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Meanwhile, news stories in Japan are all about how prices on consumer goods and gas are going through the roof while real wages have remained flat for three DECADES.
Tell the whole story instead of just generating simple soundbites for clicks, please. twitter.com/MarketUrbanism…
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"Space stretches out beyond anything you could imagine once you enter Waguya, a porcelain wholesaler in Ise"
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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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What experts say appears to be a female northern sea lion has been spotted hanging out in Tokyo Bay near Haneda Airport. Apparently separated from her pack near Hokkaido, she appears to have wandered south and is in a state marine biologists refer to as “chillaxin’”.
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(CW: Stalking, murder)
Japan is safe - unless you're a woman: 38yo Kawano Miki consulted police multiple times about a stalker (possibly her ex, whom she separated from months before). Now, Kawano is dead after being stabbed multiple times by an assailant.
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Kirin, which sells Tropicana brand juice in Japan, sold a melon juice for two years that the packaging advertised as being 100% melon. In fact, the melon content is a biiiit lacking: it tops out at 2%. The gov fined Kirin 19.15M yen for the blatant lie.
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"When I asked, “Why do I need to bring a swimsuit?”, [my manager] said, “You can probably go without one, but...[the director's] been good to you, you owe him a little something, right? Just get in [the mixed bath] with him for a bit!'" - @HirokoKonishi
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“An abandoned shrine past a torii where you feel like you may just vanish from the human world” twitter.com/JIYUKENKYU_jp/…
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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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"The cook went ahead and made this for me only to get scolded by the head sushi chef"
We've seen bentos made to look like Ohmu from Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind before, but sushi is a new one!
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"A battle of words between Doraemon and Son Goku - close your eyes and listen to have your mind blown lol"
Oyama Nobuyo (Doraemon) on the left, Hidaka Noriko (Touch, Ranma 1/2, Totoro) playing referee, and Nozawa Masako (Dragon Ball) on the right.
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In case you ever wanted to listen to Goku and Doraemon "fight" it out with English subs:
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Japanese company Takiko is selling a “wearable beanbag cushion” that lets you plop down & rest anywhere. Touted as “the cushion that takes you out - anywhere, anytime”, it didn’t sell at all until going viral on social media recently. It can be yours for the low price of ¥17,800.
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A majority of people in Japan support same sex marriage - but the ruling party refuses to act. Today, PM Kishida continued slow rolling any commitment to legalization, saying it’s a matter that relates to “the foundations of the family”.
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"In the midst of the blizzard, this McDonald's appeared like a savior sent down to earth"
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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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"This might just be the best dentist I've ever been to"
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A snowbound showdown for the ages.
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"Our walk today, when the wind was blowing so fiercely that I could no longer tell head from tail🐾
#pomeranian "
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"Pretty darn cute seeing this manga-esque batting scene play out in real life"
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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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I wonder how it must feel to be so loud and yet so wrong. twitter.com/nanisupremacis…
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“← Society before same sex marriage is legalized
Society after same sex marriage is legalized →”
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Step into any Japanese grocery store, and you’re sure to see rows of tiny bottles of Yakult lining the dairy aisle. This instantly recognizable probiotic beverage has taken the world by storm. But what is Yakult? How did it become so popular? And who is the mastermind behind it?
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"After 12 years on Twitter, when I'm told 'the site's done for, time to move elsewhere,' I feel like I enter the headspace of an elder binding their fate to a village bound for extinction. 'I was born an' raised in this village. Can't live anywhere else.'"
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The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.