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A woman’s husband thought he was having an affair because he seemed so happy & was coming home late from work. So she hired a detective agency…and found out he was just a massive Hatsune Miku fan who was attending 3D concerts and singing her songs alone in karaoke rooms 💀 twitter.com/Miku_miku_pand…
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Nothing quite like reporting on the opening of the Ghibli Park in Aichi Prefecture and having Miyazaki randomly stride into frame like a slightly-more-in-focus sasquatch.
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These are literally just ordinary Japanese words, please stop doing this we’re all begging you twitter.com/TessaRDavis/st…
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Imagine thinking Japanese homeless people don’t exist. twitter.com/DaveAtherton20…
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Man is shocked to learn that mixed race people in Japan have the audacity to *checks notes* exist.
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The “woke localizers are ruining anime and manga” types have resorted to just outright lying about what the original Japanese says, knowing full well that their marks can’t read a lick of the language anyhow.
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Footage from Tokyo Trans March 2022, held today.
"We were blessed with great weather - what a perfect day👍"
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In the end, his wife accepted his otaku-ness and he made up for it by picking up the detective agency fee and taking her on a Disneyland vacation. So all’s well that ends well ❤️
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“Tried making a Rirakkuma pancake and the result is a charred corpse” twitter.com/etoriasan/stat…
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“At the conveyor belt sushi place where the customers also revolve” twitter.com/cobalt_kura/st…
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“Climbed Mt. Fuji yesterday and someone there ordered Domino’s Pizza” twitter.com/fatmanairsoft/…
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Konishi Hiroko shared how her refusal to join Fruits Basket director Daichi Akitaro in a mixed onsen led to losing out on acting roles. She also spoke to the hustle culture and the expectation to “sell yourself” for roles — which often included providing “service” to male staff.
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The (over?) use of "yabai" in Japanese isn’t something everyone here celebrates. There are those sounding the alarm about the perceived diminishment of Japanese youths’ vocabularies; in other words, some people think things are getting quite yabai out there.
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"After 12 years on Twitter, when I'm told 'the site's done for, time to move elsewhere,' I feel like I enter the headspace of an elder binding their fate to a village bound for extinction. 'I was born an' raised in this village. Can't live anywhere else.'"
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Sagawa Issei, who killed and cannibalized Dutch student Renee Hartevelt in Paris, got away with it, and then made money off of his infamy, has died. Users in Japan are uniformly wishing him the most miserable time possible in hell. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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A 32yo Tokyo man will not be tried for sneaking into a woman’s apartment and installing a camera to spy on her. No reason was given for refusing to prosecute him.
Women in Japan often don’t come forward when they’re the victims of such crimes. This is why.
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Twitter user has a sad that the Japan of their demented imagination never actually existed
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(CW: Stalking, murder)
Japan is safe - unless you're a woman: 38yo Kawano Miki consulted police multiple times about a stalker (possibly her ex, whom she separated from months before). Now, Kawano is dead after being stabbed multiple times by an assailant.
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For fans (推し) who don’t know what to bring to an idol signing event, OP recommends…the cover from your air conditioner? “I haven’t replaced it in over 10 years, it’s where I can always see it, & best of all I can lie convincingly that my idol came to visit (don’t do this)” twitter.com/hangyodonmax/s…
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Weebs: Sexual diversity in Japan is a Western woke corruption!!!
Japan: Here’s a book by author Mitsubishi Junko that documents the history of queer sexuality in Japan since the birth of Jesus
(And yeah you bet I’m gonna read it) twitter.com/Iwanamishoten/…
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In contrast to Western cyberpunk's fetishization of Japanese culture, Japanese cyberpunk covers topics such as the increasing influence of the military, income inequality and poverty, and government corruption - all without the fetishization of foreign cultures.
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Truly do not understand this obsession with promoting the idea that everyone in Japan is somehow cleaner than everyone else on Earth. Have these folks ever tried to find soap in a public restroom in Tokyo? twitter.com/JoePompliano/s…
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The announcement that Pixiv will work to create a more friendly working environment for all of its employees is drawing fire from Westerners who are under the impression that Japan doesn’t have (1) an issue with workplace harassment, (2) LGBTQ+ people, or (3) women.
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The manga SHE LOVES TO COOK, & SHE LOVES TO EAT advertised its latest volume in conjunction with Marriage for All Japan to call for equal marriage rights. The catch-copy reads: “We won’t let this end as just a story”. twitter.com/Tsuku_Tabe/sta…
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