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Tenga will send swimsuit models to your home to deliver sex toys and dance as part of contest
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2017 - Tweet
The self-loving products manufacturer goes above and beyond in customer service.
Resident Evil’s zombie-making Umbrella Corporation logo spotted at skin clinic in Vietnam
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2017
Will treatments leave your skin smooth and shiny, or itchy and tasty?
- SE Asia
- (funny • health • hospitals • medical • movies • Resident Evil • video gmes • Vietnam)
100 Ways to Get a Guy to Use a Condom illustrated booklet released in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jun 3, 2017
From shouting “Condom!” to more romantically delicate methods.
- Japan
- (Condoms • health • relationships • romance)
Is Japan’s custom of folding the toilet paper into a triangle for the next user unsanitary?
- Casey Baseel
Jun 2, 2017
Sure, it looks nice, but at least one hospital thinks it’s hiding a gross, unhealthy secret.
Mr. Sato tones up dramatically in five days to become a better pole dancer
- Master Blaster
Apr 25, 2017
Mr. Sato was feeling in a rut with his progression as a pole dancer, so he decided to take action and improve his core strength.
- Japan
- (Da Vinci Board • exercise • health • Mr. Sato • pole dancing)
The next evolution in pillows is here: a giant scrub brush
- Master Blaster
Mar 22, 2017
You might think a scrub brush would be a terrible thing to rest your sleepy head on, but think again.
Spice up your dental hygiene — with mint chocolate flavored toothpaste from Japan!
- Kay
Feb 14, 2017
Who ever said that brushing your teeth had to be boring?
Japanese convenience stores starting new anti-smoking measures in preparation for 2020 Olympics
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2017
The ashtrays in front of Japanese convenience stores aren’t there for people to smoke around.
Coca-Cola to release their healthiest cola ever in Japan this March
- Master Blaster
Feb 3, 2017
Although they are stopping just short of calling it an actual “health cola,” Coca-Cola Plus is the latest addition to the health-oriented cola war in Japan.
- Japan
- (Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola Plus • Cola • drinks • health • soft drinks)
Anime song fitness video series kicks off with exercise routine for the Evangelion theme【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 24, 2017
“Cruel Angel” aims to make healthy otaku.
- Japan
- (anime • anime songs • Evangelion • fitness • health • music • video)
What’s making these big, tough sumo wrestlers cringe? A tiny medical procedure, it turns out!
- Krista Rogers
Jan 17, 2017
The Japan Sumo Association pokes fun at some of its star athletes who appear to hate getting shots just as much as the rest of us.
- Japan
- (flu shot • funny • health • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • vaccinations)
Free condoms to be distributed at Comiket anime fan event in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2016
Attendees at this month’s otaku gathering can get their hands on not just art books and posters, but limited-edition prophylactics too.
- Japan
- (anime • Comiket • dojinshi • health • manga • otaku • relationships • romance • weird • Winter Comiket 2016)
Sailor Moon fights against the spread of STIs on behalf of Japan’s health ministry
- Oona McGee
Nov 22, 2016
The animated high school heroine will now appear on posters and condom packages in a bid to thwart the spread of sexually transmitted infections in Japan.
- Japan
- (anime • government • health • Japanese Government • Ministry of Health • news • Sailor Moon • STDs • STIs)
Up to 40 percent of Japanese men can’t sleep because of work
- Andrew Kane
Nov 19, 2016
A new survey reveals that a startling number of Japanese workers are literally losing sleep over their stressful jobs.
Try our crappy lifehack for “better BMs”
- Master Blaster
Nov 3, 2016
Our writer Yuichiro Wasai recently had a life-changing experience regarding the way he poops and now he wants to share it with the world.
- Japan
- (defecation • health • pain • petroleum jelly • vaseline)
Japanese politician pushing to double price of cigarettes in Japan by start of 2020 Olympics
- Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2016
Proposed tax hike aims to reduce the number of people lighting up before the Olympic flame comes to Tokyo.
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • government • health • laws • smoking • society • Tokyo Olympics)
Tokyo advertising company institutes mandatory lights-out time following employee suicide
- Casey Baseel
Oct 26, 2016
You don’t gotta go home, but you can’t stay here.
Japanese grandmother becomes hardcore Pokémon trainer, pleases doctor, worries family
- Casey Baseel
Oct 25, 2016
You’re never too old to catch Pokémon GO fever and experience the pros and cons of history’s most popular smartphone game.
- Japan
- (funny • health • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • seniors • video games)
Japanese government mulling indoor smoking ban to be introduced as early as next year
- Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2016
The pallor of smoke that covers so many restaurants and bars in Japan may become a thing of the past.
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • ban • government • health • laws • smoking • society)
Japanese mobile game has anime girls asking you detailed questions about your poop
- Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2016
“There is a life that can save in the shit,” promotional poster reminds us.
- Japan
- (anime • anthropomorphized • crazy • funny • gross • health • video • video games • weird)
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