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“I will continuously compliment you” – Buying praise from Tokyo’s street complimenter【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 7, 2024
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Can a person we’ve just met really make us feel better about ourselves?

Japan
(COK • cool • crazy • funny • moving • SNJO • touching • video • weird • Yuichiro Wasai)

“Please watch until the end.” McDonald’s Japan’s beautiful moon-viewing anime video has cozy twist

Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2024

McDonald’s Japan continues to be a reliable source for tasty burgers and heartwarming anime art.

Japan
(anime • burgers • commercials • cool • fast food • food • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • moving • touching • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers • video)

Japanese underground idol group GE’LMINATii react to meeting our reporter, their secret songwriter

Oona McGee
Sep 1, 2024

Sometimes the tables are turned and the idoliser becomes the idolised.

Japan
(COK • concert • coo • Ge'lminatii • idol group • idol singers • Idols • Japanese idols • live • live house • music • oshi • parents • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • touching • visual kei)

Kids takoyaki charity almost shut down by reselling middle schoolers, but owner soldiers on

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2024

Octopus dumpling stand finds out it’s not always easy helping others, but finds a way to do it anyway with some heartwarming help.

Japan
(charity • COK • food • kids • kids cafeteria • kodomo shokudo • moving • takoyaki • touching)

The heartwarming story of Japan’s “Weakling Gundam” and the fans who supported it in its hour of need

Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2024

A roadside mecha with a touching backstory.

Japan
(anime • awesome • COK • cool • cute • Fukushima • Gundam • Gundam statue • heartwarming • Hetare Gundam • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • SNJO • touching • tourist sites • travel • Weak Gundam • Weakling Gundam)

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.

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

Crocodile Who Dies in 100 Days manga gets sudden sequel, may or may not involve cute animal death

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2024

Something is going to happen to Mouse in 100 days.

Japan
(anime • manga • moving • The Crocodile Who Dies in 100 Days • touching)

Filipino man jumps into ocean to save drowning boy in Japan, gives too-cool statement after

Casey Baseel
Jun 19, 2024

Real heroes don’t need thanks, or even a name, apparently.

Japan
(accident • awesome • COK • drowning • foreigners in Japan • moving • touching)

This six-year-old Japanese girl is school’s one and only first-grader as lack-of-kids shutdown ends

Casey Baseel
May 31, 2024

School is back in session in this Ehime mountain town, where the student body has dramatically expanded to a very small size.

Japan
(cute • education • elementary schools • kids • moving • schools • touching • video)

McDonald’s releases new heartwarming anime video that’s peachy-keen, has Vocaloid song【Video】

Casey Baseel
May 13, 2024

Golden Arches continue to be a source of surprisingly cozy anime shorts.

Japan
(anime • fast food • food • Hatsune Miku • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moving • n-buna • Peach • sweets • touching • video • vocaloids)

Hamster abandoned at Tokyo ramen restaurant gets new home

Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2024

Not exactly the typical lost-and-found item.

Japan
(animals • COK • crazy • hamsters • moving • pets • ramen • restaurants • touching • weird)

Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time

Krista Rogers
Apr 17, 2024

Thanks to the experience and a new oshi, 25 years of mother-daughter conflict began to evaporate in seconds.

Japan
(0.1g No Gosan • COK • family • Ikuna Kamezawa • mother • moving • music • oshi • parents • SNJO • touching • visual kei)

89-year-old Japanese man rides bike 600 kilometers to visit his 61-year-old son

Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2024

Just a quick little ride from Kobe to Tokyo.

Japan
(bicycles • crazy • kids • moving • parents • seniors • touching)

McDonald’s Japan made two almost identical commercials, with one tiny, touching difference【Vids】

Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2024

A taste, and words, to remind everyone of home.

Japan
(ads • fast food • food • Japanese language • linguistics • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moving • touching • video)

How solo karaoke changed our Japanese writer’s outlook on life

Master Blaster
Feb 17, 2024

Our worst critic is usually ourselves.

Japan
(COK • karaoke • moving • music • Saya Togashi • singing • SNJO • solo karaoke • touching • Wankara)

I’m home…with Pokémon! – Touching animated video shows the joy of heading back to your hometown

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2024

Pokémon-style Lunar New Year celebration has a universally heartwarming vibe.

China, Japan
(anime • manga • moving • Pokemon • touching • video • video games • Year of the Dragon)

Japanese rail company lets teens ride for free on super stressful entrance exam days

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2024

Test takers given free pass and good luck charm.

Japan
(education • entrance exams • high schools • moving • schools • touching • trains • youth)

Nintendo’s god-tier customer service continues as they offer free repairs for Noto earthquake victims

Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2024

Also makes large donation to disaster relief operations.

Japan
(COK • disaster • earthquake • moving • nintendo • Noto eathquake • touching • video games)

“No matter how much was destroyed, I can draw more” — Manga legend puts earthquake damage in perspective

Casey Baseel
Jan 12, 2024

Go Nagai isn’t worried about his artwork and museum that were destroyed in the Ishikawa earthquake, he’s worried about the people who live there.

Japan
(anime • disaster • earthquake • Go Nagai • manga • moving • Noto earthquake • touching)

We uncover the dark and disturbing secret behind Mr. Sato’s happiness at 50

Master Blaster
Dec 31, 2023

We all have our own ways of coping with life.

Japan
(Ahiruneko • carrots • COK • crazy • funny • moving • Mr. Sato • SNJO • touching • weird)

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