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Small children have magnetic “cat-attracting” ability, adorable photos from Japan show

• Evie Nyan
  Mar 3, 2019
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Little kids have an edge when it comes to real-life Neko-Atsume, or cat-collecting!

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• Japan
• (animals • babies • cats • children • cute • kids • pets)

We’re utterly stumped by this kids’ Spot the Difference Puzzle from a Japanese family restaurant

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 9, 2019

Our reporter challenges the Dark Souls of children’s mealtime entertainment, and enters a twisted maze of interrogations to find the answer.

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• Japan
• (brainteaser • children • kids' meal • puzzle • Saizeriya • spot the difference • Yuichiro Wasai)

Japanese students’ eyesight the worst in recent years, smartphones and mobile games are blamed

• Koh Ruide
  Dec 24, 2018

A potential heavy price to pay for convenience and entertainment?

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• Japan
• (children • health • mobile games • smartphone • smartphone games • students • vision)

8-year-old discovers untimely deaths of 15 percent of Kyoto’s cicada population

• Master Blaster
  Aug 22, 2018

Wunderkind’s analytical prowess comparable to people three times his age.

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• Japan
• (children • cicada • education • Kameoka • kumazemi • Kyoto • nature • science)

Illustration by manga artist shows why elementary kids should be allowed to leave books at school

• Dale Roll
  Jun 27, 2018

Even grade school kids have a lot to carry to every day.

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• Japan
• (children • elementary school • elementary school students • illustrations • Japanese child • Japanese schools • manga artist • school life • school rules)

Red, white… Beige? Twitter user overhears a children’s song with creepy implications

• Katy Kelly
  Jun 10, 2018

Out of the mouths of children comes some really messed up stuff, apparently. Twitter users lend a helping hand with deciphering the lyrics.

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• Japan
• (children • hands • scary • twitter • weird)

Japan suffers 37th consecutive year of low birthrate, Japanese people may become extinct someday

• Koh Ruide
  May 7, 2018

Turns out that Japanese citizens are aware of their fate, but there seems to be no solution to avert the impending disaster.

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• Japan
• (aging population • birthrate • children • declining birthrate • population • statistics)

Japanese elementary students dispense brutally honest love advice for 45-year-old man

• Koh Ruide
  Mar 17, 2018

Wisdom comes with age, but it doesn’t apply to some kids in Japan.

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• Japan
• (advice • children • funny • Japanese Twitter • magazine)

Elementary schoolgirl’s Frozen “Let It Go” lip-synch performance is like nothing you’ve ever seen

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2017

This girl and her friends put on an unforgettable performance that’s making people smile around the world.

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• Internet
• (children • cool • cute • Disney • Elsa • frozen • kids • Let It Go • lip-sync • music • schoolgirls • songs • video)

Letter from first-grade daughter to her father is too cute and too deep for Japanese Internet

• Scott Wilson
  Oct 24, 2017

I didn’t know they taught such self-awareness in first grade.

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• Japan
• (children • daughter • fathers • letter • parents • twitter)

Soccer star Keisuke Honda encourages kids not to play video games to become pros

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 26, 2017

While an eager audience of children hung onto his every word, his pep talk appears to have ruffled Japanese net users for an amusing reason.

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• Japan
• (advice • athlete • Capcom • children • Keisuke Honda • soccer • video games)

Japanese college students discuss whether kids should be allowed to watch anime, play video games

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2017

Both sides of the debate express concerns about children’s mental and emotional development.

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• Japan
• (anime • children • kids • manga • Parenting • society • video games)

Adorable toddler dubbed “Mini Kim Jong-un” shows remarkable sense of rhythm with cute dance moves

• ロケットニュース24
  Nov 1, 2016

Who knew the doppelgänger of a communist leader could come with such adorable bopping hips? 

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• (children • cute • dancing • kids • video)

Adorable toddler is looking for prince charming with her unique “glass slippers”

• KK Miller
  Oct 20, 2016

The magic of fairy tales has caught a hold of this young girl and won’t let go.

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• Japan
• (adorable • children • Cinderella • imagination • kids • twitter)

Japanese boy celebrates 8th birthday dressed as a host at a club in Tokyo’s Kabukicho

• Oona McGee
  Oct 10, 2016

The Internet can’t decide whether this is insanely cute or a prime example of terrible parenting.

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• Japan
• (Chiimero-san • children • controversial • families • host club • hosts • Kabukicho • Parenting • Ryuchalo-kun • shinjuku)

Japanese pediatrician goes overboard with Halloween spirit, turns clinic into horror movie scene

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 6, 2016

Terrifying decorations make clinic look more like a site for human sacrifices than medical treatment.

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• Japan
• (children • crazy • funny • halloween • hospitals • kids • scary • weird)

Japanese Twitter tears up over touching tale of why bullied child never contemplated suicide

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2016

Tormented grade schooler didn’t have to look far for proof that someday things could be better.

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• Japan
• (children • kids • manga • moving • suicide • touching • youth)

Adorable family of cats and children look out for each other during nap time and at play

• Oona McGee
  Jun 28, 2016

This heartwarming collection of photos reveals the beautiful bonds created between children and pets.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • children • cute • cute. cats • families • pets • photography • photos)

People in Japan are being paid to have babies, and it seems to be working

• BUSINESS INSIDER
  Jun 10, 2016

Japan’s nationwide fertility rate just hit its highest level in 21 years.

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• Culture, Japan, Lifestyle
• (birthrate • children • population • Tokyo)

Japan reports fewer children and more elderly people for 35th year in a row

• Jamie Koide
  May 13, 2016

New data confirms the number of children in Japan is only continuing to decline.

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• Culture, Japan, News
• (aging society • children • government • population • population density • social issues • statistics)

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