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Japanese pet owner’s precious cat and hedgehog combo are a perfect prickly pair【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Jun 8, 2019
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Their hot and cold relationship plays out just like an old Looney Tunes cartoon, and we love it.

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• (animals • cats of Twitter • cute • funny • hedgehogs • pet videos • pets • video)

Amazing 8K video will blow you away with aerial views of the Tokyo metropolitan area at night

• Dale Roll
  Jun 8, 2019

You’ll be blown away by the beautiful nighttime cityscape of Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (8K • beautiful • cityscape • night views • Tokyo • travel • video • Yokohama)

Tokyo Station’s new guidance robot is extremely terrifying, pretty helpful【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2019

Would you rather be frightened or lost? You’ll probably need to pick one.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • robots • scary • SNOJ • stations • Tokyo Station • trains • travel • video • weird)

Japanese office worker gets fired, retaliates by making sushi out of business suit and iPhone

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2019

Satisfying stop-motion video shows familiar sushi dishes made with some very unusual objects.

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• Japan
• (business suit • food • Japanese jobs • Japanese office • japanese work culture • Office Worker • Salaryman • stop motion • sushi • video)

Avril Lavigne speaks Japanese in new commercial for Laundrin’ 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2019

The singer sniffs her rooms and gives us a house tour for new nationwide TV ad in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (ads • air freshener • Avril Lavigne • celebrities • house tour • Japanese • Japanese commercials • Kawaii • Laundrin • laundry detergent • music • video)

Japanese riot cops provide police escort for mother and 10 children…who are all ducks【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 5, 2019

Cute convenience store case handled with courteous care.

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• Japan
• (animals • convenience stores • cute • ducks • Lawson • moving • police • touching • video)

Woman slaps boyfriend in face 52 times on China street for not buying her a new smartphone【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2019

Ouch…ouch…ouch…ouch…

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• Japan
• (crazy • dating • romance • slap • Smartphones • video • weird)

8 types of chikan perverts found on Japanese trains

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2019

From the weird to the very weird and unsettling.

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• Japan
• (arrests • chikan • groper • Japanese schoolgirls • Japanese students • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • molestation • molester • news • pervert • police • schoolgirls • train groper • train stations • trains • video)

Chikan molester runs away from Japanese schoolgirls at train station in Japan【Video】

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2019

Schoolgirls fight back after man gropes student’s breasts inside train.

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• Japan
• (arrests • chikan • groper • Japanese schoolgirls • Japanese students • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • molestation • molester • news • pervert • police • schoolgirls • train groper • train stations • trains • video)

The Japanese government made an idol anime, and it literally wants your blood【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2019

The girls of KKT21 want you to bleed for the good of society.

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• Japan
• (anime • blood • blood donation • government • Idols • Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare • society • video • weird)

New Pokémon mobile game, Pokémon Sleep, promises to turn sleeping into entertainment【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2019

Pikachu wants you to get some sleep, and the new Pokémon Home system will allow you to transfer Pocket Monster species from one game to another via cloud memory.

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• Japan
• (cool • health • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokémon Home • Pokémon Sleep • sleep • video)

Godzilla drops the CG, straps on the suit for awesome old-school tribute video【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2019

Just before the release of the King of the Monsters’ latest CG slugfest, a team of practical effects geniuses take the kaiju back to his roots.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Boss coffee • cool • Godzilla • Haruo Nakajima • kaiju • movies • practical effects • Suntory • video)

Anime film Children of the Sea’s trailer is heartbreakingly beautiful, looks like nothing else

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2019

Studio Ghibli composer and an extremely eclectic director team up for what looks like an unprecedented anime experience.

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• Japan
• (anime • beauitful • Children of the Sea • Joe Hisaishi • movies • Studio Ghibli • video)

Pretty kitty wants its owner to pay attention to it, meows happily when she does【Video】

• Dale Roll
  May 23, 2019

Who says cats don’t care about their humans?

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • cute • cute animals • meow • pets • video)

Gorgeous anime shorts reimagine One Piece’s Straw Hat Pirates as high school teens【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2019

Newest episode in Hungry Days series is dripping with emotion, promises more to come.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bump of Chicken • cool • Cup Noodle • Hungry Days • Instant Ramen • manga • Megumi Hayashibara • Nissin • One Piece • video)

Fan-made trailer of live-action Nausicaa leaves Japanese netizens clamoring for more【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  May 22, 2019

We hope you are watching this right now, Hayao Miyazaki.

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• Japan
• (anime • fan film • Hayao Miyazaki • Live action • Nausicaa • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • ohm • Studio Ghibli • video)

Handsome sunblock studs show off their muscles, lack of sunburns in sizzling Shiseido ad【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 19, 2019

Japan’s buff Swedish-born gardener and his bodybuilding buds get sweaty on the beach.

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• Japan
• (ads • Handsome men • muscles • Shiseido • sunblock • sunscreen • video)

The star of this amazing cat video from Japan isn’t actually a cat!【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 17, 2019

They say seeing is believing, but you’ll want to see it in motion before you decide what to believe.

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• Japan
• (animals • awesome • cats • cool • crafts • cute • pets • video)

Japanese cats love nothing more in the world than watching farmer next door plant his rice【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 16, 2019

Just because cats don’t like to work doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy watching other people work.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • animals • cat cafes • cats • cute • farming • funny • pets • rice • video)

We hold a 14-nation taste test of Karaage-kun, Japan’s favorite convenience store fried chicken

• SoraNews24
  May 16, 2019

Lawson’s bite-sized chicken snack is loved across Japan, but can that love stretch around the globe?

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • food • foreigners living in Japan • fried chicken • karaage • karaage kun • Lawson • Seiji Nakazawa • SNOJ • taste test • video)

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