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We deeply regret going into this tunnel on our walk in the mountains of Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2025
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Seiji’s stroll in Okutama takes a dark turn.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • cool • creepy • funny • Mountains • Nippara • Nippara cave • Nippara Limestone Cave • Okutama • outdoors • scary • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • tourism • travel)

You can now get paid 5,000 yen for your poop in Japan, but only if your poop is good enough

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 25, 2025

They say you should never do something for free if you’re good enough at it to get paid, and apparently that applies to making stool too.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • gross • health • medicine • poo • poop • science • stool • weird)

Japanese city pays people to stand on escalators for six hours a day【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2025

Nagoya Stop and Stand Corps is looking to change escalator etiquette.

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• Japan
• (cazy • escalators • etiquette • funny • manners • Nagoya • society • video • weird)

Does Chiikawa’s cuteness have a breaking point? Testing anime character’s edible stickers【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2025

Looking for the limits of Chiikawa and friends.

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• Japan
• (anime • Chiikawa • COK • cute • food • funny • manga • SNJO • stickers)

Rice ball melon bread – A treat Japanese bakeries aren’t crazy enough to make, but we are【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2025

Today in the SoraKitchen, we push the melon bread envelope with melon bread filled with onigiri, mochi, and even ramem.

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• Japan
• (bread • COK • cooking • crazy • funny • melon bread • mochi • onigiri • ramen • rice balls • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets • taste test • warabimochi • weird)

New squirrel-cheek boob-adjacent video game is all about the nuts, includes “sensitive mode”

• Casey Baseel
  May 12, 2025

Magical Nut Ikuno isn’t quite what it looks like, but still very much what it seems like.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • funny • Magical Nut Ikuno • manga • Qureate • video games • weird)

Squeezable tanuki testicle capsule toys, with choking warning for kids, appear in Japan, but why?

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2025

The latest chapter in Japan’s long tradition of long-balled depictions of racoon dogs.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • crazy • culture • figures • funny • gacha • gachapon • racoon dogs • Tanuki • vending machine toys • weird)

Taste-testing Japan’s “I love Obama” cakes【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  May 6, 2025

There’s an obvious gag gift element to these manju from Fukui, but is the pun delicious?

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• Japan
• (Barack Obama • COK • food • Fukui • funny • manju • Obama • politicians • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tourism • travel • wagashi • weird)

Is there demand for merch of our stylish reporter? Let’s find out with the Ikuna Acrylic Standee

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2025

Attention, Ikuna fans! SN24’s most photogenic fashion reporter has made her merch debut.

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• Japan
• (acrylic standees • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • fashion • funny • Ikuna Kamezawa • SNJO • Subculture Market)

Pageant in Gifu Prefecture allows all races, genders, species, and levels of existence to enter

• Master Blaster
  Apr 22, 2025

You don’t get much more inclusive than that.

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• Japan
• (cool • diversity • festivals • funny • Gifu • inclusiveness • Nohime • Nohime Festival • Nohime Gran Prix • Oda Nobunaga • pageants)

Pokémon fans startled to see Eevee looking super muscular in new merch photo

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2025

Has this Pokémon been using some super-effective protein powder?

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • Eevee • funny • manga • plushies • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • video games • weird)

Fake cherry blossom viewing failure leads us to international friendship in Ueno Park

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2025

While trying to pretend to enjoy Tokyo’s cherry blossoms, Mr. Sato ends up having a touching true sakura moment.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • foreigners in Japan • funny • hanami • moving • Mr. Sato • sakura • SNJO • touching • Ueno Park)

Our Japanese writers share times they were the fool in honor of April Fools Day

• Master Blaster
  Apr 3, 2025

It may be factual, may be cruel. Everybody plays the fool.

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • April Fools' Day • crazy • funny • Go Hatori • Mariko Ohanabatake • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • P.K. Sanjun • Seiji Nakazawa • Takamichi Furusawa • Takashi Harada • weird • Yoshio • Yuichiro Wasai)

Mr. Sato’s mad Majima cosplay and other outfits from Mafia Day at SoraNews24HQ【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Apr 2, 2025

Things go predictably off the rails as our boss tells us to dress up for Mafia Day.

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• Japan
• (COK • cosplay • crazy • funny • Goro Majima • Like a Dragon • mafia • Majima • SNJO • weird • yakuza)

Japan’s new trading card game hit has pictures of real-life middle-aged men on every card【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2025

“Ojisan trading card game” brings smiles to young and old in Fukuoka town.

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• Japan
• (card games • collectible card games • collectible cards • crazy • funny • moving • society • touching • trading card games • trading cards • video • weird)

Tokyo government makes a magical girl anime video about the dark side of contract scams【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 19, 2025

Magical girl contract goes very, very wrong in public service ad.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • crime • funny • magical girls • manga • PSA • video)

The story of our miracle cork-gun shot at Dogo Onsen in Ehime Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Mar 10, 2025

A tale of beginner’s luck and cheap prizes.

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• Japan
• (COK • cork guns • Dogo Onsen • Ehime • festivals • funny • games • hot springs • Kewpie dolls • shooting gallery • SNJO • travel)

Japanese parenting app has demon call your phone and scold your misbehaving kids

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2025

When your kids are acting like devils, Oni kara Denwa dispatches a demon to set them straight.

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• Internet, Japan
• (COK • crazy • demons • funny • kids • oni • Parenting • parents • scary • weird)

The new world’s smallest park is in Japan, and it’s so tiny you might not even notice it【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2025

Guinness World Records awards designation to Shizuoka town after thorough measuring of dimensions.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • Guinness World Record • nature • parks • video • weird • world record)

Our reporter successfully quits high-stakes capsule machines… but this one feels like a lock!

• Master Blaster
  Feb 23, 2025

He can stop anytime he wants. He just doesn’t want to this time.

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• Japan
• (capsule machines • capsule toy machines • capsule toys • COK • crazy • funny • Furusato Gacha • gacha • games • Masanuki Sunakoma • service areas • SNJO • weird)

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