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Taiwan media predicts the end of schoolgirl uniform skirts in three years
Japan seems to have a worldwide reputation for cute skirted uniforms loved by all ages and genders. However, Taiwan seems to have embraced the style with an unbridled enthusiasm. One only needs to...
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Culture Clash: China’s “strongest” Shaolin fighter vs Japan’s cosplaying...
On 9 September China’s popular fighting program Wulin Feng held a mixed martial arts special program. In this particular edition the main event was between Yi-long, a star of Shaolin kung fu in China...
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Pop idols’ management demands 8 million yen in damages after two members...
It’s a long-standing rule in the pop idol industry in Japan: performers should never become involved in romantic relationships. Doing so would, apparently, tarnish the reputations carefully designed...
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Yahoo! Japan makes thrill-rides out of their trending search topics with...
In the month of September at limited locations in Tokyo, the nation’s perennial favorite search engine Yahoo! Japan is offering a one-of-a-kind experience. By stepping into their motion simulator and...
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Super Nintendo climbs Mt. Fuji, brings Japanese guy along for companionship
Next year the Super Famicom (SNES) will see its 25th birthday. In human years that will amount to 62 which means it’s time for the beloved console to begin taking stock of the days in front of it and...
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Iwashita wants to see your head up one of their giant pickled gingers or...
The pickled ginger business certainly is competitive. At least it appears to be since food producer Iwashita has been working extra hard at getting some brand awareness going. First they released an...
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Chinese “rape prevention” list goes from zero to Dexter in five seconds flat,...
Rape is and has always been among the most heinous acts humans are capable of, and we should take any and all precautions when it comes to preventing it. This fact has been highlighted in China...
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Young Chinese entrepreneur tries marketing menstrual pads to men, gets heavy...
Great business people are often described as being so skilled in their field that they ‘could sell ice to an Inuit.” Li Yuanhao, a student of Southwest University in Chongqing, China may have put a...
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Weekly magazine “My 3D Printer” will put one in your hands by next year, much...
About a month ago, thousands of subscribers to De Agostini’s model building magazine powered on their fully functional and adorable Robi robots for the first time. These robots came to their hobbyist...
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Recreate a Japanese ofuro in your own bathtub and support traditional...
Few countries in the world have embraced bathing to the level that Japan has. Inspired by the many natural hot springs (onsen) found around, designers have continuously developed baths at competing...
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SoftBank users in Japan able to roam all the way to the USA and pay the same...
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has announced a new promotional campaign for its users starting soon called America Hodai (America Unlimited) where users traveling to the United States can enjoy the...
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Benesse apologizes to customers by giving them 5 bucks, guilts them into...
Corporations are a lot like people in many ways, we often talk about them as if they act with a single mind and purpose, and they even have legal rights as an individual. Also, like many humans in the...
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Japanese team wins Ig Nobel prize for confirming that banana peels are in...
They feature so prominently in our Saturday morning cartoons and Charlie Chaplin movies that mankind has simply taken it as gospel that stepping on a banana peel will cause you to comically slip and...
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Opera AOI blends the old and the new with vocaloids and bunraku puppets
The use of vocaloids, artificial singers programmed on a computer, has created its own niche in online art. Thousands share their individually crafted songs using one of the dozens of synthetic voices...
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Own a pair of secret camera shoes? The police should be by shortly for a visit
For most of this summer, Kyoto Prefectural Police have been carrying out an aggressive campaign of going to people’s homes and asking them to voluntarily give up their shoes with built-in hidden...
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Osaka Station showered with photos of a teenage boy, two train otaku...
On the evening of 19 September, JR Osaka Station became the scene of unseasonable weirdness as dozens of photographs of an unknown teenage boy seen sitting on the train fell from the sky like giant...
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All insolvent idol group “The Margarines” to debut, total debt of all...
Debt is a major problem facing people of all ages today. Many young graduates head out into the world already handicapped by a shrinking job market and crippling student loans while their parents have...
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Welcome to Wonderland: The most barely functioning place on Earth!
Although Japan is a place of widespread religious ambiguity, there is an underlying belief in a place between the land of the living and the world of the dead. It’s an entirely different world in...
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This is your final boarding call for a once-in-a-decade chance to ride...
The Superconducting Magnetic Levitation Train (SCMaglev) has been in development by Japan Railways for decades and has already broken various world speed records for railed vehicles during test runs....
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Kirin promotes new alcohol by filming rural people with pigeon-shaped drones…...
Japanese brewery Kirin unveiled a new campaign for their Off White brand of imitation beer products known as happoshu. To help promote their cheaper beer substitute, Kirin will be dispatching six...
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