SoraNews24 —Japan News—

With the world’s knowledge quite literally at our fingertips, the sheer amount of information available to us can be overwhelming. With the ability to look up anything from recipes to diagnostics and treatments for diseases at the touch of a button, how are we to know what to believe?

A doctor’s office in Japan has posted a list of 10 tips to help patients weed through all the falsities in order to make the best decisions about their medical care.

Japan
(10 tips • advice • health • Japanese doctors • Japanese hospitals • medicine)

Ask Mr. Sato Episode 1 – Love, Dreams, Cats vs Dogs【Video】

ロケットニュース24
Nov 19, 2015

Episode 1 of our brand new series, Ask Mr. Sato, is here! Join us at the link below to listen to the great man’s sagely advice!

Global, Japan
(advice • agony uncle • Ask Mr. Sato • cats vs dogs • life • Mr. Sato • Q&A • video)

Parental advice not always as astute as we’d like to believe: Japanese netizens share

Audrey Akcasu
Oct 5, 2015

Often, in hard times, kids turn to their parents for guidance and advice. While we’d like to believe that our parents are always full of wisdom, sometimes the advice we get is not quite what we were seeking.

Thanks to the Internet, people can share the great (or not so great) advice they receive from their parents with the rest of the world. Today we bring you a collection of Japanese parental advice with varying degrees of usefulness and entertainment.

Japan
(advice • parents • twitter)

Introducing eight nuggets of life wisdom to up your random trivia game

Krista Rogers
Sep 29, 2015

You know that one person who could definitely win Jeopardy because he/she just seems to know everything? RocketNews24 is happy (and a bit smug) to announce that today we’re going to be that person and share with you some tokens of life wisdom that were originally offered up on the Japanese internet. Want to find out the luckiest day of the year, an early warning sign for cancer, and a subconscious way to boost productivity at work? Let us enlighten you!

Global, Internet, Japan
(advice • beer • cancer • life hacks)

Japan is for bread lovers: top five Japanese breads best for cuddling, not eating

Scott Wilson
Aug 25, 2015

We here at RocketNews24 like to think of ourselves as gurus of internet love advice. From bird boyfriends to bringing virtual girlfriends to your own wedding, one might say that we’ve got almost everything covered. But what happens when you’re hungry for something new? Well, isn’t it obvious?

When you’re feeling down in the dumps, which mass-produced wonder is always there for you? Sliced bread. Which food is readily available world-wide, and will always be there to absorb your tears? Sliced bread. Which food will never leave you for a younger, toastier love interest? Sliced bread!

Of course just like people, not all breads are created equal. We assigned our brave but heartbroken Japanese reporter to test out the top five Japanese breads for cuddling. So read on and see if your favorite loaf makes the cut!

Japan
(advice • bread • cuddle • food • funny • love)

Taxi driver’s tip to stay safe: “The one thing you should say if you run into yakuza”

Krista Rogers
Jul 9, 2015

When one of our Japanese-language reporters stepped into a taxi the other day, the driver suddenly turned to him and asked, “Sir, do you know what you should say if you have a run in with some yakuza?”

Our man was a bit taken aback by the sudden question out of nowhere, but he answered, “Shouldn’t you say you’ll call the police?”

“That’s the usual response, but there’s an even better one,” the driver replied. He then proceeded to share a bit of advice which an actual yakuza whom he had once driven had secretly shared with him.