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Japan’s fourth-biggest prefecture eyes four-day workweek, but will that schedule work?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2024
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and the extra day off comes at a price.

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• Japan
• (Aichi Prefecture • COK • four-day workweek • society • work-life balance)

Posthumous divorce on the rise in Japan as a way to distance oneself from in-laws

• Master Blaster
  Sep 5, 2024

Tell your late spouse’s family how you really feel. Tell them with a divorce.

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• Japan
• (death • divorce • family • family law • in-laws • law • posthumous divorce • society • weird)

Survey shows drop in Japanese highschoolers who’ve kissed someone, girls still more experienced

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 5, 2024

Number of high schoolers who’ve kissed or lost their virginity drops to half of early-2000s peak.

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• Japan
• (high school • Kiss • kissing • relationships • romance • society • survey • teens • youth)

Japanese government suspends plan to pay Tokyo women 600,000 to move away to get married

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2024

Relocation marriage grant going through “reevaluation.”

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• Japan
• (COK • countryside • marriage • relationships • romance • society • Tokyo • weird)

Japanese government wants to remove tax-exemption limit for foreign tourists on consumables

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2024

Want to buy over 500,000 yen in booze and cosmetics without paying a single yen in tax? Japan Tourism Agency wants you to do it too!

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• Japan
• (COK • foreigners in Japan • shopping • society • tax exemption • tax-free • tourism • travel)

Japanese government plans to pay women who move out of Tokyo to get married 600,000 yen【Report】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2024

Chance to say “I do,” “Goodbye, Tokyo,” and “Kaching!” all in one fell swoop could be coming.

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• Japan
• (COK • countryside • marriage • relationships • romance • society • Tokyo • weird)

Japan’s premier love doll maker is closing, says goodbye to fans with heartfelt message

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2024

Orient Industry shows that in Japan, the customer is always supposed to be appreciated and respected.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • customer service • funny • moving • society • touching • weird)

Survey finds Japan to be least god-fearing nation in the world and it’s not even close

• Master Blaster
  Aug 21, 2024

Jesus is just… all right with Japan.

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• Global, Japan
• (COK • culture • God • Jesus • religion • society • survey)

Cost to cook curry rice rises to highest in 10 years, puts pinch on Japan’s budget-friendly food

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2024

One of Japanese home chefs go-to cheap meals isn’t as cheap as it used to be.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • curry • curry rice • expensive • food • society)

Japan’s two-month Shut-in Pilgrimage – A 1,200-year-old way to deal with a modern issue

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Program helps hikikomori take steps towards reconnecting with the outside world.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • hikikomori • history • mental health • Shikoku • Shikoku Henro • Shikoku Pilgrimage • shut-ins • society)

Japan’s easy foreign tourist tax exemptions may be getting harder in order to stop fraud, resales

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Skipping tax payments by showing your passport may become a thing of the past as government finds billions of yen have been improperly waived.

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• Global, Japan
• (COK • shopping • society • tax exemption • tax-free • tourism • travel)

Nuisance foreigner climbs onto Family Mart roof in Shibuya, yells “I did it!” before police step in

• SoraNews24
  Aug 15, 2024

Bad behaviour by foreigners sees a new term being coined in the Japanese media.

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• Japan
• (bad behavior • bad tourist • combini • convenience stores • Family mart • foreigners in Japan • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • news • police • Shibuya • society • tourism • tourists)

Wait, you can still send telegrams in Japan? Why? And is it time to shut the service down?

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2024

There’s a lot of snickering from other parts of the world when they find out that some people in Japan still use fax machines, but an an even more old-school communications method is still an option too.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • NTT • society • technology • telegrams • telegraphs • weird)

Japan to allow joint custody of children after divorce, survey investigates public’s attitudes

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 6, 2024

An upcoming legal change will finally allow divorcing couples to seek joint custody of their children in Japan and opinions are mixed.

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• Japan
• (children • COK • divorce • joint custody • parental rights • society • survey)

Japanese government doggie bag initiative asking restaurant to let customers take leftovers home

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 31, 2024

Ministry wants food in stomachs, not in the trash.

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• Japan
• (COK • doggie bags • eco-friendly • ecology • food • food loss • restaurants • society)

Japan’s foreign population reaches historic milestone following largest-ever single-year surge

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 25, 2024

Japan’s population, and workforce, continues to internationalize.

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• Japan
• (aging population • COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • shrinking population • society)

If Japanese men “have their act together,” Japanese women will reward them with babies, politician says

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 9, 2024

Tells people with few children to put their hands over their hearts and regret their actions.

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• Japan
• (aging population • birth rate • COK • crazy • Japan birth rate • Liberal Democratic Party • low birth rate • politicians • politics • shrinking population • society • Takashi Sasakawa • weird)

Japanese police officers officially allowed to wear sunglasses, buy drinks at convenience stores in Shimane

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2024

Stay cool, Shimane cops.

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• Japan
• (COK • police • Shimane • society • sunglasses • weird)

Public high school in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture will no longer take student absences into account for entrance applications

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 26, 2024

Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.

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• Japan
• (COK • education • entrance exams • Gifu • health • high school • schools • society • youth)

Tokyo’s Shibuya district passes year-round public drinking ban

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2024

Ward cracks down on on-the-street boozing in unanimous vote.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • COK • crime • drinking ban • Shibuya • society • Tokyo)

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