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Japanese city paints well-known prostitution street bright yellow, adds fish art【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 11, 2024
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Osaka thinks it has a bright idea to combat tachinbo.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Osaka • society • tachinbo • video • weird)

Shibuya’s Hachiko statue will be covered up for New Year’s Eve, pedestrian barricades installed

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2024

Shibuya Ward really doesn’t want people crowding the neighborhood to ring in 2025.

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• Japan
• (COK • countdown • Hachiko • Hachiko statue • New Year's • New Year's Eve • Shibuya • Shibuya New Year's • Shibuya Scramble • Shibuya Station • society)

Tough times for Japanese pubs as izakaya bankruptcies come at highest rate in more than a decade

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 6, 2024

More Japanese pubs are declaring bankruptcy now than in any year of the pandemic, study says.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • COK • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • society)

Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

• Master Blaster
  Nov 28, 2024

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fraud • Organized crime • social media • society • weird • yakuza • yami baito • yamibaito)

Japan’s workplace drinking party communication is unnecessary, says majority of workers in survey

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2024

A long-standing part of Japanese work culture may have passed the tipping/tipple point, especially in women’s eyes.

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• Japan
• (business • COK • drinking parties • nominication • society • survey • working in Japan)

How often do Japanese people search for their ex online?【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 26, 2024

And are they happy with what they find?

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

Celebrating Good Couple’s Day in Japan…by getting our significant others to dress us

• SoraNews24
  Nov 23, 2024

You don’t want to be in an argument when your partner has control of your outfit of the day.

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• (COK • Couple's Day • couple's outfits • couples • good couples day • love • married couples • romance • SNJO • society • working in Japan)

Japan’s biggest manga magazine is raising its minimum payment rate for creators

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 20, 2024

New manga artists will be earning more for their work at Weekly Shonen Jump.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • manga • Shonen Jump • Shueisha • society • Weekly Shonen Jump)

After cancelling Halloween, Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood cancels New Year’s Eve too

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 14, 2024

More than 100,000 people used to party in the Shibuya Scramble of New Year’s Eve.

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• Japan
• (COK • countdown • New Year's • New Year's Eve • Shibuya • Shibuya Scramble • society)

Japanese job-quitting service contacted by other job-quitting service because employee wants to quit

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 13, 2024

The circle completes itself.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • job-quitting proxy • job-quitting service • society • taishoku daikou • weird • working in Japan)

Doujinshi manga/anime chain announces moratorium on Visa/Mastercard credit card payments

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 12, 2024

Melonbooks announces change to payment options, even orders already placed may be affected.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • dojinshi • doujinshi • manga • Melon Books • Melonbooks • otaku • society)

Tokyo’s expensive fountain construction plans making waves among the Japanese public

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 12, 2024

Tensions are in danger of overflowing due to the project’s massive projected expenses.

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• Japan
• (budget • cherry blossom • expense • odaiba • society • Somei Yoshino • Tokyo • water fountain)

Japanese mountain community’s first baby in 52 years celebrates first birthday

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2024

Parents want to raise baby in rural community, and community is happy to have her.

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• Japan
• (aging population • Fukushima • kids • moving • rural • society • touching • video)

Japan Weak Men’s Center suddenly cancels men-only train event

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 6, 2024

All-men carriage would have been organization’s first outside of Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (chikan • society • trains • weird • women-only car)

Should DJs be the next big thing in Japanese preschools? This principal seems to think so

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 2, 2024

Traditional education is getting a remix, and preschoolers are ready to rave.

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• Japan
• (childcare • COK • DJ • education • kids • kindergarten • music • preschool • society)

Overwhelmed by modern social media? Japanese company is bringing back pagers with an emoji-twist

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 2, 2024

Sega’s emojam wants to keep messages short and sweet, plus within your circle of close friends.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • emojam • gadgets • pagers • Sega • social media • society • technology)

Shibuya Halloween had a very different feel this year

• Oona McGee
  Nov 1, 2024

Tokyo’s biggest party hotspot looks nothing like it used to. 

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• Japan
• (drinking ban • halloween • Halloween 2024 • news • police • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society)

Japanese communities giving their skylines a spring clean and saying goodbye to power lines

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 1, 2024

The quest to let Japan’s historical sites shine bright continues on.

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• Japan
• (culture • history • Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings • Kawaramachi • overhead power cables • power cables • power lines • Sasayama • society • Tamba-Sasayama)

What’s it like in Shibuya on Halloween this year?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2024

A vibe check of the neighbourhood reveals countermeasures might be necessary.

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• Japan
• (drinking ban • Hachiko • halloween • Halloween 2024 • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society)

Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for “photos showing who you are as a person”

• Master Blaster
  Oct 30, 2024

Anything’s OK, just nothing too natural, or unnatural, or unflattering, or revealing, or stodgy… but, you know, anything is OK.

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• Japan
• (anatarashii shashin • business • job hunting • photographs • resumes • society • weird)

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