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“Japanese Stuff Without Context”: 40 Funny And Weird Pics That Showcase How Unique Japan Really Is
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Let me guess which country is on your bucket list: the chances are it’s going to be Japan. The country of the rising sun lures tourists and nomads as one of the most unique destinations, capturing our imagination with attractions from robot restaurants to snake cafes. And then there’s the country’s rich history and unique culture that’s impossible to compete with. Think of martial arts, calligraphy and origami, geishas and tea ceremonies, as well as its popular culture with anime and video games.
This miscellaneous Facebook page named “Japanese Stuff Without Context” offers a little glimpse into the unique view of the Country Of The Rising Sun. According to its description, it shares “random stuff from Japan intentionally put out of context to maximize weirdness.” But let’s replace the word weirdness with pure awesomeness.
With more than one hundred thousand followers, the page is a perfect destination for random entertainment with a Japanese twist. Scroll down below and upvote your favorite posts!
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Csaba Hegedűs 3 years ago
Wikipedia: ""Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world".
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Thanks for the extra info! I learn more from y'all than the posts.
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Virgil Blue 3 years ago
Good kid, Shinji could do with some comforting considering what Evangelion put him trough.
#3
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Why do I get the feeling that this photo is part of sumo wrestler calendar? 🤔
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Instead of the sexy fireman calendar, Japan has the "Sexy Sumo" calendar.
Bored Panda reached out to the creator behind the “Japanese Stuff Without Context” Facebook page, who happily shared some insights into the project. “Five years ago I founded this odious page, and boy has it been a wild ride,” they said.
The creator explained its origin story: “One day while wasting my time on the internet, as one does, I came to the realization that I had saved several gigs worth of random weeb crap onto my PC over several years. ‘Wow,’ I thought to myself, ‘I can't believe I've saved all of this stuff, and to what end? Surely I'm never going to go browse through it again. But what a waste it would be to just delete all these silly memes and goofs!’ So I got the idea to, little by little, post all of it online and share them with others around the world! So I did just that.”
#4
Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
they do have bread like this. presentation is very important in japan
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
These are actually adorable sculptures by toy artist, Rato Kim. Bored Panda actually did an article on his work: https://www.boredpanda.com/warmly-baked-the-breadcat/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
#5
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I think that this is the same little girl who was dressed up as "No Face" from Spirited Away as one of her little classmates cried in the background. It looks like her parents love dressing up and the horror genre.
DUN DUN 3 years ago
YEAAASS!!! I was searching if anyone else got this thought, and thank god you did1
Load More Replies... Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
Cool costume but I feel a tad inappropriate for how young these kids look.
Catarina 3 years ago
This One is just perfect all the girls dressed like a princess and then...BAM 🙀
Queen Boudicca 3 years ago
Kids that age used to attend beheadings... In many countries.
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Joe Phillips 3 years ago
If they were being forced backwards their hair would be going the other way to what it is. They are jumping towards the guy.
According to the creator of “Japanese Stuff Without Context,” “cultural norms between Western and Eastern cultures in general are very disparate. Japan has a lot of soft power through their media influence so Westerners may have a disproportionately higher exposure to it, and often without sufficient context to understand what’s going on or why.”
They continued: “So naturally it ends up seeming bizarre from the outside looking in, but the reverse is true as well. Although there is no shortage of stuff that is just objectively weird. This page takes advantage of that window of perspective by stripping all context from images and videos, leaving its viewers to exclaim ‘lol wut.’”
#7
Marion 3 years ago
Actually, it sort of stresses me out. Someone touched every single rice corn and also, it took probably ages. For what? It‘s now cold and contaminated.
Cora Han 3 years ago
I imagine it would be cold by the time each grain was so carefully placed.
#8
Peppy Piplup 3 years ago (edited)
How do you get a Pikachu to board a train? You Poke Him On! (get it, 'cause it sounds like Pokémon)
Mina c 3 years ago
Wait..I’m pretty sure that’s. Washington D.C Metro map. Is this about Japanese things or Japan?
