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Headphone splitters gone rogue: How to share your music with 100 people all at once【Video】

• Meg Murphy
  Feb 2, 2016
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For those silent parties without speakers.

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• Japan
• (Japanese YouTubers • random inventions • video)

Yakuza 6 lets you duke it out inside an ultra-detailed Japanese convenience store【Video】

• Jamie Koide
  Feb 2, 2016

Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that the convenience store is the prefect place to get snacks, pay your bills, buy adult material, and get into a fight. Wait, what?

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • funny • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • video • video games • yakuza • yakuza 6)

Saxophone-playing Taiwanese beauty is pleasing the Internet’s eyes and ears alike【Pics & Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2016

There’s nothing that says you can’t have professional-grade musical skills and model-level looks.

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• Internet, Taiwan
• (beautiful women • beautiful women doing things • music • saxophone • video)

Looking to get your cute animal quota in Japan? Check out these five locations!【Video】

• KK Miller
  Feb 1, 2016

Japan is the land of super adorable things and the animals there are no different.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • deer • foxes • monkeys • rabbits • travel • video)

Think you can match the training regimen of a champion sumo wrestler? 【Video】

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 1, 2016

Eating a ginormous lunch and taking afternoon naps? Pff, no sweat! Doing 100 reps of a brutal weight training regimen? No thanks…

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• Japan
• (Kotoshogiku • ozeki • Sumo • training • video • weights • yokozuna • YouTube)

Singapore appears to have had a special place in David Bowie’s heart

• Jamie Koide
  Jan 31, 2016

Singaporeans remember David Bowie fondly, as well as his 1980s documentary in which the Southeast Asian city-state appeared.

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• SE Asia
• (1980s • David Bowie • documentary • film • Ricochet • Singapore • video)

What would Star Wars: The Force Awakens look like as an anime opening sequence?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2016

The otaku Force is strong with this one.

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• Internet
• (anime • cool • funny • movies • Star Wars • The Force Awakens • video)

This hotplate from IKEA Taiwan works only once diners surrender their smartphones【Video】

• KK Miller
  Jan 29, 2016

This customer experience is blowing up all over social media, or it would be if anyone could get to their cell phones.

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• Taiwan
• (cool • food • hot plate • hot pot • ikea • phones • Smartphones • video)

Tokyo company’s HQ has indoor rice paddies, grows more than 200 types of vegetables【Video】

• Philip Kendall
  Jan 28, 2016

If you work in an urban hub like Tokyo, you can pretty much forget about seeing everyday countryside sights like rice paddies and plump red tomatoes. That is, unless you work here…

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• Japan
• (food • Pasona Group • self sufficiency • Tokyo • urban farms • vegetables • video)

China’s extreme cold weather leaves buildings covered in ice both inside and out

• Jamie Koide
  Jan 28, 2016

A seriously cold snap in China leaves one residential community looking like it came straight out of Disney’s Frozen.

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• China
• (Chinese New Year • extreme weather • freezing pipes • frozen stairway • ice • video)

Sailor Moon cosplay documentary shows the power and beauty of anime fan friendships 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2016

Just like the Sailor Senshi are always there for each other, so too are the members of this documentary’s group of cosplay collaborators.

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• USA
• (anime • cosplay • documentary • LaSoldier • Sailor Moon • video)

Machine that perfectly plays Taiko Master is totally mesmerizing and totally cheating【Video】

• KK Miller
  Jan 27, 2016

Machines will completely rule our lives someday, so why not have them help us with our video games now?

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• Internet, Japan
• (cool • taiko • taiko master • Taiko no Tatsujin • technology • video • video games)

Nintendo gives Pikachu a deep, manly voice for the newest Pokémon game 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 27, 2016

Upcoming video game promises “a Pikachu like you’ve never seen before,” but we’ve never heard one that sounds like this either.

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• Japan
• (3DS • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • video • video games • voice)

Kana Hanazawa doesn’t understand her latest commercial 【Video】

• Anime News Network
  Jan 27, 2016

It’s not unusual for stars to perform in Japanese commercials, but what they’re asked to do can sometimes lead to head-scratching.

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• Japan
• (ad • AQUOS • funny • Japanese commercial • seiyu • tech • video • voice actor)

Japan Self-Defense Force members breakdance while performing Hatsune Miku song

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2016

Ain’t no party like a JSDF party, cause a JSDF party don’t quit.

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• Japan
• (breakdance • dance • flash mob • Flash Mob Shikoku • Hatsune Miku • Japan Self-Defense Force • Senbonzakura • video)

Crazy cold temperatures in Japan turn sinks into instant ice dispensers 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 27, 2016

Water freezes before it can even go down the drain.

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • freezing • ice • video • winter)

New Japanese-developed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game’s trailer looks amazing 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 26, 2016

We don’t know whether to shout “Cowabunga!” or “Hallelujah!”

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• Japan, USA
• (Activision • PlatinumGames • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • video • video games)

Drunk Russian man face-plants in the snow, decides it’s easier to just stay there【Video】

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 26, 2016

No matter how terrible of a day you’re having, there’s a good chance that this fellow’s having a worse one.

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• Internet, Russia
• (drunk • face plant • funny • snow • video)

Japanese kitty’s reaction to seeing snow for the first time captured in cute video 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 26, 2016

This cat isn’t too cool for a little sub-zero fun.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • cute • funny • pets • snow • video)

Pokémon’s full minute-long version of epic Super Bowl ad streamed to celebrate 20th anniversary

• Anime News Network
  Jan 26, 2016

Short version of live-action ad to air on February 7.

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• Japan, USA
• (commercial • full video • Pokemon ad • Superbowl • video • video games)

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