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Minnesota riots prompt people in Japan to protest against racial profiling by police【Videos】

SoraNews24
Jun 1, 2020
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Shibuya protest comes eight days after a foreigner was filmed being detained by police on the road in Tokyo.

Japan
(crime • foreigners • foreigners in Japan • Japanese Police • news • police • police brutality • protestors • protests • racial profiling • racism • Shibuya)

Japanese government to limit foreign students’ coronavirus financial aid to top 30 academic percent

Casey Baseel
May 22, 2020

Those who haven’t been hitting the books hard might need to severely pinch their pennies.

Japan
(COK • coronavirus • economy • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • money • society • study abroad • studying in Japan)

Foreign travelers now spend more money in Japan than ever before, surprise country at top of list

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2020

Neither Chinese nor American tourists spent the most per person in Japan last year.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • society • travel)

Dodge the biggest problem of giving yourself a kanji name with these for-foreigner personal seals

Katie Pask
Dec 30, 2019

Get a stamp of approval with your own Japanese personal seal complete with your Japanese kanji name.

Japan
(cool • culture • foreigners in Japan • hanko • inkan • kanji • souvenirs • tradition)

Canadian learns to speak proper Japanese by becoming comedian, pouring tea for his master

Katie Pask
Dec 28, 2019

Katsura Sunshine brings a fresh look to a 400-year-old style of Japanese comedy.

Canada, Japan
(canadian • comedian • comedy • cool • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • keigo • learning japanese • linguistics • rakugo • video)

How to respond to Japanese people saying “I don’t speak English” when you’re speaking Japanese?

Casey Baseel
Dec 24, 2019

A cutting comeback from a Japanese-proficient foreigner leaves one man with a permanent emotional scar, but there are softer ways to make your point too.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • language • learning japanese • linguistics • society)

Foreign comedian Atsugiri Jason’s hot take on Japan’s apology culture has netizens abuzz

Eli Pang
Dec 23, 2019

This time he really means “WHY JAPANESE PEOPLE?!”

Japan
(appologies • Atsugiri Jason • comedians • foreigners in Japan • interview • Nikkei)

Over 30 percent of surveyed Japanese managers feel intense stress from working with foreigners

Casey Baseel
Dec 17, 2019

Personality issues and skill deficiencies cited as problem areas with almost one in five saying the pressure is making them want to quit their jobs as soon as possible.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • society • survey • working in Japan)

Can a Japanese person look good in one of those for-foreigner souvenir kimono? Mr. Sato finds out

Casey Baseel
Nov 18, 2019

Gift shop kimono are almost nothing like the real thing, but can Mr. Sato’s fashion aura transcend national boundaries?

Japan
(COK • culture • fashion • foreigners in Japan • hanten • happi coat • kimono • Mr. Sato • SNJO • souvenirs)

Pakistani Japanese citizen is tired of the cops asking him for his foreign resident card

Casey Baseel
Oct 2, 2019

You can’t produce a foreign resident card when you’re not a foreigner.

Japan
(crime • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • society)

Japan second-least attractive country for expats to work, survey says, but is it really that bad?

Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2019

Japan gets average marks in one category, abysmal ones in two others.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • society • survey • working in Japan)

Foreigner disappointed by Japan’s hazy concept of “work ending times,” so are Japanese people

Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2019

Japanese coworker has “nothing I could say to dispute that.”

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • meetings • society • time • working in Japan)

Toilet-seat themed comedic-adventure The Benza breaks new ground for foreign talent in Japan

Master Blaster
Aug 14, 2019

Full of literal toilet humor and heart, this Amazon Prime series is a breath of fresh air.

Global, Japan
(Amazon Prime • Christopher McCombs • foreigners in Japan • funny • Japanese TV • Kyle Card • The Benza • video)

Heroic Japanese convenience store owner saves foreigner from online scam artist

Casey Baseel
May 25, 2019

Foreign teen’s unusual behavior tips off quick-thinking 7-Eleven owner.

Japan
(7-Eleven • convenience stores • crime • foreigners in Japan • scam artists • scams)

Australian mother reflects on “lunchbox shame” she felt from her son’s Tokyo preschool teacher

Casey Baseel
May 22, 2019

Preschool teacher says the Australian-style lunch she made was “not appropriate.”

Japan
(bento • boxed unches • chara-ben • character beto • food • foreigners in Japan • kids • Parenting • society)

Indian fast food cashier in Japan causes customer to reevaluate his life with simple suggestion

Casey Baseel
May 20, 2019

Man’s confidence is shaken in a bizarre way during beef bowl run.

Japan
(beef bowls • fast food • food • foreigners in Japan • funny • gyudon • Suki Pass • Sukiya • weird)

Our reporter ran into one of Tokyo’s pushy flag-selling foreigners

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2019

A tap on the shoulder leads to a flag in the hand and a request to pay for it.

Japan
(COK • deaf • flag • foreigners in Japan • panhandling • scams • SNOJ • Tokyo)

Foreign travelers in Tokyo, other towns handing out flags, asking Japanese people to pay for them

Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2019

Sellers often claim to be deaf and ask for random Japanese people to “sponsor” their travel expenses.

Japan
(Akihabara • deaf • flags • foreigners in Japan • panhandling • scams • Tokyo)

Foreign resident arrested in Japan for illegally BitTorrent uploading anime

Casey Baseel
Apr 16, 2019

You might have thought no one cares about the series that he got caught for, but they do, and his total damages are estimated at 1.8 billion yen.