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August, 2018 (Page 10)

Company teaches Japanese kids about sex education using questionable animal mating card game

Koh Ruide
Aug 6, 2018
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When you have children howling the word “impregnate!” over and over again to score, something’s really wrong.

Japan
(card game • childhood • sex education • weird)

Cat Cafe Mocha in Tokyo shuts down after cats die from feline parvovirus outbreak

Oona McGee
Aug 6, 2018

News of the deaths was first leaked by an anonymous source online, who was outraged when the cafe remained open, posing a risk to more animals.

Japan
(animals • Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health • cafes • cat cafe • cats • news • pets • restaurants • themed cafes • themed restaurants • Tokyo)

Bicyclist in Osaka gets 2,000 yen from random middle-aged woman for working hard and looking cute

Casey Baseel
Aug 6, 2018

Roadside largesse from complete stranger inspires others to share stories of unexpected generosity in Japan’s famously money-loving city.

Japan
(bicycles • funny • moving • Osaka • touching • weird)

Solar Chef: We tried cooking an egg using the power of the sun and a magnifying glass

Koh Ruide
Aug 5, 2018

Stay with us as our Japanese-language reporter brings the sun into his sunny-side up.

Japan
(cooking • cool • egg • Japanese summer • Seiji Nakazawa • summer)

Simon Pegg shares with us his thoughts on filming Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Koh Ruide
Aug 5, 2018

Our Japanese staff interviews the English actor who plays Benji Dunn in the blockbuster hit.

Japan
(celebrity • film • interview • Mission: Impossible - Fallout • movie • P.K. Sanjun)

Tokyo businesses may be asked to turn up ACs and open doors to help keep Olympic spectators cool

Master Blaster
Aug 4, 2018

Remember when your mom told you to, “Shut the door! Are you trying to cool the outdoors?!” That’s the premise behind Cool Share.

Japan
(2020 Olympic Games • Air conditioning • Cool Share • environment • heat • marathon • summer • Tokyo)

This Tokyo ramen is served in -110-degree Fahrenheit container to help you beat the summer heat

Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2018

But surprisingly the super-chilled noodles aren’t available at a ramen restaurant.

Japan
(Akihabara • cool • crazy • food • karaoke • Noodles • Pasela • ramen • ramen jiro • weird)

Japanese government proposes driver’s license change to make them easier for foreigners to read

Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2018

Japanese imperial era targeted as potential source of confusion.

Japan
(cars • COK • culture • driving • foreigners in Japan • gengo • government • imperial era • society)

Petition to protest bulldozing of Ghibli-featured shrine gathers over 10,000 signatures worldwide

Dale Roll
Aug 4, 2018

The people have made it clear that they want the shrine to stay, but will that be enough to save it?

Japan
(anime • Kincho Shrine • movies • Pom Poko • shinto • shrines • Studio Ghibli • Tanuki • Tokushima)

Anime Spirited Away finds a new way to be beautiful with gorgeous traditional hanafuda card set

Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2018

The Studio Ghibli classic turns out to be a perfect motif for Japan’s centuries-old “flower cards.”

Japan
(anime • art • beautiful • cards • cool • culture • hanafuda • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

These little-known Japanese plastic bags can be a lifesaver in times of disaster

Master Blaster
Aug 4, 2018

Unless you live in a handful of prefectures, you’ve probably never even heard of I-wrap, but those who know it swear by it.

Japan
(COK • cooking • diasters • disaster prepa • disaster preparedness • earthquakes • food • I-wrap • plastic bags • plastic wrap • SNOJ)

Japanese women reveal how far they’ve gone in “stalking” a guy they like in survey

Casey Baseel
Aug 3, 2018

Tactics included checking out ex-girlfriends online and setting “coincidence” ambushes.

Japan
(Aikatsu • dating • relationships • romance • stalkers • stalking • survey)

Looking for a job in Japan? Now you can work in the world of anime at the Ghibli Museum!

Oona McGee
Aug 3, 2018

That’s right – the Ghibli Museum is now hiring!

Japan
(anime • employment • Ghibli • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese jobs • jobs • Mitaka • Studio Ghibli • Tokyo • work • work in Japan)

Gang of “yakuza deer” regularly takes over Japanese restaurant’s street-side entrance【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 3, 2018

Visitors to one of the most beautiful places in Japan document the four-legged mafia’s adorable M.O.

Japan
(animals • cute • deer • funny • Hiroshima • Miyajima • restaurants • travel)

Major Tokyo train line stopped for one hour as passenger gets own head stuck under seat

Master Blaster
Aug 3, 2018

Alcohol is believed to have played a role.

Japan
(accident • alcohol • drinking • Hamamatsucho Station • Tokyo • trains • weird • Yamanote line)

Japan finally holds an eSports event for mobile app games: Champions of Fire Japan

Katy Kelly
Aug 3, 2018

Who will dominate Disney’s Tsum Tsum Land? Which YouTuber’s BanG Dreams will come true? Find out at the app game eSports tournament this August!