A new world record was set in Japan. Toshie Kawakami (57) was announced as the person with the longest eyebrow in the world at a length of 17.2cm (6.7 inch). Kawakami says she hide the eyebrow behind her ear.

A barber once accidentally chopped her eyebrow hair down to 3cm, but it quickly grew back. Apparently Kawakami is going to set a new record soon. The eyebrow grows at a rate of a centimeter a month, so Kawakami is going for the 20cm record in about three months. We wish her and all weird Japanese people good luck!

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The ministry of tourism in Japan hopes that due to the popularity of this too-cute feline, tourists from neighboring countries will flock to Japan and spent some cash. As well informed readers of Japanite! already know the country offer tourist attractions like maid cafes and robot wars.

The mega cat is apparently 34 years old, and was invented by Sanrio, a toy company. since then, the kitty has appeared on 50,000 products in 60 countries.

This isn’t the first time that Japanese expect their drawn figures to bring them tourists. Just a month ago the Japanese foreign minister appointed Doraemon, the anime cat, as an “anime ambassador”.

We wish good luck to the cute cat, but still thinks that Nahoko Shimada, the McDonalds porn start might have been a better in attracting the sophisticated tourists.

More: [DailyNews]