Rice bra supports Japanese girls

Gyaru farmers is one trend Japan has seen over the last couple of years and now here is a somewhat random tangent of that.

Girls keen to keep their agricultural hobby close to their heart can now grow their own rice in a special bra designed by lingerie maker Triumph and modeled here by Triumph image girl Reiko Aoyama.

Triumph, which periodically releases crazy bra-concepts such as golf bra and marriage bra, claims it came up with the “rice bra” because of the growing popularity of those gyaru farmers and farming in general amongst Japanese city dwellers.

Growing concerns over food safety and the environment, and the ideal of a more laid-back lifestyle, are slowly attracting more people out of cities such as Tokyo and into the world of agriculture.

Like other Triumph crazy-concept bras, it will not go on sale, but expect to see it advertised about the Japanese media.

Commuters crowd into Tokyo’s weekday morning trains.

Mojibakeru

From the 17th of May, Bandai are to release a new series of trading figures in the form of kanji that transforms into its animal counterpart. The product is called "Mojibakeru" [もじバケる] which is a compound word of "Moji" [文字] meaning "character" and "Bakeru" [化ける] meaning "to change into."
Me thinks these would be useful to help folks remember kanji - they just need to make more.
There will initially be 6 kanji to collect and will cost a mere 105 yen each - they also comes with some gum to chew on while you figure out how to transform it. Each kanji comes in 3 colors giving a total of 24 different combination's.