Japanese lap pillow makes me sad

Wow Raccoon

Merry Christmas

It powers the Christmas tree... then they eat it.

Card Crusher

Back in my day, WTF meant something

Japan didn't become the capital of WTF overnight, the level of strange that they have takes hundreds of years to cultivate. Here's a collection of photos from the 1800s documenting some of the early WTFs from Japan.

These pictures are from Okinawa Soba's photostream on flickr, its worth a look.

Subway squash

This is kind of like riding the muni in San Francisco. The Japanese have it better though because they're clean, we get packed in with bums and hippies.
I guess the stench is still better than some unwanted Chikan (NSFWikipedia)

Marshmallow game

Omorashi

Just visit this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omorashi
(NSFWikipedia)

Talented transvestite milk chugging bass player

Watch the whole thing, the intensity of WTF increases as the video goes on.

If this train pulled up to my stop I'd wait for the next one. Even if you're into this sort of thing, I'm almost positive they're all dudes... I suppose that might make it even more attractive for some people.

Water Fight

This video is much better without an explanation

Banana lazer hands

Is it just me, or has there been a lot of Japanese food lazers lately? A couple months ago I posted a Cup of Noodles ad with a the CHI-CHI man that shoots cheese lazers out of his fingers. I wonder what it is that makes Japanese commercials so weird. Dole is an American company, I'd think that their Japanese commercials wouldn't be too different than their American ones. I'd be wrong though, because they came out with this masterpiece of WTF. I think people just go nuts when they set foot in Japan. Or should I say they go bananas... haha... haha... heh.
Thanks to Joseph S. for sending me some of these videos.
Also awesome, is this review/instructional video for a Japanese dole bananas.

Japanemos

yay yay YAAAY

I don't know what she was thinking, she should get more convincing eyelash extensions. You can tell they're fake because they don't match her hair color.

Inochi, the Perverted Robot

Never mix love with milk, you get diarrhea

Jive Mutton

You often hear about ideas being lost in translation. Many times even a great translator cannot transfer the tone or eloquence of the original text. Every once in a while however, something is gained in translation. What could be gained you ask? WTFs.
This is a poster for a Mongolian restaurant in Japan. It has Japanese and English instructions that teach people how to cook mutton on a Mongolian grill. Apparently the Japanese translation is fairly ordinary, but the English translation is... well you have to see it...

Pictures via Tim's Ramblings