#9
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
Yeah seems like there is a story and that is more interesting than the staged photo.
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BakedKahuna 3 years ago
Everything made perfect sense. Until I saw the girl in the background.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
These types of picture were a popular fad/meme in Japan when Attack On Titan released. The forced perspective of being eaten by the "titan" and I think the blurred girl is supposed to be slashing her in the neck (which is how to kill titans in AoT) but the movement made her blurred obviously xP
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
Exactly so. Probably blurred due to the'violence'
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Shoto Todoroki 3 years ago
So we have a Titan devouring some poor soul and another student moving at mach 10
Adashimalover 2 years ago
I'm dying but not because of the staged picture but because of the girl who's mid fall and is so blurred🤣🤣🤣
According to the creator of the page, many people seem to get a lot of their information about Japan from Japanese media, especially anime, “which doesn’t accurately represent the culture.” They explained: “In anime the way people act and talk is often made to be radically different from how Japanese people actually do, often for dramatic or comedic effect. Real life ain’t cartoons, people. But by all means, enjoy your shows, your games, maybe even have a series of discardable 2D waifus, just don’t confuse all that stuff with everyday society in Japan, it’s very different.”
#10
Wonderful 3 years ago
Awwwe I had buddies like this in highschool. My car didn't have a sunroof so they slouched and angled their hair out the side window. My buddy had a broken sunroof that he would put a large umbrella in when it's raining. So not only is his hair sticking out the sunroof the passenger had to hold the umbrella while he drove and try not to get water pouring in from the rain. The best umbrella holder got to sit shotgun :)
Ms.GB 3 years ago
My friends hair used to bend in the car but just pop right back up when we got out.
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Emma Mae Winiarski 3 years ago
You thank he bought the car specifically because it had a sunroof?
#11
Michelle M 3 years ago (edited)
To catch a rabbit, you must become one with the rabbits - Rabbi Tenzin
Linny H 3 years ago
Detroit Zoo has this in its prairie dog exhibit. It's cool.
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Se Mai 3 years ago
They are called prairie dogs. One prairie dog, many prairie dogs.
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#12
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Japanese kids must be mush tougher than American kids. Don't get me wrong I grew up on horror films and I'm just fine 😂😆 but American parents would freak out if their kids were exposed to half the stuff in these pics
Geeki Nikki 3 years ago
Ahhhhhhhh. Boss...sorry can't come to work today something is after me.
When asked what is their audience like, the creator of the page described them as “a bunch of fine folks coming together for a good ‘ol ‘Haha, funny pic.’ Laughter is a universal language. It bring people together.”
“However the target audience is anybody that isn’t Japanese, because otherwise they might get the context of my posts and we just can’t have that here. My interaction with the viewers is pretty sparse though. There is the occasionally snarky reply I might have but that’s about it,” the author of “Japanese Stuff Without Context” told us.
#13
Time2Roll86🇺🇦 3 years ago
Wait…the first guy to the right at the table on the left has…uh….something…hanging out of his space suit thingy!
Casey Burns 3 years ago
That's a lot of MewTwos. If only Yugi was here with his magic dragon balls.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
The guy on the right has his tail between his legs. Presumably, it's his tail...
Christal Johnson 3 years ago
There should be someone dressed as Goku or Vegetta standing outside the window lol
ToyWyvern 3 years ago
There should be one Frieza with a giant coffee mug in honor of his voice actor. :)
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#14
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
I can see them now with nets running after people doing the Naruto run
Shoto Todoroki 3 years ago
Yes, hi, please send anime control there's a *first anime character that comes to mind* in my backyard
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
It says *Japanese* stuff. Not exclusively stuff in Japan.
Load More Replies... KittyGaming 2 years ago
Im part of the mha community and most people in the community need to be controlled like majority of gacha cringers like Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, or all three
#15
LostSage 3 years ago
I also think that might be the women only train, sometimes foreign guys or really really intoxicated Japanese guys accidently board it unknowingly.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Do they really have a woman's only train? That's actually kind of interesting. It seems like they need something like that for India public transportation
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Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
Japanese salarymen are overworked and under-compensated and part of their duties are usually to stay out all night and get drunk with their boss and potential customers. And they still have to be in the office in the morning.
