Japanese man eats Garigari-kun popsicle in one bite, gets immediate,...
Don’t try this trick at home! Summer in Japan is hot. People here have a lot of interesting ways to beat the heat, ranging from wearing arm-length gloves to growing gardens on their windows, but one...
View ArticleJapanese Twitter user gets surprise visit from elementary school student for...
The last thing you expect to hear when your doorbell rings. We’re used to seeing Japanese elementary school students performing birazzely-complicated math and dispensing brutally honest love advice, so...
View Article46-year-old hikikomori arrested for leaving mother’s dead body inside house...
“Yikes. This is like right out of a horror movie.” Hikikomori, people who spend nearly their entire lives in their rooms, is a phenomenon especially prevalent in japan. While it’s difficult to get...
View ArticleToday is “Men’s Valentine’s Day” in Japan, where guys give underwear to girls
Although before you go giving any spicy presents, maybe read this first. Valentine’s Day in Japan is quite different than the rest of the world. Instead of couples giving each other gifts, women...
View ArticlePoop Kanji-Drill toilet paper is the best way to accomplish your Japanese...
Now you too can review on the loo! The Poop Kanji Drill books are an awesome way to study Japanese. Not only do students get a structured way to learn all 1006 elementary school kanji, the books also...
View ArticleNaruto’s author Kishimoto reveals what characters’ names would’ve been if...
As well as several other incredible saves made by the editor. The manga/anime Naruto may have ended years ago, but its legacy still lives on strong. The “sequel” manga Boruto is popular, Naruto’s...
View ArticleOne bizarre Japanese trading card gets a literal strength bonus from this...
Whether you know the game or not, this is pretty hilarious. Japan has a ton of different card games, so many that there’s even trading cards based on aquarium creatures and manhole covers. While the...
View ArticleVideo of each Japanese hiragana getting “measured up” is oddly cute and...
How tall is your favorite hiragana? If you’ve ever studied Japanese before, then you know that the written language uses three writing systems. There’s kanji, the complicated characters that can...
View ArticleKyoto’s popular tourist spot Gion to forbid photos on private roads, 10,000...
Trespassing of both property and people have led to this development. For years, Kyoto has been fighting an uphill battle against the millions of tourists that flock to see its living time capsule of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by...
As it turns out, not squeezing employees dry like a sponge is maybe a good thing. Japan has a reputation for not being so great when it comes to work-life balance. And it’s a reputation that makes...
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First-grader’s math test accidentally turns into treatise on confusing...
Because apparently three plus two equals morphophonology. We’ve seen some strange questions on Japanese kids’ math homework before, but this recent one posted to the Internet by Japanese Twitter user...
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Japanese lawyer comments on legality of tattoo ban at hot springs, netizens...
Are tattoo bans at onsen a relic of the past or part of Japanese culture? Japan’s history with tattoos is quite different than many other countries. Criminals used to be punished with tattoos, and...
View ArticleJapanese artist shows difference between erotic manga for men vs. women in...
Proving it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it that matters. We’ve seen before how advertisements can skew differently based on if they’re targeting men or women, so it comes as no surprise that...
View ArticleForbidden snack? Japanese “sponge cake” looks way too much like the real thing
Only one way to find out whether that’s cream or soap. We’ve seen before how artists can craft wood into delicious-looking food, but what about the other way around? What if a food artist crafts...
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Japanese netizens vote on which of nation’s prefectures would make the best...
Which prefectures have the deadliest curves? Time to find out! We’ve seen rankings of all 47 prefectures in Japan before, judging everything from their amount of overwork to their residents’ average...
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Free “Language Learning with Netflix” extension makes studying Japanese...
Works for lots of other foreign languages too! Back when I was studying Japanese in the ancient days of the early 2000s, we had two options to find shows with Japanese subtitles: import them for...
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Japanese manga artist makes comic showing one of the most heartbreaking...
It’s not the long hours, it’s not the rejections, it’s something more personal. The life of a manga artist is one of nonstop work, painful failures, and cutthroat competition. Both newcomers to the...
View ArticleKeyboard app shares most common emoji by country, Japan’s are completely...
A case of cultural differences or linguistic ones? If you would allow us a moment to push up the glasses on the bridge of our nose and pretentiously raise a finger in the air, we would like to remind...
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Grimer ASMR video on official Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel is… oddly...
Are you ready for this jelly? ASMR videos of people speaking softly, slowly, and/or recording highly detailed sounds are extremely popular online. While some find them revolting, others find them...
View ArticleSecluded sauna in Hokkaido lets you enjoy steamy sits and ice-water dips in...
A sauna of ice and fire. We’ve seen the ice hotels of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, before. But for those looking for a little more warmth in their cool vacations, the Moving Inn’s Tokachi...
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