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Expo 2025 mascot Myaku-Myaku to release tastefully erotic photo book

• Master Blaster
  Mar 19, 2026
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Myaku-Myaku, you’re such a tease.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • books • COK • cute • Felissimo • funny • gravure • Mascots • Myaku-Myaku • photography • weird)

7-Eleven Japan’s giant fried chicken skewer would be too big to eat, so it’s really for cuddling

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2026

Comfort food to snuggle up with is just one of the crazy prizes in the 7-Eleven Happy Kuji collection.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • awesome • convenience stores • crazy • food • fried chicken • funny • Happy Kuji • Japanese convenience stores • karaage • kuji • plushies • prize lottery • weird)

Is Japan’s Crab-shaped Cup Ramen Timer worth the hype?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 9, 2026

This crustacean does more than just keep time on your three-minute instant noodles.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • crab • cup noodles • cup ramen • cute • funny • gift • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese kitchen gadgets • kitchen gadgets • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • timer • weird)

Silicone testicle covers banned from Japanese sauna following cups being left behind and on shelves

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2026

“People don’t forget to take their testicles with them when they go home” says sauna in explaining new policy.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • gross • public baths • saunas • weird)

Japan’s new “Cunte” contact lenses aren’t pronounced like you’re probably thinking they are

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2026

Cunte Jelly Trick and other lenses’ names might be too clever for their own good.

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• Japan
• (COK • Contact lenses • crazy • fashion • funny • Japanese language • linguistics • weird • Why Does Engrish Happen?)

Poop is in full bloom at the Unko Museums for cherry blossom season

• Master Blaster
  Feb 17, 2026

Spring is in the air.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • events • funny • gross • Nagoya • Okinawa • poop • sakura • Tokyo • Unko Museum • weird)

Take a trip to Japan’s Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

• Master Blaster
  Feb 7, 2026

Have fun and feel annoyed at the same time!

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• Japan
• (anger • annoying • COK • crazy • Dododo Land • events • exhibits • funny • museums • psychology • Shibuya • SNJO • social media • society • Tokyo • weird)

We traveled almost 400 miles to get popcorn from this ninja machine, but do we regret it?【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 20, 2026

An unexpected encounter sends us on a journey to the other side of Japan, and into the past.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • funny • Japan travel • moving • popcorn • popcorn machine • SNJO • Takuya Inaba • touching • tourism • travel • weird)

Does a poopy butthole translate to lottery-winning riches in Japan? The results are in!

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 17, 2026

Our latest get-rich-quick-with-poop scheme goes head-to-head with other attempts to supernaturally game the system.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • Go Hatori • gross • lottery • Nenmatsu Jumbo • New Year's • New Year’s Lottery • SNJO • takarakuji • weird)

Umamusume anime girl plushie recalled for having parts she absolutely should not have【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 9, 2026

Nope, no horse girl is supposed to have those.

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• Japan
• (anime • funny • manga • plushies • Uma Musume • Uma Musume Pretty Derby • Umamusume: Pretty Derby • video games • weird)

J-horror classic Ring 2 airing on Japanese TV with Zen monk offering prayers every time someone dies

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2025

Japan’s most quirkily empathetic monk is back to keep bad mojo away from us as the year ends.

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• Japan
• (funny • Horror • J-horror • monks • movies • religion • Ring • Ring 2 • Ringu • scary • weird)

Mr. Sato accosts award-winning actor Hideaki Ito【Interview】

• Master Blaster
  Dec 27, 2025

Sato vs Ito: Requiem.

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• Japan
• (actors • celebrities • COK • crazy • DMM TV • Donketsu • funny • Hideaki Ito • interviews • movies • Mr. Ito • Mr. Sato • SNJO • Tokyo Comic-Con • weird)

Can a dirty butthole make you filthy rich in Japan? We’re starting a New Year’s lottery experiment

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 26, 2025

It’s time, once again, to pull out every trick we can think of to try to boost our luck in Japan’s huge end of the year lottery.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • Go Hatori • gross • Nenmatsu Jumbo • New Year's • New Year’s Lottery • SNJO • takarakuji • weird)

We might have found the funniest dish in Kanagawa

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 21, 2025

A geyser of crispy noodles, seeming to erupt out of the bowl, leaves customers in fits of laughter.

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• Japan
• (big food • COK • crazy • food • funny • Kangawa • mapo tofu • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • Takuya Inaba • yakisoba)

Meet the eerie police statues of Miyakojima in Okinawa Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Nov 14, 2025

Goth cops!

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • Mamoru Miyakojima • Maruko Miyakojima • Mascots • Miyakojima • Okinawa • SNJO • tourism • traffic safety • travel • weird)

Yakuza video game even in Japan allows fans to both marry and divorce their 2-D crushes

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2025

Like a Dragon/Yakuza exhibition offers wedding ceremonies with charavter of your choice, provides paperwork to tie the knot and sever it too.

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• Japan
• (crazy • divorce • funny • Like a Dragon • Sega • video games • Wedding • weird • yakuza)

We recreate the legendary Fist of the North Star Hundred Rending Fists attack in analog style

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 10, 2025

We ditched AI for some good old-fashioned creative thinking…which required a few extra appendages.

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• Japan
• (anime • attack • COK • Fist of the North Star • funny • Kenshiro • manga • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • punches • SNJO • Sunashiro)

YouTube’s AI Japanese translation calls for Jimmy Kimmel’s death on his own show【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2025

Another bang-up job from AI translation!

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (A.I. • AI • AI translation • artificial intelligence • auto translation • crazy • funny • Japanese language • Jimmy Kimmel • Jimmy Kimmel Live • linguistics • translation • video • weird • YouTube)

Sega’s Like a Dragon yakuza teaches “useless” English, let’s use it to learn some useful Japanese

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2025

Kiryu seems like the kind of guy who should know that effort is never meaningless, and this time is no exception.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • Japanese language • Kazuma Kiryu • learning japanese • Like a Dragon • linguistics • Sega • SNO • video games • weird • yakuza)

Foreign athlete loses wedding ring competing on Tokyo streets, reunited in the nick of time

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2025

Race walker is going home with a medal and his wedding band.

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• Japan, S America
• (crazy • funny • moving • race walking • sports • touching • World Athletics Championships)

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