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Student trolls classmates, teachers for entire year with fake Japanese accent 【Video】

Andrew Kane
Nov 17, 2016
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See this half-Japanese student reveal his prank in this surprising finale to a video series in which he documents an elaborate social experiment.

Japan, USA
(funny • high school • troll • vlog)

Japanese high school student shows how to recreate cute hairstyle from hit anime Your Name

Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2016

Because there’s nobody better to show us how to style our hair like an animated high school girl than a real-life high school girl.

Japan
(anime • cosplay • cute • fashion • hair • hair styles • high school • high school girl • high school student • how to • Makoto Shinkai • video tutorial • videos • your name.)

Cosplay like an angelic student in a winged Japanese schoolgirl uniform

Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2016

With two colours to choose from, this is the most unique sailor uniform we’ve ever seen!

Japan
(cosplay • costumes • cute • funny • halloween • high school • Japanese girls • japanese schoolgirl • sailor suit • sailor uniform • school • School Uniforms • schoolgirl • students)

No more miniskirts? Changes happening in Japanese schoolgirl uniform fashion trends

Casey Baseel
Sep 13, 2016

New generation shows new tastes in subtly personalizing school uniforms, according to survey.

Japan
(fashion • high school • School Uniforms • schoolgirls • teens • uniforms • youth)

Japan’s first drone high school course to begin next year, teaches piloting, law, and more

Master Blaster
Aug 5, 2016

Vantan High School tries to get ahead of the increasing use of drones and robotics in industry and may have become the coolest high school in Japan as a result.

Japan
(drones • education • high school • Vantan)

Female high school students continue to be banned on baseball field at Koshien Stadium in Japan

Oona McGee
Aug 4, 2016

Baseball tournament officials defend the ban on female students as a necessary measure to help protect their safety.

Japan
(baseball • gender equality • gender issues • high school • high school baseball • Koshien • Koshien Stadium • news • sport)

High school student expelled for having sex, sues school for 6 million yen

Master Blaster
Jun 28, 2016

Someone’s getting excessively punished here and its up to the courts to decide who.

Japan
(dating • expulsion • high school • law • lawsuit • punishment • Sendai)

New Twitter trend: High school girls posing in noodle restaurants

Anime News Network
Apr 18, 2016

The Japanese noodle restaurant chain Marugame Seimen, which specializes in udon (thick wheat noodles), has started a social media marketing campaign targeted at high school-age girls, JK Udon Kawaii (“High School Girls Udon Cute”).

Culture, Cute, Japan
(high school • Japanese trend • Kawaii • Noodles • pose)

Japanese schoolgirl says education is pointless, gets schooled in debate on Twitter

Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2016

Internet users offer counterpoints that suggest disgruntled high school student may, in fact, not know everything.

Culture, Internet, Japan
(education • high school • society • twitter • youth)

Japanese school bids farewell to graduating students with amazing Naruto tennis court sand art

Scott Wilson
Mar 3, 2016

It’s time for all the seniors to find their own “way of the ninja!”

Japan
(art • graduation • high school • high school graduation • Luffy • Naruto • tennis)

Mother’s note to son in the final bento of his high school life gives Twitter the feels

Evie Nyan
Jan 30, 2016

When this high-school kid opened up the last hand-made bento lunch of his high school life, he found a note from his mother with a sweet and surprising message…

Japan
(bento • high school • parents)

Train continues to stop at rural station for lone schoolgirl until she graduates in March

Oona McGee
Jan 12, 2016

The story of the lone schoolgirl and the country train that takes her to school every day is capturing hearts around the world.

Japan
(heartwarming • high school • Hokkaido • JK • joshi kosei • Rural Japan • train stations • trains)

Life imitating anime: Japanese people tell us about their most “anime” moments

Mike
Nov 30, 2015

14 Japanese volunteers tell us about moments in their lives that seemed to come straight out of an anime.

Japan
(anime • culture • high school • romance • Surveys)

Japanese high school boys hold annual beauty pageant, look as cute as ever【Pics】

Scott Wilson
Oct 29, 2015

Beauty pageants for boys dressed up as girls are kind of a thing in Japan now. Whether you think they’re awesome or kind of confusing, you can’t help but admit that the entrants usually manage to pull off the cute girl look surprisingly well.

This month marks the annual Miss Komaba High School Pageant, a contest that has been going on for several years now and which invites young men to dress like their female peers . Last year’s contestants were pretty good, but can this year’s pretty boys give them a run for their money? Let’s find out!

Japan
(beautiful boys • beauty contest • beauty pageant • crossdressing • high school • highschool girls • photos)

Can you spot what’s odd about this Japanese classroom?【Video】

Scott Wilson
Oct 20, 2015

Japanese commercials are known all over the world for being just as entertaining as the programs they interrupt. Whether they’re ridiculously cute, heartbreakingly sad, a little confusing, or nightmare-inducingly bizarre, most commercials have something special going on.

So what about this commercial? It looks so normal at first; it’s just a bunch of high school girls hanging out in a classroom, playing a guitar, reading, whatever. But then, right in the middle, something happens. Watch it for yourself and see if you can figure it out before the reveal!

Japan
(beautiful boys • commercial • crossdressing • high school • Japanese high school • surprise • video)

Second-year Japanese high school student creates amazingly realistic dioramas

Jamie Koide
Oct 9, 2015

When I was in high school I thought I was pretty good at drawing, only to take a look at some of my work 10 years later and realize how hideous most of it looked. In fact, it’s more than a little embarrassing how proud I was back then over a couple of notebooks of ugly doodles.

But unlike myself, there are some really creative young artists out there producing top-notch work in between classes and studying. One recent example currently circulating the Japanese web is a collection of intricate dioramas put together by a second-year high school student.

Internet, Japan
(art • cool • dioramas • high school • miniatures • twitter)

High school students’ teacup ride blows up online, looks more fun than the Disneyland one

Preston Phro
Oct 6, 2015

For many of our readers, the “culture festivals” held at high schools and colleges will already be familiar thanks to their prevalence in anime and TV dramas produced in Japan. Even if you’ve never been to Japan yourself, you probably already know that the classes turn their rooms into fun little shops, offering food and entertainment for their families, friends, alumni fellow students and teachers.

While most of them aren’t particularly elaborate, every now and then, a class with will show up with a project that goes above and beyond. This year, one of those projects exploded online, capturing the attention of thousands of Twitter users. The idea? The students made their own “tea cup” ride! It’s just like what you’d see at Disneyland, but entirely mechanical and way, way more awesome!

Internet, Japan
(bunkasai • culture festival • high school • tea cup ride • twitter • video)

Japanese high school teacher’s scathing, two-foot-long note to students is nothing short of epic

Meg Murphy
Oct 3, 2015

Being a teacher is one of the most rewarding yet difficult jobs one can do; on the one hand, you’re helping to shape the next generation, and you get to help kids learn and grow. On the other hand, though, kids will be kids, and you’ll always have those one or two students who really know how to get under your skin.

Even the most patient teacher has their limit—they’re still human after all. Like this Japanese high school teacher, who apparently had it “up to here” with students spitting their gum out on the floor. So what did he do? Wrote a scathing note of epic proportions and pinned it to the wall for all to see.

Japan
(angry notes • education • funny • high school • teaching • twitter)

Japanese high school baseball players are all class, immediately clean stadium after road loss

Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2015

Any good athlete obviously needs some measure of speed, strength, and stamina, but the list of necessities starts getting much longer if we’re talking about good student athletes. Youth sports are supposed to be as much about developing character as physical skills, so any proper high school athletic program should want its players to be just as dedicated to sportsmanship and integrity as they are to on-the-field performance.

That’s why we think Fukuoka Prefecture’s Kyushu International University Senior High School (called Kyukoku for short) is doing a fine job with its baseball team, since after a heartbreaking loss on the road, players from Kyukoku immediately started cleaning the stadium.

Japan
(baseball • cool • culture • high school • sports • youth)

Boy entering all-girls high school creates real-life harem anime

Scott Wilson
Apr 10, 2015

Any guy who’s watched a harem anime before – one where a single male is surrounded by many women – has probably giggled to himself about what it would be like to be in a similar situation himself. Would it be nonstop abuse like in Love Hina? Would there be crazy love-triangles like in Tenchi Muyo?

Well one boy gets to find out for real! A former women’s high school in Yamagata Prefecture recently opened its doors to non-female students, and this month at the start of the new school year welcomed its first male student for the first time in its 118 year existence.