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Photo of man taking a dump on Tokyo subway floor is full of amusing background details

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2018
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Tokyo’s grossest and most stoic commuters end up siting across from each other.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • gross • subways • Tokyo • trains • weird • Yurakucho Line)

The real star of Starbucks’ new Matcha S’more Frappuccino is its huge matcha powder boost

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2018

Starbucks amps up both the Japanese and American elements, and makes us fall in love with green tea Frappuccinos all over again.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • green tea • matcha • s'mores • SNOJ • Starbucks • sweets)

Most female doctors in poll can understand Tokyo medical school reducing female applicant scores

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2018

Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.

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• Japan
• (COK • doctors • education • entrance exams • health • scandal • schools • society • Tokyo Medical University • universities)

Station and Lawson convenience store near Tokyo Big Sight gear up for a blazing Summer Comiket

• Koh Ruide
  Aug 9, 2018

With hundreds of banners and posters already set up, everyone’s pitching in to help with the biggest anime convention in the world.

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• Japan
• (anime • Comiket 94 • convention • cool • manga • Summer Comiket • Tokyo Big Sight)

Bug hunt! Some areas offering rewards for alien beetles threatening Japan’s cherry blossoms

• Master Blaster
  Aug 9, 2018

Municipalities and prefectures are hoping they can stop the dreaded red-necked longhorn beetle before they get out of hand.

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• Japan
• (aromia bungii • cherry blossoms • environment • insects • invasive species • Kamakiri Sensei • Osaka • red-necked longhorn beetle • Sakai City • Teruyuki Kagawa • Tokushima • ume)

Frustrated foreigner living in Japan calls Japanese punctuality a half-truth

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2018

Sometimes Japanese people stick to a schedule, and sometimes they don’t, he says.

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• Japan
• (business • COK • culture • foreigners in Japan • manners • punctuality • society • working in Japan)

Busty waitresses, breast-shaped ramen draw crowds to new anime-themed restaurant in Tokyo【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

The Senran Kagura anime/video game franchise has a new restaurant, but the menu seems to be of only secondary interest.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • beautiful women • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Senran Kagura • themed restaurants • video games)

French woman with epilepsy has been missing in Japan since July 29, police announce

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

Single traveler spent two nights in Japan before disappearing while in mountainous sightseeing town.

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• Europe, Japan
• (foreigners in Japan • france • missing person • Nikko • Tiphaine Veron • Tochigi)

The results are in! Team Mexico wins the 2018 World Cosplay Summit【Photos & Videos】

• Dale Roll
  Aug 8, 2018

All of the teams were awesome, but Team Mexico’s fantastic costumes and amazing choreography won them the championship!

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• Japan
• (Anime Cosplay • cosplay • cosplay competition • cosplay conventions • cosplay summit • World Cosplay Summit)

Japanese pro concept artist updates sketch he drew in junior high with amazing results

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

13 years later and an ocean away from where he grew up, this illustrator proves the seed of greatness was always present in his artwork.

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• Canada, Japan
• (art • character design • cool • illustration)

Cute Japanese cat fails to catch virtual iPad goldfish, captures Internet’s heart anyway【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

Don’t give up, little guy! Not because you can catch them, but because it’s so adorable to watch you try.

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• Japan
• (animals • apps • cats • cute • fish • funny • goldfish • pets • video)

McDonald’s Japan apologizes for “tooth-like” fragments found in Sausage Egg McMuffin

• Master Blaster
  Aug 8, 2018

It’s unclear what the foreign matter is as of yet, but the company isn’t taking any chances with how they handle the situation.

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• Japan
• (business • fast food • foreign matter • McDonald's • sausage • Sausage Egg McMuffin)

Transgender Japanese YouTuber criticizes LGBT demonstration held in downtown Tokyo

• SoraNews24
  Aug 8, 2018

Voices concern that disruptive gatherings will hurt public perception of LGBT community.

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• Japan
• (COK • LGBT • Shibuya • society • Tokyo • YouTubers)

First-ever Peanuts Hotel opens in Japan, and the rooms look amazing【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

We all expected Snoopy-themed rooms to be cute, but we never imagined they’d be this stylish, and even romantic.

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• Japan
• (Charles Schulz • charlie brown • cool • cute • hotels • Kobe • Peanuts • Snoopy • travel)

Japanese publishers team up for a “Stop! Pirated manga” online campaign

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 7, 2018

The fight against the illegal distribution of manga online is somewhat ironically led in part by a famous pirate character.

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• Internet, Japan
• (industry • manga • pirating • publishers • sales • Shonen Jump)

Tokyo’s riot cops finally win right to carry drinks on duty during Japan’s hottest summer ever

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 7, 2018

Because the mission is to serve and protect, not to get dehydrated and collapse.

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• Japan
• (dehydration • heat • heat exhaustion • hot • police • society • Tokyo)

A blast from the Poképast! Original Pokémon figures from the ’90s get a re-release

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 7, 2018

Fans of fat Pikachu rejoice! The classic designs from the original Pokémon games star in this reprint of an old line. Gotta catch ’em all!

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• Japan
• (1990s • cool • cute • nostalgia • pocket monsters • Pokemon • toys)

Not a fan of dishwashing? Get yourself an electric, plate-scrubbing robot appendage

• Richard Simmonds
  Aug 7, 2018

The convenience of Japanese technology: making your life a little easier, and lazier, with every passing day.

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• Japan
• (cool • dishes • funny • lazy • robots • tecnology • Thanko • washing up • weird)

Japanese mother shares her baby bed wisdom: you can use storage boxes!

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 7, 2018

If it’s good enough for your bedsheets, it’s good enough for your baby! Social media collectively wonders why they didn’t think of it first.
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• Japan
• (babies • child care • cute • DIY • life hack • mothers)

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