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Toothpaste commercial pulled for sounding like the Japanese missile alert system
It’s the end of gingivitis as we know it, and I feel fine. Over the years in Japan, we’ve seen commercials get suddenly canceled for a variety of reasons, from unintentional racism to unintentional...
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Japan’s Nikka Whiskey recommends serving with a frozen sweet-bean bar inside...
Just because you can… One of the fun things about Japanese food products is that their websites and social media accounts often post interesting recipes or serving suggestions that are new ways to...
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Turn your cat into a tasteful nude painting with this decorative scratching post
“Draw me like one of your French humans.” While cats are beloved domestic companions to many people, I think we can all agree they don’t do squat when it comes to helping out around the house. I mean,...
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Japanese clothing companies adopt fifth “Intense Heat” season because summer...
There are five seasons in Japan. People who come to live in or visit Japan from other countries often have a humorous encounter with a Japanese person who informs them that “Japan has four seasons.”...
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Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel Prize for learning we can kind of breathe in...
Your ass may one day save your ass. It’s once again time for the Ig Nobel Prize, a counterpart to the Nobel Prize which looks for the more unorthodox studies that tend to be overlooked by the more...
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Material that cools down by glowing developed by researchers in Chiba and Osaka
Cool! Oftentimes in anime or video games, when a robot or sci-fi weapon does something really cool, it tends to glow. While a great visual effect, it probably would never work like that in real life....
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The last of the Mohican-hairstyle-wearing people still lining up for iPhones
We stumble upon Butch, possibly the last remaining iPhone liner-upper in the wild, and see what makes him tick. The year was 2010. A young cub reporter named Mr. Sato, still fresh off the farmland of...
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Kyoto company developing autofocus glasses for sufferers of presbyopia and...
Let your glasses focus your eyes so you can focus on the important things in life. I’ve been a sufferer of nearsightedness for most of my life and am now getting to that age where whenever I have to...
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Osaka zookeeper caught stealing chimpanzees’ food
Victims claim to have seen no evil, heard no evil, nor spoken no evil. Many works of crime fiction have explored criminal psychology over the years, but we still seem no closer to solving the mystery...
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Mr. Sato gets 1,000 yen in food and drink from two stores for a “double...
Featuring appearances by Toilet God, Cutieboy QT, and more! Previously on Japan’s Best Home Senbero, our hero and yours, Mr. Sato, after a couple dozen attempts, had stumbled upon the metaphysical...
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Legendary artist EYE to hold his largest mass-percussion event ever in Tokyo...
Floodway in Tokyo to be flooded with soundwaves. There are few artists in the world, let alone Japan, quite like EYE. He’s probably best known around the world as the ringleader and voice of the noise...
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Australian on trial in Tokyo, case hinges on if he said “This is a robbery”...
Possibly the first time a trial in Japan is decided by English grammar and pronunciation. As a foreigner living in Japan, it can be uncomfortable to have your Japanese language ability, or even your...
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Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to the best horror in Tokyo!
We treat ourselves to all-we-can-drink tears and sweat. Long-time readers of our site are probably familiar with an ongoing series in which our reporters ask taxi drivers to recommend places to eat in...
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Australian sentenced to prison, judges unconvinced he said “Go to a door” not...
The “soramimi defense” fails to hold up in court. We recently reported on the trial of an Australian man who was charged with attempted robbery resulting in injury after he climbed onto the...
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Chinese drivers flocking to Japan for quick and easy route to international...
Come for the food, stay for the ability to drive in 100 countries. A while back I subjected myself to the grueling process of getting a driver’s license in Japan from scratch. This means no converting...
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New game on Nintendo Switch requires players to act drunk for superpowers
Be the hero you deserve, but not the hero you need right now. Here at SoraNews24, we’re always covering the latest in AAA gaming, whether it’s Morita Shogi for the NES or the newest toilet racing...
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Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for “photos showing who...
Anything’s OK, just nothing too natural, or unnatural, or unflattering, or revealing, or stodgy… but, you know, anything is OK. Job interviews are never comfortable… except for the one I had last...
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We try carving a Halloween pumpkin… to eat【SoraKitchen】
It’s the great pumpkin, P.K. Sanjun! It’s Halloween once again in Japan, which means… Well, it’s still not really clear what Halloween means in Japan. Sure, there are a lot of decorations and other...
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Japanese Prime Minister once criticized deploying military to fight Godzilla
There are tricky legal hurdles when fighting kaiju. Japan is going through a bit of uncharacteristic political turmoil recently. After the previous prime minister Fumio Kishida – affectionately known...
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A deep-fried sushi senbero awaits from Super Value【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】
A breakthrough in the senbero arts has been made. Welcome back to Japan’s Best Home Senbero, the series where our ace reporter Mr. Sato tries to hunt down the best combination of food and alcoholic...
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