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Japan holds diaper fashion show -- for adults
Japan Today ^
| 09/26/08
Posted on 09/25/2008 7:11:27 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Japan holds diaper fashion show -- for adults
Friday 26th September, 05:33 AM JST
TOKYO —
One after the other, the models strutted across the stage to bouncy ‘80s dance tunes, all showing off designs of the same article of clothing—adult diapers.
Japan has one of the world’s most rapidly aging societies, and the fashion show Thursday proved the country’s diaper producers are intent on keeping the elderly clean and dry.
“Diapers are something that people don’t want to look at,” said Kiyoko Hamada of the Aging Lifestyle Research Center, a leading organizer of the show.
“But if you make them attractive, then people can learn about them more easily,” she said.
Indeed, adult diapers are an increasingly common item in Japan, home to one of the world’s longest average lifespans. More than 20% of the population is over 65, and the country is forecast to have the globe’s largest number of centenarians—1 million—by 2050, the U.N. says.
That means a booming market for adult diapers.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: diaper; fashionshow; japan
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:12:13 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:13:46 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Now sadly living in the DPRNYC [Brooklyn])
To: TigerLikesRooster
What will the Japanese think of next? I only go #1 and #2!
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:17:38 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Just when you think this planet can’t get any weirder.
5
posted on
09/25/2008 7:24:59 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(Welcome PUMAs!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:27:09 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Yatta, yatta, yatta)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You can’t make this stuff up folks.
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:27:27 PM PDT
by
Ronzo
(Poetry can be a better tool of understanding than tedious scribblings of winners of the Noble Prize)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You can’t make this stuff up folks.
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:27:38 PM PDT
by
Ronzo
(Poetry can be a better tool of understanding than tedious scribblings of winners of the Noble Prize)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I see another category of really sick Japanese porn coming down the pike.
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posted on
09/25/2008 7:38:41 PM PDT
by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Why not?
We have drugs that keep us alive into our nineties, maintaining our heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol. We cleanse ourselves with anything "anti-bacterial" and nothing less.
We're preserving our lives artificially and one day we find ourselves old and incontinent so we'll need fashionable, absorbent underwear.
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posted on
09/25/2008 8:02:09 PM PDT
by
Paul Heinzman
(McCain / Palin '08. Write-ins and protest votes won't help America.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; Slings and Arrows
THERE’s a headline I never expected to read.
Silly Japan! :o)
11
posted on
09/25/2008 10:43:01 PM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
("Drill now drill hard drill often and give old Gaia a cigarette afterwards she deserves it." HerrBlu)
To: Titan Magroyne; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
I'm sorry, but there are pictures.
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posted on
09/25/2008 11:17:36 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
To: Slings and Arrows; TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
09/25/2008 11:26:29 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Adults?
How come I am only seeing queers?
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posted on
09/26/2008 1:04:04 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Sarah Palin 08 12 16 20)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Slings and Arrows
Sorry ... can't be topped [or bottomed].
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:02:07 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, SorosÂ… use a RED crayon.)
To: Slings and Arrows
“I’m sorry, but there are pictures.”
LOL! I’ll admit that the Japanese are probably the only folks who could carry off an adult diaper modeling show. You knoooooooooooooowwwwwww some limp-wristed American dethigner would screw it up by hiring Britney and Paris lookalikes, and that’s just for starters.
Of course, none of that explains “Yatta!” (see post #6)
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posted on
09/26/2008 6:00:33 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
("Drill now drill hard drill often and give old Gaia a cigarette afterwards she deserves it." HerrBlu)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is this one of the side effects of getting nuked?
Descent into ultimate weirdness ?
18
posted on
09/26/2008 6:06:45 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
To: Centurion2000
Better than turning into beastly mutants.:-)
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posted on
09/26/2008 6:09:48 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Titan Magroyne
Nothing explains “Yatta”.
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posted on
09/26/2008 6:33:40 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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