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Jesus Body

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.08.07

There are many things that can mystify a foreigner living in Japan. I've decided to start chronicling some of these. Not in the usual sense of pointing and laughing at the weirdness (if that were my thing I doubt I'd have left Australia) but rather in relating my experience for those who aren't as far down the road. And for those who are happy just reading about it from afar.

Anyway, what better way to kick it off than my discovery of the drugstore product "Jesus Body".

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl