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Japan’s new apartments for singles with cats let you live with the only companion you need

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2020
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Affordable studio apartments are filled with features to make your cat happy in your new home.

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• Japan
• (animals • apartments • cats • clever • COK • cool • Felissimo • Kobe • pets • Wada Kosan)

Kobe hospital robbed of 6,000 surgical masks

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2020

Mask bandits may or may not have been masked bandits.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • crime • Kobe • Kobe Red Cross Hospital • resale • resellers • surgical masks • theft)

New cat-friendly homes in Japan come specially designed for felines

• Oona McGee
  Dec 10, 2019

Features like built-in kitty litter boxes under the floor let furbabies truly rule the house you live in.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • cute • Felissimo • homes • houses • Kobe • pets • rent • weird)

Curry restaurants across Japan create social media movement: “Don’t blame the curry!”

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 20, 2019

After a shocking curry-related bullying incident, chefs took to social media to clear curry’s good name.
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• (bullying • curry • CurryDidNothingWrong • hashtags • Kobe • Teachers • twitter)

Human pyramids continue in Kobe schools as injuries mount to 51, mayor’s pleas to stop unanswered

• Master Blaster
  Oct 11, 2019

Schools refuse to stop stacking their students in the name of athletics.

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• Japan
• (education • gymnastic formations • human pyramids • kids • Kobe • kumi taiso • schools • society • Sports Day • sports festivals)

20-something Japanese woman takes junior high boy to hotel for lewd activity, gets off with fine

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2019

Internet chats lead to illegal rendezvous.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • hotel • junior high school • Kobe)

Japanese government worker fired for lying about having LESS education than he really does

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 28, 2018

College graduate said he only graduated from high school, loses job he held for 38 years.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • education • fraud • high school • Kobe • weird)

First-ever Peanuts Hotel opens in Japan, and the rooms look amazing【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

We all expected Snoopy-themed rooms to be cute, but we never imagined they’d be this stylish, and even romantic.

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• Japan
• (Charles Schulz • charlie brown • cool • cute • hotels • Kobe • Peanuts • Snoopy • travel)

Japanese thief steals thousands of dollars of fish from Kobe market, cleans up after himself

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2018

Japan’s seafood proves itself to be criminally delicious.

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• Japan
• (crime • fish • food • Kobe • sashimi • sushi • thief • weird)

JR West unveils new Japanese long distance train with special features for passengers

• Oona McGee
  May 24, 2018

This is an extra special rail experience, even by Japanese standards.

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• Japan
• (2020 • Japanese trains • JR West • Kobe • Kyoto • Osaka • tourism • tourists • trains • travel)

Snoopy-themed hotel coming to Japan in August, comes with rooms in 18 different designs

• Koh Ruide
  May 14, 2018

Cuddle up in a cozy room full of beloved Peanuts characters and the world’s most adorable beagle.

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• Japan
• (cafe • cool • hotel • Kobe • Peanuts • Restaurant • Snoopy)

Drunken salaryman’s solution to barely missing the last train: Ride on the outside of it

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2018

Kobe police fail to appreciate the capacity-boosting innovation.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • drunks • Kobe • trains • weird)

Disaster video game series resurrected with support from the Kobe Fire Department

• Evie Nyan
  Dec 2, 2017

The Zettai Zetsumei Toshi disaster survival video game series has been revived, and will be more realistic than ever before.

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• Japan
• (disaster • earthquake • Kobe • video games • zettai zetsumei toshi)

Kobe set to light up “World’s Number-One Christmas Tree” in all its confusing glory

• Master Blaster
  Nov 24, 2017

It’s soon to be official, Kobe will win Christmas this year, and with it, all of Santa’s gold.

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• Japan
• (asunaro • Christmas • Christmas tree • controversy • Kobe • Meriken Park • nature • Toyama • weird)

Happy Halloween from Japan’s largest criminal organization!

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2017

Kobe-based yakuza group beckons trick-or-treating kids with cotton candy in Frozen bags at its criminal headquarters.

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• Japan
• (candy • crime • halloween • Kobe • mobsters • weird • yakuza)

Criminal discovered living in between arcade games in a Japanese amusement arcade

• Richard Simmonds
  Aug 11, 2017

Thief managed to steal 1,230,000 yen (US$11,184) worth of stuff.

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• (amusement arcades • Arcades • crime • game centers • game centres • games • homeless • Hyogo • Kobe • thieves)

Japan’s crazy-cheap overnight Bullet Ferry gets you from Osaka to Kyushu and back for 10,000 yen

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2017

Rest your body and wallet as you travel half-way across the country in your sleep.

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• Japan
• (Beppu • boats • ferries • Kansai • Kobe • Kyushu • Oita • Osaka • travel)

Man wants to move out of his home, so takes off all clothes and walks through the neighborhood

• Master Blaster
  Jul 28, 2017

WARNING: Trying to make sense of this man’s plot may cause headaches.

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• Japan
• (crime • Kobe • moving • public nuisance • strange)

Looking for a new New Balance? Try these rare “Nyu” handmade sneakers from Japan

• Master Blaster
  Dec 22, 2016

I’m not sure how legal they are, but they’re pretty neat.

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• Japan
• (fashion • Kobe • New Balance • Nyuuz • shoes • sneakers)

All aboard the Kobe Disco Train! Runs from Tanigami to Okaba Station with a stop at Funkytown

• Master Blaster
  Nov 25, 2016

If the name is any indication, the Kobe Disco Train promises to be a more uptempo and commercially viable version of a soul train.

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• Japan
• (disco • Kobe • Kobe Disco Train • music • party • trains)

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