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Japan Resorts To Teenage Girls In Short Skirts To Get Their Stocks Up
While the full court press propaganda express in Japan's media that 'Abenomics' is working may be flagging a little in the face of the recent 20% collapse in equity prices, there appears no limit to how low they will stoop. It is not the first time you girls have been used to promote the benefits of buying Japanese bonds (as we discussed here), but, as The Telegraph reports, a four-member band of 16-year-old Japanese girls will be raising (and lowering we suppose) the length of their skirts based on the Nikkei 255. The band - Machikado Keiki Japan, which roughly translates as "street corner economic conditions", debut single - Abeno Mix (seriously!) - has karaoke references to quantitative easing and construction bonds.
Via The Telegraph...
To get an idea of how Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is faring in his quest to lift his country out of two decades of stagnation, look no further than the skirts of the girl group Machikado Keiki Japan.
The band, whose name translates roughly as "street corner economic conditions", became a bellwether for the health of the world's third biggest economy earlier this year when they promised to shorten their skirts every time the country's stock market made significant gains.
The four-member group's novel economic indicator has raised a few eyebrows – not least because one of the members is a 16-year-old schoolgirl – but there is no faulting their interest in the fortunes of the Nikkei 225 stock index.
Their debut single, Abeno Mix – complete with unlikely singalong references to quantitative easing and construction bonds – takes its cue from Abenomics, an ambitious programme of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms that its chief architect believes will lift Japan out of 20 years of deflationary purgatory.
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hhmmmm....how much are they? I would buy them..
You can't buy them! They are only interested in the size of your JGB holdings.
Sorry, I apologize, just could not help myself.
Lets blow the fuckin top of the NIKKEI and show some NIPPON NIPPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've heard of freedom fighters, i take it these are freedom fuckers.
i was pissed about the t-shirts, until i realized they said 15,000, and then i realized the momo chasers are right. abe just isn't ambitious enough.
and lastly, i wasn't sure who was going to play axis and who was going to play allies this time around, this has led me to believe china will be the ones defending civilization.
Hmmmm.
No blonds or redheads. I'm calling the affirmative action poe-lice.
Man, I don't want to sound racist and all, but those them there Japs is fugly
Found my new desktop background
Thanks Tyler.
Somebody needs to explain the printing press to the pop tarts. Stick a couple of more zeros on the currency and they'll be walking around with their skirts up on 20 ft poles.
welcome to dystopia
seriously, didnt they have a great culture at one point?
is this what too much radiation gets you?
When Japan crashes and burns, the entire female population of Japan will be pulling their skirts *down* as a regular form of employment.
Down? Why wouldn't you just lift the skirt?
Oh stop. They are cute but they are children! Sick.
What is weird is they have not had the unAsian plastic surgery. I think William Banzi posted some pictures of young women in South Korea (?) beauty contest where they all had plastic surgey that de-Asianizes them. They all looked alike. Really weird. I think it was SK.
Completely sickening. What's worse is at 3:00, I totally expected those girls to transform into a giant deflation battling robot firing Yen from it's nipples and taking a Hero pose on the roof of the bank of Japan.
So uninspired...
The one on the left looks like the Japanese school girl assassin from Kill Bill.
I can be nice to you or I can be very very mean. Now buy stocks.
The reactor was leaking more than they thought...
There's other things leaking after viewing..I mean reading the article..
they may rename it the Bukkake 255
I predict >1,000 comment thread
Tyler must need the extra ad views this month.
"You can't buy them! They are only interested in the size of your JGB holdings."
its not the size but the convexity that matters?
That's just what people with less than ¥600,000,000 in paper say.
Alooooot of repressed dirty old men in Japan......
Kinda wondering about ZH as well.
Well I'll be damned; it really is for the children!
Yep, just like the Tokyo trains.
dochi de mo kawaii ko nai
JGB holdings, is that what kids call it nowadays??
A couple of them look cross-eyed.
Fukked too hard by tiny dicks, I suppose.
"Twins, Basil. Twins....!?!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhQpyr2FBw
Since when did cheap sex sell?
I would love to see a video with Kyle Bass to see his reaction. I think he has a wife and kids and is a fairly conservative guy. I think he would also find this ssad and offensive.
Maybe the vermin at CNBC can try this. Get all the old bags on CNBC in mini skirts.
They are cute girls. I get dibs on the one on the far left
"Since when did cheap sex sell?"
Since about 20,000 BC, give or take.
Go Nikkei go!!!!
Miko just loves my BIG JBonds.
Clearly a sign of the End Times.
MOAR 'CameRtoes" bitchez!
