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W.T.F. Japan: Top 5 confusing Japanese hand gestures【Weird Top Five】

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 13, 2017
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Am I supposed to be insulted or flattered by that?

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• Japan
• (body language • culture • scotto-sensei • W.T.F. Japan • Weird Top Five)

“Fragile” moving box design shows Japanese moving companies’ legendary dedication to detail

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 13, 2017

Japan, where movers actually care about your stuff even more than you do.

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• Japan
• (boxes • cardboard boxes • culture • details • moving)

Bloomberg’s video makes Japanese business etiquette seem way more complicated than it really is

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2017

Common sense will actually keep you pretty safe when navigating the “etiquette minefield” of a job interview in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Bloomberg • business • culture • manners • society • video • working in Japan)

Our Japanese-language reporter dishes on the differences between cool guys in Tokyo and Osaka

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 11, 2017

Seiji Nakazawa, our Osaka-raised correspondent, shares what he thinks the region-based criteria are for ikemen in Japan’s two major cites.

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• Japan
• (cool • culture • ikemen • Osaka • society • Tokyo)

Japan’s new edible chopsticks have a special flavor, but don’t taste like “food”

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2017

Bold innovation isn’t motivated by ecological concerns, but a desire to preserve a part of Japanese agricultural heritage.

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• Japan
• (chopsticks • crazy • culture • food • tatami • weird)

Kanamara Penis Festival draws huge crowds from around Japan【Photos】

• ロケットニュース24
  Apr 3, 2017

It’s all in the name of Japanese culture and tradition.

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• Japan
• (cool • culture • fertility • festivals • Japanese religion • Kanamara Festival • religion • shrines • temples • travel • weird • wtf)

W.T.F. Japan: Top 5 strangest Japanese home goods【Weird Top Five】

• Scott Wilson
  Mar 30, 2017

There’s something in this person’s kitchen and I don’t know what it is.

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• Japan
• (bathroom • culture • kitchen • scotto-sensei • W.T.F. Japan • weird • Weird Top Five)

Sword of one of Japan’s last samurai discovered in house in America

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2017

Progressive samurai was denied his dream of crossing the ocean, but his tanto still made it to California.

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• Japan, USA
• (culture • history • Katana • Meiji Restoration • samurai • swords • Yoshida Shoin)

Nagoya Castle’s concrete keep to be demolished and replaced with traditional wooden structure

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 27, 2017

After months of debate, Nagoya city council approves 50 billion-yen (US$451 million) budget.

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• Japan
• (castles • culture • history • Nagoya • Nagoya Castle • travel)

Japanese tourists in flu masks frighten British supermarket shoppers

• Evie Nyan
  Mar 27, 2017

Japanese tourists wearing everyday casual flu masks apparently caused upset amongst supermarket shoppers in British seaside town

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• Europe, Japan
• (Britain • cultural differences • culture • flu masks • masks)

Enjoy sake with ikebana with this English-friendly event series

• Jessica
  Mar 8, 2017

It’s not getting drunk, it’s getting cultured! And drunk.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • culture • drinks • events • flowers • ikebana • sake • Tokyo)

Cosplay indoors with new range of Taisho Roman schoolgirl costumes from Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 6, 2017

Now you can relax around the home in a traditional outfit worn by schoolgirls during the romantic Taisho period.

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• Japan
• (cosplay • culture • cute • fashion • Japanese schoolgirls • kimono • loungewear • roomwear • School Uniforms • Taisho • Taisho Roman)

81-year-old Japanese woman learns programming from scratch, makes cool mobile game

• Richard Simmonds
  Feb 28, 2017

Programming isn’t just a young person’s game anymore.

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• Japan
• (cool • culture • dolls • hina matsuri • programming • seniors • video games)

Miss Manners: A pro gives us pointers on Japanese dining decorum

• Jessica
  Feb 24, 2017

Uh oh, have you been behaving like an oafish gaijin?

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• Japan
• (culture • food • Japanese etiquette • washoku)

Japan’s largest housing website to offer LGBT support in finding tolerant landlords

• Master Blaster
  Feb 19, 2017

It may not be the first, but it is easily the largest service of its kind.

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• Japan
• (apartments • culture • discrimination • LGBT • real estate • Suumo)

Japanese Twitter seems to have no problems with Karlie Kloss’ “geisha” photo shoot

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 17, 2017

With the controversy over the model’s Vogue photos ongoing, has anyone bothered to check on how Japan feels?

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• Global, Internet, Japan, USA
• (controversy • culture • discrimination • geisha • Karlie Kloss • kimono • photography • racism • society • Vogue)

Tattooed Japanese woman suing nursing school after being suspended because of her ink

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2017

Attorney for single mother says she can’t afford to pay to have her tattoos removed.

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• Japan
• (body art • culture • lawsuit • nurses • single mothers • society • tattoos)

Need a soak? Amazing interactive map lists every public bath and day-use hot spring in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2017

Whether you’re a backpacker looking to clean yourself up or just want to experience this aspect of traditional Japanese culture, hundreds of options are at your fingertips.

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• Japan
• (baths • culture • hot springs • maps • onsen • public baths • sento • Tokyo)

Survey finds big gap in Japanese train passengers who want to sit next to someone of opposite sex

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2017

But sometimes the driving factor is who they don’t want to sit by instead.

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• Japan
• (culture • gender differences • society • trains)

Japanese women explain why they give “obligation chocolate” to male coworkers on Valentine’s Day

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2017

Despite the oppressive-sounding name, many see an upside to the practice.

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• Japan
• (business • chocolate • culture • giri choco • society • sweets • Valentine's Day • working in Japan)

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