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Japanese customer service amazes foreign soccer player eight months after unfortunate taxi ride

Casey Baseel
May 28, 2022
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Danish soccer player has been winning fans in Japan, and he’s become a big fan of Japan too.

Japan
(customer service • foreigners in Japan • moving • soccer • sports • taxis • touching)

Japan respectfully says goodbye to a single bamboo shoot in Kyoto

Casey Baseel
May 21, 2022

Takenokone given death poem, posthumous name.

Japan
(bamboo shoots • cool • Gion • Kyoto • moving • touching • video • weird)

Ghibli found out about the unofficial Ghibli cafe in Nagoya…then something very sweet happened

Casey Baseel
May 18, 2022

Anime studio had something to say about the restaurant filled with its characters and a menu inspired by them.

Japan
(anime • cafes • cool • food • Goro Miyazaki • movies • moving • Nagoya • restaurants • Studio Ghibli • touching)

Photos of Complete Strangers: Japan’s new strange, and strangely compelling, capsule toys【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Apr 22, 2022

Unusual concept is a hit, with a second line on the way.

Japan
(capsule toys • COK • crazy • gacha • gachapon • moving • Mr. Sato • SNJO • touching • vending machine toys • weird)

Ghibli now lets you give your mom a Totoro-style Mother’s Day present with the Corn Gift Set【Pics】

Casey Baseel
Apr 6, 2022

You can give gifts like Mei this May.

Japan
(anime • cool • corn • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Mother's Day • moving • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • touching)

Tokyo bento shop giving away 2,205 pounds of free food to help negi farmers

Casey Baseel
Apr 1, 2022

Kitchen Dive continues to be the most generous bento boxed lunch shop in Japan.

Japan
(agriculture • awesome • bento • boxed lunches • COK • farmers • farming • food • free • green onion • Kitchen DIVE • moving • negi • touching)

Japanese gyaru-turned-mom is more concerned with making her son a gentleman than a scholar

Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2022

Teen shares three rules his mom raised him with, and “Go study!” wasn’t one of them.

Japan
(COK • education • etiquette • manners • moving • Parenting • parents • relationships • society • touching)

Japanese company offers service that converts your child’s school bag into useful accessories

Dale Roll
Mar 24, 2022

Six years of memories shouldn’t just be tossed away!

Japan
(bags • clever • elementary school • fashion • moving • randoseru • school bag • touching • upcycle)

Former Uniqlo employee starts clothing alterations service for people with disabilities

Dale Roll
Mar 11, 2022

No more settling for whatever clothes you can put on…now you can wear whatever clothes you like!

Japan
(COK • disabilities • disabled people • fashion • good company • moving • online services • society • touching)

Flip phone graduation ceremony — A surprisingly emotional look back at life in 3G-era Japan【Vid】

Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2022

With the first phase of Japan’s 3G network shutdown starting this month, phone provider takes a moment to remember how it changed communication culture.

Japan
(3G • cell phones • Docomo • mobile phones • moving • NTT • phones • society • technology • touching • video)

This is chalk?!? Yep, and it’s a touching Pokémon goodbye from a Japanese teacher to his students

Casey Baseel
Mar 4, 2022

Teacher bookends three years with his class with two stunning pieces of chalkboard art.

Japan
(anime • art • awesome • chalkboard art • cool • Dragon Quest • education • illustrtion • moving • Pokemon • Pokémon Arceus • Pokemon Legends Arceus • schools • Teachers • touching • video games)

Someone secretly left a beautiful, touching present for Totoro at Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Mar 3, 2022

And the wrapping makes it extra special.

Japan
(anime • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • moving • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • touching)

Bandai is raising all full-time employees’ salaries by roughly 30 percent

Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2022

Giant robot toymaker gives workers giant raises to boost motivation, with one possible catch.

Japan
(awesome • Bandai • COK • Gundam • Gunpla • moving • society • touching • working in Japan)

Rakuten CEO donates one billion yen to Ukrainian humanitarian relief

Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2022

Says that “the trampling of a peaceful and democratic Ukraine by unjustified force is a challenge to democracy.”

Europe, Japan, Russia
(charity • COK • donation • Hiroshi Mikitani • moving • rakuten • Russian invasion of Ukraine • touching • Ukraine)

Japanese expat remembers the words that changed his life when he started working in Australia

Casey Baseel
Feb 27, 2022

Having never left Japan before, he was worried his English wasn’t good enough, but a coworker knew just what to say.

Australia, Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • language • learning japanese • linguistics • moving • society • touching)

Japanese snack maker apologizes for commotion caused by 1.7-cent price increase

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2022

Tiny Umaibo difference is big news in the Japanese snack world.

Japan
(cheap • customer service • food • moving • snacks • touching • umaibo)

Japan’s great at imitations, Japanese man hears U.S. coworkers say, then decides to hear them out

Casey Baseel
Jan 10, 2022

It sounded like stereotyping he’d heard before, but it turns out there was a twist ending.

Japan
(COK • food samples • funny • internationalism • moving • plastic food samples • touching)

What happens when a middle-aged man does pole dancing regularly for five years in a row?

Dale Roll
Dec 31, 2021

Mr. Sato shares an important lesson he learned about age and personal resolutions.

Japan
(age • COK • fitness • motivational • moving • Mr. Sato • pole dancing • SNJO • touching)

The leaves aren’t the only things changing in this beautiful series of photos from Nagano

Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2021

Family photos show the cycle of the seasons and a new beginning.

Japan
(beautiful • family • kids • moving • Nagano • nature • parents • photography • touching)

Japanese mom at seaside hospital with no visiting hours gets a beautiful get-well message

Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2021

We need tissues, stat.

Japan
(family • hospitals • Japanese language • kids • linguistics • moms • moving • parents • touching)

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