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Beautiful Japanese actress’ mediocre ball-on-a-stick skills have Internet crushing hard【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 17, 2018
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Most people in Japan outgrow this game by the time they finish grade school, but Kyoko Fukada had adults’ attention.

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• (beautiful women • Kendama • Kyoko Fukada • video)

Japanese guy plays two-player Taiko No Tatsujin alone, blindfolded and backwards【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Jan 17, 2018

And his drumming seems to have an odd power over women.

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• Japan
• (awesome • crazy • drums • Egashira 2:50 • funny • rhythm games • taiko • Taiko no Tatsujin • video • video games • weird • wtf)

Experience all the joy, love, and violence of raising your own grizzly with new smartphone game

• Master Blaster
  Jan 15, 2018

My Grizzly Bear teaches us all the great deal of responsibility that goes into raising a lovable-but-feisty 300-kilogram wild animal.

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• Japan
• (grizzly bears • MilkCorp • My Grizzly Bear • smartphone games • video • virtual pets • wtf)

Netizens speak up over video of kidnapping prank in Japan posted by American YouTuber duo

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 14, 2018

Duo claims the prank was staged, but Japanese netizens aren’t buying it.

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• Japan
• (abduction • controversial • Japanese Twitter • joke • kidnap • Logan Paul • video • YouTube)

New bizarre Thai trend has men undergoing laser treatment to bleach their penis

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 14, 2018

And customers are reportedly rather satisfied with the results.

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• SE Asia
• (bizarre • Thailand • video • white skin • whitening)

Hilarious Japanese train-racing racing game at AGDQ has speedrunning fans in stitches【Video】

• Scott Wilson
  Jan 13, 2018

The speedrunners train-ed hard, let’s hope they don’t run out of steam and go off the rails.

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• Japan
• (AGDQ • funny • speed run • trains • twitch • video • video games)

Traditional Japanese New Year’s display is replaced with an adorably furry substitue【Video】

• Meg Murphy
  Jan 12, 2018

While the traditional kagami-mochi display is made of pounded rice, this one is made entirely of fluff.

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• Japan
• (cats • cute • Japanese New Year • kagami mochi • video • YouTube)

Wotagei glow stick dance performance of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” too awesome for words【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 8, 2018

Follow their lead and watch these cool dudes set the darkness on fire.

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• Japan
• (cool • Ed Sheeran • glow sticks • music • video • wotagei • YouTube)

Chinese knockoff of Splatoon to be released with “original” content, no one takes it seriously

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 8, 2018

After getting shut down once, you’d have thought the developers might have learned a lesson or two.

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• China
• (Chinese Knockoff • knockoffs • nintendo switch • Splatoon • video • Wii U)

We could all learn something from this Korean grade school music class’ Daft Punk cover【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Jan 7, 2018

Watching this video makes me realize that I got ripped off as a kid.

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• Korea
• (Daft Punk • education • electronic music • music • Something About Us • video)

Muji’s new expandable suitcase is perfect for Japan-based expats and overseas Japanophiles【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 6, 2018

Taking different amounts of stuff on your two flights across the Pacific? Mujirushi Ryohin is here to help.

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• Japan
• (bags • cool • muji • Mujirushi Ryohin • suitcases • travel • video)

Japanese American tells of how she was teased in school, and the touching way her mom stepped up

• Meg Murphy
  Jan 6, 2018

Young Melodee didn’t want to take Japanese-style lunches to school after being teased by classmates, but her mother had the perfect solution.

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• USA
• (bento • culture • food • internaitonalism • kids • sushi • video)

Temple bell tolling on Japanese New Year’s Eve gets rid of evil desires, but not complaints

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 4, 2018

No matter how much good it brings, the sound of a humongous bell struck 108 times might be too much for some people.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • culture • New Year's • society • temples • video)

The five best anime of 2017【Seiji’s World of Anime】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2018

The biggest otaku in the SoraNews24 office runs down his picks for the five series you need to see to feel like you “watched anime” in 2017.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Kemono Friends • Seiji Nakazawa • Seiji's world of anime • SNOJ • video)

New VR Sense pods surpass 5,000 plays within five days of release, top three games revealed

• Koh Ruide
  Jan 2, 2018

It seems players love ultra-realistic live concerts, sword fights, and scantily-clad beach girls.

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• Japan
• (Dead or Alive • Dynasty Warriors • video • video games • virtual reality • VR Sense)

Four Japanese women chosen for world’s 100 most beautiful faces, four men make handsome list

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2017

Satomi Ishihara included in group of eight Japanese idols, actors, and entertainers chosen as among the most attractive in the world.

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• (beautiful women • Handsome men • idol singers • Idols • Satomi Ishihara • video)

Rare 1990 Hayao Miyazaki interview surfaces, shows the director “not as salty as usual”【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2017

Fan shows us a reason to hang onto your old VHS anime even after you’ve upgraded to newer media versions.

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• Japan
• (anime • Hayao Miyazaki • interview • movies • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • Studio Ghibli • video)

You can make a knife (yes, a knife) out of Japanese dried fish【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 27, 2017

Most people know katsuobushi as a bonito flake seasoning, but it can also be a blade.

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• Japan
• (blades • bonito • cooking • cool • crazy • fish • food • katsuobushi • knives • video • weird)

Experience a century of anime history in one gorgeous video celebrating art form’s 100th birthday

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 27, 2017

Musical retrospective looks back on the 100 years of Japanese animation.

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• Japan
• (anime • culture • history • Pokemon • Sailor Moon • video • your name.)

Japanese arcade owner arrested for allegedly rigging crane games to be unwinnable

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 26, 2017

Japan’s first-ever crane game fraud investigation claims arcades used secret setting so prizes could only be won in employee demonstrations.

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• Japan
• (Arcades • COK • crane game • crime • fraud • game centers • scams • UFO catchers • video)

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