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Japanese high school students build crazy wooden roller coaster at school festival【Video】
- Oona McGee
Sep 15, 2019 - Tweet
Yes, the slide is built on school desks stacked on top of each other, but that just makes the ride even more thrilling.
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- (high school • high school students • Japanese high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • roller coasters • school festival • schools • videos)
Real-life high school from Kyoto Animation’s Sound! Euphonium wins gold medal at band competition
- Casey Baseel
Aug 8, 2019
Brass band which assisted artists from arson-struck anime studio puts thoughts for the fallen into their performance.
- Japan
- (anime • arson • brass band • crime • high schools • Kyoto • Kyoto Animation • moving • music • schools • Sound! Euphonium • touching)
Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students with non-black hair to dye it, official promises
- Casey Baseel
Aug 3, 2019
Pledge comes in the wake of 2.2 million-yen lawsuit from naturally brown-haired schoolgirl in Osaka.
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- (Black Hair • COK • dyed hair • education • hair • schools • schools rules • society • Tokyo)
Pokémon Company loosens copyright grip, starts free-to-use-art program for schools, day care
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2019
Over 100 illustrations allow kids, teachers, and children’s hospital staff to create smiles and curiosity with the beloved anime/video game characters.
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- (anime • art • cool • education • illustration • kids • moving • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Illustration Lab • schools • society • touching • video games)
Japanese high school will suspend students who don’t reveal their social media account names
- Casey Baseel
Apr 17, 2019
Schoolgirl’s teacher says that if she doesn’t like being monitored online, she can drop out of school instead.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • education • school rules • schools • social media)
This nonconformist Japanese schoolgirl is ready for any bullies who tease her about her backpack
- Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2019
Mom was worried about other kids teasing her six-year-old, but this kid is wise (and tough) beyond her years.
Don’t like trigonometry? Then you’re just like Hitler, says Japanese high school English teacher
- Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2019
Further proof that any argument will eventually have someone call the other person a Nazi.
Japanese middle school teacher kisses her student at Tokyo Disneyland during date, gets fired
- Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2019
A real-world ending follows their Magic Kingdom kiss.
Japanese schoolgirl points out an especially dumb part of her school’s “no tights” dress code
- Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2019
The rule is supposed to be for everybody, but it’s really only the girls who have to follow it.
- Japan
- (COK • dress code • schholgirls • school rules • schools • society • tights • uniforms)
Japanese high school students go viral with perfect Pixar logo performance 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Feb 4, 2019
Just like the animated logo at the start of a Pixar movie, only funnier.
- Japan
- (cute • high school students • Japanese high school • LOL • movies • Pixar • schools • students • twitter • videos)
Bizarre English test in Japan asks students about winged vegetables, launches new meme
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2019
Say hello to the Four Heavenly Kings of Center Listening.
- Japan
- (Center Test • crazy • education • english language • entrance exams • funny • illustration • linguistics • schools • universities • weird)
Japanese teacher punches high school boy in the face, social media is still on his side【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2019
“Well, yeah, of course you’re gonna get punched if you talk to someone that way.”
- Japan
- (Corporal punishment • education • high school • scandal • schools • Teachers • video • violence)
“Short skirts cause sexual assaults” according to Japanese school uniform poster
- Oona McGee
Jan 19, 2019
Poster implies that female students are to blame for groping.
- Japan
- (chikan • groping • high school girls • Japanese schools • MeToo • School Uniforms • schools • sexual assault • sexual harassment • students)
Educator offers advice for Japanese schoolgirls who get asked out by their teachers
- Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2019
”Trash” is the lesson’s keyword.
Japanese school bans non-white masks for students, teacher can’t believe dumb waste of time
- Casey Baseel
Jan 5, 2019
Dress code detail is a waste of time to even discuss, frustrated junior high teacher says.
Which one is former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn? Japanese students surprised by test question
- Oona McGee
Dec 20, 2018
Perhaps Freddie Mercury or Mr Bean were really in charge of the Japanese car company.
- Japan
- (Carlos Ghosn • exams • Freddie Mercury • Japanese schools • Japanese students • LOL • Mr Bean • news • nissan • schools • tests)
Japanese school has ridiculous reason for not letting cold schoolgirl wear tights under her skirt
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2018
Mom suspects staff might just be a bunch of perverts.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • education • Parenting • school rules • schoolgirls • schools)
Idol draws such massive crowds at Tokyo college that police can’t guarantee safety【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2018
When once-in-a-millennium idol Kanna Hashimoto is stopping by, crowd control in a must.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • coleges • crazy • Idols • Kanna Hashimoto • schools • universities • video)
Japanese student told they will be penalized for not using a ruler to draw multiplication lines
- Master Blaster
Nov 22, 2018
Japanese schools continue in their quest to make math as annoying and tedious as possible.
- Japan
- (crazy • education • handwriting • math • penmanship • ruler • school • schools • Teachers)
9+3=12? Nope, that’s wrong, says Japanese kid’s elementary school, thanks to “cherry calculation”
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2018
Stupidly rigid rules dangle down to infuriate older brother.
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