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The creator also said that after they run out of content, they will “probably abandon the page and leave it as a foundering relic among the refuse of memes in the turbid ocean that is the internet.”
Having said that, they assured the fans that “I have years worth of weird stuff stored away so that won’t be anytime soon. Unless I get bored with it or something, or accidentally break one of Facebook’s vague and arbitrary or retroactively enforced rules and it gets deleted, or I decide to become a reclusive monk without access to electronics, or if maybe civilization falls apart so we have to resort to archaic formats for memes such as that of the famous Kilroy during WW1,” the author of “Japanese Stuff Without Context” concluded.
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*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
I want one. I said "no" at first, but now I want one!
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#20
Amelia Lamb 3 years ago
This is disturbing. Waking up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and see this on your couch
CookieCrump 3 years ago
No, not the hearts. Not the hearts! That would only be good for "50 Shades Of Gray".
#21
Weim Central 3 years ago
That's amazing. I would feel guilty eating it but that would only slow me a little bit.
BakedKahuna 3 years ago
Wait... Didn't I see this picture in another thread where a mother tweeted, that she did this to punish her misbehaving son? 🤔
#22
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
This statement actually makes sense either way. Fine or fire can mean the same slang wise
#23
KittyGaming 2 years ago
Miku what are you doing girl chill out, lets get Luka and Len as backup to contain the rabid Miku
#24
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
I recall reading that Japanese idols started using these after it was found that certain fans would use the restrooms to wank it, then shake unwashed hands with the women.
The Claustrophobic Turtle 3 years ago
Is this from that guy that creates useless things for problems you dont have?
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
I've literally seen these for sale at Walmart... then fake choked my friend with one, lol.
Nicole Tomme 3 years ago
Passive aggressive politeness.... sooooo.... if sarcasm was a handshake?
#25
Scagsy 3 years ago
Somebody important just said; 'Get me a dog in here, stat!'. If you were wondering, I just said that to my wife and she didn't bring me a dog. So. It doesn't work in England.
Ateliê Roza Azul 1 year ago
ahhh me solta eu paguei sim, e mentira, não passei por baixo da catraca
#26
Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
First though was how insanely pretty this lady is, I'm 100% straight but couldn't stop looking at her, at 43 years old I think I've just developed my first girl crush 😍😍
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
She is stunning but the fishy smell would put me right off.
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PrincessTheSiameseKat 3 years ago
Have you had a cat before? Many cats don't mind being held like this for a moment at least
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Wonderful 3 years ago
So buying these in the U.S. it looks like the cat and girl are around $23.33 and the loooooooong cat is around $7.88.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Lol thanks i was just about to look that up. I'm glad I'm not the only one who wonders about silly things like money conversion
Load More Replies... Erik Chrane 3 years ago
People that think holding any animal like this is okay should be euthanized.
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𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋!(new account) 3 years ago
me when my friend turns back around after a second and asks where their food went:
Ateliê Roza Azul 1 year ago
eu admirando meu crush mas disfarçando e vendo algo invisivel no chão qdo ele percebe....
Will sell soul for corn chip 3 years ago
when your friend takes the last pizza slice but you are semi ok with it because they need to eat more
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#31
Amy Doyle 3 years ago
That looks huge. I've always wanted to visit Japan but I don't know if I could handle the bugs. That's the reason I'm never going to Australia the size of their spiders.
Pure White 3 years ago
I am most scared of wasps personally. Even the wasps in Poland scare me, and they are much smaller than Asian ones. I hate them. I evacuate my cat to a different room and use a vacuum cleaner to get rid of them (I get a few every summer, as the windows are often open)
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#32
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
When you are so depressed that even a supervillain robot invasion doesn’t affect you
Josh Stevenson 3 years ago
Neon colors, Sega genesis, *insert witty comment* Evangelion. She must be a suka for the show.
