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Everything in Japan has to have a cute cartoon spokesobject, preferably animated. The cops around here have happy little dinosaurs painted onto their "cars." The local dam construction project has a computer-generated clump of dirt with a cartoon face (Mr. Hanky, anyone?). |
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| For example, the local plastic surgery clinics have... | ||||||||||||||||||
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Don't you want to have a happy one? For ¥150,000, you can. | |||||||||||||||||
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(treatment for phimosis [nonretracting foreskin]) ¥130,000 (~$1000 US) |
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| Kasei Houkei (pseudophimosis) | ||||||||||||||||||
| These folks don't advertise their price, but they seem to promise more. Look how much happier the one on the lower right is. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jinsei Houkei (congenital phimosis) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kanton Houkei (????? phimosis)--I don't know what "kanton" means, but this little guy sure looks upset about it. I love the stomping. (4.5 years later--I think it means "true phimosis") | ||||||||||||||||||
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| She's the mascot of a weight-loss plan. See the little "wow" marks around her new thin tummy? I can see one more area where there might be a little bit of weight missing. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| OK, so this is an old American product, not Japanese, and I found the pic online, not in daily life. Still, it ranks up there with the Harry Potter vibrator in the "what were they thinking" category. | ||||||||||||||||||