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Japanese diorama artist makes models smaller than an actual thumbnail【Photos】

Mike
Feb 9, 2016
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Shunichi Matsuba, a self-proclaimed diorama artist, creates extraordinarily detailed miniature scenes of Japanese life past and present — often using models smaller than a fingertip.

Japan
(amazing • art • dioramas • miniature • modeling • models)

Hate your job? Be honest: Is it really worse than massaging hot supermodels for a living?

Scott Wilson
Feb 8, 2016

This Singaporean ad shows that there’s nothing more unbearable than rubbing down beautiful ladies all day.

SE Asia
(beautiful women • commercial • funny • massage • models • Singapore)

Star Wars stormtroopers don Gundam armor in fan’s awesome crossover models 【Videos/Photos】

Casey Baseel
Feb 5, 2016

Why show your love for just one great sci-fi series when you can combine two?

Internet, Korea
(anime • cool • figures • Gundam • models • robots • Star Wars • toys • video)

Japanese cosmetics company’s eight-model video has one big secret【Video】

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2016

Just how versatile is Shiseido’s makeup? Watch and see.

Japan
(cosmetics • makeup • models • Shiseido • video)

Japan can’t stop looking at modeling idol’s big, beautiful…muscles! 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Jan 26, 2016

Buff beauty boasts bewitching biceps.

Japan
(beautiful women • exercise • fitness • Idols • models • muscles)

Japan’s Underboob Angel shows off body and design skills with self-made underboob bra

Casey Baseel
Jan 20, 2016

They don’t call Saya Kataoka the Underboob Angel for nothing.

Japan
(beautiful women • fashion • gurabia • lingerie • models)

The booth girls of Tokyo Auto Salon 2016【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2016

We hear there are also customized cars at the event, but somehow our eyes were drawn elsewhere.

Japan
(beautiful women • cars • models • Mr. Sato • Tokyo Auto Salon)

New series gives Tomica toy cars a Feudal makeover with samurai-inspired designs

Mike
Jan 12, 2016

Takara Tomy will introduce several neat new models in their spectacularly popular Tomica toy car line later this month, each based on Feudal-Era warriors and generals.

Japan
(cars • models • samurai • Takara Tomy • tomica • toys)

It’s time to vote for Japan’s most beautiful butt! 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Jan 6, 2016

Because it’s not like it can choose itself, is it?

Japan
(alcohol • beautiful women • contest • models • voting)

Plus-sized Naomi Watanabe is Japanese netizens’ latest fashion inspiration

Jamie Koide
Nov 17, 2015

Naomi Watanabe is the comedian-turned-model and fashion designer largely responsible for Japan’s pocchari, or chubby, trend which is still going strong, and paving the way for large and lovely girls nationwide, from idol group la BIG 3 to the more recent Shangrila maid cafe.

Now, Watanabe is making waves across Japanese social media for her fashion-forward hair.

Japan
(fashion • hair • models • Naomi Watanabe • plus size)

Bandai to release life-like posable plastic figures to help you draw “realistic” epic poses

Scott Wilson
Oct 31, 2015

It seems like Bandai really wants us to get better at drawing. First they released the totally awesome and totally-not-just-for-kids Magic Illustrator, and now they’ve announced that they will be selling life-like posable figures for all of your human-sketching needs.

And what’s more, these figures come with dozens of sweet accessories, making it easier than ever to draw a someone wielding a sword, a deadly cellphone, or their own awesome lightning fists. Ready to never again lose friends by asking them to hold a pose while you carefully draw it? Then read on!

Japan
(art • drawing • figures • models • plastic models • sketching)

Japan’s Delusion Curry comes packaged with a DVD of a sexy model pretending to be your girlfriend

Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2015

Not everyone has the time or skills necessary to cook a tasty meal, which is why so many bachelors rely on microwavable and other instant foods when they get hungry. But most men will tell you everything in life is more enjoyable in the company of a beautiful woman, which is why this new brand of instant Japanese curry comes bundled with a DVD of a sexy model who will pretend to be your girlfriend while you eat it.

Japan
(beautiful women • curry • food • funny • gurabia • models • weird)

New Japanese model unit says happy Halloween with Sailor Moon lingerie cosplay photo shoot

Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2015

Shoko Hamada is a seven-year veteran of Japan’s gurabia industry, the subsection of the modeling world focused on women in swimwear and other skimpy outfits. In youth-obsessed Japan, she’s at an age where it wouldn’t be at all odd for her to be retiring from her line of work, but last month the 29-year-old Hamada was announced as the central figure in newly minted gurabia unit gra-DOLL.

But with so many gurabia idols filling the Japanese media landscape, Hamada and her cohorts needed to do something special to stand out and get the attention any new endeavor needs. Dressing up in Sailor Moon lingerie should do the trick.

