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Widespread anime support and expansion initiatives planned by Japanese government

• Master Blaster
  Apr 16, 2025
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Let’s hope they really mean it this time.

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• Japan
• (Agency for Cultural Affairs • anime • COK • education • government • manga • Public-Private Council on the Content Industry • society)

University of Tokyo announces new department with all classes taught in English

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2025

Japan’s most prestigious university adds its first new department in nearly 70 years as it strives for greater internationalization.

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• Japan
• (colleges • education • internationalization • schools • society • study in Japan • universities • University of Tokyo)

Japan’s job-quitting service gets four new customers on first day of work

• Master Blaster
  Apr 4, 2025

Sometimes, you just know it’s not a fit.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • Momuri • society • working in Japan)

Japanese bar district to get bilingual wristbands to help start/avoid conversations while drinking

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2025

There are more than 600 bars and pubs in Noge, and these wristbands seek to help you find one that’s just right for you.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • bars • clever • COK • Noge • pubs • society • Yokohama)

What are you supposed to do with your backpack on a crowded train in Japan?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2025

“People wearing their backpacks on their backs” and “people holding their backpacks in front of them” both rank high on list of train riders’ annoyances.

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• Japan
• (COK • etiquette • manners • society • subways • tourism • trains • travel)

Mr. Sato is sorry for not taking your compliment well

• Master Blaster
  Mar 26, 2025

Our reporter’s done a lot of work on his outside. Now, it’s time for the inside.

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• Japan
• (clothing • compliments • fashion • manners • Mr. Sato • politeness • shyness • society)

Japan abolishes skirts from policewoman uniforms nationwide

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2025

After nearly a half-century run, skirts to no longer be part of uniforms.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fashion • police • police uniforms • skirts • society)

A century of love – How dating and marriage have evolved in Japan

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 22, 2025

From arranged marriages to dating apps, relationships in Japan have gone through a big transformation over the last 100 years.

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• Japan
• (arranged marriage • COK • culture • dating • history • marriage • relationships • romance • society)

Is “Nagoya skipping” a cause of the exodus of young people from the city?

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 22, 2025

Data suggests that a relative lack of live music and performances is a contributing factor as to why many young people move to Tokyo or Osaka.

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• Japan
• (Aichi Prefecture • concerts • music • Nagoya • Nagoya-skipping • society)

Japan’s new trading card game hit has pictures of real-life middle-aged men on every card【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2025

“Ojisan trading card game” brings smiles to young and old in Fukuoka town.

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• Japan
• (card games • collectible card games • collectible cards • crazy • funny • moving • society • touching • trading card games • trading cards • video • weird)

American reporter blown away by cheap food prices at Tokyo baseball stadium, locals less impressed

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2025

With foreign media in town for the Major League Baseball season opener, Tokyo Dome’s concession stands shine bright.

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• Japan
• (baseball • drinks • food • Major League Baseball • society • sports • Tokyo Dome • video)

People in Tokyo found over 4 billion yen in lost cash last year and turned it in to the police

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2025

Apparently there’s a whole lot of money just lying around in Japan’s capital.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • lost and found • lost money • lost property • society)

As more foreign visitors visit Kyoto’s top sights, Japanese travelers increasingly staying away

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2025

Study finds locals avoiding famous temples and other spots booming with overseas tourists, heading elsewhere instead.

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

People in Japan are eating a lot less fish now than they used to, but why?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 19, 2025

Japan’s per-person fish consumption has dropped by almost 50 percent in just a generation.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • fish • food • seafood • society)

What jobs would make a woman an attractive wife to Japanese men?【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 16, 2025

Survey asks men to pick professions they’d like for a woman they’d like to marry.

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• Japan
• (COK • dating • marriage • relationships • romance • society • survey)

Do Japanese kids need to wear special slippers at school? One part of Tokyo doesn’t think so

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2025

Uwabaki are becoming less and less common in Minato Ward.

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• Japan
• (education • schools • shoes • slippers • society • uwabaki)

American tourist arrested in Japan on charges of pushing sexual services worker down stairs

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2025

Senior citizen arrested at ski resort three hours away from fuzoku establishment where incident allegedly took place.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fuzoku • Japanese language • Japanese linguistics • linguistics • society)

Thousands of convenience stores in Japan to end sale of print magazines this spring

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2025

Move comes as one in four municipalities in Japan has no bookstore.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • Lawson • magazines • physical media • society)

As many Japanese elementary school kids want to be VTubers as schoolteachers in survey

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2025

VTuber passes YouTuber on list of jobs kids say they want to do when they grow up.

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• Japan
• (anime • kids • manga • society • survey • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • youth • YouTubers)

Young Japanese adults show lowest dating experience level yet in annual survey

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2025

But just because they haven’t dated anyone yet doesn’t mean that don’t want to.

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• Japan
• (COK • dating • O-net • relationships • romance • society • survey)

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