Category Archives: WTF Japan?

July 01

When You REALLY Hate Your Neighbors

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Making my way back to Kamakura Station after tossing a  few plates at the Dish-Breaking Shrine, I was walking through a totally normal-looking neighborhood when I chanced upon this. A hedge. But not just any old hedge – isn’t this the freakin’ unfriendliest alt picket fence you’ve ever seen? I mean, it’s all thorns, all the […]

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June 11

Cream Puffs You Can…Drink

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Hanging out waiting for a train this spring, my intrepid fellow adventurer and I spotted THIS in a vending machine! Of all the unlikely tastes to come in a can, this has got to be one of the WTFiest. I mean, do any of you actually find yourselves craving the innards of a cream puff […]

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May 15

The Wedding Of Your Dreams

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Because what nuptial event could possibly be complete without… • Read a novel set in Tokyo

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May 09

Beautifully Beastly

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Rose. Flavored. Yogurt. Let’s all agree that this one ought to have remained a fantasy. • Read a novel set in Tokyo

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May 01

The Slippery Slope, Illustrated

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See, this is where tolerance will get you. Let them get away with putting ginger pickles and fish shavings on pizza, say nothing when your spaghetti comes topped with sea urchin eggs, and next thing you know, you’ll be waking up to every child’s worst nightmare: SPINACH PANCAKES. • Read a novel set in Tokyo…

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April 11

I’m Sure They Didn’t Mean To Suggest…

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• Read a novel set in Tokyo…

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April 08

Pink Food Season Arrives In All Its WTF Splendor

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It never fails – every time the big cherry things burst into bloom, I see foods that totally make me want to shout “What the pinkity pink?” I’m not talking about food that should be pink (like sakura ice cream) or is only slightly questionably pink (like strawberry lattes), I’m talking about the HELP EEK WHY IS THAT FOOD PINK specialties that appear every […]

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