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Yanmar wants to make coolest tractor ever
Sure, that’s not a huge challenge, but they went well above and beyond your standard tractor design. Fresh off celebrating Osaka-based heavy manufacturer Yanmar’s centennial anniversary, designer Ken...
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More and more Japanese moms agree: boys should wear girls’ swimsuits
We saw how monster parents can ruin the lives of rural potato farmers, but how do their demands impact the teachers closest to them? Horribly of course, as some Tokyo area teachers have revealed,...
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How to crush a plastic bottle without touching it
During these sweltering summer days it’s not unusual to down more than a few plastic bottles of water, pop, or juice. And surely with all that drinking you’re bound to accumulate a pile of empty...
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Japanese man promises to marry if he can get 10,000 retweets
It’s that milestone of life that every young man waits for. When the moment comes he takes a breath, bows his head and asks for something that will change his life for ever. We’re talking, of course,...
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Cornman unleashed: The once elusive eccentric sheds light on his passion and...
The other day I relaxing at home with the TV on. Suddenly, my wife said to me “It’s him!” I looked up and there on the screen was Cornman (Toumorokoshi Ojisan), in all his sharply-dressed corn-toting...
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Shenanigans at Osaka summer festival lead to one arrest
July and August tend to be the seasons where summer festivals get kicked into full swing. Much like festivals in any country, the festivities are often accompanied by various stalls selling drinks and...
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How to make café-caliber coffee and snacks with your toilet
Starbuck’s remains a hugely successful coffee chain in Japan drawing droves of workers on a daily basis. Of course, their drinks don’t come cheap, which is why the guys at Omocoro are constantly...
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Crossdressing photography book hopes to improve transgender awareness in Japan
Crossdressing in mainstream media of Japan is still somewhat in its infancy. While on a nightly basis you can easily catch a crossdresser or transsexual person on TV, they often are presented as 2D...
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252 of Japan’s favorite animated gifs
Hey, you got a minute to spare? Actually make that a couple dozen minutes. We’d like to share a few hundred of the wildest and funniest gifs getting circulated around the net in Japan. Of course cats...
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Lettuce farmers of “Miracle Village” looking for love – benefits include cute...
Kawakami Village in Nagano Prefecture is considered Japan’s premier lettuce producing village. Located near Tokyo and with just the right conditions for farming, residents have been able to pull in a...
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20th Century Fox to officially apologize for Napoleon Dynamite’s crappy...
For foreigners living in Japan, looking through DVDs can be a chore. You generally have a 50 percent chance of the title being the same, leaving you scanning through the cover designs to find what...
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Old-timey Japanese women are not ones to be messed with
A photo surfaced on the internet recently which shows us a typical day at the office for a couple of ladies a long time ago in Japan. They look almost bored as they unload 300 kg (661 lbs) of rice...
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China in grip of heat wave, causes food to accidentally cook on the ground...
Since the latter half of July, multiple cities in southern China have been struggling with temperatures exceeding 42℃ and little relief in sight. With lakes and pools at maximum capacity thousands of...
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The ultimate in bicycle security, and it doesn’t cost a penny!
Bicycle theft is no laughing matter, especially in Japan where bikes are widely relied upon for daily transportation. Luckily, a cheap and effective means of protecting your ride has surfaced on the...
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Real-life Nausiccä’s Möwe glider makes first powered flight
A decade after the OpenSky project began, Kazuhiko Hachiya and his team of engineers and artists can finally give themselves a well deserved pat on the back. Their dream of creating a working version...
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Sticking blue sponges to cars getting strangely huge in Korea
Recently Japanese visitors to South Korea have been noticing a strange trend with automobiles. Cars of all makes and models from minivans to luxury sedans can be seen sporting small rectangular blue...
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Manga artist loses control of right side after stroke, now teaching self to...
Strokes are serious medical disturbances that we all have to live in fear of, often striking out of the blue and claiming lives or altering them drastically. For manga artist Mahiro Takura, it cost the...
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Is one of Osaka’s largest electronics stores haunted? Japanese netizens say...
In Japan, summer is seen as the time when the line between the living and the dead becomes blurry and paranormal activity is said to be at its highest. This is the season when studios like to put out...
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Docomo tries in vain to reach people who walk and use smartphones with new ad
The other day I was strolling along the street watching a never-ending loop of a manatee swimming into a glass wall again and again on my smartphone when I suddenly bumped into another pedestrian. It...
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All of Japan instantly alerted to earthquake that kind of happened but not...
I was busy working at my desk on August 8, 2013 at approximately 4:55pm when I felt a great disturbance in the Force. It was as if millions of mobile phones cried out at once. And sure enough when I...
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