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Chinese people hand out free surgical masks in Japan as coronavirus outbreak continues【Video】

Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2020
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As Japan suffers through nationwide mask shortage, people in one of its biggest cities are offered some for free.

Japan
(coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • disease • health • masks • moving • sickness • surgical masks • touching • video)

The real-life Ash/Satoshi just gave away a Pikachu to brighten a child’s day in Japan

Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2020

The only thing better than catching ‘em all is giving one away to put a smile on a stranger’s face.

Japan
(anime • kids • moving • Pikachu • Rika Matsumoto • touching • trains • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)

After eight years as a NEET, our reporter shares the one thing that helped him escape that life

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2020

How to turn that blank in your resume into the inspiring story of your life so far.

Japan
(COK • Daiki Nishimoto • moving • NEET • NEETs • SNJO • society • touching • working in Japan)

Tokyo Burger King removes snarky message to out-of-business McDonald’s branch, posts new sign

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2020

Less salt present in sweeter message to defeated Akihabara rival.

Japan
(Akihabara • Burger King • burgers • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • McDonald's • moving • touching)

A company that sends flowers when your cat passes away? Japanese Twitter touched by sweet story

Dale Roll
Jan 29, 2020

The world needs more good guy companies like this one.

Japan
(cats • customer service • moving • pets • scratch post • sweet • touching)

Shinkansen tale of crying baby, grumpy man, and clever attendant warms Japanese internet’s heart

Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2020

“I can’t sleep with this noisy kid crying!”

Japan
(bullet train • clever • COK • kids • moving • shinkansen • touching • trains • travel)

Meet the true spirit of Christmas in Japan: Tiger Mask

Master Blaster
Dec 28, 2019

Yes Japan, there is a Tiger Mask, whose kindness we should all try to emulate.

Japan
(anime • charity • Christmas • kids • manga • Masatake Kawamura • moving • Naoto Date • orphanages • orphans • pro wrestling • Tiger Mask • touching • Yuka Sato)

Do your kids believe in Santa? Japanese electronics shop wants to know for a very special reason

Casey Baseel
Dec 20, 2019

A simple Nintendo Switch purchase comes with a surprising question, and amazing customer service.

Japan
(Christmas • COK • customer service • kids • moving • nintendo • nintendo switch • Santa • Santa Claus • touching • video games • Yodobashi Camera)

Distressed moms and dads on Japanese trains getting help from child assistance volunteer badges

Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2019

In a country where asking for, and even offering, help can be culturally difficult, these kindhearted badges aim to make a difference.

Japan
(babies • COK • kids • moving • Parenting • parents • SNJO • society • touching • trains)

Mr. Sato rocks a 40-year-old vintage Japanese outfit with a heart-melting backstory【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2019

There’s a feel-good reason for our crack reporter looking this good.

Japan
(COK • cool • fashion • moving • Mr. Sato • SNJO • touching)

KFC Japan is heart-warming and finger-licking good with new food donation program for poor kids

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2019

Becomes first major restaurant chain in Japan to provide cooked food to “children’s cafeteria” facilities.

Japan
(charity • children's cafeterias • COK • donation • fast food • food • fried chicken • KFC • kodomo shokudo • moving • society • touching)

Kyoto Animation has a touchingly kind plan to distribute its 3.2 billion yen in arson donations

Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2019

Company continues to put people first as it meets with victims’ families and refuses to use funds for business recovery.

Japan
(anime • arson • charity • crime • donations • Kyoto Animation • moving • touching)

Anime fan gets maybe the nicest letter of noise complaint ever from his neighbor

Casey Baseel
Nov 8, 2019

You don’t need a sharp tongue when you’ve got sharp ears, plus the power of magical girl Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Japan
(anime • apartments • funny • moving • neighbors • noise • Puella Magi Madoka Magica • touching)

Controversial busty manga girl Red Cross poster’s artist donates blood

Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2019

And it wasn’t the Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out creator’s first time, either.

Japan
(anime • blood • blood donation • blood drive • controversy • health • Japanese Red Cross Society • manga • moving • society • touching • Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out)

Japanese man finds abandoned kittens being attacked by crows, becomes a hero to protect them

Casey Baseel
Oct 30, 2019

Finds a way to permanently protect them from birds of prey.

Japan
(animals • cats • COK • crows • moving • touching • video)

Over 80 percent of Kyoto Animation employees injured in arson attack have returned to work

Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2019

President promises upcoming anime movies are still in production, but says “Things are still very far from normal.”

Japan
(anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • moving • touching)

Elderly Japanese couple’s cute restaurant anecdote brings smiles and “d’aww”s to the table

Katy Kelly
Oct 16, 2019

A cute Twitter observation shows that romance is like fine wine – it gets better with age.

Japan
(cute • elderly • married life • moving • relationship • romance • seniors • touching)

Funeral undertaker takes departed father on one last trip to his beloved sea

Krista Rogers
Oct 16, 2019

One thoughtful gesture touches a family forever in this heartwarming story.

Internet, Japan
(family • funeral • sweet • touching • twitter • undertaker)

Japanese boy knows the one thing he needs when evacuating from typhoon, and it melts our hearts

Casey Baseel
Oct 16, 2019

”We’re only taking the most important things with us,” dad says before Typhoon Hagibis, and son knows exactly what that is.

Japan
(COK • evacuation • family • kids • moving • parents • touching • typhoon • Typhoon Hagibis)

Canadian rugby team volunteers in typhoon-struck Japan following cancellation of World Cup match

Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2019

Typhoon Hagibis brought Team Canada’s World Cup campaign to an early finish, but the kindhearted athletes still had one more thing to do in Japan.

Canada, Japan
(canada • moving • rugby • Rugby World Cup • sports • touching • typhoon • video • volunteer)

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