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We piss our pants over and over to find the most comfortable Japanese baby diaper to pee in
- Casey Baseel
Dec 5, 2020 - Tweet
SoraNews24’s newest daddy launches into warm, wet research for the sake of his daughter.
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- (Ahiru Neko • babies • COK • crazy • diapers • experiment • Parenting • parents • SNJO • weird)
Japan now has diapers specially for cats
- Oona McGee
Mar 2, 2020
“Manner Wear for Cats” fits snugly around feline butts.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • cute • diapers • Manner Wear • nappies • new product • pets • Unicharm)
Vending machines in Japan are now selling disposable diapers
- Krista Rogers
Feb 26, 2020
New installations will provide welcome relief for families with young children while on the road.
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Japanese Princess Kako-brand diapers to go on sale in China, without permission of course
- Master Blaster
Jul 5, 2018
When buying diapers, go with a name you can trust.
- China, Japan
- (business • crazy • diapers • Imperial Family • princess kako • trademark • weird)
Tokyo disaster tip: How to make a diaper with just two items you have in your home
- Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2017
Disaster preparedness team’s tip could save your nostrils.
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Two families brawl in a Kobe home center over diapers, likely rivals in resales to China
- Casey Baseel
Aug 12, 2015
After a long, tiring week at work, most people don’t feel like jumping out of bed to be somewhere by 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The prospect usually doesn’t get any sweeter if the reason for dragging themselves out from under the sheets is as mundane as going shopping for diapers with their spouse and mother-in-law.
Nonetheless, that what not one, but two families living in Hyogo Prefecture did last weekend. Still, the trip wasn’t as dull as it could have been. As a matter of fact, if anything there was too much excitement, as the two families ended up getting into a seven-person brawl, since they appear to be rival factions competing for riches in the wild speculative trade sector of reselling Japanese diapers in China.
28 realities of being a 30-year-old Japanese man who constantly pees himself
- Scott Wilson
May 18, 2015
Oh the realities of getting older. One minute you’re feeling fine, the next you’re shopping for adult diapers. It’s a fact of life that transcends language, culture, and bladders all over the world.
Yoshio, one of our RocketNews24 Japanese-side writers, has recently joined the ranks of the incontinently impaired himself. To celebrate his newfound misery, he composed a 28-part list describing a typical day in his new, significantly wetter life.
Take a read and commiserate along with him, or see what you have to look forward to when parts of your own body start turning against you.
Three Chinese men arrested in Japan for buying too many diapers
- Master Blaster
Oct 22, 2014
In recent years a scourge has gripped Japan, and it is people buying too many disposable diapers at once – the Merries brand in particular. For this heinous behavior, three Chinese men were arrested by the Hyogo Prefectural Police on 15 October and are expected to be deported back to their country.
Lumpy laundry from diaper washing mishap? Try this parenting lifehack!
- Scott R Dixon
Jan 21, 2014
Mothers and fathers of the world, have you ever had a washing machine accident where your laundry ended up, well, incredibly lumpy? That lumpiness might have been caused from accidentally putting in a disposable diaper, which has superabsorbent polymers that can be great for soaking up wet messes from your kids, but can be a real pain in the wash. Recently, a Japanese twitter user put out a very handy lifehack for parents out there. Click below to find out this nifty little trick to get your laundry back to normal!
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