Japan worships the bathroom. Heated seats, music players, and carefully calculated washing mechanisms to clean your behind are just a few of the bathroom luxuries that can be found here. Now there’s a new product on the market in Japan ensuring that the toilet paper will smell wonderful even if what it’s cleaning doesn’t.
toilet paper
If you were terrified by the Ring series featuring Sadako, you may want to steer clear of this particular brand of toilet paper. But, you may ask, how can toilet paper be terrifying? Well, once you read about this unique toilet paper, I think you’ll agree that it’s one scary product! This toilet paper, made by tissue and toilet paper manufacturer Hayashi Paper, has printed on it a novella by Koji Suzuki, the author of the original Ring novels! And the best part? It’s now going to be available in English! Read More
Japan- (entertainment • Koji Suzuki • Sadako • shopping • The Ring • toilet • toilet paper)
-
LATEST STORIES
- Comically Huge Mega Potato is a Gift from the (Obese) Starch Gods
- Are You Jealous of Raf’s Perfect Girlfriend?
- Simple Arts and Crafts Kit Produces Beautiful, Shiny Balls of Mud
- Companies Japanese People are Most Proud of
- Adobe and the Case of the Missing Chill Pill
- Kanagawa Junior High School Friends Set Out on an 80-Kilometer Adventure to Hakone by Skateboard 【Video】
- Trapped in a Glass Cage in the Philippines, Mario Has No Mouth with which to Scream – The Shocking World of Knock-Off Plush Dolls
MOST POPULAR
Now
The Ten Most Beautiful Tunnels in the World and Where You Can Find Them1
Meet the Buildings Used by Millionaires, Statesmen … and Naked Bathers and a Ghibli Movie2
‘So Glad I Went!’ 2013 Ranking: The Places In Japan That Made an Impact on Foreign Visitors3
Companies Japanese People are Most Proud of4
The Five Japanese Streets That People of Japan Most Want to Visit5
Weekly
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan1
Oozing up From Below, Mysterious Marshmallow-like Substance Covers Nanjing Street2
Beautiful Cosplay Girl is Actually Nerdy Guy3
Saudi Arabian Reporter Floored by Things Japanese Take for Granted4
When Two Amazing Worlds Collide: Welcome to the World of Cat Sushi!5
Monthly
We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum2
Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”3
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan4
Real-Life Barbie Gives Her Friends and Family a Makeover, Turns Them into Dolls5
Yearly
We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Peenzilla Worship! Japan’s Kanamara Festival Coming Up this April!2
Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum3
Chinese Student’s Bicycle Seat Breaks and… Gyah!4
Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”5
-
RECOMMENDED STORIES
Are You Jealous of Raf’s Perfect Girlfriend?
Comically Huge Mega Potato is a Gift from the (Obese) Starch Gods
Japanese Man Takes Lexus for Test Drive to Grandmother’s House, Arrested 180 km Away
The Secret Slang of Japanese Cabbies
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan
Kanagawa Junior High School Friends Set Out on an 80-Kilometer Adventure to Hakone by Skateboard 【Video】
When Two Amazing Worlds Collide: Welcome to the World of Cat Sushi!
New School Swimsuit in Japan is Conservative and Surprisingly Cute
Restaurant in China Denies Claims of Cockroaches in Its Smoothie
The Top 25 Things In Japan Most Likely To Blow Foreigner’s Minds
-
Masthead
Philip Kendall
Writer / Translator Hailing from Liverpool in the UK, Philip Kendall made Japan his second home in the summer of 2006 after dolefully abandoning his childhood dream of becoming a ghost buster.
Steven Simonitch
Writer/Translator Though a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Steven currently resides in Nagano, Japan, where he is known by the old lady at the supermarket as “the white guy who always buys 2 packs of natto.
Master Blaster
Writer / Translator Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Steven Le Blanc and Masami M.
Kay
Writer / Translator Kay is a native Japanese who has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. She currently resides in Tokyo and enjoys writing about a wide range of topics, including all things cute and glamorous.
Michelle Lynn Dinh
Writer / Translator Originally from California, Michelle is currently working as an assistant English teacher on the tiny island of Chiburi in Shimane prefecture.
Jessica Ocheltree
Writer / Translator Jessica Ocheltree is a freelance writer and editor living in the exciting, interesting and sometimes perplexing city of Tokyo.
-
Categories
Archives
-
Featured Partners

