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Rugby World Cup: Captain Michael Leitch melts hearts with the reason why he plays for Japan

• Oona McGee
  Oct 16, 2019
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Kindness at the time of a family tragedy leads Leitch to pledge his allegiance to the Japanese team as a teenager.

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• Canada, Japan
• (canada • Fukuoka • funny • LOL • news • rugby • Rugby World Cup • RWC • sport • sports • twitter • videos • yukata)

Wild boars leap from river, run across rice fields like a scene from a Ghibli anime film【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 15, 2019

Unexpected post-typhoon scene in Japan is so beautiful it looks like something from a movie.

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• Japan
• (animals • anime • boars • Ghibli • nature • news • Princess Mononoke • rivers • Studio Ghibli • twitter • typhoon • Typhoon Hagibis • videos)

Shibuya rats scuttle along streets in the wake of Typhoon Hagibis【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 13, 2019

This Tokyo area is now being nicknamed “Rat Land” by people in Japan.

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• Japan
• (news • rats • Shibuya • Tokyo • twitter • typhoon • Typhoon Hagibis • videos)

Japanese video shows what life was like in Tokyo and Mt Fuji over 100 years ago

• Oona McGee
  Oct 8, 2019

Famous sites like Ueno Park and Sensoji temple look amazingly like they do today, but the people look entirely different.

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• Japan
• (archive • culture • history • Japanese history • Mt. Fuji • old video • society • Tokyo • tradition • videos)

PewDiePie buys house in Japan, calls it “a dream come true”

• Oona McGee
  Oct 7, 2019

But what do people in Japan think of the top YouTuber possibly moving to their country? 

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• Japan
• (gamers • PewDiePie • property • video games • videos • YouTube • YouTubers)

Rugby World Cup: Ireland fans sing for Japan outside convenience store after defeat

• SoraNews24
  Oct 1, 2019

They may have lost the match, but their sportsmanship won them fans around the country.

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• Canada, Europe, Japan
• (Ireland • news • rugby • Rugby World Cup • RWC • sport • sports • twitter • videos)

Japan fans call Rugby World Cup player Luke Thompson “kawaii” for the way he speaks Japanese

• Oona McGee
  Oct 1, 2019

An unlikely cute icon emerges from left field.

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• Canada, Japan
• (canada • cute • Fukuoka • funny • LOL • news • rugby • Rugby World Cup • RWC • sport • sports • twitter • videos • yukata)

Rugby World Cup 2019: Team Canada jumps off bus in yukata kimono…dressed like the dead

• Oona McGee
  Sep 27, 2019

Embarrassing fashion faux pas has these players dressed in the same way that Japanese people dress dead bodies.

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• Canada, Japan
• (canada • cute • Fukuoka • funny • LOL • news • rugby • Rugby World Cup • RWC • sport • sports • twitter • videos • yukata)

Japanese high school students build crazy wooden roller coaster at school festival【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 15, 2019

Yes, the slide is built on school desks stacked on top of each other, but that just makes the ride even more thrilling. 

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• Japan
• (high school • high school students • Japanese high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • roller coasters • school festival • schools • videos)

Automatic cat feeder is no match for this clever kitty【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 29, 2019

Cat reaches genius level on automatic animal feeder while its hooman is away. 

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • funny • LOL • pets • twitter • videos)

Japanese Twitter obsessed with app that revives the VHS camcorder recording quality of the ‘80s

• Dale Roll
  Aug 24, 2019

The app turns your high quality smartphone camera into a handheld VHS camcorder! 

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• Japan
• (1980s • 1990s • 80s • 90s • app • camera • cool • funny • Japanese Twitter • nostalgic • VHS • videos)

Ed Sheeran’s “I Don’t Care” gets official Japanese parody video starring Blouson Chiemi 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 18, 2019

Japanese comedian steps into Justin Bieber’s shoes and eats flying sushi with Sheeran in hilarious new music video.

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• Japan
• (Blouson Chiemi • cats • comedy • Ed Sheeran • funny • I Don't Care • LOL • music • music videos • No. 6 Collaborations Project • parody video • videos • wtf)

Naomi Osaka slams reporters who ask her to speak in Japanese with new Nike commercial

• Oona McGee
  May 27, 2019

Osaka has just one word to say in response to all those annoying questions about her ethnicity and her love of katsudon.

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• Japan
• (commercials • Japanese • Japanese commercials • katsudon • Naomi Osaka • Nike • sport • sportswomen • tennis • videos • YouTube)

Foreign English teacher in Japan caught hitting 2-year-old child at daycare facility 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  May 18, 2019

Reports say the Canadian teacher regularly spanked children and shoved books into their mouths.

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• Japan
• (abusive teachers • angry teachers • eikaiwa • English teachers • news • Teachers • teaching • teaching English • Teaching English in Japan • videos)

Noel Gallagher, on tour in Japan, asks fans to buy High Flying Birds merch…in a way only he can

• Oona McGee
  May 17, 2019

The former Oasis frontman throws in a f***ing cuss word, reminds everyone how extra he is, and Japanese fans love it.

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• Europe, Japan
• (bands • Britpop • High Flying Birds • Liam Gallagher • music • Noel Gallagher • oasis • tours • twitter • videos)

Six-year-old Japanese farm boy goes viral for doling out comments on dating like an old grandpa

• Oona McGee
  May 8, 2019

The proud self-professed farmer speaks and acts like an old man trapped in a young boy’s body.

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• Japan
• (children • dating • farmers • farming • Japanese farmers • LOL • love • relationships • Shunsuke Nakamura • videos)

Renting a Girlfriend in Japan: Relationship goals or just plain awkward? 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  May 3, 2019

Japanese rental girlfriend spills all the details on what it’s like to date a complete stranger.

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• Japan
• (Asian Boss • culture • girlfriends • Japanese women • love • relationships • rent a girlfriend • society • videos • women)

Tommy Lee Jones cries, says sayonara to the Heisei era in epic new Boss coffee commercial 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 30, 2019

The one-night special will be screened on Japanese television tonight, on the last day of the Heisei period.

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• Japan
• (BOSS • Boss coffee • commercials • Heisei • Heisei era • Japanese commercials • Suntory • Tommy Lee Jones • videos)

Baby penguin seeing sakura for the first time is all of us during hanami season 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2019

You don’t have to be human to be captivated by the wonder of falling cherry blossoms.

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• Japan
• (animals • cherry blossoms • cute • hanami • Kawaii • penguins • sakura • Tobu Zoo • twitter • videos)

Sakura train ride plays out like a magical scene from a Japanese anime movie

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2019

A secret hanami cherry-blossom viewing experience you won’t read about in travel guides.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • hanami • Japanese trains • sakura • trains • travel • twitter • videos)

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