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Nearly half of Japan plans to spend summer vacation at home
No one goes out in Japan no more. It’s too crowded. It’s summer again, and very soon all students will have about a month of freedom away from their school walls to go out into the world and explore....
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Nagoya man arrested for putting glue in women’s hair, pretending it was bird...
Suspect felt fake bird poop was the fastest way to a woman’s heart. Dating can be hard, particularly when making that first move on a person where the chances of rejection are dangerously high. Some...
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Sushiro joining forces with Street Fighter for discounts and contests
Go home and be a family man and take them out to Sushiro! When I think of Japan, I usually think of sushi and Street Fighter. And while that would strongly suggest I need to get out more, it’s still...
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Come play hide-and-seek on a deserted Japanese island this August and November
Not it! Japan is facing a serious problem. For years now there has been a general malaise in its global standing which it can’t seem to pull itself out of. I’m talking of course about its ranking in...
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Mr. Sato reminds us that when the going gets hot, the hot get straw hats
Normalize Raiden hats! In hindsight, this spring in Japan was rather nice. It seemed a little longer than usual before giving way to the rainy season. However, summer has kicked in with a vengeance...
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Testing out the parasol that boasts lowering temperatures by 13.7 degrees
Will the real slim and shady parasol please stand up? With the summer temperatures constantly at life-endangering levels, many people are turning to parasols for relief from the scorching sun. In the...
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Japan’s transforming candy Nerunerunerune now comes in drink form! Good luck...
If you can get one of these, you’ll make everyone jelly. In the pantheon of Japanese candy, a special place is reserved for Nerunerunerune, a creamy concoction of water and powder that changes colors...
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My Hero Academia now accepting votes for “World Best Hero” from its vast...
Democracy is alive and well. Quite a few elections are slated for this year and pretty much all of them have been dreadful affairs for everyone involved it seems. Perhaps we should all take a break...
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Mr. Sato dons full pilgrim fashion to escape the summer heat
Let’s take it back to ’79… 1879. When we last left Mr. Sato in search of summer relief, he had rediscovered the joy of traditional straw hats to keep his cranium cool. It made him realize that those...
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What happens when you freeze your boss’s glasses in a block of ice?
Results may vary. In 16th-century Japan, it is said that a peasant serving warlord Oda Nobunaga once placed the leader’s sandals in his pocket to keep them warm during a harsh winter. This simple but...
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Santa Claus is coming to town in a rocket in Japan this summer
I saw Santa kissing the sky. Oh, you had better not pout. You had better not cry. You had better watch out and I am currently telling you why. Santa Claus will come to town if you order him in the...
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Welcome to Hell…Hell’s Dandan Noodles Tenryu in Kanagawa
We descend into Dandan’s inferno. The choice between Heaven and Hell seems like an easy one, but when you think about it, Hell does have its charm and seems to have all the cool music. They just have...
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Luigi set to star in Family Mart’s latest collab event with exclusive...
Player 2 ready. Sidekicks don’t get more reliable than Luigi, and I say that because he’s one of the few that could easily murder the franchise’s main character and assume their identity without a lot...
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Survey finds Japan to be least god-fearing nation in the world and it’s not...
Jesus is just… all right with Japan. One big difference between the way I was raised in my home country and the way my kids are raised here is the lack of religion being infused in a lot of everyday...
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Gyoza no Ohsho president’s murder trial mulling not letting average citizens...
Yes, that’s a thing they do in Japan. Back in 2013, Takayuki Daito, the president of the major Chinese restaurant chain Gyoza no Ohsho, was mysteriously gunned down in front of their corporate...
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Visiting a hot spring complex made out of a repurposed elementary school in...
It’s the best place to learn a thing or two about hot springs. When people think of Osaka, they tend to think of loud, boisterous people in leopard print clothing walking through the blazing neon...
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Yoshinoya expanding into ostrich bowls for more sustainable meat and...
Beef bowl chain introduces their “fourth meat.” Japanese restaurant chain Yoshinoya is synonymous with the beef bowl, the operative word being “beef” because otherwise, it’s just a “bowl” and who...
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Defying gravity and common sense with the lowest-rated tensegrity table on...
This table defies a lot of things, but gravity isn’t one of them. If you’ve been scrolling through social media in the past several months, you probably would have come across a picture of a...
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Chiitan launches official cryptocurrency Chiitan☆Coin, understands if you...
This otter fairy only put it out there for those into that kind of thing. Remember NFTs? That was a pretty wild ride where people were paying thousands and thousands for jpegs of punk rock monkeys and...
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Posthumous divorce on the rise in Japan as a way to distance oneself from...
Tell your late spouse’s family how you really feel. Tell them with a divorce. The meddlesome in-law is a classic domestic crisis that goes back as far as the dawn of humanity, according to The...
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