I hate myself for laughing at that repeatedly.
ditto.
Saracious lemark!
Pelvelt!
when i saw the wsj federator game i was sure that was top ticking the markets.
and this might video as well have been produced in Japan in June of 1937.
Fuk mi, fuk yu, fuk wong, fuk us, and fuk em! I can name every member of the band.
I love their number 1 hit, bukkake! Kinda sounda like Bernanke and along the same theme.
What the hell is wrong with them? It's like they came out of the West Virginia mountains. Bunch of old perverts.
As a proud Mountaineer I take umbrage to your remark. Show me one piece of evidence that these young ladies are related.
upon viewing the bait I think i'll stay short.
downarrowed? and i thought ZH was free of pederasts.
Does anyone care how they sound?
Singing sounds guttural!
So how short would Timmeah Bernankies skirt be now. I do not wann look... ouch... I need a new Retna.
This is child abuse. Poor brainwashed children, on so many levels. Just say no to QE girls.
Their public maybe dumb-mer than ours. Maybe.
'Homeschooling' can suck sometimes... But I MUST be wrong on that...
Japan has been doing Quantitative Easing and other fun stuff since before these girls were born. Their entire lives have been during the lost decades.
This actually is child abuse. It's disturbing. Why 16 year olds? WTF is up with that?
lolicons
I share your concerns, but apparently their parents aren't worried, as they know Abenomics means they'll all be wearing ground-dragging bell-bottoms just in time for the fall weather.
In a related matter, Bernanke just vowed to avoid shaving his beard until unemployment hits his target, prompting ZZ Top to file a lawsuit.
As a father of two daughters , one of them the same age as these girls, I can tell you that I find this repulsive. And they call us backwards.
@ Dr. Engali:
You find THIS repulsive? Have you listened to modern American music (audio propaganda) recently? The kind of shit that's marketed to your little girls, delivered by women who act like whores, and men who act like fags.
CNBC?
Oh... FANTASTIC... It's ALL 'Child Abuse'...
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Actually ~ I'd classify it as something slightly different... I'd call it 'CHILD INDOCTRINATION'...
- Breed your children into a mindset
- which includes being a sychophant
For the benefit of who(m)?...
Global Banking System adherents?... Who share the commonality of:
- RAPING mass citizenry
- IMPOSING will
- or otherwise providing an 'economic hotbed' for: 'money managers, wealth managers, & all the other BULLSHIT occupations that exist, which, IN REALITY, are part & parcel of the same RAPE cartel...
Golf clap to all you sychophants who PROFIT from the onion layers of this prostitution...
I am a mother, I meant what I said-- child abuse.
1. The girls are too young for this sexualizing. And the men they are supposed to be appealing to are too old. Get some real women to do this if you are going to do it.
2. These girls lower standards for all girls. Obviously they are to be emulated.
3. The girls do not know what they are singing about, yet they are being pressured to sing about it any way.
4. The girls' futures are being screwed by QE and all government policy that postpones dealing with an unsustainable economy.
Oh... well... someone as great as YOU should endeavor to HOMESCHOOL all of them to become patron saints of "PEDRO'S" at 'South of the Border, SC'... to follow in their MASTERS footsteps... [rolls eyes]...
Edit: Fucking GREAT... An 'onion layer' whore'... My compliments on your cognitive NO REPLY [junk only ~ the 'per diem' rent of ZH sychphnants]... dissonance...
No junks from me, ever.
You are too angry to talk to. We have always been civil in the past when we have disagreed. I always enjoyed that, enjoyed talking to you.
You have gone postal on me, I have no clue why, I have done nothing to you, it came out of nowhere.
I wish you the best, I suspect you have a lot going on right now. I do not hate you or even dislike you, there is no way I am going to let you "punch me" into a position where I will be abusive to you. That is not our history.
Good evening.
Much respect to you.
Fuck, just when I think the bar can't be lowered any further, the bastards do it again - REALLY? Something one step away from a strip tease, by girls who look like they're probably barely old enough to be in high school is now bait for the casino?
Shit, can't we find some 16-year-old girls to sing about busting Assad's ass?
SKYYYYYYYYYY ... PILOT!
Doin' well by doin good ... USA!
Go back to circa 1977 (!) and The Runaways from So Cal with Cherie Currie singing. They really only played with her as the front person in Japan probably because she is wearing lingerie. Note - they were all about high school age of 16 or 17. I think the band manager would have been arrested for child abuse even in So Cal with that outfit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDn6V7ZLhE
That is a young Lita Ford on lead guitar with brown hair and hot pants and Joan Jett in red leather on the left. I think only in Japan - they could get away with this. I like Japan and the Japanese but they are seriously F'ed Up people.
