My impression about Japan

1) Japan is a whore nation: Every bar you go there are geishas. Most geishas in Japan sell their bodies.
If you go to Japan, sex is simply a daily thing.
Even under-aged teenagers sell their bodies in Japan.

2) Japan is the most polluted city in the world.
If you go to tokyo, the air is so polluted that you can't even breath well.
Also water in Japan is so unclean that you have to buy water from stores. Even water selling in stores are very unclean.

3) Most Japanese tenneagers are so uneducated. Some teenagers take feces in the streets or even urinate in the streets or subway ternminal where everyone watches.

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Isn't the good luck to step in poo thing from France? And
doesn't it matter which foot you use? Google fails me on
this search, though. I see mentions, but nothing that looks
at all reliable (eg not angelfire sites).

If I'm not mistaken, there's wordplay going on with the Japanese words for poo and luck being somewhat similar. I have heard that when someone steps in it, one can say "good luck has stuck to you" as a sort of euphemism. This, I am told, explains the poop-as-good-luck charm.

Plus, you know, poop is a never-ending source of humor across nearly all cultures.

Yahoo has a picture of this too, now.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor....html&e=3&ncid=1600

the asahi bldg in asakusa has been around a long time, and i think it's a stretch to tie it to a fad about turds. as technophobe said below, it's supposed to be a flame. but an equal number of people see it as a turd or, in my experience speaking with foreigners in tokyo, as the "golden sperm".

Edited by author 04-18-2003 03:05 PM
I've been reading http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/ for a few years now, and I don't see how it can be equated with Weekly World News.

While WaiWai is basically a collection of "new of the weird" - the stories, (like this turd trinket one) are about people behaving strangely, not about "UFO implants", or "Elvis Sighted", or "Time Traveler makes millions in stock market."

One must keep in mind that in Japan, a story like this:

"A man was befriended by a another man who was actually a North Korean spy. The man was tricked into getting drunk on the beach, then kidnapped & spirited away to North Korea by submarine, and while the spy took over his identity."

is TRUE!, so you don't need to go to the trouble to make stuff up for a newspaper =)

I found more on the ryukodo turd trinkets here.

The turd thing seems to be a recurring theme. There have been a few turd heavy cartoons for kids. One that really sticks out in my mind is Gakkyu-o Yamazaki, which even had a Dreamcast game released that was based on it. I played it once, and yes it was strange.

here is an article that salon ran several years ago on the topic.

While it does indeed look like a turd, the auditorium at the Asahi headquarters in the Asakusa district of Tokyo is in fact topped by a golden flame. But the real treat here is the small cafe atop the taller building (left side in the photo), at the right-hand corner, where you can sit in air conditioned comfort drinking an ice cold Asahi beer with an incredible view of the city. Not very popular with tourists, but it's not far from the famous Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa.

Don't be too quick to dismiss this. A few months back, BB ran a link to a page full of vinyl figures. One line's characters each came with a little poo-pile.

Those kooky Japanese probably would've gilded Luis Gonzales' chewed-up wad of gum.

golden turds in japan are old news... as evidenced by starck's asahi building in tokyo (quickly google'd pic at http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~cbauer/japan2/002.jpg).

Not only does my shit not stink, it's bloody gold plated. Hell, I sell my TP for a good rate. Anyhow, it's some good shit. And answers the question "just where has King Midas' finger been?" Anyhow, that's enough for now, I've got to go make sure I've got it all in one sack.

Seems Americans will believe literally any old crap that's written about Japan.
You'd think someone might put 2 and 2 together and notice that the WaiWai section of the Mainichi news is Japan's equivalent of the Weekly World News or The Enquirer.