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When the airport employee found out she was in the islands alone, he gave her a tongue-in-cheek romantic worksheet to finish before heading home.

Japan, USA
(airport • funny • hawaii • romance • travel • weddings • weird)

Yu-Gi-Oh! brings anime battles into real-life with amazing fan-made dueling arena【Video】

Master Blaster
Aug 18, 2018

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Strongest Imitator System is a major step in making those anime duels come to life.

Japan
(anime • augmented reality • card games • projection maping • technology • video • video games • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Awesome Japanese rice porridge bread is just about the easiest thing to make in the world【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2018

Okayu bread is so easy that its creator made it by accident.

Japan
(cooking • cool • funny • okayu • rice • rice porridge)

Tokyo Tower Records store helps avert a wedding proposal disaster when it finds a lost love note

Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2018

Klutziness can’t foil cupid’s plan, which is saved by clever employees.

Japan
(cool • funny • marriage • proposal • romance • Tower Records)

Comiket attendee finds a beautiful handmade anime bag, is surprised to discover its artist

Katy Kelly
Aug 18, 2018

Turns out there really is no limit to how long you can create labors of love for your favorite anime shows, especially if you helped in the Golden age!

Japan
(anime • Comiket • Made in Abyss • manga • summer Comiket 2018)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoys a shaved ice, Twitter buries him in a hashtag avalanche

Katy Kelly
Aug 17, 2018

Japanese netizens react to the PR photo with a variety of “helpful” advice hashtags, as well as some hashtags that aren’t very helpful at all.

Japan
(food • funny • government • hashtags • politicians • politics • shaved ice • Shinzo Abe • twitter • weird)

Tokyo too hot for you? It’s already snowing in Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2018

Winter wonderland makes a surprise appearance in the middle of August during Japan’s hottest summer ever.

Japan
(cold • crazy • Hokkaido • snow • weather)

This Shinto shrine’s gorgeous glass gateways are the only ones of their kind in all Japan【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2018

Torii gates always have an elegant allure, but none quite like this shrine’s.
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Japan
(beautiful • cool • glass • Kyushu • shinto • shrines • torii • travel)

Awesome fan-made stop-motion video using Gundam models is a Gundam fan’s dream come true 【Videos】

Dale Roll
Aug 17, 2018

The scene is an exact reenactment of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime, complete with CG special effects.

Japan
(anime • cool • Gundam • Mobile Suit Gundam • models • robots • stop motion • video)

Häagen-Dazs Japan releases new ice cream flavours inspired by fairytales

Oona McGee
Aug 17, 2018

Open the lid and step into your favourite fantasy world with these new ice creams from Japan.

Japan
(Alice in Wonderland • desserts • fairytales • food • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • Japanese sweets • Snow White • sweets)

Japanese cat sleeps so hard it flattens its head, scores a cuteness critical hit

Katy Kelly
Aug 17, 2018

If you catnap too hard, your face will stick that way!

Japan
(cats • cute • pets • sleep • twitter)

Japanese Internet sad to see the word “chikan” becoming commonly used in English

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2018

The country was proud when “emoji” and “anime” became part of English-speakers’ vocabulary. But when the British government uses the Japanese word for “train gropers?” Not so much.

Europe, Japan
(chikan • crime • Japanese language • language • linguistics • trains • travel • U.K.)

Dragon Ball’s Lord Beerus shows up at mortal’s house, lowly humans beware!【Cat cosplay】

Krista Rogers
Aug 17, 2018

If there’s one lesson that the Dragon Ball anime has taught us in recent years, it’s that you should never cross a God of Destruction (without cup noodles).