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With 3DS repair service ending, Nintendo once again shows its god-tier customer service【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 15, 2021 - Tweet
Special Animal Crossing-edition owner gets a surprise when Nintendo fixes her busted handheld.
- Japan
- (3DS • 3DS LL • Animal Crossing • cool • customer service • moving • nintendo • touching • video games)
Japanese senior slips on icy road, knocks himself out, passersby give up jackets to keep him warm
- Casey Baseel
Mar 11, 2021
Two large men offered help on freezing cold morning, left without giving their names.
Sakura surprise! The coolest thing about this cherry blossom photo actually isn’t the flowers
- Casey Baseel
Feb 26, 2021
Yes, the kawazu sakura are beautiful, but that’s not all there is to see here.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • cool • flowers • Kanagawa • Kawazu Sakura • Miura • moving • sakura • touching • trains)
Town in Japan has adorable boob mascot, makes City Boob Declaration for a touching reason
- Casey Baseel
Feb 26, 2021
Kids in Hikari are raised under Boob Childrearing concepts.
- Japan
- (crazy • funny • Hikari • kids • mascot characters • Mascots • moving • Parenting • parents • society • touching • weird • Yamaguchi • yurukyara)
Anime figures damaged in earthquake? Tokyo manufacturer offers to repair them for free
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2021
A new lease on life for figures from series about rebirth.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • earthquake • figures • moving • Re:Zero • Re:Zero−Starting Life in Another World • touching)
Mom in Japan finds notebook filled with messages of love from schoolgirl daughter who passed away
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2021
Tsubaki knew her time was running out, and she wanted to leave her mom words that she’ll always remember.
Nagasaki teens find missing elderly woman by simply striking up a conversation on the bus
- Ingrid Tsai
Feb 1, 2021
In this case, chatting up a stranger was for a good cause.
- Japan
- (bus • buses • COK • elderly • missing person • moving • public transportation • society • touching • youth)
A+ in kindness — Tsukuba university donates over 19 tons of food to students during pandemic【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2021
School staff, Tsukuba farmers, and local businesses all pitch in.
- Japan
- (awesome • charity • coronavirus • crazy • donation • food • moving • schools • touching • University of Tsukuba • video)
Four photos, five years – A father’s beautiful pictures of his daughter growing up at Nara temple
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2021
Loving dad also has a heartwarming idea for what to photograph next.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cute • Hasedera Temple • kids • moving • Nara • Nara Prefecture • parents • photography • photos • temples • touching)
Japanese boy whom Ronaldo stood up for in 2014 becomes national soccer champion
- Master Blaster
Jan 15, 2021
Seven years later and still pursuing his dream.
- Japan
- (awesome • Cristiano Ronaldo • high school sports • moving • Ryota Iwaoka • soccer • sports • touching • Yamanashi Gakuin • youth)
Words of wisdom to live by from a simple Japanese father for Coming of Age Day
- Krista Rogers
Jan 12, 2021
Our writer received a heartfelt message from his father on his Coming of Age Day 23 years ago which he would now like to share with you.
- Japan, Korea
- (COK • Coming of Age Day • fathers • moving • P.K. Sanjun • Parenting • parents • Seijin no Hi • SNJO • touching)
Nintendo’s “God-like” customer service warms hearts again, this time helping a husband in Japan
- Oona McGee
Dec 25, 2020
Solving a mystery and saving a marriage is all in a day’s work for this beloved Japanese gaming company.
- Japan
- (awesome • business • COK • customer service • marriage • moving • nintendo • touching • twitter • video games • wedding ring • Wii U • working in Japan)
Okayama’s Tiger Mask makes final donation of school bags after five years of generosity
- Master Blaster
Dec 21, 2020
Hopes someone else will pick up the mask from here on out.
- Japan
- (anime • backpacks • charity • donation • kasaoka • manga • moving • Okayama • orphanages • randoseru • Tiger Mask • touching)
Japanese kid asks if Santa is real, gets a detailed, heartwarming response
- Casey Baseel
Dec 17, 2020
One person can’t deliver presents to all the kids of the world, but maybe that’s not a sad thing after all.
Starbucks Japan releases beautiful sign-language mug at its first sign-language branch in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2020
Exclusive drinkware is stylish and touching, and its companion journal is even more moving.
- Japan
- (cafes • cool • deaf • disabilities • drinkware • hearing impaired • moving • sign language • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • touching)
Someone asked Nintendo President Satoru Iwata to lay off workers, and his response was awesome
- Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2020
Late video game boss said the words every employee wants to hear.
- Japan
- (awesome • business • COK • moving • nintendo • Satoru Iwata • touching • video games • working in Japan)
JR West comes up with brilliant plan to save turtles and prevent train delays, touches netizens
- Dale Roll
Nov 18, 2020
Good for the humans, and good for the turtles, too!
- Japan
- (animals • Japan Railways • JR • JR West • moving • public transportation • touching • trains • turtles)
City in Japan receives donation for kids with letter signed by two ultra-popular anime characters
- Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2020
Cash in the mail to pay for kids’ Christmas gifts supposedly comes from Demon Slayer and PreCure stars.
- Japan
- (anime • Demon Slayer • donations • kids • Kimetsu no Yaiba • moving • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Tiger Mask • touching • Yokohama)
Former sixth SMAP member wins motorcycle championship, fulfilling 24-year promise with bandmates
- Dale Roll
Nov 5, 2020
Fans dub November “The Day that United SMAP”.
- Japan
- (boy bands • Katsuyuki Mori • morotsports • motorcycles • moving • music • racing • SMAP • touching • video)
Anime figure stolen from otaku bar, owners have thief on video but give him chance to come clean
- Casey Baseel
Nov 3, 2020
Once again, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is part of a real-life struggle between the good and evil to be found in the human heart.
- Japan
- (anime • bars • crime • Demon Slayer • figures • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • moving • otaku • theft • touching)
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