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More on Gwen Stefani's "I'm Japanese" comments. She apparently made them multiple times in her interview with Allure. And she made them to an Asian reporter.
The cringe. It's over 9000.
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“Found a store where the price changes based on how you order”
The sign:
“Yo, beer” - 1000 yen
“Grab me a beer will ya” - 500 yen
“Excuse me, one beer please” - 380 yen twitter.com/etoriasan/stat…
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Some clever kids made a randoseru (backpack) that was a little easier to handle. Sadly, a bunch of grumpy "I walked four miles in the snow to school uphill both ways" adults had some insulting words for the inventors of the "samposeru".
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(TW: Sexual assault)
Video of a man groping a sleeping woman on a train in Japan went viral last month, along with the offender's full name and employer (the victim's face was blurred). One lawyer is encouraging ppl who see such incidents to speak out when they happen.
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Coming soon to a bookshelf near you: the ancient Japanese art of Semai twitter.com/FuckCarsReddit…
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Pic is a child’s drawing of someone washing their hands. OP: “Seeing this confirmed that I am no longer pure of heart.” twitter.com/tdnomdk/status…
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New Post: Wanna feel old? The Heisei Era just ended and it's already considered "retro". A look at loose socks, "garakei" phones, old gaming consoles, and other Heisei "throwbacks".
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While Japan boasts one of the highest adoption rates in the world, the majority of those don’t involve children at all, but rather adult men. As of 2017, a whopping 98% of all adoptions in Japan were of adult men. Japan makes it easy to adopt men, and not always for good reasons.
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“Maternity harassment” is rife among employers who use (abuse) Japan’s foreigner internship program. In October, a Filipino worker who became pregnant lost her shifts and was harassed to return to her country until she quit - a clear case of illegal discrimination.
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"...The first step should be to re-work the legal system to restore to these extant people their legal rights."
This discussion comes as PM Kishida has pushed back against the popular desire for creating a legal structure for same-sex marriage in Japan.
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A Tokyo judge has ordered Tokyo Medical University to pay 27 women a total of 18.26 million yen after lowering their entrance exam test scores as a deliberate way of decreasing women’s admissions and attendance.
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“This shouldn’t be posted on a train platform.”
Sign: “When you’ve lost hope, your goal is one step away” twitter.com/Amitayus33/sta…
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Takahashi Matsuri started working at Dentsu in April 2015. Nine months later, she took her own life. Her tragic fall brought forth cries for reform. But it’s also brought criticism that neither the government nor Japanese corporations are doing enough.
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NHK asked young people in Japan between 17 & 19 if they ever plan to have kids. Only 46% said yes. The majority who said no say the biggest factors are the financial burden (69%) and work-life balance (54%).
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"Well done on getting into the bag!"
This is an interesting example of how Japanese sentences can consist entirely of foreign loan words. We have three words in Katakana: ナイス・リュック・イン！(Naisu ryukku in!) Breaking that down, we get...
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The phrase #外国人に土地を売らないで ("don't sell land to foreigners") is trending on Japanese Twitter, the belated result of the fervent words said by musician Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi to a crowded venue in Kagawa some weeks ago. The involved tweets are about the quality you'd expect.
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Can you huff Japan's red spider lily? Survey says...you probably shouldn't. An eye-catch in the anime Lycoris Recoil ended up being pulled because it showed the characters doing exactly that. More background on higanbana and the controversial image below 👇
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“This dog sulking all day because no one at the Coming of Age ceremony gave them any attention” twitter.com/coo_nana03/sta…
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"Must've been pretty comfy, he hung out in the apple all day.
"Morning Night" twitter.com/akai_suisei_z/…
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"Cowboy Bebop depicts how capitalism has ruined Earth and other planets in the solar system via excessive consumption and exploitation, creating a futuristic ‘wild west' - while also positively depicting different cultures coexisting in a heterogeneous society." - @ericdmargolis
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Video has the word “osampo” (a walk) in the background. Pouring the water reverses the さ (sa) to a ち (chi), making this “ochimpo” or “p*nis”.
May everyone who is still 7yo at heart get a giggle from that. twitter.com/huniki_kanetin…
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File under "next time, hire a damn translator": A Korean restaurant in Japan used Google Translate to render "irasshaimase" (welcome) into Korean. However, GT for some reason translated it into "please don't come", leading to accusations the business was anti-Korean 🙃
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A woman who spent 10 million yen on host clubs in 6 years says that when she ran out of money, her host’s attitude did a 180. She says he bullied her into removing her brand clothes and selling them for cash. “Now I get why there are so many pawn shops in Kabukicho,” she says.
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“The rabbit’s too liberated” twitter.com/pon0412x/statu…
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Ishikawa Yui, the voice of Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan, received threats in 2020 that targeted her, her family, and an agency director. In 2019, police arrested two people for sending death threats about Ito Ayumi, the voice behind Final Fantasy‘s Tifa Lockhart.
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.