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Japanese kindness restores our faith in humanity after a highway bus accident in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Mar 27, 2026
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Traumatic event becomes a heartwarming one, thanks to the work of both driver and passengers.

Japan
(bus • bus driver • busses • etiquette • heartwarming • highway buses • Japan travel • Japanese bus • kindness • manners • public transport • SNJO • society • Tokyo • tourism • transport • travel)

“Online streamer” tops dream job poll for young Japanese kids, older kids not so interested

Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2026

Desire to create personal online content rapidly drops among older age groups in survey.

Japan
(COK • Instagrammers • kids • online streamers • society • survey • youth • YouTubers)

Tokyo government organizes food truck event to clear out delinquent/homeless teen gathering area

Casey Baseel
Mar 19, 2026

Kabukicho plaza has become a symbol of teen vagrancy in the capital.

Japan
(crime • food trucks • Kabukicho • Kabukicho Kitchencar Park • shinjuku • society • teens • To-yoko • To-yoko kids • Toyoko kids • youth)

Japanese government says country needs more women’s room toilets to meet modern society’s needs

Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2026

Even if the number of men and women using a building are the same, the number of toilets shouldn’t be, government’s guideline drafts say.

Japan
(gender • Public restrooms • restroms • society • Toilets)

Number of foreigners living in Japan has grown 50 percent in four years, hits historic high

Casey Baseel
Mar 14, 2026

Japan’s foreign resident population surges past four million for the first time in history.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • society)

Tokyo bus line praised for handling of driver’s mental health

Master Blaster
Mar 9, 2026

Driver driven to not drive by customer complaint.

Japan
(buses • customer harassment • mental health • public transportation • society • Toei Bus • Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation)

Over four billion yen in lost cash was found in Tokyo last year, setting new record

Casey Baseel
Mar 5, 2026

Billions turned in to police, and billions returned to owners.

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

Burning through cash just to throw things away tops list of headaches when moving house in Japan

Elliot Hale
Feb 22, 2026

Spring relocations in Japan can drain your budget faster than expected, and garbage disposal fees are the biggest surprise.

Japan
(COK • garbage disposal • Living in Japan • moving • moving companies • oversized garbage • society • sodai gomi • survey)

Japan just had its first same-month foreign tourist decrease in four years

Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2026

One country is clearly the cause, but fewer foreign tourists might not put the pressure it expects on Japan.

China, Japan
(China travel advisory • China travel warning • COK • foreign tourists • japan national tourism organization • Japan travel • jnto • society • tourism • travel)

The 10 most annoying things foreign tourists do on Japanese trains, according to locals

SoraNews24
Feb 19, 2026

Train etiquette can be hard to navigate for tourists, but locals need to watch their manners too.

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

Paying for prostitution isn’t illegal in Japan, but it could be soon

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2026

Ministry of Justice eyeing changes to Prostitution Prevention Law.

Japan
(COK • crime • law • prostitution • Prostitution Prevention Law • society)

Foreigners accounting for over 80 percent of off-course skiers needing rescue in Japan’s Hokkaido

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2026

Japan is pissed off about the off-piste skiing.

Japan
(COK • foreign tourists • Hokkaido • outdoors • overtourism • rescue • skiing • snowboarding • society • sports • video)

Swapping seats on Japan’s bullet trains is not allowed, Shinkansen operator says

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2026

It’s a gray area in terms of travel etiquette, but JR has a clear stance on the topic.

Japan
(Central Japan Railway Company • COK • etiquette • Japan Railway • Japan travel • JR • JR Central • JR Tokai • manners • society • tourism • trains • travel)

A look back on 40 years of Japanese schools banning stuff

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2026

Mr. Sato leads an office roundtable discussion on weird things Japanese schools have said “Nope, you can’t do that” about.

Japan
(COK • Mr. Sato • school rules • schools • SNJO • society • stickers • youth)

Take a trip to Japan’s Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

Master Blaster
Feb 7, 2026

Have fun and feel annoyed at the same time!

Japan
(anger • annoying • COK • crazy • Dododo Land • events • exhibits • funny • museums • psychology • Shibuya • SNJO • social media • society • Tokyo • weird)

A robot joins the team at a fast-food restaurant, but in an unlikely city in northern Japan

Elliot Hale
Feb 6, 2026

OriHime arrives at a local Mos Burger to test the future of inclusive work.

Japan
(accessibility • Avatar Robot Cafe • cafes • clever • COK • cool • disabilities • fast food • food • Iwate • Morioka • Mos Burger • OriHime • OryLab • restaurants • robots • society • technology)

Act of Japanese kindness touches one man’s heart, provides hope for elevator etiquette

Oona McGee
Feb 5, 2026

The fate of the first to board has long been a problem in Japan, but this could be the solution.

Japan
(culture • elevator etiquette • elevators • etiquette • heartwarming • hospitality • Japanese etiquette • kindness • lift etiquette • lifts • manners • SNJO • society • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting the lines at a popular Tokyo gyukatsu restaurant?

Krista Rogers
Feb 4, 2026

We investigate whether now is a good time to grab some beef cutlets in a popular tourist area of Tokyo.

Japan
(Akihabara • beef cutlets • China travel advisory • China travel warning • COK • food • Gyukatsu 123 • Japan travel • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • society • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Japan’s job-quitting service claims bosses contact it to try to make their employees quit

Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2026

Some employers want to flip the script to indirectly get rid of workers they don’t want, company says.

Japan
(COK • crazy • job-quitting service • Momuri • society • weird • working in Japan)

Japan has abolished advance deportation notifications to foreigners’ lawyers

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2026

16-year policy swept away with less than a week for transition.

Japan
(COK • crime • deportation • foreigners in Japan • immigration • Living in Japan • society)

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