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Japanese grandmothers create “Monkey Busters” group, fight primates with airguns

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2020
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Who you gonna call? Monkey Busters!

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• Japan
• (agriculture • animals • farming • Fukui • grandmothers • Japanese macaque • monkeys • news • retiree • seniors)

Japan’s intense heat wave has killed 79 people in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2020

Public health agency pleads with one group to take simple but critical precaution against heatstroke.

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• Japan
• (air conditioner • health • heat • heat stroke • heat wave • hot • seniors • society)

82-year-old woman fights off bear in Japan: “I sent him flying”

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2020

Bear picks wrong lady to mess with in her back yard.

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• Japan
• (animal attack • animals • awesome • bears • COK • crazy • scary • seniors)

Japanese woman arrested for cyberstalking elderly man twice her age

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 6, 2020

Senior citizen says he received dozens of date requests from woman he’s never met or spoken to.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • seniors • stalkers • stalking • weird)

Old man with smartphone in Japan creates new problem with his high-risk way to shop for masks

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 16, 2020

Drug stores want seniors to stop lining up before opening hours in hope of buying face masks, but that’s led to another problem at this shop.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • drug stores • masks • seniors)

Japanese Granny shows how to elegantly get a little extra personal space for social distancing

• Katy Kelly
  Apr 11, 2020

Every little counter-measure can help…right? This one makes it natural and easy to keep a little extra distance.

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• Japan
• (clever • coronavirus • elderly • life hacks • parasols • seniors • social distancing)

Home invasion robber makes Japanese granny feed him, gives her 10 masks in return

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2020

Super-hospitable senior citizen even gives him a second helping.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • crazy • crime • home invasion • masks • robbery • senior citizens • seniors • weird)

Elderly Japanese couple’s cute restaurant anecdote brings smiles and “d’aww”s to the table

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 16, 2019

A cute Twitter observation shows that romance is like fine wine – it gets better with age.

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• Japan
• (cute • elderly • married life • moving • relationship • romance • seniors • touching)

Man stops train from leaving station in Japan, video goes viral online

• Oona McGee
  Apr 12, 2019

Elderly passenger purposely halts train and causes delay, ignoring rail staff who try to control the situation. 

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• Japan
• (Aichi • elderly • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • metro • Nagoya • news • rogai • seniors • Subway • train stations • trains • transportation • videos)

Japanese “street racer” grannie takes mobility scooter into street, blocks traffic, doesn’t care

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2019

She may be old, but she’s got all the time in the world.

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• Japan
• (cars • crazy • funny • scooter • seniors • video • weird)

Japanese teen offers to catch purse snatcher for elderly woman, but is actually helping rob her

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2018

Police catch fake hero who didn’t even try to catch thief for 73-year-old victim.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Nagoya • purse snatching • seniors • theft • youth)

Young Japanese adults in survey don’t even want to live to Japan’s average life expectancy

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2018

Most would call Japan’s famously long life expectancy a good thing, but for these Japanese women it’s more than a decade more than they want to stick around.

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• Japan
• (COK • health • life expectancy • seniors • society • survey)

Mysterious Japanese woman gives one million yen in cash to man she’s never met, then disappears

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2018

The money wasn’t meant for him, but the intended recipient has no clue who the woman is either.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • money • mystery • seniors • weird)

Japanese train travel isn’t all packed cars and gropers, old man’s flash-formed relay team proves

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2018

When this senior citizen saw someone drop their wallet in a crowded station, he used the power of teamwork to return it.

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• (COK • cool • elderly • moving • seniors • touching • trains)

Old Japanese woman gives over 80 million yen to scam artist in new case of Japan’s oldest scam

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 9, 2018

Assumption that man on the phone was her son costs senior citizen a gigantic fortune.

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• (crazy • crime • ore ore • scam • scam artists • seniors)

Japan sees huge growth in jobs in the “cleaning up the homes of old people who die alone” field

• Casey Baseel
  May 17, 2018

Demand grows more than 10 times in size in just five years as Japanese family dynamics change.

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• Japan
• (aging population • business • COK • death • elderly • seniors • society • working in Japan)

Man arrested for living in elderly woman’s home unnoticed for half a year

• Master Blaster
  May 14, 2018

Unidentified suspect is a modern-day ninja, using his powers for creepiness.

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• Japan
• (creepy • crime • Himeji • Hyogo • seniors • trespassing)

85-year-old Japanese granny wows internet with amazing piano performance【Video】

• Dale Roll
  Apr 28, 2018

She has trouble standing and taking a bow after her performance, but her hands glide like the wind across the keys.

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• Japan
• (awesome • elderly • music • piano • piano performance • seniors • video)

Elderly Japanese man goes Pokémon Go hunting at wife’s grave, offers sweet tribute to lost love

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 26, 2018

Some say the Pokémon GO craze is over, but the bond between true lovers is eternal (and in this case kind of weird).

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• Japan
• (COK • funny • moving • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • romance • seniors • Snorlax • touching • video games • weird)

81-year-old Japanese man leaps into river to save drowning 86-year-old woman

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 17, 2018

Because you’re never too old to be a hero.

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• Japan
• (accident • COK • drowning • elderly • hero • heroism • moving • river • seniors • touching)

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