**J-News Flash **

Aphrodite_Yuuki wrote: Father have a samurai sword as a decoration but yes it's currently illegal in the UK to have swords, they only allow it to martial arts experts and people like that plus it's punished by law to carry a sword in public but my husband told me that those regulations are going to change soon :)

I dont think i'd carry one around in public. But i wouldn't mind one for decoration.

Bladey wrote: Being different is fine, but isn't this taking it a bit too extreme?

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/bagelheads-japans-take-on-the-klingon-forehead.html

another wtf japan moment

You've gotta check this out:
And for further reading: The Grand Narrative's article

I know right! Frankly, I find this kind of parody much more pleasant than Gangam style (which is starting to be incredibly annoying these days...) Oh well, I'm a hopeless pacifist so songs like these make me smile straightaway. And about the bagel people: it's so funny how the stereotypes about Japan are about a society that pushes people to be ordinary however at the same time everybody's like wtf japan... I mean, look at the awesome street fashion!! A country of contradictions after all.

My friends Dad has a Japanese samurai sword hanging above a door frame from when he was in Japan and he hasn't been told off for it, I think as long as you don't reveal it in public or anything stupid you're fine, also at mcm expo they sell proper samurai swords and metal replica of game swords. So I think it's just in public.