There was a recent movie about The Runaways with Jett and Currie being involved. They cut the other girls (women) out of the movie aka $$$
Sorry but all I got from that was
1. "THIS OFFENDS ME FOR REASONS I CANNOT PROPERLY ARTICULATE OR JUSTIFY USING ANY SEMBLANCE OF RATIONAL ARGUMENTATION RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE"
2. Inversion of logic. This is the 10000th such teenage girl pop band in the past 20 years and now they've crossed the line!!!
3. Students do not what they are learning about, yet they are pressured (to put it mildly) to learn it anyway. Exactly how many people in the world are qualified to speak, or sing, about economic issues? Age is not a relevant factor. The extremely geriatric know as little about economics as newborn babies. I am more offended that CNBC presumes to be a legitimate and honest provider of economic news and analysis than I am by some teenagers who make no such claims to objectivity or correctness. Both are ignorant, but the latter may be forgiven, whereas the former may not; both are pressured in nearly the same ways.
4. Everyone's future is being screwed, roughly in inverse proportion to their age. Being an accomplice to your own murder is a story as old as humanity. Indoctrination of youth? Unethical in the extreme - and a universal feature of every society in human history.
The really funny thing is, I don't disagree that this is a nauseating propaganda stunt designed by callous and manipulative old men. I just don't feel the need to resort to irrelevant and fallacious reasoning to justify my position. As if this was the only instance of an otherwise pure-as-driven-snow culture using young people to promote an unethical agenda.
Do you get this offended when young men are sent to kill and die without even the possibility of justification, on a tyrant's whim? When children, of any gender, are raised to believe in and propagate blatant and vicious lies and mistruths, and to have no concept of sympathy or empathy for the people upon whose protracted suffering their lifestyle is predicated?
Is that child abuse? Or is it only child abuse when it perfectly conforms to your 21st-century highly-educated white-collar left-of-center Americentric Protestant-derived criteria?
More than anything, I don't want my son sent into fraudulent wars to make money for banksters. I think there should be a draft, maybe more people would wake up to the craziness if they had literal "skin" in the game. If everyone's son, nephew, boyfriend, uncle, or even daughter could be drafted, we might look at this whole war bullshit more critically.
I think all of what you list is child abuse. This instance just kind of jumped out of the screen at me this particular moment. I have not been aware of other groups of children being forced to sing and strut in a sexual manner to float the Dow. But we are not as deep into the doo doo as Japan is, maybe we will see the US doing this with boy or girl bands before it is all over.
" I don't want my son sent into fraudulent wars to make money for banksters. I think there should be a draft..."
Respect withdrawn.
Understood. But they won't stop the wars because they can justify the killing by saying the soldiers are "volunteers." Make it so everyone can be put in this position and they won't be so eager to throw away those lives because more people will object.
No wars is the best answer. We can't get there from here until everyone is threatened by it.
Creepy indeed... "Not cool" as well.
In our Viagra-laced society, everyone wants to believe that sex still sells like it did in the 1950s, but with Cable TV and the Internet making just about anything available to anyone, this scheme will likely fall short of a more effective NBA-style promotion: free tacos.
I'll buy that [on merit]...
Thank you! Been racking my brains all day trying to remember it's called Viagra.
I guess all the blood left your brain for somewhere else.
Viagra doesn't cure amnesia.
They all have such a lovely Fukushima glow
In top photo, girl on far right very attractive.. Third photo down, same girl (far right) very attractive.. Last photo with girls dancing, same girl (far right).. what in the world happened?
I like all of them on line 2, great legs.
Codec glitch. That's what happens with too much compression and too few key frames.
Lets just hope and pray that Hillary and Janet Yellen don't try to turn it into an international competition.
I gouged my ears out.
Although at 1:01, third girl was funny
I see what you mean.. nice technique.. haha
They should get Bieber to leak his 13-G if they want retail money to aurge back in
So -- shouldn't they be wearing evening gowns about now?
With trains 6% longer...
Yeah... fucking BLOW ME... [a portion of the ZH porn world loves to see gray haired lesbian 'grannies' going down on boners]...
~~~
You're ACCOSTED at all shit about 'Japanese Ads', [so you can be a ZH 'posting' hero]... But when CHEESEPOPES produce music videos about the same shit... Wait 4 it... you're fucking CRICKETS...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igvlx2pC_c
Fucking BLOW ME... No WAIT... DON'T...
