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Butthole calligraphy kicks off Japanese comedian Egashira 2:50’s YouTube channel【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Feb 3, 2020
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However, it may end the channel at the same time.

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• Japan
• (comedy • Ega-chan • Egashira 2:50 • Japanese calligraphy • shodo • television • YouTube • YouTuber)

Survey finds only six percent of Japanese workers motivated, seventh lowest in the world

• Master Blaster
  Feb 2, 2020

Read all about this troubling social trend**…or don’t. What do I care?**

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• Japan
• (business • COK • customer service • economy • Gallup • Japan Business Federation • motivation • society • survey • work)

A pack of natto (fermented Japanese soybeans) a day keeps the death away according to study

• Master Blaster
  Feb 1, 2020

Terrible news for picky eaters.

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• Japan
• (diet • fermented food • food • health • Japanese food • Miso • National Cancer Center • natto • survey)

Tapioca fad on the way out in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Jan 31, 2020

Now is the winter of tapioca’s discontent.

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• Japan
• (Asahi Soft Drinks • boba • bubble tea • business • drinks • fad • food trends • sweets • tapioca • Tokyo)

Japanese restaurant chain selling not just folded pizzas, but LUCKY folded pizzas!

• Master Blaster
  Jan 29, 2020

All the things that make pizza great, only folded!

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• Japan
• (COK • Eho Pizza • Ehomaki • food • Gusto • holidays • pizza • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • setsubun • SNJO • weird)

Japanese police officers increasingly forgetting their guns in public restrooms

• Master Blaster
  Jan 28, 2020

At least they didn’t forget to flush… we hope.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • convenience stores • guns • Hyogo • Narita Airport • Osaka • police • restrooms • safety • Tokyo)

Are Daiso’s smartphone VR goggles worth breaking the 100-yen barrier?

• Master Blaster
  Jan 28, 2020

A rare instance where reading the fine print was a bad idea.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • Daiso • Go Hatori • product reviews • Smartphones • technology • virtual reality • VR)

Maker warns people not to drink Arabic Yamato glue to cure cancer

• Master Blaster
  Jan 25, 2020

That’s just solid advice right there.

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• Japan
• (Arabic Yamato • cancer • glue • medicine • polyvinyl alcohol • science • Tokyo Institute of Technology)

“Let’s Speak North Korean!”

• Master Blaster
  Jan 23, 2020

“Such a miracle can only occur in North Korea” and other popular phrases from an authentic DPRK phrasebook.

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• Japan, North Korea
• (DPRK • Korean • language • Let's Speak North Korean • North Korea • phrasebook • travel)

Top Japanese university racks up fourth voyeur arrest in as many months

• Master Blaster
  Jan 23, 2020

Japan’s oldest university continues to produce the best and the worst that the country has to offer.

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• Japan
• (crime • hidden camera • Keio University • Minato • restroom • Tokyo • university • voyeur)

Video surfaces of Mr. Sato’s days as an alternative rock bassist and amateur animator

• Master Blaster
  Jan 22, 2020

He was apparently a big Degrassi fan too judging by his clothes.

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• Japan
• (1995 • animation • Kofuku no Negi • Mr. Sato • music • Shimane • VHS • Wyse)

Tokyo man arrested for abandoning father’s remains in a subway station men’s room

• Master Blaster
  Jan 21, 2020

That probably wasn’t mentioned in the will.

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• Japan
• (ashes • cremation • crime • human remains • restroom • Tokyo • Tokyo Station)

Counting sheep to get to sleep may work after all, unless you speak Japanese

• Master Blaster
  Jan 18, 2020

Japanese children’s book suggests we might have been doing it wrong all this time.

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• Global, Japan
• (Arabic • counting sheep • English • insomnia • Japanese • language • life hacks • linguistics • pronunciation • sleep)

Pokémon releases ASMR videos featuring Charmander fire and snacking Chespin【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Jan 17, 2020

Gotta catch some Zzzz’s!

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• Japan
• (ASMR • Charmander • Chespin • cute • Pokemon • relaxing • videos • YouTube)

In search of Japan’s hidden double pay phones

• Master Blaster
  Jan 16, 2020

And you’ll need to find them all for 100-percent completion of Japan.

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• Japan
• (Aomori • Duet Phone • Kagawa • kawasaki • pay phones • public phones • rare spots • Shimane • travel • Yamaguchi)

Fukuoka man arrested for licking the ear of a female stranger he fancied

• Master Blaster
  Jan 15, 2020

What may work between dogs doesn’t apply to human relations.

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• Japan
• (assault • crime • ear • Fukuoka • gross • lick)

Everyone: “I wouldn’t move to Miyazaki Prefecture if they paid me.”

• Master Blaster
  Jan 14, 2020

Gorgeous but remote region struggles to bring people in.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • business • depopulation • fishing • Miyazaki Prefecture • money • relocation)

Okonomiyaki sauce producer on damage control following heightened Iran-US tensions

• Master Blaster
  Jan 10, 2020

Company assures us a famous Japanese dish is not in danger of becoming collateral damage.

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• Global, Japan
• (business • dates • food • Iran • okonomiyaki • okonomiyaki sauce • Otafuku Sauce • war)

Chinese police force called in to investigate New Year decoration

• Master Blaster
  Jan 9, 2020

Someone dialed 110 on a 2020.

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• China
• (2020 • balloons • decorations • funny • Guizhou • New Year's • police)

Popular Star Wars characters interpreted as ice cream flavors by Baskin Robbins

• Master Blaster
  Jan 9, 2020

If there were a flavor for the film series as a whole it’d be Rocky Road.

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• Japan
• (#ReleaseTheJJCut • Baskin Robbins • BB-8 • C-3P0 • Darth Vader • food • ice cream • movies • R2-D2 • Star Wars • yoda)

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