I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that McDonald's Japan's strategy team could only come up with "lets sell hotdogs!" or that their marketing team thought "McHotDog Classic" was actually a great name. I guess they just wanted to further the stereotype that Japan is a WTF rich country.

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I'll try to capture the commercial if I see it on TV again but it basically shows business men and women walking on the street and one by one they start to act out as if they're playing baseball.

The Japanese product website is here: http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/limited/mchotdog

One of my coworkers today mentioned that some Japanese are less than pleased with their iPhones. Besides the typical complaints, battery life, software lockdown, etc. he also mentioned a few complaints that were specific to the Japanese market. Some of the items below have been standard on most/all phones in Japan for years so some customers may have just assumed these would be included on arguably the most kakoii phone available.

Check out the list below the break.

Japan's attempt to disguise their whaling industry as "research" may be working for them as a legal loophole but they're not trying very hard to hide the fact that they're eating the "research" waste.

Here's a sign I saw outside a restaurant in Shinjuku (Kabukicho).  Bears an unusual resemblance to the beef cuts diagram doesn't it?
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While passing by one of the shops in Akihabara I happened to catch a glimpse of an Eee PC but to my surprise it was not running Linux but Windows XP home edition.