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This widely disseminated tweet is repeating the old saw that foreigners in Japan get a total of USD $900M in public assistance, so this is your regular reminder that this number is totally made up and no such official number is published by the Japanese government. twitter.com/martytaka777/s…
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Reports have surfaced that a man with Down's Syndrome died in Aichi Prefecture in 2021 because hospital staff prescribed him *15 times* the standard for a laxative. He was admitted to the hospital the next day but subsequently passed away. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"The cook went ahead and made this for me only to get scolded by the head sushi chef"
We've seen bentos made to look like Ohmu from Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind before, but sushi is a new one!
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A new JP gov report on remote work found that a higher frequency of remote work leads to longer sleep for employees and, combined with office work in appropriate doses, fosters greater happiness.
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TV weatherman Horai Daisuke gives a spooky rendition of the autumn leaves/weather report for the Kansai region - morphing into the long-necked Rokurokubi (ろくろ首), a ghastly apparition from Japanese folklore.
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In the early 20th century, Japan had urged the poorer segments of its rural population to leave their homes for Brazil. But in the 1980s, faced with labor shortages at home, it remembered its millions of prodigal sons and daughters living there and worked to woo them back.
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"I need you to be calm and listen to me. While you were sleeping Japan defeated Germany and Spain in upset victories and advanced to 1st place in the group stage" twitter.com/tobeyan/status…
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Videographer @RIO_AKIYAMA has been filming Pride Parades (at personal expense) all across Japan. They’ve added videos of a slew of new cities - including Wakayama, Kyoto, Tokyo (Shibuya), Nagoya and others - to their Note account (linked below).
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In case you ever wanted to listen to Goku and Doraemon "fight" it out with English subs:
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"Space stretches out beyond anything you could imagine once you enter Waguya, a porcelain wholesaler in Ise"
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An important video to watch regarding perceptions of biracial people (ハフ) in Japan. Increasingly visible in both daily life and in media, and yet still occupying an ambiguous space as Japanese citizens and residents. twitter.com/annaPHd9pj/sta…
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"This might just be the best dentist I've ever been to"
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"Tried putting a Halloween headband from the ¥100 store on our black cat, and the cat ended up looking way more like a witch's familiar than expected...
#blackcats "
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A program on NHK interviewed over 10 children from LGBT households about some of the issues faced by LGBT families in Japan. unseenjapan.com/lgbt-couple-ch…
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The hashtag "So the LDP was just the Unification Church after all" (#自民党って統一教会だったんだな) trends on Japanese Twitter as users contend with discussion regarding the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's connections to the "new religion" founded by Sun Myung Moon.
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“Why I can’t get anything done” twitter.com/cutest_animal1…
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“Our cat, who arrives in song when they’re in a good mood” t.co/KtmfwTSSnd
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“Everyone asks ‘why didn’t you go w/ your husband on his overseas work posting?’ but not one person asks ‘Why did he accept it & leave his family behind?’ or ‘why did the company ask this of someone w/ a wife and kid?’” twitter.com/mou72468300/st…
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"Our walk today, when the wind was blowing so fiercely that I could no longer tell head from tail🐾
#pomeranian "
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Actress/singer Natsuki Mari spoke out about Japan’s gender gap at an illumination event sponsored by Kose in Shibuya that aims to draw attention to domestic violence. “Japan is still a men’s-first society,” Natsuki said. “I long for a world where women can live as equals.”
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“An abandoned shrine past a torii where you feel like you may just vanish from the human world” twitter.com/JIYUKENKYU_jp/…
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Today was the second of the three days of the Kanda Used Book Festival (神田古本まつり). The fair takes place in Jinbocho, the famed "used book" capital of the country, and features tens of thousands of book dating from the Edo era to the modern day on sale.
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"My boss (50s) was late to a big meeting & said 'A grade school kid found a damn pretty rock & wanted to show me so I was late watching their lecture. They gave me the rock. I present it as proof' & showed a pretty rock. Everyone was like 'seems legit' & the meeting started." twitter.com/NamidaAfredel/…
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"This bus stop in Nagasaki is simply too cute."
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"The moment the blackout hit, seen in realtime as my younger brother was on his way home on his motorcycle when the earthquake occurred."
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The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.