SoraNews24 —Japan News—

Pikachu wants you to get some sleep, and the new Pokémon Home system will allow you to transfer Pocket Monster species from one game to another via cloud memory.

Japan
(cool • health • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokémon Home • Pokémon Sleep • sleep • video)

Man pulled over in Japan for drunk driving claims his body “produces alcohol”

Master Blaster
May 27, 2019

A convenient excuse or an inconvenient truth?

Japan
(auto brewery syndrome • auto fermentation syndrome • crazy • crime • drunk • drunk driving • endogenous ethanol fermentation • health • science • weird)

Massive menstrual flow character will be Japan’s newest movie star

Casey Baseel
Feb 14, 2019

Seiri-chan is making the leap from manga protagonist to the movie screen, and in a live-action adaptation.

Japan
(anime • crazy • funny • health • Live action • manga • Seiri-chan • weird)

Japanese breast size study shows rapid growth in previously smallest-busted region of county

Casey Baseel
Feb 13, 2019

Meanwhile, Japan’s cultural capital, Kyoto, experiences dramatic downsizing.

Japan
(COK • health • society • survey)

Seiji starts a new health regimen with Oronamin C, straight from a plastic bottle faucet

Master Blaster
Jan 9, 2019

We’ve come to terms with Seiji’s new obsession.

Japan
(disaster preparedness • drinks • faucet • health • Oronamin C • plastic bottle • Seiji Nakazawa)

Japanese students’ eyesight the worst in recent years, smartphones and mobile games are blamed

Koh Ruide
Dec 24, 2018

A potential heavy price to pay for convenience and entertainment?

Japan
(children • health • mobile games • smartphone • smartphone games • students • vision)

Curry rice king Coco Ichi removes 80 percent of rice, replaces it with something else in new dish

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2018

For those times when you really want curry, but don’t really want rice.

Japan
(carbohydrates • coco ichi • coco ichibanya • curry • food • health • restaurants • rice)

Mr. Sato tries a unique method to compellingly call in sick to work【Video】

Master Blaster
Nov 18, 2018

Some people bend over backwards at work. Others bend over backwards to get out of work.

Global, Japan
(bend over backwards • bridge • calling in sick to work • health • Mr. Sato • sickness • work)

Win a large intestine scarf from one of Japan’s leading enema manufacturers

Master Blaster
Nov 9, 2018

This is your one chance to enter something of Mune Pharmaceutical’s, rather than the other way around.

Japan
(contest • crazy • enema • fashion • funny • health • large intestine • Mune Pharmaceutical • scarves • weird)

Survey picks “thin” as second-least-attractive body type for Japanese women

Casey Baseel
Oct 2, 2018

Heavier body type picked as cutest for second year in a row.

Japan
(beauty • COK • fashion • health • society • survey • weight)

This ad for Ueno Clinic makes no sense… until you realize what the clinic specializes in【Video】

Master Blaster
Oct 1, 2018

Whoever conceived this commercial deserves some kind of award.

Japan
(advertising • commercial • health • medicine • Ueno Clinic • Uenoman • wtf)

Young Japanese adults in survey don’t even want to live to Japan’s average life expectancy

Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2018

Most would call Japan’s famously long life expectancy a good thing, but for these Japanese women it’s more than a decade more than they want to stick around.