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Japan’s Kanji of the Year announced, shows the bright and dark spots of 2024【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2024
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Top pick is a familiar one, but third-place finisher is surging this year.

Japan
(culture • Japanese language • kanji • kanji of the year • Kanji of the Year 2024 • linguistics • society)

Where’s the happiest place for foreigners to live in Japan? Study investigates

Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2024

Ibaraki’s first Foreign Resident Happiness Index finds some surprising variety in its three subcategories.

Japan
(foreigners in Japan • Ibaraki • internationalism • Living in Japan • society)

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

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2024

Osaka thinks it has a bright idea to combat tachinbo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Japan
(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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