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We try Starbucks’ buzzworthy (and slightly gross) new cream pie to see how good it really is

• Shannon
  Aug 9, 2022
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Hopefully they won’t hatch into snails in our stomachs.

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• Japan
• (funny • gross • seasonal menu • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)

Starbucks Japan’s new cream pie’s looks are freaking people out

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2022

”Pearl chocolate” looks like something else, many are saying.

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• Japan
• (food • funny • gross • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • weird)

Here are the best ways to kill roaches, according to Japanese experts, and some ways to avoid

• Dale Roll
  Jul 16, 2022

The season is upon us…so make sure you know what to do before you panic!

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• Japan
• (bugs • cockroaches • COK • gross • insects • life hacks • roaches • summer)

Politician’s disgusting mask gaffe grosses out Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2022

With Tokyo’s infection numbers spiking, wearing a mask is important, but this was the wrong mask to wear.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • crazy • gross • masks • politicians • video • weird)

Aichi woman arrested for mixing human excrement into school lunch

• Master Blaster
  Jun 18, 2022

Whatever happened to just spitting?!

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• Japan
• (crime • excrement • feces • fraudulent obstruction of business • gross • okazu • poisoning • principal • school lunch • schools • weird)

Come touch our poo animals, Tokyo museum invites

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 11, 2022

Unko Museum will display Japan’s newest cute crap.

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• Japan
• (art • crazy • cute • gross • museums • poo • unko • Unko Museum • weird)

Security guard arrested in Shizuoka for abandoning 13 liters of urine at pachinko parlor

• Master Blaster
  May 30, 2022

Going to the toilet was too much as hassle for the suspect, but hauling it across town…

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • gross • pachinko parlors • urine • Waste Management Law • weird)

Why isn’t there more deer poo in Nara Park? This very strange museum has the answer【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2022

Deer aren’t the only animals with a huge population in the city.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • deer • funny • gross • museums • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • science • SNJO)

Good God what is this hideous anime plushie?!?【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2022

And believe it or not the function it’s got a function besides “haunt your nightmares.”

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • crazy • gross • Hunter x Hunter • plushies • Premium Bandai • scary)

Japan’s gorilla poo oranges are now in season, and being given away for free!

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 2, 2022

”Miraculous” fruit is an auspicious way to start the new year, growers say.

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• Japan
• (animals • cool • food • fruit • funny • gorillas • gross • Inuyama • Japan Monkey Center • mikan • monkeys • oranges • weird • zoos)

Japanese park’s English dog turd warning minces no words【Why does Engrish happen?】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 20, 2021

Kanji quirk leads to some harsh language in reminder to pet owners.

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• Japan
• (COK • funny • gross • Japanese language • linguistics • parks • SNJO • weird • Why Does Engrish Happen?)

Japanese office disaster: man pees in drink bottle of woman coworker because “he liked her”

• Scott Wilson
  Aug 29, 2021

That’s not sweat in that bottle….

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• (crime • gross • office • stalker • urine)

Who’s ready to make poop cakes with this Japanese cooking gadget?【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2021

For chefs who think a dessert would look great if it looked like crap.

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• Japan
• (cooking • cooking gadgets • crazy • food • funny • gross • poop • sweets • weird)

Excessive dog pee to blame for traffic light collapse, Japanese police think

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 14, 2021

Suspects in Suzuka were presumably bad boys.

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• Japan
• (accident • animals • COK • crazy • dogs • funny • gross • pets • weird)

Cooking disaster leaves Japanese kitchen looking like a bloody murder scene

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 17, 2021

Sweet intentions lead to a gruesome-looking end.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • cooking • crazy • funny • gross • scary)

Japanese squat toilet plastic model kit: Weird, gross, or both?【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 26, 2021

That ain’t just nostalgia our toilet is stained with.

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• (COK • crazy • funny • gross • Japanese toilets • plastic models • SNJO • squat toilets • Toilets • weird)

The time farting lead to murder and the fall of one of Japan’s great samurai clans

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2021

Japan’s Chiba Prefecture was once ruled by a samurai whose death was flatulence-related.

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• (Chiba • COK • crazy • farting • Farts • funny • gross • history • samurai • Sengoku period • weird)

Aichi man who stole and replaced women’s shoes set free, victims too “disgusted” to press charges

• Master Blaster
  Apr 26, 2021

A rare example of someone being below the law.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • crime • gross • law • Nagakute • shoes • theft)

Pooping in supermarket checkout lands Kitakyushu man 300,000 yen fine

• Master Blaster
  Apr 23, 2021

This might be a really gross start to a brighter future for the man.

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• Japan
• (alcoholism • crazy • crime • fine • Fukuoka • gross • Kitakyushu • obstruction of justice • poop • supermarket)

We see an ad recruiting “Nose Hair Craftsmen”, get curious, visit the shop to see what it’s about

• Dale Roll
  Mar 21, 2021

What is a Nose Hair Craftsman and what does one do?

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• Japan
• (beauty • Ekibana • funny • gross • hair removal • nose hair • shinjuku)

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