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A Japanese artist has been arrested for disseminating "3D printable design files" of her own genitalia, 3DPrint.com reports. Megumi Igarashi, 42, was cuffed by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for allegedly supplying virtual ladyparts via email to a "30-year-old man in Kagawa Prefecture" and "many others" back in March. Igarashi, …

  1. joeW

    I seriously want one of those canoes

    That is all.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

      I want to say 'Cunoes' but I feel that may be in bad taste?

      1. earl grey
        Joke

        Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

        I hope it doesn't taste bad...??

      2. Piro

        Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

        I think the water craft is in bad taste itself, the name isn't going to make it worse. Approved.

    2. Ross K Silver badge
      Coat

      Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

      There's a "man in the boat" joke in there somewhere, but I'm not going to be the one to make it...

      1. D@v3

        @ Ross K

        I'm sure there is, but no matter how hard I look, I can't find the punchline

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: @ Ross K

          Gonna be something involving the words wet and seamen I''m sure.

      2. Martin Budden Silver badge

        Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

        *something about Budweiser*

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I seriously want one of those canoes

      When Rev. Spooner was out in Peru

      He wired home for three punts, one canoe.

      Came a message to say

      There are girls on the way

      But no-one can find a panoe.

  2. Alister
    Coat

    Brings a whole new meaning to "Paddle your own canoe".

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @Alister

      Or if she'd based the canoe on her anus, to the phrase "Up shit creek without a paddle"

  3. David Webb

    Police

    Them there Japanese police must have sand in their vagina!

  4. thomas k.

    Tentacles?

    I guess if she'd added some tentacles, it'd have passed muster?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Tentacles?

      Indeed. To Western eyes the Japanese are very odd about genitals ... in no other country could you get a porn video of a couple of armed guys raping a bus full of schoolgirls, with the naughty bits pixellated to make it err ... acceptable.

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

        Such stamina!

        How do two guys manage to rape a whole bus??

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Such stamina!

          Two at a time?

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Such stamina!

          By taking turns sticking it in the exhaust?

        3. Aremmes

          Re: Such stamina!

          More importantly, why a bus? Did the bus dress provocatively?

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Such stamina!

            It was out in public without a veil. That's enough to be provocative in the more backward States.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Double standards

    Have they seen some of the madness that passes for pornography in Japan?

    I would appear that so long as the genitalia are pixelated that all manor of batshit craziness is acceptable.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Double standards

      "Have they seen some of the madness that passes for pornography in Japan?"

      Jasper - is that you?

    2. foo_bar_baz
      Coat

      Re: Double standards

      Manor of batshit craziness - is that where Hugh Hefner lives?

  6. frank ly

    re. " ... digital vagina analogues ..."

    That made my head spin for few seconds.

    1. Sir Runcible Spoon

      Re: re. " ... digital vagina analogues ..."

      So the canoe is a D/A converter? I'm lost now.

    2. lurker

      Re: re. " ... digital vagina analogues ..."

      Sounds like a "new media" remake of the "Vagina Monologues".

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Joke

        Re: remake of the "Vagina Monologues".

        That'd be the Director's Cu*t.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Are dildos allowed in Japan?

    If yes, I seriously don't see what's the problem.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

      Re: Are dildos allowed in Japan?

      Go to a love hotel and check it out.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Are dildos allowed in Japan?

      Only if they have enough bumps, appendices, flaps, flashing lights etc. as to be unrecognizable as similes of the real thing.

    3. harmjschoonhoven

      Re: Are dildos allowed in Japan?

      Dildos feature in the film A Lost Paradise after a novel of the same name by Junichi Watanabe, based on the true story of Sada Abe.

  8. Winkypop Silver badge
    Coat

    I'd get one of those canoes, but

    I'd look a bit of a cnut in it.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    My mechanic always said that one day you would be able to simply print out new parts on site rather than having to order them and wait for delivery. Although I assume this isn't the kind of flange he was thinking of.

  10. razorfishsl

    Japanese eye of Sauron

  11. aregross

    "... and labial mobile phone covers"

    That made me chuckle a bit.

  12. PaulR79

    Oh Japan..

    A place where they have female newscasters riding a guy done seriously but this is not allowed?

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tentacles? Check. Futas? Check. 18 year old girls who look 12? Check. Rape on a subway? Check. A plastic vagina? OMG! SOMEONE CALL THE COPS! SHE'S LOST HER MIND!

  14. ColonelClaw
    Coat

    I wanted to get one of those iPhone covers...

    ...but I thought it would make me look even more of a cunt.

  15. NogginTheNog
    Coat

    Maybe crossing a line but...

    It occurred to me that if that canoe was much bigger you could fill it with seaman.

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  16. Simon Harris
    Happy

    Playmobil reconstruction...

    comes ready-built with the story!

