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No, Japan’s prime minster did not make friends with a cockroach, despite what you may have heard

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2026
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Some reminders: Japan isn’t always as wacky as foreign media wants to think it is, literal translation can trip non-linguists up, and Osamu Tezuka was a really good manga creator.

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• (anime • bugs • cockroaches • crazy • Daily Telegraph • Japanese language • linguistics • manga • Osamu Tezuka • Pheonix • politiciajns • prime minister • Sanae Takaichi • Telegraph • weird)

Date handsome cockroaches in a new dating sim from one of Japan’s leading pest control companies

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 12, 2026

From the country that gave the world a pigeon dating sim comes a short romance game starring cockroaches.

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• Japan
• (bugs • cockroaches • COK • crazy • dating simulators • Earth • Earth Chemical • romance games • video games • weird)

Summer in Japan doesn’t sound like summer in Japan right now

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2025

There’s something missing from Japan’s summer soundscape.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • culture • science • society • summer)

Can putting a giant dragonfly on your head repel bugs?

• Master Blaster
  Jun 15, 2025

If you can’t beat ’em, wear ’em.

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• Japan
• (bug repellant • bugs • COK • dogs • dragonflies • insect repellant • insects • mosquitoes • outdoors • pesticide-free • pets • SNJO • Udonko • wasps)

Attendees to Expo 2025 hit record numbers despite record numbers of bugs

• Master Blaster
  May 29, 2025

Maybe everyone’s coming to see the bugs?

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • bugs • chironomids • COK • flies • insects • Osaka • weird)

Japanese junior high students make air freshener from stink bugs

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2025

Not all stink bugs…

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• Japan
• (air freshener • bugs • cool • insects • junior high school • kamemushi • science • stink bugs • weird)

As summer comes to an end, it’s time to get ready for a plague of mosquitoes in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Sep 23, 2023

Out of the frying pan and into the pan full of mosquitos…

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• Japan
• (animals • autumn • bugs • COK • insects • mosquitoes • mosquitos • science • summer • weather)

Locust crepes crunch on your teeth, melt in your mouth in east Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more startling at Yachiyo’s most unique sweets shop, this happened.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • dagashiya • eating bugs • food • gross • locust • SNJO • sweets • weird)

Japanese research institute creates ‘cyborg cockroaches’ to help save people’s lives【Video】

• Katie Pask
  Sep 12, 2022

The impressive research leaves Japanese netizens both grossed out and in a moral quandary.

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• Japan
• (animals • bugs • cockroach • cool • crazy • insects • robots • science • technology • weird)

A visit to Japan’s wasp nest art museum stings us with respect for the industrious insects【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2022

Gigantic Wasp Mt. Fuji is just one of the amazing pieces on display at Hachi Tengoku.

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• Japan
• (art • bugs • COK • cool • crazy • museums • Nagano • SNJO • travel • wasps • weird)

New digital art exhibition in Nagoya promises “a paradise of bugs” in a colorful forest

• Dale Roll
  Aug 5, 2022

A beautiful world of insects awaits in Japan’s fourth largest city this summer!

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• Japan
• (bugs • digital art • digital art museum • insects • interactive art • Jean-Henri Fabre • Nagoya • nature • projection mapping • summer)

Waiter, there’re 100 crickets in my soup! We try make-it-yourself Cricket Ramen【Taste Test】

• Katie Pask
  Aug 1, 2022

Why settle for just one cricket when you can eat one hundred?

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• Japan
• (Antcicada • bugs • COK • cooking • crickets • entomophagy • food • insects • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Why does Japan actually like the super loud, constantly buzzing sound of cicadas?

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2022

For many people in Japan, there’s no more welcome sound than the incredibly loud whining buzz of the seasonal insects.

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• Japan
• (bugs • cicadas • COK • culture • semi • SNO • society • summer)

Here are the best ways to kill roaches, according to Japanese experts, and some ways to avoid

• Dale Roll
  Jul 16, 2022

The season is upon us…so make sure you know what to do before you panic!

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• Japan
• (bugs • cockroaches • COK • gross • insects • life hacks • roaches • summer)

Why isn’t there more deer poo in Nara Park? This very strange museum has the answer【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2022

Deer aren’t the only animals with a huge population in the city.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • deer • funny • gross • museums • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • science • SNJO)

Kick back after a hard day with a thirst-quenching bottle of Insect Sour

• Master Blaster
  Dec 7, 2021

This drink puts the “water” back into “giant water bug.”

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• Japan
• (alcohol • bugs • Bugs Farm • crazy • drinks • edible insects • giant water bug • sours • weird)

A foot-based way to prevent mosquito bites? Japanese Twitter tries the bloodsucker blocking tip

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2021

A few quick wipes might save you from a ton of itchy bites.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • itchy • life hacks • mosquitos)

Master Ball bug cage lets you finally catch even the most powerful insects out there

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 2, 2021

Forget capturing Mewtwo, it’s time to snatch some beetles!

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• Japan
• (bugs • insects • Poké Ball • Pokemon • Takara Tomy • toys)

Some of Japan’s COVID-19 contact tracing apps haven’t been working since last September

• Master Blaster
  Feb 4, 2021

It’s not like we needed it or anything.

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• Japan
• (apps • bugs • cocoa • contact tracing • coronavirus • COVID-19 • COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application • Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare)

Japanese fine art and pill bugs finally become one in BugArts Ukiyo-e series

• Master Blaster
  Dec 17, 2020

All artists involved are no longer living, and that’s probably for the best.

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• Japan
• (art • Bandai • bugs • hokusai • pill-bug • potato bug • roly poly • Toshusai Sharaku • toys • ukiyo-e • Utagawa Kuniyoshi • Utagawa Yoshifuji • weird • woodblock prints)

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