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Shoplifting prevention guard arrested for shoplifting boot from store he was guarding

• Master Blaster
  yesterday
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Those boots weren’t made for walking away with.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • Manbiki G-Men • security guard • shoplifting • theft • weird)

Can Japan’s Self-Defense Forces legally open fire on a zombie horde?

• Master Blaster
  3 days ago

This legal discussion contains scenes of explicit violence and gore.

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• Japan
• (COK • constitution • Horror • Japan Self-Defense Forces • Japanese Self-Defence Force • law • military • three signs of death • use of force • weird • zombies)

Guile cosplay goes with everyone for Halloween at SoraNews24 HQ [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  3 days ago

Go home and be a family man? Nah, we have to go to work.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • cosplay • crazy • funny • Guile • halloween • Halloween costumes • Seiji Nakazawa • SN24 office Halloween • SNJO.COK • Street Fighter • video games • weird)

Japanese government still lists refusing to pay for dates as a form of domestic violence

• Casey Baseel
  5 days ago

Once again, there’s a lot of nuance that’s lost in the attempt to be succinct.

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• Japan
• (COK • dating • domestic violence • relationships • society • weird)

Japanese snack lovers may soon be spore-ting the latest crowdfunded confectionery tech

• Elliot Hale
  6 days ago

Play that fung-ky music.

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• Japan
• (COK • crowdfunding • crowdfunding campain • earphones • gadget • Kagomedia • kinoko no yama • Makuake • Meiji • quirky • tech • weird)

This curry restaurant might have the worst location in Tokyo…or maybe the best

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 27, 2026

Alk Road finds a way to turn a negative into a positive.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

Baum vending machine in a Yokohama station lets us eat cake served on a luxury cruise ship

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 27, 2026

Our favorite kind wasn’t even the one we expected, but they were all the baum-dot-com.

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• Japan
• (Asuka III • Bashamichi Station • baum • cake • Cocotomo • COK • cruise • dessert • food • gluten-free • Minatomirai Line • SNJO • vending machine • weird • Yokohama)

Is this crazy-looking home sauna just what our busy daddy reporter needs in his life?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 26, 2026

Ahiruneko’s single-guy sauna days are done, but this gadget promises to bring the steam right into his home.

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko.sauna • COK • cool • crazy • gadgets • health • saunas • SNJO • weird • wellness)

Tokyo restaurant adds special seat for live-streaming and social media posting [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2026

Yakiniku Like wants to help diners get some likes of their own.

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• Japan
• (COK • foods • meat • restaurants • social media • weird • yakiniku • Yakiniku Like)

Japan’s newest tempura is…potato salad tempura?!? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 23, 2026

Annual idea contest takes Tenya to a bold new tempura frontier.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • potato salad • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tempura • tendon • Tenya • weird)

Trial of terminally ill cancer patient who found 22 million yen on the street and kept it ends

• Master Blaster
  Oct 22, 2026

Defendant described money as a “gift from God.”

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• Japan
• (cancer • COK • crime • Sendai • theft • trial • weird)

Japanese scientists developing cute, autonomously swarming robo dogs for anti-bear patrols [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 22, 2026

Hacchan is a mecha version of an Akita Inu hunting dog.

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• Japan
• (animal attacks • animals • bear attacks • bears • crazy • cute • dogs • robots • science • video • weird)

There are goats spending every day in downtown Tokyo, but why? [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2026

We’re used to seeing salarymen in this part of Tokyo, and now there are salary goats too.

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• Japan
• (animals • COK • crazy • cute • East Japan Railways • goats • JR • JR East • SNJO • stations • Tokyo • trains • weird • Yotsuya)

Man in Suzuka offered 9 million yen for his semen, conned out of 38 million yen

• Master Blaster
  Oct 18, 2026

It was just too good to be true.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • Mie • senior citizens • special fraud • Suzuka • tokushu sagi • weird)

Burger King Japan now selling hamburgers minus everything but the meat

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 18, 2026

On the Beef is back, but in a sense it never really left.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • meat • weird)

This Japanese sandwich mascot is filled with fiery rage, and he’s got a point [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 17, 2026

Pocket sandwich innovator is sick and tired of being called an imitation, and furious too.

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• Japan
• (crazy • food • Fuji Baking • funny • Japanese pocket sandwiches • Lunch Pack • mascot characters • Mascots • pocket sandwiches • sandwichs • Snack Sandwich • video • weird • Yamazaki Baking)

We hunt for treasure at an all-you-can-stuff Kanagawa secondhand shop for just 1,000 yen

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 15, 2026

From kimono to kitchenware, character goods to cleaning sponges, can we fill a basket and get our money’s worth?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • Fujisawa • Japanese thrift store • secondhand stores • shopping • SNJO • Takuya Inaba • thrift store • thrift stores • tsumehodai • weird)

Man in Japan says monkey threw his cat into a pond before attacking him

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2026

Yamaguchi primate decides to pick fights with two other species.

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• Japan
• (animal attacks • animals • cats • COK • crazy • monkeys • nature • weird)

New Gundam plush goods mix cosplay and comfort for Char-custom-level coziness [Pics]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2026

Even the Red Comet needs a nap sometimes, right?

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• Japan
• (anime • Char Aznable • cool • cosplay • crazy • cushions • Gundam • interior • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • Premium Bandai • weird)

This shrine in Japan invites you to hit and kick its god of poverty statue for good luck [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2026

Instead of praying to the binbogami, you’re supposed to fight him off.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • funny • god of poverty • Japan travel • Nagano • shrines • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)

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