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The first question to a visitor from the future who could tell us about medical and technological breakthroughs? That’s right, it was about boobs.

Japan
(funny • future • Okayama • predictions • time travel • twitter • weird)

This super-rare Japanese banana has edible skin!【Taste test】

Dale Roll
Dec 21, 2017

We get our hands on the mystical Mongee Banana.

Japan
(bananas • crazy • edible fruit skin • food • fruit • Okayama • taste test • weird)

Japanese elves bring us a new snack cake with the great taste of old meat!

Master Blaster
Aug 5, 2015

Japan never ceases to be the country of making something taste exactly like something it shouldn’t. In the land where you can get kimchi-flavored soft drinks and spaghetti-flavored ice candy, it would seem food companies are really just drunk with power when it comes to what they can and will make stuff taste like.

And now we have “the perfect snack cake for any meat-lover,” Momotan Aged Meat Flavored snacks. It’s in the form of a typical Japanese confection called manju with a cake-like outer coating and sweet been paste filling. However, these Momotan manju are heavily seasoned to make you swear you were eating a morsel of month-old meat instead!

Japan
(aged meat • food • manju • Momotan • National Depart • Okayama • souvenir • wtf)

I scream, you scream, we all scream at “Soft Susheam”

Master Blaster
Jul 14, 2015

If you’re thinking that one “would have to be out of their ever-lovin’ mind to mix sushi and soft serve ice cream,” then you’re not alone; that’s exactly what our reporter Nakano thought when he spotted an item called “Soft Susheam” on the menu of an Iwasaka sushi train restaurant in Okayama City. And yet, like a moth to a flame, he found himself unable to resist its lure.

Could something which sounded like a cross between soft-serve ice cream and sushi – two foods which, when served alone, have always been true crowd-pleasers – really work? Nakano simply had to find out.

Japan
(food • ice cream • Okayama • sushi • Sushi Train)

Man kidnaps, imprisons 11-year-old to raise her to be his “ideal girl”

Jessica
Jul 22, 2014

If you’ve been in Japan over the last week, you’ve no doubt heard about the young girl in Okayama Prefecture who disappeared on her way home from school on the 14th. While a story like this all too often ends in tragedy, in this case, the girl was found unharmed five days later, confined at the home of a 49-year-old local man, Takeshi Fujiwara.

Fujiwara was arrested on charges of kidnapping and illegal confinement and now details are beginning to emerge from the questioning about his creepy, creepy motives.

Japan
(creepy • crime • kidnapping • Okayama)

Okayama students! Ready yer breakfast and eat hearty, Fer lunch ye dine upon wild boar and deer!

Master Blaster
Jan 29, 2014

In an unprecedented piece of school lunch policy for Japan, four schools in Mimasaka, Okayama are serving soups containing wild boar and deer as a part of their lunch program. It would seem the scheme is intended to both teach children about local food sources and decrease a “nuisance” to the local environment.

Japan
(boar • deer • Japan School Lunch • Okayama)

Supermarket rampage leaves 103 groceries in critical condition

Master Blaster
Sep 8, 2013

A tragic scene unfolded in a supermarket in Kurashiki, Okayama last Thursday as 32-year-old Shinji Kuroki went on a mass poking and squishing rage inside. Details of the total damage are sketchy but we received reports that packs of meat had holes poked in them with a finger and loaves of bread have been seen lying on the ground, smashed in cold blood.