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August, 2018

Japan’s KFC chains fall behind on profits, needs to up the spices to meet the prices

Katy Kelly
Aug 31, 2018
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The Colonel’s company can’t convince enough customers to cram their chops with chicken, and that has cold hard cash consequences.

Japan
(business • chicken • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC)

Japanese government announces stricter requirements for foreigner student visas

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

New rules aims to close loophole that lets language school students spend as much of the year working full-time as attending class.

Japan
(COK • education • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • Living in Japan • schools • visas)

JoJo’s bizarrely awesome Tokyo anime mural hides characters in its sound effects【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Anime serious famous for its dramatic sound effects and fashionable heroes makes one out of the other with cool and clever artwork trick.

Japan
(ads • anime • art • awesome • clever • cool • Jojo's Bizzare Adventure • manga • Shinjuku Station)

Fukuoka man survives fall overboard from ferry by swimming to deserted island

Master Blaster
Aug 31, 2018

A 30-minute boat ride turned into a day-and-a-half struggle for survival.

Japan
(accident • deserted island • ferry • Fukuoka • Hashima • Kyushu • overboard • Survival)

Tokyo property owner has to put up “Pooping prohibited” sign to combat unwanted dookie deposits

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Seriously, no shit.

Japan
(Adachi Ward • crazy • funny • gross • Japanese language • linguistics • Tokyo)

What do Japanese netizens think about President Trump’s “I remember Pearl Harbor” comment?

Dale Roll
Aug 31, 2018

Japanese netizen’s responses were fairly mixed, but most were pretty casual about Trump’s allegedly incendiary statement.

Japan, USA
(controversy • Donald Trump • government • Pearl Harbor • politics • Shinzo Abe • World War II)

Awesome Japanese elementary school teacher rewards kids who use independent learning on his tests

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Learned everything covered in class? You get 100 percent. Learned more than what was covered in class? Then you get a bonus.

Japan
(cool • education • Japanese language • kanji • kids • linguistic • Teachers)

Japan has a new professional basketball league exclusively for anime voice actresses

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Three-on-three league for young ladies sounds like the plot of an anime series itself, but it’s a real-life sports organization.

Japan
(anime • basketball • SJ3 League • sports • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

One Piece manga artist draws touching tribute to late creator of Chibi Maruko anime

Katy Kelly
Aug 31, 2018

The Internet wept as one at Eiichiro Oda’s beautiful fanart of Luffy sharing a feast with Momoko Sakura’s self-insert following her death this month.

Japan
(anime • Chibi Maruko-chan • Eiichiro Oda • Luffy • manga • moving • One Piece • touching)

“Your 20s are your tutorial mode.” — Japanese dad likens each decade of life to a video game stage

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

From download to post-boss content, loving dad shares his mature wisdom in a way that’s easy for his much younger son to relate to.

Japan
(COK • cool • dads • moving • parents • touching • video games)

Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station’s west side: Quite possibly best spot in Japan for Pokémon GO

Master Blaster
Aug 30, 2018

We can’t say definitively that it’s the best, but 12 shiny Eevees in three hours is hard to beat.

Japan
(COK • Eevee • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokemon Plaza • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNOJ • Tokyo • video games • Yodobashi Camera)

Manga teaches how to fall asleep in just 10 minutes with near-absolute certainty

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

Six simple steps to slumber require no breathing apparatuses, hard liquor, or any other sleep aids.

Japan
(clever • cool • health • life hacks • manga • sleep • twitter)

USJ hotel’s horror-themed room is back, ensures customers won’t have a good night’s sleep

Koh Ruide
Aug 30, 2018

How could you when the haunted room is filled with bloodstains, cobwebs, severed limbs, and a hidden switch that’ll whisk you into a nightmare world?

Japan
(Amusement Parks • cool • halloween • hotels • scary • travel • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)

Japan’s handsome, buff Swedish gardener now has a new job: Working out silently on public TV

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

Shows off his bodybuilding form as past of educational program with soulful saxophone soundtrack.

Europe, Japan
(fitness • foreigners in Japan • funny • Handsome men • muscles • NHK • Tatsumasa Murasame • video • weird)

Can these 500-yen (US$4.50) Daiso wigs make our 39-year-old writer look as fabulous as he feels?

Master Blaster
Aug 30, 2018

There’s a party in these wigs and everyone’s invited.

Japan
(COK • Daiso • experiment • fashion • Go Hatori • hair • SNOJ • wigs)

Let’s get some cash from Japan’s sexy anime men ATMs【Photos, video】

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2018

The Tokyo ATMs sound like the perfect cash dispensers for female otaku, so naturally we sent Mr. Sato to try them out.

Japan
(anime • ATMs • banks • COK • cool • funny • Mr. Sato • Seven Concierge • SNOJ • weird)

Kanye West receives flack for too-small Yeezy slides, calls it “The Japanese Way”

Oona McGee
Aug 29, 2018

West tries to reinvent the world of footwear with a trick the Japanese have been using for centuries, but his comments aren’t entirely accurate.

Japan
(celebrities • fashion • geta • Japanese shoes • Kanye West • Kim Kardashian • shoes • Yeezy • Yeezy slides)

Conan O’Brien announces trip to Japan in negotiation over rural Tottori Prefecture’s Conan Town

Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2018

American comedian responds to Hokei mayor’s request for his face on Mount Rushmore, says he’ll be here in Japan next week.

Japan, USA
(anime • celebrities • Conan O'Brien • Conan Town • crazy • Detective Conan • funny • Hokuei • manga • Tottori)

Massive storm lights up Tokyo with thousands of lightning strikes 【Pics & Videos】

Oona McGee
Aug 29, 2018

It was the strongest thunderstorm to hit the capital in years.

Japan
(awsome • disaster prevention • lightning • news • rain • scary • storms • Tokyo • weather)

This is what Tokyo’s ultra-premium 12,960-yen (US$117) seaweed looks like

Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2018

SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato continues to live the high life (sort of) as he pairs the most expensive nori he could find with the cheapest rice available.