Brilliant disguise

[owlmoose]

Japanese fashion designer creates dress that transforms into a vending machine costume.

The idea, I guess, is that if you feel unsafe, you can disguise yourself as a vending machine. Although if your attacker decides they want a drink, you might be in trouble. Probably not very practical. There are some great pictures, though.

Also, from that same site, Osaka police use bunny-shaped lights when patrolling near schools. Going for death by cute, perhaps?

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Re: I

[parron.livejournal.com]

Cute is pretty much the national pass-time of Japan. It's as important to them as cherry blossom and mount fuji and random people destroying Tokyo. In any case, was the bunny by any chance Nijntje (http://www.nijntje.nl/)? I was raised reading stories about her, she's a Dutch rabbit that is perhaps even more popular in Japan.

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It's not really any character, I think it's just a generic bunny:
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/rabbit_light.jpg

Still cute though. :) And very, very Japanese in its cuteness.