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Japanese pro baseball team’s Father’s Day message misses strike zone, triggers traumatic memories
- Casey Baseel
Jun 18, 2025 - Tweet
Tokyo team asked for memories about dads and baseball, found out they’re not all good ones.
- Japan
- (baseball • COK • dads • family • Father's Day • fathers • Giants • society • sports • Yomiuri Giants)
Japan Shogi Association’s Queen’s Gambit for the future of female pro players
- Elliot Hale
Jun 14, 2025
Critics claim it’s an unfair advantage, but it’s one step closer to equality for Japan’s top women players in a male-dominated world.
- Japan
- (COK • Japan Shogi Association • JSA • Queen Hakurei • shogi • society • Tomoka Nishiyama)
Foreign tourists outnumber Japanese ones at Kyoto hotels for first time ever
- Casey Baseel
Jun 14, 2025
Japan’s former capital experiences a historic first as inbound travel boom continues and Japanese travelers avoid staying in the city.
Why you should be worried if someone calls you “Uehara-san” in the Japanese workplace
- Master Blaster
Jun 12, 2025
You got a lot of nerve calling me Mr. Uehara!
- Japan
- (business • culture • employment • harassment • Japanese language • Japanese names • slang • society • work)
Bento bankruptcies increasing as Japan’s boxed lunch shops struggle in the new dining landscape
- Casey Baseel
Jun 12, 2025
Walls are closing in for boxed lunch shops, especially small and independent ones.
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • food • restaurants • rice • rice prices • society)
With arrests of foreigners in Japan increasing, police no longer guarantee in-person translators
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2025
Getting arrested in Japan is never a good idea, but it’s about to become even more inadvisable for foreigners.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • foreigners in Japan • linguistics • society)
“Bumping men” are a uniquely Japanese class of criminals that are hard to deal with
- Master Blaster
Jun 4, 2025
This peculiar Japanese crime leaves its victims wondering what to do.
- Japan
- (assault • bumping men • butsukari otoko • COK • crime • law • society)
Fewer Japanese people traveling domestically, government blames birth rate, others blame foreign crowds, costs
- Casey Baseel
May 30, 2025
Japanese domestic travel numbers have shrunk by more than the population has.
- Japan
- (COK • foreign tourists • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)
Japanese city pays people to stand on escalators for six hours a day【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2025
Nagoya Stop and Stand Corps is looking to change escalator etiquette.
Japanese host and host clubs no longer allowed to take advantage of customer’s romantic feelings
- Casey Baseel
May 23, 2025
New law seeks to address women being pressured into prostitution to pay off host club debt.
- Japan
- (crime • host bars • host clubs • hostess bars • hostess clubs • hostesses • hosts • society)
Japan’s top agriculture politician resigns after backlash to saying he’s never paid for rice
- Casey Baseel
May 22, 2025
Bizarre remark and confusing backtracking lose politician his job in less than a week.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • inflation • politicians • rice • rice prices • society • weird)
“I have never purchased rice” – Japan’s agriculture head says he gets it for free, flip-flops
- Casey Baseel
May 21, 2025
Public dealing with rampant price increases for rice unhappy with minster’s claim he gets more than he can eat from political supporters.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • inflation • politicians • rice • rice prices • society • weird)
Japan’s Rental High School Student Project is more wholesome than it sounds, good for its community
- Casey Baseel
May 19, 2025
Program creates connections and offers help for senior citizens.
- Japan
- (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)
Angry Japanese mayor wants off-season Mt. Fuji hikers to pay costs of their rescue operations
- Casey Baseel
May 15, 2025
“They are taking Mt. Fuji too lightly.”
- Japan
- (COK • Fujinomiya • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • outdoors • rescue • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • society)
Japanese restaurant chain installs tip boxes in response to foreign tourists leaving tips, sparks debate
- Casey Baseel
May 14, 2025
Beef cutlet chain’s policy attracting a new wave of attention as inbound foreign tourist numbers and consumer prices continue to rise.
- Japan
- (culture • Gyukatsu Motomura • restaurant tips • restaurants • society • tipping)
Japanese high school ends tradition of having all students walk 85-kilometer all-night trek
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2025
Those kids are still going to be doing a lot of walking, though.
Survey asks foreign tourists what bothered them in Japan, more than half gave same answer
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2025
Lack of trash cans once again is high on the list, but not the top response.
U.K. Pavilion at Japan World Expo responds to complaints about shabby afternoon tea quality【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2025
5,000 yen for tea bags in paper cups prompts two explanatory videos from organizers.
- Japan, UK
- (afternoon tea • culture • society • tea • U.K.. Pavilion • World Expo • World Expo 2025 • world's fair)
Number of foreign students in Japan hits record high, one country accounts for over 35 percent
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2025
More students from abroad than ever before are studying in Japan, with a massive surge between the last two reporting periods.
- Japan
- (COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • schools • society • students • study in Japan • studying in Japan)
Foreign travelers’ lukewarm reactions to traditional Japanese inn food causing changes in Kyoto
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2025
Classical part of ryokan culture is fading away at some inns.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • food • hotels • inns • Japanese inns • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • society • tourism • travel)
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