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While Japanese coin box toys feature sweet cats who kindly take your change for safekeeping, real cats like this prefer to do other things with your money!

Japan
(animals • cats • coins • cute • cute pets • cute. cats • funny • Itazura Bank • Itazura Kitty • LOL • money • money case • pets • piggy bank • twitter)

Cat has Internet in stitches after getting itself stuck in awkward position

Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2016

And now the hilarious kitty is popping up in memes across the Internet.

Japan
(animals • cats • cute • cute pets • cute. cats • funny • LOL • pets • twitter)

Cosplay like a cool cat with an ultra-realistic, giant cat head from Japan!

Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2016

The surprising heads have an equally surprising price tag.

Japan
(animals • cats • cool • cosplay • Cosplay costume • Cosplay Fashion • cosplayers • cute • cute. cats • fashion • funny • LOL • masks • pets • wtf)

Pets get mouse ear makeovers thanks to trending app in Japan

Oona McGee
Jul 28, 2016

The popular app is sweeping through the country, transforming dogs and cats into cute new creatures with round and furry mouse-style ears.

Japan
(animals • apps • cats • cute • cute pets • Cymera • dogs • funny • LOL • pets)

Show your love of Japanese cuisine with cute range of sushi backpacks

Oona McGee
Jun 29, 2016

Bring the crazy spirit of Harajuku fashion culture to your wardrobe by adding a giant slice of raw fish to your outfit.

Japan
(backpacks • bags • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • cute • Harajuku • Japanese cuisine • Japanese food • LOL • sushi • travel)

Cute cat surprises owner with ability to walk through walls

Oona McGee
Jun 28, 2016

This kitten won’t let anything get between him and his human.

Japan
(animals • cats • cute • cute. cats • funny • funny Japanese • Japanese screen door • LOL • pets • shoji)

Peacocking peafowl poses prettily as patrons patiently pray to pee

Oona McGee
Jun 28, 2016

The bird caught sight of its glorious self in the mirror and now there’s no chance of anyone else using the restroom.

Japan
(animals • cute • funny • LOL • peacocks • zoos)

Japanese boy charms the internet after buying McDonald’s meal all by himself

Oona McGee
Jun 28, 2016

The young boy is melting hearts for navigating his way back to the car while carrying his meal out of the store and into the street on a tray.

Japan
(baseball • burgers • cute • fast food • funny • kids • LOL • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • twitter)

Pigeon cuts in line, casually boards train in Japan【Video】

Oona McGee
Oct 27, 2015

A lot has been written about Japan’s incredible train culture. From carriages dressed up as anime characters to people who band together to rescue a fellow commuter, you don’t even have to get on a train to experience all the action; you can see it all first-hand from the platform itself.

That’s what one commuter found when they stumbled upon this little guy while waiting for the train in Japan. Caught on video, it shows an adventurous pigeon who doesn’t even flinch when the train arrives, instead walking up to the passenger doors, waiting for them to open and then hopping on board to find a seat.

Japan
(birds • funny • GIF • LOL • train station • trains • video)

Cooking pizza in a burning cardboard box, and other unconventional recipes

Jamie Koide
Oct 2, 2015

Cookpad is easily the largest community cooking website for getting new Japanese recipes to try out in the kitchen. Started in 1997, it grew to be so popular that two years ago it expanded its user base by launching an English version.

It goes without saying that you can find a dish for pretty much anything you have lying around in your kitchen, but because most of the recipes are posted by amateurs, you might have to weed some of the stranger ones out by taking a look at their reviews.

Fortunately there seems to be a whole crew of users willing and waiting to take a hit for the team and try out the latest recipe, including a recently posted recipe for making pizza that requires putting the uncooked crust and toppings inside a box and setting the box on fire. How does it measure up? One net user decided to photograph and review the process.

Internet, Japan
(camping • cooking • Cookpad • LOL • meat • pizza • recipes • twitter • wtf)

It seems like everyone in Japan wants this pillow featuring a famous sumo wrestler’s butt

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Dec 4, 2014

In the past year, sumo wrestler Endō Shōta has been busy outside the ring, showing up in special edition photo booths and using his muscular arms to carry contest winners like a princess. Now, this 24-year-old rising star has been making his way into Japanese homes in the form of a pillow. Featuring Endo in his work attire, this limited release pillow was only given out to five thousand lucky winners, who weren’t shy about showing off their love for this young man’s backside.

Japan
(freebie • LOL • pillow • Sumo)

Japanese student draws functional QR code on school chalkboard, you’ll never guess where it leads

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Nov 6, 2014

QR codes, with their seemingly arbitrary jumble of black and white squares, are popping up on all sorts of packaging and advertisements, allowing consumers to quickly and easily access a specific website on their smartphone. As common as they have become, we’ve never seen a QR code completely hand drawn on a chalkboard, but here we have one, carefully created by a student in Japan. The best part? The website it leads to is just as random as the decision to recreate a QR code using chalk.

Japan
(funny • high school • LOL • qr code • technology)

Misleading packaging strikes again! iPhone cable unexpectedly comes up short

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Nov 4, 2014

Don’t you just hate it when you open up a bag of chips only to find that one third of the air-filled bag actually contains greasy goodness. Or how about when you crack open a box of cookies and are greeted with cardboard on both ends, squishing the available cookie space in half. Oh, the disappointment! Well get ready for a similar tale of a girl who thought she was buying a long lightning cable, but found that the product fell short of her expectations after opening it.

Japan
(fail • LOL • packaging)

She just popped up from your toilet paper to say hello!

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Oct 23, 2014

Usually when you walk into a public restroom and see something out of the ordinary, it’s almost always the bad sort of surprise. Dirty floors, toilet seats with an extra bit of yellow, and much, much worse are just a part of the risk you take when entering an area complete strangers use to do their business. But one Twitter user got a different sort of surprise when she walked in to a bathroom stall and saw a face staring back.

Japan
(LOL • prank • toilet paper)

Japanese company creates ball-balancing cheerleader robots

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 27, 2014

Japan has an infatuation with robots; after all, you don’t see beautiful cyborg women hanging out in restaurants in the US or 24-fingered hair washing bots in the UK. That’s why we weren’t surprised at all to find that Japan has just produced a gang of cheerleading robots that dance in sync while balancing on a ball.

Japan
(cheerleading • LOL • robot • weird)

Japanese MLB player gains even more fans because of his silly (and totally awesome) dancing【Video】

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 14, 2014

Munenori Kawasaki currently plays for the Toronto Blue Jays as a shortstop. Originally from Japan, Kawasaki is a pretty good player who bats left, throws right, and has a .294 batting average. However, it’s not his baseball skills that have gotten him a lot of attention around the world and online recently. No, Kawasaki’s willingness to bust a move on and off the field are what everyone’s talking about right now.

Canada, Internet, Japan, USA
(Blue Jays • dancing • LOL • MLB • Munenori Kawasaki)

Japan already has an Apple Watch and it’s even cooler than Tim Cook’s version

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 11, 2014

Apple just announced its new generation of gadgets, including a smartwatch called the Apple Watch. Not wanting to wait for its 2015 release, Japanese Twitter user Shoji Hiromichi decided to make his own…out of a real apple.