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Retro game arcade severely damaged in fire in Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2025 - Tweet
Fire breaks out at Osaka arcade popular with foreign tourists, motorcycle in building may have made situation worse.
- Japan
- (Arcades • COK • fire • game centers • Osaka • retro games • Tsutenkaku • video • video games)
Japanese aquarium installs fake people to keep apparently lonely sunfish company【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2025
Aquarium won’t have real visitors for several months, but in the meantime this fish has some cardboard ones.
- Japan
- (animals • aquariums • COK • cute • fish • Mola mola • moving • Shimonoseki • sunfish • touching • video)
Switch 2 announced by Nintendo, wisely switches up very little【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2025
But there are still a few surprises and mysteries hiding in the evolutionary, not revolutionary, successor to Nintendo’s phenomenal hit.
- Japan
- (Mario Kart • nintendo • nintendo switch • Nintendo Switch 2 • Super Mario • switch • Switch 2 • video • video games)
Overseas Uber driver and anime fan gets the Cowboy Bebop surprise of a lifetime【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 11, 2025
I’ve heard you, space cowboy.
- Japan
- (anime • anime songs • anisongs • awesome • cool • Cowboy Bebop • Koichi Yamadera • music • taxis • Uber • video • voice actors • voice actresses)
Netflix announces new My Melody/Kuromi Sanrio stop-motion series【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 10, 2025
Series stars comment on being the newest members of Netflix’s growing roster of stop-motion characters from Japan.
- Internet, Japan
- (anime • cute • Kuromi • My Melody • Netflix • Sanrio • stop motion • stop motion animation • video)
Creating an open-air hot spring bath (without a hot spring) at our cheap Japanese country house【Vids】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2024
Thanks to the power of friendship, it’s outdoor bath time at the SoraHouse!
- Japan
- (baths • beautiful • Big Wave • Butch • COK • cool • DIY • funny • Go Hatori • hot springs • onsen • rotenburo • SNJO • SoraHouse • video • Yoshio)
McDonald’s Japan announces Evangelion burger line, releases crazy anime video for them【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2024
Dig in to the damn burgers, Shinji.
- Japan
- (anime • burgers • crazy • Evangelion • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • video • weird)
Bear breaks into house in Japan, quickly begins spending winter exactly like Japanese people do
- Casey Baseel
Dec 26, 2024
Even bears can’t resist the lazy luxury of kotatsu, apparently.
Kura Sushi has a new parade-delivered whole cake dessert, but what’s it like to eat?【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2024
We head to the popular revolving sushi chain, and something very attention-grabbing heads to our table.
- Japan
- (cake • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • crazy • food • funny • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • sweets • video)
Mysterious light-up rainy night-sound Totoro figure doesn’t actually show a scene from the anime
- Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2024
If you’re a Ghibli fan, you’ve definitely seen this scene before, just not during the classic anime film.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • diorama • Donguri Kyowakoku • figues • interior • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • poster • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • video)
Toyota gets second Guinness World Record for basketball playing humanoid robot
- Master Blaster
Dec 12, 2024
Yeah, but his D is weak if you ask me.
- Japan
- (awesome • basketball • cool • CUE • Guinness world records • robots • sports • technology • TOYOTA • video • world record)
Japanese city paints well-known prostitution street bright yellow, adds fish art【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2024
Osaka thinks it has a bright idea to combat tachinbo.
Ghibli Park takes us behind the scenes of its making with a special movie release
- Oona McGee
Dec 7, 2024
A look at one of the crowning achievements of Studio Ghibli.
- Japan
- (anime • Blu-ray • DVD • Ghibli • Ghibli Park • Goro Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki • Studio Ghibli • video • videos)
Japanese elementary school installs standing sleeping pod for students to nap in【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 5, 2024
Getting enough sleep is important for good health, but commenters aren’t sure this is the best way to do it.
- Japan
- (crazy • education • giraffenap • health • nap • schools • sleep • sleep pod • video • weird • wellness)
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno is writing for the new Gundam anime TV series【Vido】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2024
Anno working with other key members of the Evangelion and FLCL staff on a brand-new Gundam series full of teenage girl angst and robot team battles.
Big dam Godzilla appears in Japan as power-washer art on side of 195-foot dam【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2024
Saga dam gets a Godzilla wash.
That time when we made a theme song for Kura Sushi out of our sheer love for it【Video】
- Krista Rogers
Nov 27, 2024
Sometimes love for conveyor belt sushi makes you do crazy things.
- Japan
- (COK • composition • Conveyor belt sushi • funny • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • music • revolving sushi • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • video)
Man with snake face tattoo arrested for assault, neighbors shocked he would do such a thing【Vid】
- Master Blaster
Nov 26, 2024
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover… unless a snake is tattooed on it.
Awesome Zelda cosplayer gets help from Smash Bros. creator Sakurai to solve costume problem【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 19, 2024
Director reveals a clever secret about Link’s scabbard for the Master Sword.
- Japan
- (awesome • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • Legend of Zelda • link • Masahiro Sakurai • nintendo • Super Smash Bros. • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate • video • video games)
Children’s slippers stolen in night at Japanese preschool, police identify weasel who did it【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 18, 2024
No criminal charges will be filed.
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