Japan – Tacky Raccoons

Bubble Girls

Capsule life at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair, Japan.

A Dressed-up Phalanx CIWS

The ship may be the JS Myōkō (DDG-175), a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The Ratheon Phalanx CIWS is sometimes painted as a “Minion“.

[Found here. More info here.]

地獄の黙示録

This Japanese poster for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979) was sold by Heritage Auctions on 22 March 2009 for $1,792.50 USD. The large font translates to Apocalypse of Hell.
[Found here.]

Super Glue Marrsk

[Found here. Possibly related to Eneman.]

Silver Kamen & The Goop Monsters

Silver Kamen was a Japanese television series in the early 1970s. It’s available on DVD.

[Image found here.]

Gen-an House

Gen-an (Fantasy Villa) house, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, designed by Japanese architect Osamu Ishiyama in 1975.

Ishiyama used unconventional and industrial materials for its construction, such as giant corrugated steel tubing typically used for civil engineering projects. The house was inspired by a monk’s minimal dwelling cell.

[Images found here, here and here; description from Google AI Overview.]

Japanese Christmas Trees

[Found here via Everlasting Blört].

Storm the Transformed Ninja

Henshin Ninja Arashi (変身忍者嵐, roughly translated as “Storm the Transformed Ninja”) is a 1972 Jidaigeki Toku series created by Shotaro Ishinomori.

“Set in the Edo Period of Japan, the series follows a young ninja named Hayate, who is the son of a man who developed a special technique called the “Transformation Jutsu” capable of granting a superhuman form. However, their Ninja clan, the warmongering Blood Wheel Clan, begins using the Transformation Jutsu to spread fear and terror all throughout Japan as part of their campaign to conquer it.”

[Found here via here. More about him here.]