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One Japanese man has eaten at the same beef bowl restaurant for over 1,800 days in a row

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2024
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Five years into a life of daily Sukiya meals, how is his health holding up?

Japan
(beef bowls • COK • crazy • food • gyudon • health • restaurants • Sukiya)

Japanese elementary school installs standing sleeping pod for students to nap in【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 5, 2024

Getting enough sleep is important for good health, but commenters aren’t sure this is the best way to do it.

Japan
(crazy • education • giraffenap • health • nap • schools • sleep • sleep pod • video • weird • wellness)

The Japan Poop Society is making movements to protect people’s health

Elliot Hale
Nov 17, 2024

Japan’s unko experts prove that poop goes beyond potty humor—it might just save your life.

Japan
(crazy • funny • gross • health • Japan Unko Society • poop • science • unko • weird • wellness)

New Japanese body weight scale that also lets you play one of the best video games of all time

Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2024

You can fight the Dream Match as you fight to reach your dream weight.

Japan
(crazy • health • King of Fighters • King of Fighters '98 • SNK • tanita • technology • video games • weird • wellness)

Tea Master Anywhere service offers tea ceremony matcha meditation session anywhere in Japan

Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2024

No matter where you are, you’re in the right place for chazen, Kyoto tea seller says.

Japan
(COK • green tea • health • matcha • meditation • tea • tea ceremony • wellness)

The surprising reason natto (fermented soybeans) are hard to swallow for many Japanese surfers

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2024

Surfing can lead to natto allergies, it turns out.

Japan
(COK • fermented soybeans • food • health • jellyfish • natto • science • surfers • surfing • weird)

Japan’s new difficult-to-drink-from beer glass protects your liver, but it’s a brutal experience

Oona McGee
Jul 25, 2024

Yona Yona Ale brewer purposely takes the enjoyment out of drinking.

Japan
(beer • beer glass • COK • drinking • glasses • glassware • health • news • SNJO • taste test • Yo-Ho Brewing • Yona Yona Ale • Yona Yona Beer)

Public high school in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture will no longer take student absences into account for entrance applications

Casey Baseel
Jun 26, 2024

Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.

Japan
(COK • education • entrance exams • Gifu • health • high school • schools • society • youth)

Increasing number of Japanese people unable to squat like a yankee

Master Blaster
Jun 21, 2024

Japanese people sitting more like Yankees than yankees these days.

Japan
(Asian squat • culture • health • Japanese toilets • sitting • squatting • yankee zuwari • yankees)

Japanese spoon puts electrical field in your mouth to trick you into tasting salt, now on sale

Casey Baseel
May 24, 2024

It’s like a party in your mouth, and electricity’s invited!

Japan
(cool • crazy • food • health • interior • Kirin • Kirin Holdings • salt • science • spoons • weird)

Japan’s first-ever Yakult cafe serves a rare probiotic ice cream in the shadow of a famous castle

Oona McGee
May 20, 2024

A sacred place for shogun…and lovers of lactic acid bacteria ice cream.

Japan
(cafes • desserts • gut bacteria • health • ice cream • Ice de Yakult • lactic acid bacteria • probiotic • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tochigi • utsunomiya • Yakult • Yakult cafe)

JR, Tokyo Metro, other rails lines adding discounts for mentally handicapped riders, caregivers

Casey Baseel
Apr 13, 2024

New policy seeks to remove additional financial burden in a country where not taking the train often isn’t an option.

Japan
(COK • health • Japan Railways • JR • mental health • society • subways • Tokyo Metro • trains • transportation)

Two new fantasy creatures join the Funbaruzu posture-correcting plushie family

Shannon
Apr 8, 2024

Because sometimes it’s hard to imagine a real animal fixing your slouch.

Japan
(cute • desk toys • Funbaruzu • health • plushies • posture • stuffed animals • stuffed toy • unicorn • yeti)

Can slapping on some nose filters prevent the anguish of hay fever?

Master Blaster
Mar 27, 2024

And is the illusion of snot better than actual snot?

Japan
(allergies • band-aids • bandages • First Defense • hay fever • health • nose filter • spring)

Hay fever got you down? Doctors recommend wiggling around on the floor like a dying cockroach

Master Blaster
Feb 18, 2024

It doesn’t look any sillier than snot running out your nose.

Japan
(allergies • circulation • cockroach exercise • exercise • gokiburi taiso • hay fever • health)

Japanese study finds link between taking frequent baths and happiness, may not tell whole story

Casey Baseel
Feb 16, 2024

Which came first, the frequent soaks or the day-to-day happiness?

Japan
(bathing • baths • COK • health • society • survey • wellness)

17 percent of anime workers in survey have/have possibly had depression, other mental issues

Casey Baseel
Dec 5, 2023

Japan Animation Creators Association survey gets troubling responses.

Japan
(anime • COK • health • JAniCA • Japan Animation Creators Association • mental health • society)

Miyagi hot spring inn offering free sleep analysis as part of relaxing, health-focused stay

Dale Roll
Oct 20, 2023

Three Japanese companies are working together to help show the importance of a good night’s sleep. Read More

Japan
(COK • health • hot spring • Miyagi Prefecture • Naruko • onsen • science • sleep • sleep analysis • study • travel • vacation • wellness)

How to go buy condoms without spoiling the mood with the help of Schrödinger’s toilet and robots

Casey Baseel
Aug 25, 2023

Our newly single reporter Seiji devises and tests three methods that could only come from a mind like his.

This article is sponsored by SKYN Premium.

Japan
(COK • crazy • funny • health • Ikuna Kamezawa • relationships • romance • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • weird)

Japanese TV issues heatstroke alert, says to avoid exercise, keeps showing high school baseball game

Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2023

Baffling mixed messages during this year’s coverage of the Koshien tournament.

Japan
(COK • health • heat • heat exhaustion • heatstroke • Koshien • Koshien tournament • naitonal high school baseball tournament • society • sports • students • youth)

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