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Japan’s most popular MSG maker had to battle some nasty rumors 100 years ago

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2023
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Aji no Moto tasted so good, some people thought there must be some creepy creatures on the ingredient list.

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• (Aji no Moto • Ajinomoto • COK • factories • food • gross • history • monosodium glutamate • MSG • SNJO • weird)

Zombie pizza of hell rises in Japan, restaurant claims no responsibility if it grosses you out

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 2, 2023

So…many…eyeballs…

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• Japan
• (Aoki's Pizza • COK • crazy • food • gross • halloween • pizza • scary • zombie)

Mold growth and leakage possibly occurring on some Pikachu tails (dessert drinks), so don’t put them in your mouth

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 11, 2023

No sicknesses or injuries reported, but better safe than sorry.

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• Japan
• (anime • gross • Pikachu • Pikachu Sweets • Pikachu Sweets by Pokémon Cafe • Pokemon • recall • video games)

Turning a crazy cheap country Japanese house into a home Season 2: So much poo!【SoraHouse】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 17, 2023

The SoraHouse project is back, and first things first: there are entirely too many dead bugs and animal droppings in our country home.

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• Japan
• (cleaning • COK • crazy • Go Hatori • gross • Living in Japan • SNJO • SoraHouse • SoraHouse Season 2 • video)

Urine-soaked loot – Police in Sapporo looking for serial urinal grate thief

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 7, 2023

“WHY?!?” is the first question that springs to mind, but first the police want to answer “Who?”

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• (COK • crazy • crime • gross • Sapporo • theft • Toilets • weird)

New English textbook for Japanese learners is completely full of crap, looks pretty useful

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2023

Unko Drill series wants to help English learners in Japan get ready for their college entrance exams.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • gross • linguistics • poop • Studying English • Teaching English in Japan • Unko Drill • weird)

We try a half-drunk bottle of tea that’s been sitting on the balcony since last summer 【Taste test】

• Master Blaster
  May 2, 2023

Can we tempt you with some vintage 2022 tea?

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• Japan
• (barley tea • COK • crazy • drinks • funny • gross • mugicha • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • tea • weird)

Locust crepes crunch on your teeth, melt in your mouth in east Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more startling at Yachiyo’s most unique sweets shop, this happened.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • dagashiya • eating bugs • food • gross • locust • SNJO • sweets • weird)

Man in Nagoya can’t be bothered to use dorm bathroom, brings bottles of his pee to work instead

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2023

It’s hard to see how his plan was any more convenient.

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• (crazy • crime • gross • weird)

Japanese police make first “sushi terrorism” arrests for disgusting sushi restaurant prank videos

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2023

Like the plates in revolving sushi restaurants, justice eventually comes around.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crime • food • gross • kaiten sushi • Kura Sushi • pranks • pranksters • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi)

Revolving sushi chain Choshimaru’s sushi will no longer revolve in response to “sushi terrorism”

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2023

Sushi will stop revolving as early at this week at branches of Tokyo-area kaiten sushi chain.

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• (Choshimaru • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • gross • pranksters • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • sushi terrorism)

Students hospitalized after eating teacher’s homemade yogurt in Nagoya

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023

Science lesson leads to lots of vomiting by students and school staff.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • education • food • gross • schools • science • Teachers • weird • yogurt)

Learn about taxes from a talking piece of poop with the Unko Tax Drill textbook — only in Japan

• Katie Pask
  Feb 24, 2023

Who had thought “being taught about taxes from a talking turd” on their 2023 bingo card?

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• Japan
• (crazy • finance • funny • gross • Ministry of Finance • poop • Poop Kanji Drill • society • tax • Textbooks • werid)

Is it the end of Japan’s conveyor belt sushi as we know it?

• Master Blaster
  Feb 2, 2023

And I don’t feel all that fine.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • gross • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • prank • revolving sushi • saliva terrorism • Shushiro • sushi)

72 percent of foreigners in survey say they’ve been disappointed by bad breath in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2023

Dentist thinks part of the reason for bad breath in Japan is cultural.

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• (breath • COK • etiquette • foreigners in Japan • gross • hugene • manners • odor • smell • survey)

Japanese teacher who asked permission to jerk off at convenience store has been fired

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2022

There are some things you just can’t bounce back from at work.

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• (COK • crazy • crime • gross • Teachers • weird)

Teacher in Japan politely asks to use convenience store bathroom to jerk off, gets arrested

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2022

Sure, when you gotta go, you gotta go, but that doesn’t mean you gotta come.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • gross • restrooms • weird)

Does Starbucks Japan’s new Halloween Frappuccino taste as good as it looks?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 22, 2022

This purple beauty plays tricks on our eyes and our taste buds.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • gross • halloween • K. Masami • murasaki imo • review • scary • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)

Starbucks Japan’s newest treats: the Purple Halloween Frappuccino and a gruesome-looking dessert

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 19, 2022

This Frappuccino’s special ingredient is seasonal in more ways than one.

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• Japan
• (drinks • Frappuccinos • gross • halloween • murasaki imo • scary • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets)

Bomb squad in Japan summoned to take care of…abandoned briefcase full of adult toys

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 6, 2022

Discharge happened long before investigators were on-scene.

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• Japan
• (crime • funny • gross • trash • video • weird)

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