Oh Japan #1: Kancho

by otaking on Sep.24, 2009, under Oh Japan

Yes, this is a common Japanese prank. Oh, Japan

Yes, this is a common Japanese prank. Oh, Japan...

I’ve posted a lot of bizarre Japanese commercials lately, and a lot of Downtown Gaki no Tsukai, just to highlight the point that Japan is a truly messed-up place. Some of those commercials were forwarded to me by my sister, who attached them to an email that simply said, “Oh Japan…”

There are a lot of things about Japan that make me go, “Oh Japan…” in a partly-amused, partly-resigned, sighing-while-shaking-your-head way.

At the top of my list is ‘kancho’.

Here is the definition of kancho, according to Kancho.jp:

Kancho- n: a friendly enema; v: to vigorously thrust extended index fingers towards another person’s anal region

It probably really hurts this much.

It probably really hurts this much.

You read that correctly. Apparently an act that falls squarely under the second mode of rape under the Revised Penal Code (the insertion of ‘any instrument or object, into the genital or anal orifice of another person’) is a hilarious, good-natured prank in Japan. In Naruto, this move is apparently called the Thousand Years of Death. I’m sure it feels that way.

Kancho.org also provides a handy-dandy guide for performing kancho, disturbingly titled ‘Kancho University’. It also provides a handy link to a Korean flash game called the Dong Chim Game, which means that Korean and Japan share more than they usually care to admit, more being unsolicited anal probing.

In fact kancho is such a common prank in both cultures that a South Korean developer created an arcade game called Boong-Ga Boong-Ga back in 2001.

Behold the glory:

Highly Praised at the Tokyo Game Show! WTF!

Highly Praised at the Tokyo Game Show! WTF!

Apparently the game is played by performing kancho on the jeans-wearing human posterior sticking out of the arcade cabinet. Also, if you score high enough, the game dispenses plastic trophies in the shape of… crap.

The game was localized for Japan, renaming it ‘Kancho Geemu’. As if it wasn’t clear enough to begin with.

Oh, Japan…

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