God bless you Japan. For everything.

This is from the show AKBingo!, a popular program featuring members of the popular idol group AKB48. Yes, that 48 is in reference to the number of members in the band and yes that means there's an army of pop singers with their own variety show overseas.

But really the important thing is that right now two of those divas are trying to blow an insect (cockraoch? Cicada?) into the other person's mouth, where they will be forced to eat the dang thing.

In other news, just another day on Japanese variety show television.

Seals, the dogs of the sea, trained by Russian officials to be ruthlessly adorable soldiers of fortune. That said, it's pretty hard to look like ruthless military operative when you're this adorable:

There's also a precedence for trained animals in the Russian special forces. At least, according to the historically sound documentary video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.

No seriously, that's real.