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Japan to make foreign driver’s license conversions more difficult, exclude tourists from eligibility

• Master Blaster
  Jul 11, 2025
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Tests to become more like regular Japanese license exams, which is to say, crazy hard.

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• Japan
• (cars • COK • diver's license exams • driver's license • gaimen kaigan • Getting a driver’s license in Japan the hard way • international driver's license • law • National Police Agency • society)

Summer in Japan doesn’t sound like summer in Japan right now

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2025

There’s something missing from Japan’s summer soundscape.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • culture • science • society • summer)

Rental grandma service growing in Japan, can help cook or break up with boyfriends

• Master Blaster
  Jul 8, 2025

Get a grandma delivered right to your door.

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• Japan
• (aging population • crazy • grandmothers • obaachan • OK Obaachan • rental grandma • rental service • seniors • society • weird)

Lucifers Japanese street gang holds official disbanding ceremony inside police station

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2025

Now-former gangsters promise to stop raising hell.

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• Japan
• (crime • gang • society • weird)

Hachiji juppun mae – A Japanese phrase that even Japanese people can’t agree on the meaning of

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 2, 2025

Survey results show big gap in how younger and older respondents interpreted this seemingly simple phrase.

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• Japan
• (COK • Japanese language • language • learning japanese • linguistics • society • weird)

Elementary and junior high students speak out on Japan’s strangest school rules

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 21, 2025

Underwear must be a certain color, or if in gym class, removed entirely.

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• (COK • crazy • dress code • education • elementary school • hair color • Japanese education system • Japanese elementary schools • Japanese junior high schools • japanese school • Japanese school uniforms • junior high school • kids • school rules • schools • society • students • survey • underwear • weird • youth)

All you need to know about Japan’s unasked-for restaurant appetizers that you have to pay for

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 21, 2025

Otoshi is a unique part of Japan’s restaurant culture that can feel like a scam if you’re not ready for it.

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• Japan
• (appetizers • COK • culture • food • izakaya • Japanese language • linguistics • otoshi • pubs • restaurants • SNO • society)

Japanese pro baseball team’s Father’s Day message misses strike zone, triggers traumatic memories

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2025

Tokyo team asked for memories about dads and baseball, found out they’re not all good ones.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (COK • hotels • Kyoto • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)

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!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (cazy • escalators • etiquette • funny • manners • Nagoya • society • video • weird)

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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)

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