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Manco

    There I said it (for those Japanese readers). :-) Always remember the time they were teaching how to say that word in Spanish (where it means person with a missing limb) and a Japanese had to cover her ears since it also means lady part to them. LOL

    1. Mephistro
      Joke

      Re: Manco

      That must to be the reason* there weren't any Japanese players in WOW Spanish servers, as 'manco' is also the Spanish equivalent of 'noob'. Probably all of them committed seppuku after their first error in a raid.

      * That and the language barrier, and the lag. ;-)

    2. Simon Harris
      Happy

      Re: Manco

      "word in Spanish (where it means person with a missing limb) and a Japanese had to cover her ears since it also means lady part to them."

      Can't wait until a Spanish speaking country gets to host the Paralympic Games!

    3. Charlie Clark Silver badge

      Re: Manco

      "Manko" means mistake or drawback in German so you can imagine all the fun they have when discussing the reasons for vehicle recall.

      Then there's "mushi, mushi" to say hello on the phone. This is funny in German because "mushi" is "fanny".

      1. Frumious Bandersnatch

        Re: Manco

        Then there's "mushi, mushi"

        Eh, you mean "moshi, moshi". Mushi is an insect and mushimushi is an onomatopoeic word for hot and humid.

        If you start a phone conversation with "mushimushi" instead of "moshimoshi", my bet is that you're a kappa.

        Also, 'manko' really is a pretty crude word. I like 'manjuu' as a euphemism.

        1. Tachikoma

          Re: Manco

          Or if you are from Kyushu it's "bobo" for the most vulgar word.

          Haha I love manjū, you can really make people blush when you enthuse about how you love to eat it slowly, feel the softness on your lips and savour the sweet flavour. For non-speakers it's also a type of confectionary, a type of bean paste dumpling.

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Manco

            Hai..... nametai !

            Speaking of beans you could also talk about "mame".... :-)

        2. Bleu

          Re: Manco

          Mushi mushi passes at times, some like wordplay, sure not our majority, also pronunciation is just about never mooshi-mooshi as you imply.

      2. Fibbles

        Re: Manco

        New Reg reader challenge:

        Using English as the grammatical framework whilst selecting words from any other language construct a mundane, inoffensive and coherent sentence where each word is also the name of genitalia in an another language.

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Manco

      Try teaching in Australia, the first time I talked about a router (with English pronunciation, rather than the wood working tool) the whole class collapsed. In Oz a router is apparently a lady who is keen on routing...

      On my first trip to the US I was attending a class on X-Windows and the instructors had decided that there needed to be a word for pressing the buttons on the mouse and had decided that the word "bonk" would be appropriate. I think I fell off my chair at this point, while it took a Canadian colleague almost 5 minutes to get his voice sufficiently back under control to make the comment about needing a lot of selotape... before bombing again.

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      2. Bleu

        Re: Manco

        I have been to that country, router has the same pronunciation, 'ou' as in who. Route is still a word, route is still not pronounced in the same way as the word meaning a great defeat.

        Your pupils were just joking and perhaps a little ignorant.

        Why do Americans pronounce 'route' correctly, but switch it in router? Do they all say 'rout' 66 and so on now? 'I get my kicks on rout 66' just sounds silly.

        A better example is US 'root for' your team, hilarious to Australians. Saw an example.

  18. All names Taken
    Joke

    Isn't she just being a bit of a t*at?

  19. Peter Gathercole Silver badge

    Are we going to have to have...

    ... the vagina/vulva discussion again?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Are we going to have to have...

      I would actually like to know if the video is mistranslating what she's saying.

      Anyway, I hope they drop this ridiculous case, because she's found an amusing and harmless way to mock prudery. But sadly, given the Japanese approach to law and order, I doubt it will happen.

  20. PleebSmash
    Thumb Up

    mai three dee pee dee waifu

    wwwwwwwww

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  21. Phil O'Sophical Silver badge
    Coat

    Never been much of a golfer, but I could learn.

    If you lose your balls in the rough, do you get a free stroke?

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    XKCD predicted this

    http://xkcd.com/924/

    :-)

    That is all.

  23. noominy.noom

    Contradictions abound

    This is the country that has Vagina Festivals (and Penis Festivals.) Floats with giant vagina/penis models, vagina/penis statuary and vendors selling lollipops that, you guessed it, are a vagina or a penis. Pictures of the festival appear in various newspapers every year, including of course pictures of little kids walking around sucking on vagina/penis lollipops.

  24. Simon Harris

    We've got 3D printers and scanners at work

    When they arrived, the first rule from the boss was...

    No printing of our own body parts.

    1. DropBear
      Trollface

      Re: We've got 3D printers and scanners at work

      And you're telling me you didn't immediately skirt around that interdiction by printing each other's body parts?!?

