Bouncing Red Ball

If you’re a horror fan or just the type of person whose toilet literature consists nothing but travel books about Japan and some manga, you might appreciate the entertainment value of what has been dubbed “Japan’s scariest toilet paper”, probably the world’s first horror novella in the form of disposable bathroom wipes.
Koji Suzuki’s bone-chilling, toilet-readable [...]

I have bought a ton of stuff (literally) from Yahoo Japan Auctions (that’s where I got my car) and anecdotal evidence tells me that Japanese sellers are generally good-mannered, easy to deal with and honest.
The seller who posted the auction below, however, is way too honest than most.
The English translation would not do justice to [...]

A typical street in suburban Japan, lined on both sides with Sugi, silence broken only by bird calls. Female mannequins with foreign-sounding names skateboarding, hitting the pavement and disintegrating into undignified heaps.
The contrast couldn’t get more jarring than that.
Depending on your mood, this is either “upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious” or “pretentious, incoherent and boring”. [...]