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It was perhaps Japan's most horrific murder. So why were all the offenders given such light sentences - and why do they walk free today? A look into the case of Furuta Junko and how it shocked Japan - and the world.
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After being a bit underwhelmed by Shinkai Makoto's last movie, our reviewer went into the brand new Suzume no Tojimari ready for more of the same from – a beautiful but passable film. What he got instead was one of the most exciting anime films he'd seen in years.
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Reminds me of the time I sent an email and my Japanese colleague complimented me on my keigo. I confessed I had modeled it after an online template from a site full of business email templates. She replied, "Can you send me the link?!?!" twitter.com/once_socialism…
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A mixed Brazilian-Japanese woman was told (very wrongly) by a city official in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, that “public assistance isn’t available for foreigners”, she should “go back to her country “.
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People in Japan are expressing disgust over a video (we won’t share, it’s cruel and sick) of a woman who took an unhoused woman to a combini promising to buy her food - only to leave her stranded at the register at the last minute. One unhoused advocate called the vid “violent”.
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PM Kishida doubled down on his opposition to Japan federally recognizing same sex marriage, saying that it would “change family values, our values system, and society”.
Reminder that the majority of people in Japan consistently approve of marriage equality by a sizable margin.
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Right-wing weebs who've never lived in Japan: Japan is totally safe and there's zero sexual assault, also the trains ALWAYS RUN ON TIME
Japanese news: A man accused of groping fled on the tracks and stopped four major Tokyo train lines
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Discount retailer Don Quixote says they’re changing their beloved character Donpen out for “Dohou-chan,” a faceless, soulless katakana “do” that has arms and legs for some reason. General reaction from users is, “why?” twitter.com/donki_donki/st…
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A bunch of people dressed up in dinosaur costumes in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, and raced 50m across the snow.
Don’t question it…just revel in the silly fun ❤️ twitter.com/nhk_news/statu…
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Japanese nationalists are knicker-twisted lately that subway displays rotate languages, something that happens in virtually every country with immigrant populations. They’re more upset by Korean than English despite Japan having more Korean speakers, which is…telling.
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"Pretty darn cute seeing this manga-esque batting scene play out in real life"
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Twitter right-winger was told that trans rights was all about pronouns. Sees trans rights parade happening in Japan and trans people existing in Japan. Tries to square this with their JLPT L7 knowledge of Japanese. A mighty confusion ensues.
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AKB48 member Okada Nana has "graduated" from the group for the crime of falling in love. This after group General manager Mukaichi Mion said "the time's come to rethink" the rule against members having relationships.
AKB48's parent company denies any such rule exists.
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Japanese cuisine is globally renowned. However, when asked what they know, people often get stuck after sushi and ramen. But Japanese food has so much more to offer. Here’s a quick-fire introduction to ten types of cuisine and restaurants you’ll find in Japan.
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A fairly understandable reaction to the deer in Nara.
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An izakaya makes it clear it doesn’t want no single people, no families, and no damn foreigners. twitter.com/sho_in_bayern/…
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The age of consent issue is particularly sending me. It’s an obsession among a certain genre of weeb who (1) should get FBI visits and (2) don’t realize that Japan is simply raising the national age to the de facto average. It’s 18 in some small places like *checks notes* Tokyo.
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A reason for the continued imagined association in Japan between tattooing culture and criminality are the long centuries of tattoos being used as brands for criminals. Below are tattoos used during the Edo-era to mark lawbreakers in various locales.
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A most important secret hidden within the famed pirate symbol of mega-popular weekly manga magazine Shonen Jump: turn the pirate on his side, and he morphs into a young girl.
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I never get tired of this genre of tweet where people are shocked to discover they followed an account about Japan that doesn’t hate minorities.
We’ve been covering social justice issues in Japan since our inception in 2018. This is quite literally our lane.
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(CW: Rape)
Right-wing mangaka Hasumi Toshiko, who made illustrated posts repeatedly on Twitter denying Ito Shiori's rape and saying she was just trying to "sleep her way to success", has lost her appeal to pay 880K yen in damages to Ito for slander.
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Voice actress Hirano Aya (Misa in DEATH NOTE) revealed that her work in anime has exposed her to death threats that required involving the cops. “I love helping make great works seen around the world. But it’s not healthy working in fear of my life due to a few fanatical fans.”
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Love (and by love I mean AAAAARGH) how right-wing weebs see a trans parade in Japan and posit it's a left-wing woke Communist Critical Race Theory Gaijin Imperialist conspiracy to topple Nippon...instead of the simpler theory that trans people exist in Japan and would like rights
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - and a fine time to commemorate the story of Sugihara Chiune, the Japanese diplomat went against the dictates of his own government in order to issue Jewish refugees with visas to Japan - helping to save 6000 lives in the process.
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"Today at the zoo I saw a tanuki who had collapsed in front of a pair of normie lovebirds. Live your best life, tanuki!"
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The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.