#33
- 3 years ago
Knows Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga, and was cited for taking down a gang of chihuahuas.
Shoto Todoroki 3 years ago
He looks cute, but he's a dangerous criminal. The police were looking for him for about five years
#34
Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
This person is clearly a wizard. Don't mess with Japandalf the Purple!
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I wonder how much money he spends on hair gel every week...
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
It's a Japanese car culture. Those 4 yellow poles in background? They are exhausts.
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#36
Somewhat-Guilty 3 years ago
Fun fact: so there's only a few in existence and were won through a promotional giveaway to a few lucky winners of a mobile RPG game targeted for girls. Oooh!! And these are Bluetooth speakers btw.
Somewhat-Guilty 3 years ago
They are actually Bluetooth speakers with arms and a pillow face 😂
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Charlotte Eitemiller 3 years ago
im confused why would you want relistic looking arms around you like that
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
It's kind of sad it seems like a lot of these products are for extremely lonely people.
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#37
goofyyable 3 years ago
yes.Japanese love jokes, more than you can imagine.
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TahJia Williams 3 years ago
Id like to have a real pillow for my bed of those legs, but melanin colored
#38
Molly Whuppie 3 years ago
If anyone genuinely wants to know, its from a 2005 japanese comedy movie called "Naisu no mori: The First Contact" aka "Funky Forest"
Hutt'nKloas 3 years ago
This. An absolute weird movie, not to everyones taste. I enjoyed it though 😁
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
So much going on here. Not sure I want to know exactly what. No, I know I don't want to know.
#39
Inkblot Butterfly 3 years ago
Even while being a complete once I've never seen this picture before.. new wallpaper found
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#41
BakedKahuna 3 years ago
I love the Asian plastic food for display thing. You just know, what you are ordering.
#42
Weim Central 3 years ago
Wow this is from at least 30 years ago from a Japanese inventions post.
#43
NotMe 3 years ago
?? What wedding? That looks like a regular cosplay event
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#45
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
I assume due to the number of photographers that the cosplayer consented to this
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Sarah 3 years ago
Apple have made updates to their OS in certain countries where this act is quite prevalent (on the candid side) and now you cannot turn the shutter sound off on your phone, so if you are trying to take a secret, distasteful photo, be able to run...fast.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
They aren't taking pictures of a woman so much as a human anime. They are learing at their cartoon girlfriend.
#46
Lizzie Smith 3 years ago
Japanese people find western big noses and blue eyes funny. It's like the stick on "Fu Manchu" moustaches they sell in UK joke/ fancy dress shops
Marley Nachi 3 years ago
it says 'Michael', so maybe there was a white guy entertainer in Japan at one time or it's a white guy costume.
#47
Ophelia Butz 3 years ago
This was an April Fool's joke! Not real. http://www.ageekinjapan.com/women-vending-machine/
Moosy Girl 3 years ago (edited)
Still waiting for that 90 yen men vending machine they promised back then. :( (for anyone really panicking, this is from an april fools joke a few years ago)
Geeki Nikki 3 years ago
Looks like it says drink girls.... which is a whole other level of oh no for me.
Load More Replies... Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
Degrading and creepy, maybe it's just me but I find this uncomfortable.
alegra 3 years ago (edited)
I suppose that are life size dolls … there seems to be a need for 24/7 availability.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
This was actually a horrible April Fool's joke. However, there used to be vending machines in Japan that sold women's used undergarments...
Load More Replies... Sigrid Johanesdóttir 3 years ago
I guess this is from a weird movie. Don't believe this happens
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martin734 3 years ago
Japan is a very unusual country. On the one hand you have their very conservative, formal and polite sections of society living in seeming harmony with their totally, utterly, mind-bending, batshit-crazy sections of society.
martin734 3 years ago
Japan is a very unusual country. On the one hand you have their very conservative, formal and polite sections of society living in seeming harmony with their totally, utterly, mind-bending, batshit-crazy sections of society.
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