day activities when you wear it.

Fascinating, for sure. But the infomercial also boasts a fabulously '80s-ish (?) song, diagrams and equations that I can't fully grasp because I am too hypnotized by the choreography. Seriously, try to watch it just once.

JAPFASH: The Heart Attack Skirt

Would you wear it?

Faux see-through skirts are So HOT in Japan..

What do you think about these skirts printed to look like your ass is hanging out? :P

Ladies, would you wear such a thing? 

Fellas, do they needs to start printing men’s versions STAT? 

Basta, I want ONE!! Book na ang JAPAN!

Would you ever splurge on high-end ... toilet paper?

A nice chartreuse? Maybe indigo, or even black? These are all the color choices of a new line of high-end toilet paper.

Renova's designer toilet paper, which comes in every color of the rainbow, is all the rage in Japan, and the company is rolling out (get it?) their products in new markets too. Who knew that people were interested in color-coordinating their restrooms?  This stuff isn't cheap, though. With three-packs selling for around $28, you'll be conscious of every single square used. And am I the only one who worries that the stuff would, um, stain? Bet or nah?

http://www.renovaonline.net