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The product shown here is a mango (マンゴー) pie cake, but the discount sticker turns マンゴー into manko (マンコ), or “p*ssy” 💀 twitter.com/kamuiy/status/…
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This pic of a Super Hotel room with a line telling guests to take off their shoes and have a “good sleep” (ぐっすり) is freaking people out with the somewhat menacing font size of the ぐっすり. OP: “Doubted if I’d wake up. Relieved I lived to see the morning.” twitter.com/62178g/status/…
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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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Weebs & influencers: Japan is a crime free paradise where everyone always follows the rules
Tokyo Metro Police to young people: beware getting sucked into 闇バイト (illicit part time jobs) before you end up with a criminal record that destroys your life
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A squid at the Muroto Schoolhouse Aquarium in Kochi Prefecture spat out a large quantity of ink (墨, sumi) into its tank, leading the aquarium to apologize by writing 「スミません」 and we endorse this dad joke 100%.
(Also that poor ray) twitter.com/murosui_kochi/…
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A new telephone poll by Kyodo News says that, in the wake of discriminatory comments against LGBTQ people by PM Kishida’s (former) secretary, a full 64% of people in Japan support same sex marriage rights. Only 24.9% oppose.
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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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“I thought this was a nude Hakase Taro”, OP says referring to the Japanese violinist. The resemblance is admittedly uncanny.
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With Japan set to host the G7 Summit in May, it would be shocking if same-sex marriage didn't come up in discussion. Japan remains the only G7 country without LGBTQ+ protections.
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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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It's been days since Prime Minister Kishida Fumio fired secretary Arai Masayoshi for saying he didn't want LGBTQ people near him. But the firestorm isn't dying. Could this lead to actual action on LGBTQ rights in Japan? We rounded up some of the best commentary below.
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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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"Got out of the bath to find myself being watched over with great intensity lolololol"
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Sazae-san, the world’s longest running animated show, has lost one of its original voices. Sasuga Takako - who voiced Fuguta Tarao, the son of the titular character - passed away on the 5th at age 87. She voiced Tara-chan for over 50 years, since the show’s inception in 1969.
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Once, Benshi - professional live narrators for silent films in Japan - were bigger stars than the actual actors onscreen. This is the story of a lost cinematic art form.
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OP continues:
"You may wish that saying 'we won't accept them' will make their existence magically turn to sea foam and disappear(which would mean my disappearance, too),but since that's not going to happen, let us first speak of the status and rights of flesh-and-blood humans."
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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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"Trans people, non-binary people, and same-sex couples (including those raising kids) already exist in this society. The legal system simply hasn't kept up. So rather than having this psychological debate about whether to 'accept' them or no..."1/2
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Liberal Democratic Party rep and strategy chair Nishida Shoji says Japan shouldn’t regulate hate speech against LGBTQ people because it’s a human rights violation that will “split our society”, so, therefore, we…need to…allow hate speech to…preserve harmony? 🧐
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The manga SHE LOVES TO COOK, & SHE LOVES TO EAT advertised its latest volume in conjunction with Marriage for All Japan to call for equal marriage rights. The catch-copy reads: “We won’t let this end as just a story”. twitter.com/Tsuku_Tabe/sta…
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“At the conveyor belt sushi place where the customers also revolve” twitter.com/cobalt_kura/st…
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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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Weebs: Sexual diversity in Japan is a Western woke corruption!!!
Japan: Here’s a book by author Mitsubishi Junko that documents the history of queer sexuality in Japan since the birth of Jesus
(And yeah you bet I’m gonna read it) twitter.com/Iwanamishoten/…
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Ichinose Ayaka, one of the first Japanese celebrities to announce she was marrying a same-sex partner, criticized the Kishida gov for its stance against same sex marriage, calling for it to adopt a “tolerant conservatism” that “fosters a society where anyone can be happy”.
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"1978, Shinjuku looking out in the direction of San-chome."
Amazing how an image from 45 years in the past can look so similar and so different simultaneously.
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The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.