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Japanese ambassador stayed in Ukraine to fight in his grandfather’s samurai armour? No, not true

• Oona McGee
  Feb 27, 2022
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Fake news story goes viral around the world, but the real story behind it is just as compelling.

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• (ambassador • armour • diplomacy • embassies • embassy • fake news • invasion • misinformation • news • photos • Russia • samurai • social media • twitter • Ukraine • war • warriors)

Nothing to see here — just a giant cat selling puddings in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 24, 2022

The hardest working feline in the country. 

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • characters • cute • food • funny • Japanese sweets • LOL • Mascots • pets • pudding • purin • sweets • twitter • videos • weird • wtf)

“I’ll draw one animal for every retweet!” Japanese artist now has to draw 22,000 animals

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2022

That works out to drawing one animal a day…for 52 years.

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• Japan, USA
• (animals • art • artists • challenge • cute • drawing • illustration • notebooks • sketchbooks • sketches • sketching • talent • talented • twitter)

How to fix damaged trading cards quickly and easily

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2022

No-fuss hack from Japan will restore your collectible cards like magic.

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• Japan
• (cards • collectible trading card game • collectible trading cards • hack • TCG • trading card games • trading cards • twitter)

Japanese microcar owner’s tiny automobile collection turns heads in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 19, 2022

The cutest cars you’ll ever see!

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• Japan
• (Bubu 501 • Bubu 502 • Bubu Shuttle-50 • cars • cool • cute • driving • Honda • Japanese roads • microcars • Mitsuoka Motor Company • Ninja • police • roads • tiny • twitter • vehicles • videos • weird • wtf • Zoe Zipper)

Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan dresses as samurai in show of strength against Russia

• SoraNews24
  Feb 18, 2022

In the words of one Twitter user, “WTF IS GOING ON”?

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• (ambassador • armour • diplomacy • embassies • embassy • news • photos • Russia • samurai • twitter • Ukraine • warriors)

Email spam exhibition held online by Japanese telecom giant

• Master Blaster
  Feb 18, 2022

Finally, an exhibition for con artists.

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• Internet, Japan
• (cyber security • Cyber Security Month • exhibitions • internet spam • NTT DOCOMO • twitter)

Japanese train station returns lost item to customer with a heartwarming message

• Oona McGee
  Feb 15, 2022

Rail staff know how bad it feels to lose an item during your travels.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • customer service • Japan Railway • JR • JR West • lost property • omotenashi • stations • train stations • trains • twitter • WEST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY)

American sports website promotes upcoming Super Bowl via…Attack on Titan?

• Katie Pask
  Feb 3, 2022

American football is cruel and unforgiving, and yet it is also beautiful.

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• Japan
• (anime • AoT • art • Attack on Titan • awesome • Eren • Eren Yeager • Japanese Twitter • Super Bowl • super bowl 2022 • twitter)

Japanese Twitter user documents month-long crusade to buy a drink from a vending machine

• Oona McGee
  Jan 31, 2022

Epic tale about a disappearing machine comes with a twist ending.

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• Japan
• (Dodekamin • drinks • funny • Gungun Guruto • Hokkaido • Japanese vending machines • photos • snow • twitter • vending machines)

“Genius” child seat at food court in Japanese shopping mall goes viral

• Oona McGee
  Jan 27, 2022

Another example of amazing customer service in Japan.

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• Japan
• (children • customer service • customers • design • eating • food • food court • genius • parents • seating • shopping • shopping mall • twitter)

Haku is…Chihiro’s dead brother? Studio Ghibli fans blown away by Spirited Away theory

• Oona McGee
  Jan 25, 2022

Now it all makes sense.

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • Chihiro • COK • fan theories • GAINAX • Ghibli • Haku • Hayao Miyazaki • Joe Hisaishi • Night on the Galactic Railroad • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • theory • Toshio Okada • twitter • videos)

Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso: Behind-the-scenes trivia and secret Easter eggs revealed

• Oona McGee
  Jan 19, 2022

Insider revelations shed new light on the beloved anime film.

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • COK • drawing • films • Friday Roadshow • Ghibli • ghibli art • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • Porco Rosso • Studio Ghibli • Trivia • TV • twitter)

Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki gets a happy ending to his broken eraser tale

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2022

Anime studio touched by the kindness of a fan who grew up watching Ghibli movies. 

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • art • cel animation • COK • drawing • electric erasers • Ghibli • ghibli art • Hayao Miyazaki • illustration • movies • Sakura Craypas • Studio Ghibli • twitter)

Studio Ghibli asks fans to help Hayao Miyazaki replace his beloved eraser

• Oona McGee
  Jan 13, 2022

Japanese animation studio is searching for a hard-to-find product used by the director to create anime for many years.

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • art • cel animation • COK • drawing • Ghibli • ghibli art • Hayao Miyazaki • illustration • Studio Ghibli • twitter)

Liev Schreiber’s son deemed “too beautiful” in Japan

• SoraNews24
  Jan 12, 2022

Many are likening his look to Studio Ghibli’s Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle.

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• Japan, USA
• (actors • anime • anime characters • bishonen • celebrities • Final Fantasy • hollywood • howl • Howl's Moving Castle • Kai Schreiber • Liev Schreiber • twitter • video games • Yuri!!! on Ice)

Studio Ghibli answers Spirited Away fan questions, reveals exciting facts and trivia behind the film

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2022

Anime studio shares new production secrets, including the real inspiration behind the bathhouse.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki • twitter)

Photo of snowy Japanese temple wows people around the world

• Oona McGee
  Jan 6, 2022

Silent serenity speaks volumes with its overwhelming beauty.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • Miyagi • Miyagi Prefecture • nature • photography • photos • snow • snowy • temples • twitter • winter)

Japan one of only two countries where Twitter beats Facebook in social media market share

• Master Blaster
  Jan 6, 2022

Pinterest more of a player than Facebook in Japan too.

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• Internet, Japan
• (business • facebook • market share • Pinterest • social media • twitter)

Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako makes jaws drop with ‘nude’ bath photo

• SoraNews24
  Dec 24, 2021

Is it still cosplay if you can’t even see the costume anymore?

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • twitter)

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