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Mitsubishi’s solution for stressed office workers in Japan: fake skylight video displays

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2020
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Simulated sky slice might actually be better suited for a different environment, though.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • crazy • gadgets • interior • Mitsubishi • skylight • technology • weird • window • Windows)

Over 50 percent of single Japanese women in their 20s struggle to make ends meet, survey says

• Dale Roll
  Feb 9, 2020

Young women in Japan are experiencing serious financial trouble. 

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• Japan
• (budgeting • cost of living • economy • expensive • finances • Japanese society • Low Income • Women in Japan)

New Osamu Tezuka manga to be released this month, penned by AI

• Master Blaster
  Feb 9, 2020

We will soon see if AI can recreate the magic of the God of Manga.

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• Japan
• (AI • death • Kioxia • manga • morning • Nagaharu Yodogawa • Osamu Tezuka • Paidon)

Video of New Yorker assaulting mask-wearing Asian woman rattles Japanese Twitter, debate ensues

• Eli Pang
  Feb 9, 2020

A shocking incident caught on camera upsets and stirs Japanese netizens.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • health • Japanese Twitter • masks • sickness)

Secluded sauna in Hokkaido lets you enjoy steamy sits and ice-water dips in one isolated location

• Scott Wilson
  Feb 8, 2020

A sauna of ice and fire.

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• Japan
• (cold • extreme cold • Hokkaido • Japan travel • sauna • SNJO • travel)

Harrowing video sees reckless drivers ignore pedestrian crossing in Japan【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 8, 2020

The fact that children are using the crossing doesn’t seem to register to all three of these drivers.

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• Japan
• (crosswalk • driving • pedestrian crossing • road rules • safety • scary • traffic • twitter • video)

Kyoto tourist crowds disappearing due to coronavirus outbreak, creating travel crisis/opportunity

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2020

Local shopkeeper says drop in tourist traffic is most dramatic in over 30 years.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • disease • health • Kyoto • Nara • sickness • tourism • travel)

Amazing Chocolate tools a perfect fit for Japanese Valentine’s Day

• Master Blaster
  Feb 8, 2020

Tell that special guy how you feel with an exquisite rusty nut and washer.

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• Japan
• (art • chocolate • fried egg • holidays • Odakyu Department Store • The Amazing Chocolate Workshop • tools • Valentine's Day • Yuichiro Wasai)

Japan Ninja Council produces first-ever official hotel room in Tokyo’s Ueno

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2020

Spacious eight-person room makes a perfect base for shinobi missions in Tokyo, but passing up sushi counter room is a hard choice.

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• Japan
• (cool • hotels • Japan Ninja Council • Ninja • sushi • Tokyo • travel • Ueno)

Fujifilm removes promotional video after it causes outrage【Video】

• Katie Pask
  Feb 8, 2020

One commenter even said “How did this get approved?”

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• Japan
• (camera • controversy • FujiFilm • photo • photography • privacy • street photography • taking photos)

Monster girl brothel anime Interspecies Reviewers’ Tokyo TV broadcast cancelled

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2020

Series about buying companionship in a fantasy world continues to lose business friends.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • controversy • Funimation • Interspecies Reviewers • manga • Tokyo MX)

Egashira 2:50 denied ad revenue for YouTube channel

• Master Blaster
  Feb 8, 2020

Looks like they had a problem with him sticking brushes up his butt.

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• (advertising • comedy • Ega-chan • Ega-Channel • Egashira 2:50 • funny • Japanese YouTubers • videos • YouTube)

My Hero Academia creator, publisher make official apologies for controversial character name

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

Critics say “Maruta Shiga” is a reference to human experimentation in Japan-occupied China.

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• China, Japan
• (anime • controversy • history • Kohei Horikoshi • manga • Maruta Shiga • My Hero Academia • Shueisha • Unit 731 • Weekly Shonen Jump • World War II)

Super Smash Bros. director admits “There are too many Fire Emblem characters”

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

But don’t blame him.

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• Japan
• (Fire Emblem • Fire Emblem: Three Houses • Masahiro Sakurai • nintendo • Super Smash Bros. • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate • video games)

Coronavirus outbreak delays Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing console production, orders

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

Preorders suspended days before they were set to start, no timetable for when they’ll open.

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• Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Animal Crossing: New Horizons • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • nintendo • nintendo switch • video games)

KitKat Mcflurry comes to McDonald’s Japan with commercial starring Japanese idol

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2020

After a seven-year hiatus, the popular chocolate brand is teaming up with the fast food giant for a limited time. 

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• Japan
• (chocolate • desserts • fast food • food • Kit Kat • KitKat • McDonald's • McFlurry • Nestle • Nestle Japan • sweets)

One of Kyoto’s best secret ramen restaurants isn’t a restaurant at all – it’s a van!

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

This ramen chef could work anywhere, but there’s a special reason he’s kept coming back to the same place for almost 30 years.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • food trucks • Kyoto • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO)

A cup ramen for Zen Buddhists: New Shindo Ramen Zendo noodles are meat, dairy and egg free

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 7, 2020

These ascetic noodles taste like soy sauce, and leave out all animal products — as well as the five pungent roots!

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• Japan
• (ascetic • Cup Noodle • food • healthy eating • monks • vegan • vegetarian • Zen • Zen-Foods)

Japan Railways to release new anti-groper smartphone app to help victims before chikan gets away

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

Countermeasure promises to bring attention to the specific part of the train where the groping is taking place.

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• Japan
• (chikan • COK • crime • gropers • groping • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • train gropers • trains)

Final Evangelion movie’s voice recording is almost done, Shinji saved for last, says actress

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

Snapshot from the recording booth shows the beginning of the end of one of anime’s most important franchises ever.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Evangelion • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • voice actors • voice actresses)

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