Japan
(anime • cosplay • lingerie • manga • models • Sailor Moon)

Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro comes to life with ingenious lasercut paper set from Studio Ghibli

Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2015

Out of all the Studio Ghibli films, My Neighbor Totoro remains one of the most beloved, with the tale of two young girls and their magical forest friends capturing hearts and imaginations around the world.

While the story centres on Totoro, the furry, forest-dwelling giant, his unique mode of transport very nearly upstages him. What’s not to love about a multi-legged bus-shaped cat that bounds over hills beaming trails of light from its huge yellow eyes and carrying mice along as tail-lights?

Now it’s time to take the iconic catbus home and when we do, we’ll be making him entirely from scratch, with a specially designed kit made from lasercut paper materials.

Japan
(anime • Catbus • manga • models • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli)

This Japanese actress showed off some cleavage in a photoshoot, and Japanese media went nuts

Mike
Sep 28, 2015

Maybe Japanese-Philippine actress Elaiza Ikeda isn’t yet a household name in Japan or abroad, but if the Japanese media’s reaction to her debut as a “gravure” model is any indication, that may be changing very soon.

Japan
(actresses • beautiful women • Elaiza Ikeda • models)

Watching the making of tiny sushi will alleviate stress, make you ache at the cuteness【Video】

Oona McGee
Sep 16, 2015

The miniature toy market is huge in Japan. From tiny Hello Kitty baked goods to pint-sized supermarket items and even scaled-down Japanese-style rooms filled with traditional furnishings, you don’t have to be a child with a doll-house to delve into the world of miniature here in Japan.

Adults have become so transfixed with all the adorable items on the market that there are a number of YouTube channels purely dedicated to the art of petite cooking, using everything from tiny utensils to working miniature ovens.

One of the latest videos to appear takes us through the sushi-making process, transporting us to a tiny world that viewers say is so calming it can cure all types of stress and anxiety. Watching this short clip will be the best few minutes of your day!

Japan
(cute • miniature • models • Re-Ment • sushi • toys • video)

Bandai booth babe’s gachapon toy vending machine outfit is bizarrely suggestive

Casey Baseel
Jun 25, 2015

The generally accepted way to market a product at a trade show in Japan is pretty simple. First, hire an attractive model. Second, dress her in a sexy outfit that has some connection, however spurious, to whatever you’re promoting.

But after decades of adhering to this strategy, it can be hard to make your model stand out in a sea of skimpy bikini tops and miniskirts. That’s why Bandai decided to try something different, and put their Tokyo Toy Show model in a pair of overalls that actually seems pretty modest…at least until you look at where they attached the prize-dispensing dial from their toy vending machines.

Japan
(Bandai • gachapon • models • toys • weird)

China’s ‘Rent-a-Foreigner’ industry is booming

BUSINESS INSIDER
Apr 29, 2015

Foreigners are being hired to pose as celebrities by Chinese real estate developers to help agents sell property in “ghost towns” by making them appear more animated and worldly, according to a new mini-documentary released by the New York Times.

Thanks to China’s overzealous property development, the supply of luxury apartment complexes in some of China’s most rural areas has far exceeded demand. But that doesn’t stop the sales pitches.

The Times’ David Borenstein traveled to provincial West China where he found firms that specialized in recruiting groups of expatriates who they would then rent out to attend events, the majority of which are hosted by real estate companies.

China
(China • foreigners • models • rent-a-foreigner • weird)

Samurai and swimsuit models? New TV show offers both in one sexily convenient place 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2015

When I first told people I was moving to Japan, many of them immediately said, “Ah, you’re moving there because you like Japanese girls, aren’t you?” And while it’s true that after arriving in the country I did meet, start dating, and am now married to one of the locals, my attraction to Japanese culture and history played a bigger part in my moving across the Pacific.

Of course, there’s no law that says your loves of history and beautiful women have to be mutually exclusive, which is why a new TV series is set to premier that features sexy models stripping off samurai armor to reveal their swimsuit-clothed bodies.

Japan
(armor • culture • history • models • samurai)

Secrets of the Japanese swimsuit modeling world: Fake breasts and lots of pee

Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2015

So breasts seem to be popular these days. As a matter of fact, walk into any Japanese bookshop or convenience store and you’ll find magazine racks full of photo collections of gurabia, the country’s term for sexy but not-quite-naked models. Almost always busty, the sight of gurabia posing suggestively, often while relaxing in a pool or frolicking in the surf of an island paradise, has helped generations of men in Japan through a lonely winter’s night.

But while the men who run their eyes (or whatever other body parts) over their photos are obviously enjoying an escapist fantasy, one gurabia recently revealed some things fans might rather not have known about the industry. Her claim about the prevalence of surgically enhanced breasts gels with many people’s preexisting assumptions, but what’s shocking is what she claims is the true reason for some of those sweetly seductive smiles.

In case it wasn’t clear, we’ll be talking about/showing pictures of gurabia up ahead, so unless you’re employed as a swimwear designer, this probably isn’t safe for work.