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Wearable blankets blessed by 1,100-year old Shinto shrine on sale in Japan, surprisingly affordable
- Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2024 - Tweet
Blessed Wearable Blankets all receive prayers that wearers will pass their entrance exams.
- Japan
- (blanket • cool • cozy • culture • education • entrance exams • fashion • robe • roomwear • shinto • shrines • warm • wearable blanket • weird)
Public high school in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture will no longer take student absences into account for entrance applications
- Casey Baseel
Jun 26, 2024
Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.
- Japan
- (COK • education • entrance exams • Gifu • health • high school • schools • society • youth)
The day our male reporter used a women’s restroom with other dudes and they learned about otohime
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
Ahiruneko went to take an entrance exam, but ended up getting a lesson.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • crazy • entrance exams • funny • Japanese toilets • Otohime • sound princess • Toilets • weird)
Japanese rail company lets teens ride for free on super stressful entrance exam days
- Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2024
Test takers given free pass and good luck charm.
- Japan
- (education • entrance exams • high schools • moving • schools • touching • trains • youth)
Japanese exam-taking jeans: The luckiest jeans in Japan
- Oona McGee
Dec 16, 2023
Drawing on cool traditional details and the mystical power of kotodama to help you pass any test in style.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • culture • Edwin • entrance exams • exams • fashion • japanese design • Japanese jeans • jeans • juken • kotodama • lucky • tests • tradition)
With entrance exams looming, “ads that only students can see” appear in Tokyo train stations
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2022
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
- Japan
- (ads • clever • energy drinks • entrance exams • stations • students • Zone Energy)
Students in Japan get free point on entrance exam because of typo, Internet says they got off easy
- Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2022
Fukushima Board of Education admits mistake, but it’s hard to imagine it made any difference.
- Japan
- (COK • education • entrance exams • Japanese language • linguistics • schools • students)
Real Buddhist monk shows off hot (and sweet) EDM dance moves in Mount Koya video
- Krista Rogers
Jan 3, 2022
To make matters stranger, the video is part of a promotional tie-in with a popular candy company designed to cheer on a certain group of students.
- Japan
- (Buddhism • cool • culture • dance • EDM • entrance exams • good luck • Koyasan • monks • Morinaga • music • Ramune • temples • video • Wakayama)
Japanese subway ad about depressed teens should probably be in a different place
- Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2021
Cram school’s message would be ordinarily be inspiring, but takes on an inadvertently dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere.
- Japan
- (ads • cram schools • entrance exams • mental health • stations • subways • trains • youth)
Man kicked out of Japan’s national college entrance exam for improper mask-wearing technique
- Casey Baseel
Jan 18, 2021
If you can’t handle wearing a mask properly, you’re probably not ready for higher education.
- Japan
- (Center Test • COK • college • college entrance exams • coronavirus • education • entrance exams • masks • schools • university)
Tokyo schoolboy assumes other boy’s identity for six months, attends classes at top high school
- Casey Baseel
Oct 1, 2020
What the real boy was doing was even weirder.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • education • entrance exams • high schools • imposter • scam • schools • students • weird)
Bizarre English test in Japan asks students about winged vegetables, launches new meme
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2019
Say hello to the Four Heavenly Kings of Center Listening.
- Japan
- (Center Test • crazy • education • english language • entrance exams • funny • illustration • linguistics • schools • universities • weird)
Japanese high schools stop asking students to specify their gender on application forms
- Casey Baseel
Jan 7, 2019
Two prefectures do away with once-standard question, over two dozen more consider following their lead.
- Japan
- (COK • entrance exams • gender • high schools • LGBT • society)
Most female doctors in poll can understand Tokyo medical school reducing female applicant scores
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2018
Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.
- Japan
- (COK • doctors • education • entrance exams • health • scandal • schools • society • Tokyo Medical University • universities)
Tokyo Medical University accused of dropping women’s entrance exam scores 10-20 percent each year
- Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2018
Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”
- Japan
- (education • entrance exams • health • scandal • schools • society • Tokyo Medical University • universities)
Teen gets perfect score on Japan’s college entrance history exam with crazy-detailed notes【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 18, 2018
Because if you know everything, you don’t have to worry about what’s going to be on the test.
- Japan
- (awesome • Center Test • colleges • crazy • education • entrance exams • Test)
Failed your important entrance exams? That’s too bad–here’s a steak to make you feel better
- Krista Rogers
Mar 7, 2017
For the second year in a row, this chain of Kyoto butcher shops is offering a bittersweet deal to those whose dreams were dashed.
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- Japan
- (beef • education • entrance exams • exam season • Kyoto • moving • steak • touching • Yamamuraya)
Japanese train station staff offers heart-warming encouragement to college entrance examinees
- Casey Baseel
Nov 8, 2016
Reminds them that they’re not alone, and that even if things look bleak now, they might be just about to take a turn for the better.
- Japan
- (colleges • educations • entrance exams • moving • touching • trains)
Energy drinks for elementary school kids? Japanese Twitter users upset over product’s marketing
- Casey Baseel
Sep 9, 2016
Being tired is no excuse to stop studying, packaging implies.
- Japan
- (crazy • education • energy drinks • entrance exams • kids • society • weird)
Little brother’s observations of older brother “studying” cracks up Japanese Twitter
- Scott Wilson
Aug 31, 2016
Day 1: The high school-bound specimen is not well adapted to its “natural habitat.”
- Japan
- (brother • entrance exams • funny • funny twitter post • jukensei • middle school • siblings)
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