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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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Beautiful modern yokai by the artist さきゅう/ Sakyu. A cigarette dragon; demonic bug zapper; humidifier and dehumidifier oni locked in titanic battle; the reverse sides of USBs - interesting representations of modern objects of consumption in yokai form.
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There's an issue with growing YouTuber aspirations in Japan - many job contracts forbid secondary revenue streams. This month, a Wakayama fireman was docked 10% of his pay when it was discovered he had a modest-sized, monetized gaming channel.
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"This ain't the expression to give towards a cake a person fought so ardently to bake for you"
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Special cat variants of the traditional Okinawan/Ryukyuan guardian statuary known as Shiisaa. These two were installed at a local lodging house in Okinawa.
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"Ishihara Shintaro consistently discriminated against women.
In 2001, he quoted someone else to express his misogyny: ''When women lose their reproductive ability, their life is purposeless and a crime.'"
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Congrats on being disinvited from most people's homes throughout the world.
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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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Protesters opposed to the invasion of Ukraine gathered in front of the Genbaku Dome - the enduring symbol of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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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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.@HuffPostJapan profiles Nakao Abel (中尾英鈴), a half-Nigerian/Japanese man who’s questioned routinely by Tokyo police - including one time when his genitals were groped in a drug search after cops stopped him for “looking away from the patrol car”.
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Very strong earthquake off the coast of Fukushima and Miyagi, magnitude currently listed as 7.3. Extended shaking felt throughout Tohoku and Kanto regions. Tsunami advisory in effect for Fukushima, Miyagi, and southern Iwate coasts.
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"The moment the blackout hit, seen in realtime as my younger brother was on his way home on his motorcycle when the earthquake occurred."
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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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"So this is how I play Elden Ring." twitter.com/totomaru_hanmi…
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Today was the second of the three days of the Kanda Used Book Festival (神田古本まつり). The fair takes place in Jinbocho, the famed "used book" capital of the country, and features tens of thousands of book dating from the Edo era to the modern day on sale.
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"What's with this freakin' cute signage?"
Sign reads: "Japanese giant flying squirrel crossing (effective during nighttime)" twitter.com/mbfp01re2astra…
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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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"I constructed a convenient vehicle that allows you to move while performing an apologetic prostration for those times when you come into work extremely late, etc." twitter.com/togenkyoo/stat…
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Reminder that homelessness (and alcoholism, and littering, and noise pollution) are in fact issues that exist in Japan in their own unique and all-too-real forms, as in most societies. twitter.com/HayekAndKeynes…
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"A coping method for when one encounters ghosts"
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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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"Our dog is quite adroit at using this cat toy, and has started using it to become our new kitten's playmate.
Seeing a dog being so skilled at using a cat teaser toy, I just can't help laughing lol"
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JPN twitter is filling up with tributes to Noda Satoru's popular manga Golden Kamuy, which releases its final chapter today. Golden Kamuy is notable for its portrayal of the indigenous Ainu, Uilta, and Nivkh of Japan's colonies in Hokkaido and Sakhalin.
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"A part of Gunkanjima that really reveals the verticality of the city as it existed."
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