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Lots of Unchi

You should better to stop reading this post if you are eating, because this is about a human excrement.

Unchi1You can find this kind of POP displays in almost every drug store in Japan. This says "UNCHI DOSSARI". UNCHI means "feces" (in baby talk) and DOSSARI means "tons of". So people are shocked when they read it at the first time, "Are they selling poop here? Why so much?" This is very funny for us, but not for women.
Many Japanese women are suffering from constipation and most of them believe that it makes them fat. So they strongly hope to cure their constipation even with the help of medicines. They are really expecting to defecate tons of poop as that POP says.


Unchi3_2This is a picture of a joke stuff "poop hat". No, I'm not going to introduce this stupid hat. I only want to let you know that feces in Japanese comics are always coiled like a snail shell or soft ice cream. I don't know who started to design feces like that. But every Japanese people recognizes that kind of shape as a human feces. It's strange.


Unchi4And one more feces topic. There is a huge art object at the main building of a beer company, Asahi Breweries. It was designed by Philippe Starck in motif of flame, but everyone calls it a giant poop.

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xogij I love this blog. Thanks for the laughs and great looks at life in Japan.

Posted by: John | Feb 5, 2005 12:57:07 PM

At Christmas time In the Catalan region of Spain, it is not uncommon for nativity scenes to feature a little pooping guy called the Caganer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer.

Posted by: Tom Harpel | Feb 5, 2005 7:27:54 PM

to John
I'm glad you laughed instead of cried :)

to Tom
Funny. It shows that defecating is not necessarily negative thing for all people. I've heard that a dream about poop means a good sign in China.

Posted by: xogij | Feb 6, 2005 9:20:43 AM

That's the way dog feces is usually portrayed too, isn't it? Maybe people are more used to how dog feces look after seeing it on the sidewalk, but they don't turn around and see what it looks like after they've been to the toilet themselves...

Posted by: Jacke | Feb 9, 2005 2:42:03 PM

Why are so many Japanese women constipated? Is it the diet? I'm surprised because I noticed that when I returned to America after visiting Japan for the summer, my stomach could not digest American food very well for awhile. So I thought this was because Japanese food lifestyle was very healthy and mild on the digestive system.

Posted by: Candace | Feb 10, 2005 7:52:18 PM

to Jacke

Probably you're right. By the way, Japanese people walking their dog always take a plastic bag for bring its feces to home. So we rarely see a dog feces anywhere. I want to know whether it's global or local.

to Candace

It's said that it's because of lack of vegetable fibers. Since we started eating this much meat only 30~40 years ago, our digestive organs may not conform to it. And this is only my impression but Japanese men seem to tend to have diarrhea.

Posted by: xogij | Feb 11, 2005 12:13:36 AM

I really liked Japan when I visited a few years ago. I have to say though, they do market some interesting things. My favorite, in Kyoto, was a sign outside a restaurant that said, "Please do not shit here." I have a picture of it somewhere.

I enjoyed reading your blog :) PLEASE go have an icecream in the crepe, I so loved those while I was there.

Posted by: Brian | Feb 11, 2005 10:48:17 AM

Just a few weeks ago there was a show about Unchi on TV. Naturally I couldn't understand 95% of what was being said, but I definitely understood that the entire show was dedicated to poop.

I gathered that one of the ideas about why Japanese men have diarrhea is because of (almost always job-related) stress.

Posted by: Justin | Feb 15, 2005 6:20:46 PM

Dog turds in the UK and Ireland tend to be drawn in the same 'Mr Whippy' style, like the hat on your blog. Mr Whippy is a name commonly used by ice cream vans. The ice cream cones tend to look swirly, hence Mr Whippy turds.

BTW. Love the godzilla gravestone.

Posted by: The Preacher | Feb 16, 2005 4:05:34 AM

to Brian

Was that sign in English? They may have wanted to stop dogs from pooping there. (Or, their toilet may have been broken.)
Ok I'll try some icecream crape when it becomes warmer.

to Justin

I really prefer to know what was the show like... Did they make any real poop appear on TV screen?

to The Preacher

I'm happy with knowing that the shape was a global thing. Thanks.

Posted by: xogij | Feb 16, 2005 10:03:58 AM

In some Asian countries, kids have their own "shit mark" -- a little doodle they make to show a pile of shit on the ground. it's just funny, that's all. in Asian cultures, shit is not shit as Westerners perceive it. It is not dirty or smelly or evil. It is nature's harvest, part of the eternal life cycle. Samwe thing with showing women's nipples in adverts. Nothing special about a nipple, male or female. Birthday suits for all of us.

Posted by: david hume | Mar 2, 2005 7:02:50 PM

I'm Japanese(so, maybe my english is broken)

I memorized that this poop design
was invented by Akira Toriyama
(cartoonist of『Dragon Ball』)
in his debut comic『Doctor stop Ararechan』

many young people enjoyed his comic
so,almost everyone know this shape mean poop

Posted by: brib | Mar 17, 2005 3:39:15 AM

I mistaked
the right answer is [doctor slump Arechan]

Posted by: brib | Mar 17, 2005 3:49:15 AM

"I've heard that a dream about poop means a good sign in China."

I heard (don't know the country of origin) that a poop represents money in dreams. XD.

Posted by: random person | Mar 20, 2005 9:53:50 AM

The godzilla was super, and the Hello Kitty... well I'd like to have that on my grave someday :)

About the poop drawing, here in Belgium, so most likely in the rest of europe, dogpoo (and human feces too if they'd be on the ground instead of a toilet) has always been drawn like that in cartoons, even when my grandparents were young and that was somewhere at the end of WW2, before that, I wouldn't know..

most often the drawing has some flies circling the poop to indicate the bad smell.
(Here, food that goes out of your body, in any shape, is seen as really dirty and gross, and even talking about it seems to upset some people)

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