thelastmadox: you beat me to it. My google-fu (and computer) is slow this morning.

Tanuki, japanese badger trickster guy, sort of like Coyote in Native American lore.

Supposedly has a giant scrotum and uses it to play tricks on travelers!

T. Robbins did a book with it as a character.

Tiki,
I am not worthy of your attentions/mockery..

but yes, possessing a large scrotum is an opportunity for many possible pranks. According to Japanese folklore anyway.

As for the Japanese, as it has been oft-stated here, either we have nuked them far too much, or not nearly enough.