Francis_Sawyer (avatar from a kiddie movie) -- Here dude, I did some legwork for you. You want the "old style" fight club? Where you can rant about the cheesepopes?
Here you go! Enjoy!
http://jewwatch.com/
http://americannaziparty.com/
Now get lost hater...
You're the one that comes across as a "hater". Attempting to shut him up by association with this lot is no better than the extremists amongst them.
The Japanese economy is toast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9-K2JLQXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSv66UkzKY8
RT.com is running the same clip and you never know these girls may lift nikke up.
The fucking Japanese are heathens. They always have been.
Do they fluoridate their drinking water?
Yes. And their ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream! That's the way your hard core commie works.
I guess the band inflated from four members to five, then deflated. The article says four members, but the second photo has five girls.
lol mabye they pay them in jgb
Japanese youth is stuck in the 90s'. Those pictures are the " EPITOME " of deflation...
Certainly has succeeded in deflating my morning wood!
Contra-indicator, anyone?
If history repeats itself then there has been a nuclear disaster in Japan before (See Oppenheimer) might explain why they look so odd.
Remember this is from the same country that brought you SUKI (tm), The New World Religion (tm). A major international religion with almost three million members worldwide. Their actual slogan is, "motherfucking religion". Although it seems that Japanese have a bit of a problem on that front given the low birth rates.
are the nippos into brazilians?
I think quadrillion is as high as they go right now.
You know in times of famine the Japanese used to Sacrfice young girls to the Mountain gods or whatever local deity was in favor. Now their sacrficing them to it to horny Middle Managment salary-men it seems
"Used to (Sacrifice) young girls to the Mountain Gods" = Yakuzilla. {Yakuza} + {Godzilla}
I suppose these girls are neither dropouts nor liars...
WAR is PEACE - FREEDOM is SLAVERY - IGNORANCE is STRENGTH ... ABENOMICS is HAPPINESS
Operative words...sixteen year olds.
+1. Sincerely disappointed by the comments I'm seeing, and I'm 32 years old. I honestly hope the article is fake, and I didn't pick up on it... Not cool, otherwise.
Most guys go for the pictures instead of the text or speech...but it was clearly labeled. Its pretty despicable really, their manager should commit seppuku, if he had any honor left in his being of course.
We're on the same page... But wouldn't a certain level of honor be required to be able to participate in such a ritual?
Yes it would, in what we consider to be honorable.
But you have to understand something else, we look at this from western eyes...age of consent in Japan is 13.
Its wrong of course on a host of our western levels, the mental capacity of children, sexual maturity, subordinate predation etc...but, quite legal in many places.
And we are on the same page, being legal and being whats right, can be two very different things.
Age of consent in most prefectures is set much higher than the national AoC of 13. In some it is even higher than 18, so the claim that the "AoC in Japan in 13" is more than a little bit misleading.
Also I somehow am not feeling any rage at seeing a 16 year old in a short skirt, but that's just me. I would hardly characterize it as abuse for any other reason than teaching people bad economics.
Toddlers in Tiaras is much more abusive than some Japanese Idols. The rape rate in Japan is also a tiny fraction of what it is in most western countries.
Keep acting like you come from a morally superior society when the society you come from is even more morally bankrupt than Japan's will ever be.
The REPORTED rate of rape in Japan is very low. I do not trust Japanese rape statistics. They are as suspect as the Japanese suicide statistics; a great many of those "suicides" are actually homicides that Japanese police are not motivated to investigate or solve.
Until very recently there was NO minimum age of consent in Japan; there was no way to prosecute perverts who followed little girls in parks. Japan was pressued by world opinion into enacting a minimum age.
Japan is a seriously sick society. How much have you read about their "untouchable" class? Oh, you haven't heard of it? I assure you all Japanese people have. And I'm not talking about the Ainu.
In any case, the proof is in the pudding; Japanese women do not wish to reproduce. It could just be the microscopic size of Japanese male sex organs, or it could be that everywhere they look they seek sick porn being devoured by nasty men.
Yep the usual excuse, "but but they just aren't reported!"
And then you don't give any evidence to back this up.
Unless you mean pre-wwii I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. People get the police called on them for looking at some girl the wrong way.
As far as the "untouchable" class, lol compare to any western country and it barely even looks like an issue.
Oh and re the reproduction thing, that's more about males not giving a fuck as far as I understood it.
Where do you get your info about Japan? I've actually been there.
So you say morality should have some connection with law? ;-)
"I would hardly characterize it as abuse for any other reason than teaching people bad economics."
