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Horiai Arisa (19) talks with Nikkei about her struggles as a transgender woman embarking on a career in Japan. It started with her college which wanted two forms diagnosing her w/ gender dysphoria before she could use her chosen name - & finding a doc to sign off was a struggle.
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What do people call their husbands in Japanese? A 2020 survey found the simple 夫 (otto) was preferred over more controversial terms like 主人 (shujin). But a survey of "ideal" terms showed growing support for more neutral terms like 連れ合い (tsureai) and パートナー (partner).
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The LDP’s Aso Taro, who’s previously scolded women for not having enough babies, is now saying he doesn’t see the value in compulsory education beyond elementary school: “Adults don’t need to know differential & integral calculus or factorization.”
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Twitter Anxiety has spread to Japan, where Twitter is widely used, and some users are suggesting everyone return to Mixi, a MySpace-esque 2000s throwback. The site is still running, albeit with a UI that feels like it hasn’t been updated in 20 years.
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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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Twitter user has a sad that the Japan of their demented imagination never actually existed
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Women in Japan have battled sexist sentiments for years. In 2003, former Japan PM Mori Yoshiro stated that women who didn’t have children didn’t deserve pensions. In 2005, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Yanagisawa Hakuo, referred to women as “birth-giving machines.”
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One Japanese Buddhist priest shares his view on abortion: “Of course we can’t take life. Buddhist law doesn’t allow that. On the other hand, a woman shouldn’t have to have a baby if she doesn’t want to. A child should not have to be born into a family that doesn’t want it."
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User grabs a nice pic of the Imperial train (お召し列車) carrying Japan’s Emperor in what they describe as the most nerve-racking experience in their life as a train enthusiast. (They had to submit to a body check by police to even set up.) twitter.com/azu351_photo/s…
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"Here in Japan, being different from other people makes you a potential scapegoat…. Even if a rule is clearly ridiculous, nobody will speak out against it. People think, “If I say something, others will think I’m different.” - Takami Koushun, author of Battle Royale
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Hey, remember the subway groper who stopped four Tokyo lines fleeing police?
Turns out he WAS police. The 40s man was a sergeant in the organized crime unit.
When women in Japan tell you cops don't take sexual violence seriously...they mean it. www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news/…
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CDP Diet rep exploded at Vice Minister Sugita Mio, who lost a defamation lawsuit to rape victim Ito Shiori after liking tweets that said Ito was just trying to sleep her way to the top. After Sugita refused to respond to questions Shiomura said, “This isn’t a laughing matter!”
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“Hide and seek with my 3 and 2yo but both thought the other was hiding” twitter.com/NatsuTagu/stat…
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Nothing quite like reporting on the opening of the Ghibli Park in Aichi Prefecture and having Miyazaki randomly stride into frame like a slightly-more-in-focus sasquatch.
twitter.com/aaa88421046/st…
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"Mei-chan the sea otter just loves attention 😍 #TobaAquarium"
twitter.com/TOBA_AQUARIUM/…
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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!"
twitter.com/hacchi_pucchi3…
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Juna (13yo), a model for gyaru fashion mag egg, says she’s taking classes in a room where she’s the only student bc of her school’s regulations against dyed hair. She’s isolated from her classmates & can’t participate in group activities like music.
bunshun.jp/articles/-/581…
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Japanese 6th grader Ui is the author of a new picture book that contains interviews w/ regular ppl and celebs in the LGBTQ+ community. It’s the result of research she started in 3rd grade when a TV program about LGBTQ+ people made her want to learn more.
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/32803…
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The envelope says “reward/honorarium” (謝礼) but the writing makes the kanji 礼 look like the hiragana れ so it looks like it reads “apologize, dammit!” (謝れ). twitter.com/polandball_200…
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TV weatherman Horai Daisuke gives a spooky rendition of the autumn leaves/weather report for the Kansai region - morphing into the long-necked Rokurokubi (ろくろ首), a ghastly apparition from Japanese folklore.
twitter.com/daisukehourai/…
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As a rule of thumb, someone with a rising sun flag as their pfp is incorrect 100% of the time. (The people they tagged raises that to 200%.)
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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
youtube.com/watch?v=mWf5a6…
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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...😂"
twitter.com/arareyakoi/sta…
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Today in Japan’s Master Criminals, a Gunma dude tried to pour a medium combini latte (180 yen) into a small coffee cup (110 yen). When confronted, he said he had to go to the toilet but fled in his car. The owner jumped on the windshield and clung on to the wiper some distance. twitter.com/ntvnewszero/st…
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.