      1. Simon Harris

        Re: We've got 3D printers and scanners at work

        Actually we print body parts all the time...

        But purely for medical purposes.

  25. All names Taken
    Paris Hilton

    It all ...

    smells a bit fishy to me

    Has anyone looked into it properly?

  26. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Women are strange.

    Ah, sorry, artists are strange.

  27. Mitoo Bobsworth
    Devil

    Public referendum necessary

    Nothing like a mass debate to relieve these sorts of issues.

    1. Simon Harris
      Coat

      Re: Public referendum necessary

      I think an 'L' accidentally slipped into your title there.

  28. Ben Rosenthal

    It really is a wonderful time to be alive.

  29. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This

    has totally changed my relationship with my kayak. For better or worse, I'm not sure yet.

    Next time I'm naked inside my wetsuit and rubber shoes, inserting myself into my boat, fixing myself with a rubber skirt to the cockpit rim, I'm really going to think about this.

  30. asiaseen

    Irony or something

    In a Japanese town I visit fairly regularly for its hot springs is a temple the name of which is enticingly translated as the "Happy God Temple". The central shrine of the temple is a rock formation portraying Mother Nature's representation of lady parts. http://www.mediafire.com/view/0za2jypjj5zjn/Japan#gl6q3bq9dnet946

    The link is NSFW but OK for worship

  31. Speltier

    Is there no end?

    As expected, home printing will allow all sorts of things. Guns, female parts (of any age and species), soon molecular printing of any inorganic substance-- why bother learning chemistry if your printer spits out your drug of choice?-- real body parts to add your existing body parts (takes a bit of time to vat grow the cells needed for "inkjet" printing is all)... For the ambitious take your BioCAD (tm) and design your own additions, just need to adjust the histocompatibility complex to match and voila! a new appendage, fur, horns, whatever and without the antirejection drugs!

    The mind boggles, especially after being doubled in size and connected to the Internet.

  32. illiad

    wrong biology!!!!!

    they are infected with WRONG american ideas! PLEASE learn the CORRECT one!!! >:-(

    http://www.feministmidwife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BeatriceBiology.jpg

    in chinese - use google translate..

    陰部,外陰,子宮

    1. illiad

      Re: wrong biology!!!!!

      oops sorry, in Japanese its..

      性器、外陰部、子宮

  33. Bleu

    This post is worth an article ...

    but not begrudging the Reg, been enjoying it for some years.

    Firstly, agree with OPs who enjoy this work. I find it quite amusing, it also has a nice tie with the nation's creation myth (see Amaterasu Omikami).

    Also, OP mentioning phallic cults and festivals, they sometimes carry the giant organs to, for example, indy rock shows where trad. festival style dance-and-music groups appear, and there are also vulva-centred festivals, featuring similarly giant-scale reproductions.

    Some will recall the Akihabara knife maniac several years ago. As a consequence, the 'heaven for pedestrians' (road closed to traffic in business hours on Sundays) was suspended for a few years.

    What was never reported in press overseas was that his murderous rampage was mainly because he came to hate the many 'idol' events and fan groups. Not that he wasn't one of the fans, but it all just made him feel even more socially excluded and inadequate.

    One Akihabara 'idol' who became a minor celebrity called herself Asuka Sawamoto. Her speciality was panty-flashing (quite modest), and she was arrested *three times* for that between spring and summer of the same year. She'd been banned from there (or was locked up, I've forgotten) at the time of the knife attack.

    The real reason for the street being reopened to traffic and closed to pedestrians was more Sawamoto than the knife maniac.

    She also got immense publicity on two-channel, when trolls here went nuts on discovering that she had been lying about her age (by numerous years, at least eight) and using a false name.

    She later parleyed this into a hard-core career. Not interested, so do not know if it is still going. Before that, she had a band, saw them once, lunchtime show, not great, but fun and funny, band was pretty good, also modest, tape-on-nipples at most (though I presume the private photo sessions on offer went further).

    Another band I knew of at the time had a keen panty-flasher as a main performer, she was ordered to stop by the band leader after the serial Sawamoto arrests.

    At the same time, more than a few male music performers like to take everything off, a few places don't allow it (you can tell, because said performers keep their undies on).

    Occasionally, drunken male students or other early-twenties will do things like pulling their pants down, set fire to their pubes while yelling 'Japanese fire', zero police interest.

    Could continue, stopping there.

  34. Bleu

    Err

    Parlay, not parley (me, checked and missed, withdrawing and reposting is too much trouble).

    Also, OPs mentioning the female counterpart of the phallic reps, posts were not there when making mine, but A for observation to you.

  35. Jim Lewis

    beauty is in the (Japs) eye of the beholder I suppose

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