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New Post: Japanese 6th grader Ui authored a 53-page book featuring whimsical art and interviews with LGBTQ+ people. Along with everyday people, Ui also sat down with high-profile celebs like fencer and transgender activist Sugiyama Fumino & literature professor Robert Campbell.
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What experts say appears to be a female northern sea lion has been spotted hanging out in Tokyo Bay near Haneda Airport. Apparently separated from her pack near Hokkaido, she appears to have wandered south and is in a state marine biologists refer to as “chillaxin’”.
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"A Clodsire Zenzai Soup
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Zenzai is a sweet traditional soup made from anko (sweet red beans), perfect for the cold winter months. Clodsire is a Clodsire.
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A survey by Kyodo News found 334 prefectural governmental officials have ties to the Unification Church. Of those, 80% belong to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is under fire for failing to detail how the Church may have influenced legislation in Japan.
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Special cat variants of the traditional Okinawan/Ryukyuan guardian statuary known as Shiisaa. These two were installed at a local lodging house in Okinawa.
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.@HuffPostJapan profiles Nakao Abel (中尾英鈴), a half-Nigerian/Japanese man who’s questioned routinely by Tokyo police - including one time when his genitals were groped in a drug search after cops stopped him for “looking away from the patrol car”.
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A high school in Hyogo Prefecture has apologized after a softball coach hit a student so hard he dislocated her jaw. Her crime? Forgetting her uniform. The teacher is on home suspension; the school is “considering” further disciplinary action. twitter.com/ntvnewszero/st…
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Another day, another relatively fact-free article claiming that young people in Japan are sick of jobs where the bosses are just! too! nice! They can’t flourish without discipline!! User @quzttro calls this “propaganda” to “make you think that shady companies are the norm.”
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"I'm certain there's YouTubers already planning on filming themselves venturing into cults. And they're going to be like 'they were friendlier than I expected.' Cause everyone loves a 'they look scary but they're actually nice~'-type story." 1/2
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"If someone admits to sexual assault & keeps working as usual, and business & media continue to employ him, it sends a message to society: 'That's all sexual assault is. A succinct apology will suffice. You won't lose work or anything.'" twitter.com/takinamiyukari…
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Records have emerged of the founder of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, telling followers they needed to build a power base in Japan’s Diet - and that they should focus on increasing support in the faction controlled by former PM Abe Shinzo. twitter.com/MMT20191/statu…
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ggrks (ググレカス)
This ancient piece of Japanese wisdom tells us that the answers we seek are at our fingertips. Moreover, it exhorts us to seek out that wisdom ourselves rather than relying on others. We would expect nothing less from such a deeply spiritual nation.
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Reporter goes to a Yamagata Prefecture legislative meeting where only 2 reps out of 39 are women. One of them gets up to talk and the men start talking amongst themselves, ignoring her.
The topic at hand was the gender gap 💀 twitter.com/ogawat0802/sta…
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New Post: A woman who suffered sexual assault in Japan's JET program found a lack of accountability across the entire system. @farrahakase interviews SaseboAnon on her four-year legal battle and on what JET must do to ensure the safety of future participants.
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“Two cats start dancing mid-fight” twitter.com/animal_iyashl/…
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"The happy dance of a parrot who managed to get let out of his cage at 10 at night😳"
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"So this is how I play Elden Ring." twitter.com/totomaru_hanmi…
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“The female officer in Sasebo leaned in and asked why I was bothering to report him for sexual assault. 'Why are you doing this to him? You know, when we catch someone for shoplifting, we take them in and give them a warning so they can think about their actions.’”
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“The scariest English expression isn’t ‘fuck’ or ‘shit’ but ‘we need to talk’.” twitter.com/AgingAnarchist…
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Melonpan, the sweet baked good that delights people across East Asia, was the creation of one Armenian man living in diaspora in Japan. This is his, and his diaspora's, story - as told by our incredible @riversidewings.
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"The realization that this country is blanketed in vastly more religious atmosphere than foreign individuals are aware of will now likely spread overseas. All it takes is looking at the ties political leaders share with all sorts of religious groups."
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Introducing the Pom Pom Purin tissue holder you never knew you needed twitter.com/k64KHpukRR6cpZ…
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Yesterday we wrote about how the records of several prominent juvenile court cases in Japan had been expunged. Today it's come out that the records related to the dissolution of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult behind the Tokyo sarin gas attack, have also been permanently deleted.
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Asahi with an incredible picture of the suspect being apprehended as he attempts to flee.
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"I constructed a convenient vehicle that allows you to move while performing an apologetic prostration for those times when you come into work extremely late, etc." twitter.com/togenkyoo/stat…
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