I would characterize it as just sleazy marketing. Kinda like calling one of those 800 numbers and visualizing you're talking to a hot chick, when in reality its a 300 pounder in a doublewide...lol.
Pighting!
Works for me! Oh.... you said stocks... nevermind.
They should say... buy a bond, get a BJ! Buy 10 bonds, you get to have sex! Buy 100 bonds, you get to have anal sex! Buy 1000 bonds, you get to have tentacle sex!
No references to "Springtime for Hitler"?
Sadly, the only activity these kids could engage in that would have a long-term impact is to each have 10 kids themselves.
Anybody ever stumble upon Japanese porn? It's kind of disturbing, and it's not the stuff that is blocked out........
You can't make this shit up... "START FOLDING"
Yatta Yatta!
Buy! Consume! GIEEF LIVES! Yatta!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljsPqIfPD0
Those girls must be relieved that the market went down by 6%. At least Abe dd not promse to do the opposite with his trousers.
If this doesn't defeat The Deflation Monster nothing will.
wtf?
Short skirts and skinny t-shirts to grab Mrs Watanbe's attention? Mrs Watanabe is lesbian?
If Japan wanted to use sex appeal to sell their bonds, this is the wrong way to do it, unless you're targeting the old men / gaijin pedophiles (yeah, we see you).
If you want the hikikomori to buy, you sell it like this. Or use Hentai / post into the local MMORPGs, but ZH has standards (and I think, quite accurately, some of the almost-naked child avatars would probably break US law), so I won't be going there. Japan is so fucked, it doesn't even understand it's own internal marketing on sex.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (full version) for the unaware. It's NSFW / NSFL btw.
Look at what South Korea did to support it's industry. They literally sold off their young girls into sex slavery. Now they can't keep the women around in that country, and they only want the Korean men for their money.
This is how societies destroy themselves.
I find the concept of fucking someone who's coerced, a slave or being paid for it bizarre. It's the epitome of inner weakness to me.
Then again, I grew out of the concept of torturing small animals when I was young and growing, and never had to prove it to myself. But who I am to judge weakness?
WTF are you talking about? The old men and gaijin are exactly the people who have the money (the latter not theirs) to burn. That's exactly how it should be done.
(I don't like the vid myself and I buy PMs, but that's just me).
About the video: Prechter should be happy. I'm sure this marks beginning of the un-fuck trend in 2013. Time to go all-in folks!
And your response perfectly exposes why Japan is toast, how fucking ignorant are you about the world you ignorant piece of meat.
Hint, Mr Man: a functioning society is not based on the stock market, the stock market should be a reflection of it. That goes for all asset classes, you total fucking muppet.
We're coming.
I have to watch Japanese porn with the sound off. Those girls make noises like they're passing a kidney stone when they boink.
No wonder suicide is a national pastime over there.
Say what U want, they ain't trash, they aint saggy pants, they ain't talkin about killin, hoes, crack, poeleece, white mo-fo and of course mama.
I like'em
Wheres my saki !!
Say what U want, they ain't trash, they aint saggy pants, they ain't talkin about killin, hoes, crack, poeleece, white mo-fo and of course mama.
I like'em
Wheres my saki !!
This can't possible go wrong.
http://nipponmarketblog.wordpress.com/
Juding by their dancing quality, I'm guessing they might still be suffering the radiological fallout from Fukishima
I'd fuck'em like GS fucks a muppet
c'mere lil girl
would you like some sushi??
Tokyo Rose ain't got nuttin on these diaper wearing nymphs. "So joe, while you eat cold meat from a can in a muddy hole we are buying stocks"
This reminds me of Ford's "Whip Inflaiton Now".
If you give a female money to reduce her clothing.... I think there is a word for that....
That Japanese jailbait doesn't do anything for me, but I sure do like that full figured busty gal to the left in the "How About We" dating site ad.
Interesting that traditionally ( a bow to Mrs. Watanabe) Japanese housewives control the household finances. So unless Mrs. Watanabe is actually a dyke-san, I think that this campaign is directed at entirely the wrong audience. Unless of course Mrs. Watanabe approves of her granddaughter being used to pimp the interests of crazy old men.
Yes, exactly. If you want to sell something financial in Japan, you're selling it to middle aged women. Not to disgusting old pervert men with tiny p*****.
The Japanese have sex far less often than any other nation on the planet (check any of the Durex surveys); what a surprise. I doubt these 16 year old girls are really going to enjoy sex much in future years, after having to deal at this age with a bunch of nasty old dudes.
....works for me.
Fuck yea.
I draw the red line at coke bottle bottom glasses.
Japan has gone to far!
Nuke em!
wait..