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10-year-old Japanese girl is youngest person ever certified to prepare deadly poisonous blowfish

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 5, 2024
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”It was a good summer vacation.”

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• (awesome • blowfish • cooking • food • fugu • fuku • poison • pufferfish • video)

“Please watch until the end.” McDonald’s Japan’s beautiful moon-viewing anime video has cozy twist

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2024

McDonald’s Japan continues to be a reliable source for tasty burgers and heartwarming anime art.

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• Japan
• (anime • burgers • commercials • cool • fast food • food • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • moving • touching • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers • video)

Kyoto becomes City of Yokai, with Night Parade of One Hundred Demons festival this autumn

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2024

Japan’s supernatural world springs to life in a special Hyakki Yagyo event you won’t want to miss. 

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • culture • demons • ghosts • Hyakki Yagyo • Kyoto • monsters • parade • scary • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel • video • yokai)

American Battle Dome returns in Japan, promises to be CHO EXCITING!【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 29, 2024

A game as American as mom’s battle pie returns to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

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• Japan
• (Board games • crazy • funny • toys • video • weird)

Parakeet found riding Shinkansen by itself, gets taken into police custody【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 23, 2024

“Now just where did you come from?”

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• Japan
• (animals • birds • bullet train • crazy • funny • pets • shinkansen • tourism • trains • travel • video • weird)

Pikachu and other Pokémon star in airline ANA’s new safety video!【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2024

Please return your seatback to its upright position for takeoffs and landings, Lucario.

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• Japan
• (Air travel • airlines • ANA • anime • manga • Pikachu • Pokemon • tourism • travel • video • video games)

Locals (deer) shut visitors out of Nara Park cool-down misting station【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Because if summer is freakishly hot for humans, it’s hot for deer too.

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• Japan
• (cute • deer • funny • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • video)

Comiket’s mesmerizing masses of humanity make for surreally captivating time-lapse videos【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2024

The crowds come out for summer Comiket.

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• Japan
• (anime • Comiket • crazy • manga • otaku • video)

Surreal scenes of Nara’s giant Buddha statue getting its once-a-year cleaning from 170 people【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2024

Size difference makes human cleaners of the Daibutsu statue look like tiny little spirits.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • cool • crazy • daibutsu • Great Buddha • Nara • Nara Daibutsu • temples • Todaiji • tourism • travel • video)

Japan’s Capylympics capybara watermelon eating contest brings new challengers and threepeat quest【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2024

Five furry competitors come together in the spirit of friendly competition and delicious fruit.

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• Japan
• (animals • capybara bath • capybaras • Capylympics • cute • funny • video • watermelon • zoos)

Amazing Swedish Totoro cosplay steals the show at World Cosplay Championship【Pics, video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2024

Team Japan gets first overall victory in 12 years, but it’s a safe bet that no one will ever forget this Totoro.

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • cosplay • crazy • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • video • World Cosplay Championship • World Cosplay Summit)

Kyoto Animation needs no words in its new anime video love letter to its hometown【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2024

A jaw-dropping, magical, and whimsical chase through KyoAni’s hometown (which isn’t Kyoto).

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• Japan
• (anime • KyoAni • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Prefecture • manga • Uji • video)

Moving Howl’s Castle that actually walks once again available for Howl’s Moving Castle fans【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2024

Well, well, well, look who came walking back.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • Hayao Miyazaki • Howl's Moving Castle • Studio Ghibli • video)

Tokyo Disneyland’s Space Mountain is now closed

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2024

Our reporter tries in vain for one last ride, but daddy-daughter day at work does not go as planned.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • Disneyland • P.K. Sanjun • roller coasters • SNJO • Space Mountain • theme parks • Tokyo Disney Resort • Tokyo Disneyland • video)

Kyoto Animation memorial erected in remembrance of arson attack victims【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2024

36 white birds for 36 artists who lost their lives.

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• Japan
• (anime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack • memorial • video)

Video of man kicking, slapping deer in Nara Park outrages Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2024

Defenseless deer attacked by man too lazy/violent to walk around them.

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• Japan
• (animals • COK • crazy • deer • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • video)

Apartment in Japan explodes following bizarre series of events【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 20, 2024

Seven injured in Saitama blast.

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• Japan
• (crazy • explosion • Kawaguchi • scary • video)

New Ranma 1/2 anime preview reveals Netflix streaming, returning all-star voice cast【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 18, 2024

Look, and hear, who’s back!

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• Japan
• (anime • Kappei Yamaguchi • manga • Megumi Hayashibara • new • Noriko Hidaka • ranma • Ranma 1/2 • Ranma 1/2 anime • Rumiko Takahashi • seiyu • video • voice actors • voice actresses)

7-Eleven Japan gets into the sort-of-freshly baked pizza home delivery business【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 6, 2024

Japanese convenience store promises piping hot pies at your door in as little as 20 minutes.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • pizza • pizza delivery • video)

Real Buddhist monk plays Super Mario Bros., recites prayers every time he kills an enemy【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2024

Have you ever stopped to think about the soul of a Goomba when you crush or burn its body?

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • Buddhist monk • crazy • funny • monk • NES • nintendo • religion • Super Mario • Super Mario Bros. • video • video games • weird)

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