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"'The 2nd Assembly of the Alley Cats' Onigiri"
Honestly would have a hard time eating these - too cute.
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Zainichi Koreans are the descendants of forced laborers from Imperial Japan and face ongoing hate and discrimination. Some cities in Japan have enacted hate law ordinances primarily aimed at curbing anti-Korean hate. See @ForeignAffairs for more.
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"I was temporarily in a seminar where a student said they wanted to do their thesis on the issue of chikan [public molesters], only to have the teacher say 'false accusations of molestation are the more important issue, so do that.'" 1/2
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In a case suing for marriage equality in Japan, Kawachi Shino told the court about how she’s faced discrimination all her life, starting when she was a teenager & saw “homosexuality” defined in a dictionary as “sexual perversion”.
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"A battle of words between Doraemon and Son Goku - close your eyes and listen to have your mind blown lol"
Oyama Nobuyo (Doraemon) on the left, Hidaka Noriko (Touch, Ranma 1/2, Totoro) playing referee, and Nozawa Masako (Dragon Ball) on the right.
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"I can never forget what a coworker said to me on the day I started work in Australia, when I lacked confidence in my English. 'No one thinks your English sucks. I can only speak English, so I gotta respect your effort to learn a foreign language."1/2 twitter.com/KoalaEnglish18…
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New Post: Death Note voice actress Hirano Aya talked recently about threats against her life. Sadly, her story isn't a rare case in the anime industry. We look at a phenomenon that some voice actors say is deterring talent from entering the profession.
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“The difference between Tokyo Metro Police and Osaka Police posters”
Left (Tokyo): “Tokyo’s here to protect you”
Right (Osaka): “Let’s GO! Time to show ‘em what we’re made of!” twitter.com/etoriasan/stat…
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A guide to “how anyone can draw Pochita” from Chainsaw Man: “First, draw the blade. Then, sketch in the skeleton. Next, attach the musculature to it. Finally add & color the skin and you’re done!” twitter.com/Gyoza_2001/sta…
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“My 3yo, who named each and every individual shrimp in the gratin and then couldn’t eat it” twitter.com/NatsuTagu/stat…
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"Alright, so speaking of the effects of the mass layoffs at Twitter, that means the next time Japanese users engage in 'barus terror' [mass tweeting a famous line from Ghibli's Castle in the Sky] is may just cause the whole site to go down... #RIPTwitter "
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Japan Twitter users are trending a hashtag calling for former politician Hashimoto Kotoe’s account to be frozen after she tweeted that protests over Abe’s state funeral were a “mobilization of homeless people” who “stank horribly”.
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If you've ever wanted to see a close-up shot of a tanuki - this does a good job of showing how much so-called "raccoon dogs" actually differ from raccoons.
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"It was so incredible to see a building where the 1st floor is a convenience store but the 2nd floor isn't just some apartment, but is actually a Japanese-stye house - I ended up snapping a photo of it."
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A snowbound showdown for the ages.
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"I was given an Akabeko and though it would be cute seeing my cat give it a punch to get the head moving, but I never told my cat to go this far...😂"
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TV Tokyo has been doing a Spider-Man "roadshow," airing Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. JPN Twitter is reacting.
"'Tomorrow evening's roadshow feature, Spider-Man 2, is the heaven-sent film in which you can witness the legendary May Punch👊"
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チンチン can mean “penis”, but can also mean “extremely hot” in Aichi Prefecture. The unfortunate example sentence at the end can be read as “When Dodekabashi fights an enemy, its beak gets hot/becomes a d*ck”. twitter.com/akki_stsa/stat…
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As actor Ozawa Ren tries to rehabilitate himself, this Bunshun interview reminds us that just last year he denied any abuse of his 16yo victim, called it “consensual S&M”, and accused his victim of “revenge p0rn” for sharing pics of her bruises.
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"If abortion is to be banned, I feel it would only be fair to oblige all men to have vasectomies that could only be reversed upon receiving a signed document from a woman, and getting any other woman save the signee pregnant a serious crime."
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"I bought this tatami chair from Cainz thinking the cat would end up using it but I didn't expect this" twitter.com/sumochi3310/st…
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(TW: sexual assault)
“Kagawa Teruyuki admitting on his am show he committed sexual assault, apologizing, & doing the show as normal is super-scary. Japan is so lax towards sex offenders? I don’t wanna see the face of someone who unhooked a woman’s bra w/o permission, twitter.com/tenshicos/stat…
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"A coping method for when one encounters ghosts"
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"The colored pencils my daughter uses at preschool. They told us to shave off the place where you put your name, which just set my mischievous heart to purring...
Turn the pencil around, and you'll find a Jizo-san.🤭
This is what happens when you have a engraver for a father😌" twitter.com/Gakyu_Miyamoto…
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"A part of Gunkanjima that really reveals the verticality of the city as it existed."
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