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Tokyo police found our lost wallet, but the story of how they did made us feel empty
- Casey Baseel
Nov 8, 2025 - Tweet
With no clear answers, it’s up to the wallet’s owner to choose what he wants to believe about the person who had it.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • missing property • missing wallet • moving • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • touching)
Posthumous “Gwegh, I’m deadngo” tweet sparks nationwide cancer awareness movement in Japan
- Master Blaster
Oct 28, 2025
Rest in peace, Clemens.
- Japan
- (cancer • cancer research • charity • COK • epithelioid sarcoma • health • Japanese language • japanese slang • Kanaru Nakayama • moving • social media • touching)
Foreign athlete loses wedding ring competing on Tokyo streets, reunited in the nick of time
- Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2025
Race walker is going home with a medal and his wedding band.
- Japan, S America
- (crazy • funny • moving • race walking • sports • touching • World Athletics Championships)
100-year-old granny gamer in Japan plays SNES almost every day, sometimes with great-grandkid
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2025
Fukushima resident was well into her senior years before she ever held a controller.
- Japan
- (Bomberman • moving • nintendo • seniors • SNES • Super Famicom • Super NES • Tetris • touching • video games)
Haru Urara, Japan’s winless “Star of the Losers” race horse, has passed away
- Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2025
113 races, zero wins, and countless memories.
- Japan
- (animals • anime • Haru Urara • horse racing • horses • manga • moving • racehorses • sports • touching • Uma Musume • Uma Musume Pretty Derby • video games)
How a Gundam Wing pilgrimage had our lapsed anime fan feeling all warm and fuzzy【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2025
She was looking forward to a reunion with her favorite G-boy, but the new people she met were just as special.
- Japan
- (Animate • anime • cafes • drinks • Gundam • Gundam Wing • Ikuna Kamezawa • manga • moving • SNJO • themed cafes • touching)
Studio Ghibli specialty shop in Tokyo Station announces indefinite closure, for kindhearted reason
- Casey Baseel
Jul 25, 2025
Every other store in Tokyo Character Street is open, but Donguri Kyowakoku says it’s not time to shop.
- Japan
- (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • First Avenue Tokyo Station • heat • heat wave • manga • moving • Studio Ghibli • Tokyo Character Street • Tokyo Station • Tokyo Station Ichibangai • touching)
Donations pouring in from foreign Uma Musume fans for Japan’s real-life loveable loser racehorse
- Casey Baseel
Jul 18, 2025
The hit video game/anime’s Haru Urara is a real horse, and fans have found a way to show their love for their heroine who never gave up.
- Japan
- (animals • anime • Haru Urara • horse racing • horses • manga • moving • racehorses • sports • touching • Uma Musume • Uma Musume Pretty Derby • video games)
McDonald’s Japan taps three ’80s anime legends for a moving, nostalgic video【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2025
Three of the greatest anime series ever produced featured in video that’s not quite as simple as it might look.
- Japan
- (1980s • 80s • ads • anime • fast food • food • Kimagure Orange Road • Macross • Maison Ikkoku • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moving • touching • video)
Tokyo’s Hydrangea Mountain is a spot of beauty created by one son’s love for his parents【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 31, 2025
Thousands of flowers bloom in the west Tokyo mountains, but they all started from one man’s kind thoughts.
- Japan
- (ajisai • beautiful • flowers • Hydrangea Mountain • hydrangeas • Minamisawa Ajisaiyama • moving • nature • outdoors • touching)
Japan’s Rental High School Student Project is more wholesome than it sounds, good for its community
- Casey Baseel
May 19, 2025
Program creates connections and offers help for senior citizens.
- Japan
- (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)
Fake cherry blossom viewing failure leads us to international friendship in Ueno Park
- Casey Baseel
Apr 9, 2025
While trying to pretend to enjoy Tokyo’s cherry blossoms, Mr. Sato ends up having a touching true sakura moment.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • COK • foreigners in Japan • funny • hanami • moving • Mr. Sato • sakura • SNJO • touching • Ueno Park)
Japan’s new trading card game hit has pictures of real-life middle-aged men on every card【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 21, 2025
“Ojisan trading card game” brings smiles to young and old in Fukuoka town.
- Japan
- (card games • collectible card games • collectible cards • crazy • funny • moving • society • touching • trading card games • trading cards • video • weird)
Japanese celebrity (sort of) apologizes for swapping seats with foreign traveler on Shinkansen
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2025
Promises to hold on to her kindhearted sentiment while fine-tuning how she acts on it.
- Japan
- (COK • etiquette • manners • moving • Satoko Ito • shinkansen • touching • tourism • trains • travel)
Japanese aquarium installs fake people to keep apparently lonely sunfish company【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2025
Aquarium won’t have real visitors for several months, but in the meantime this fish has some cardboard ones.
- Japan
- (animals • aquariums • COK • cute • fish • Mola mola • moving • Shimonoseki • sunfish • touching • video)
Japanese idol group asks fans to be respectful towards pre-teen singer for heartwarming reason
- Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2024
With the Christmas season here, management asks for sensitivity regarding one specific topic.
- Japan
- (Christmas • COK • idol fans • idol singers • Idols • moving • Santa Claus • touching)
79-year-old Japanese granny who fell in love with Initial D sports car finds perfect new owner【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 13, 2024
After 25 years, her RX-7 is going home.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • cars • cool • Initial D • Mazda • moving • RX-7 • seniors • touching • video)
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’s amazing egg sandwiches sold from self-serve roadside fridges have an inspiring backstory
- Casey Baseel
Oct 3, 2024
The Overflowing Egg Sandwich filled our stomach and our heart.
- Japan
- (COK • egg sandwiches • eggs • food • moving • sandwiches • SNJO • touching • unmanned • vending machines)
Penguin escapes from wildlife exhibit in Japan, found at beach 45 kilometers away【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2024
Penguin survives two weeks in the wild despite being raised in captivity.
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