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"A manner of sitting learned at the feet of our resident Professor Cat…🐈"
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"The other day, an American who just came to Japan said 'I tried going to a Japanese MacDonalds, but all they had were beef bowls. What's up with that? Even confirmed there were no burgers with the staff.' This was the shocking MacDonalds in question:"
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"If abortion is to be banned, I feel it would only be fair to oblige all men to have vasectomies that could only be reversed upon receiving a signed document from a woman, and getting any other woman save the signee pregnant a serious crime."
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"Looking at Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795)'s paintings of dogs can really make you feel happy.
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Maruyama painted images of over 30 cute dogs during his lifetime - guess he was a dog lover?"
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"The Japan Railways employee coat seems like something an evil organization would wear"
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“Our cat, who arrives in song when they’re in a good mood” t.co/KtmfwTSSnd
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“The difference between Tokyo Metro Police and Osaka Police posters”
Left (Tokyo): “Tokyo’s here to protect you”
Right (Osaka): “Let’s GO! Time to show ‘em what we’re made of!” twitter.com/etoriasan/stat…
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“My kid suddenly said ‘I wanna eat a dinosaur cake!’ so I threw something together with a roll cake, cheesecake, and soufflé from the supermarket. It’s rough but they loved it.” twitter.com/OOYA3/status/1…
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"They happily viewed both rain and hydrangeas together."
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“Everyone asks ‘why didn’t you go w/ your husband on his overseas work posting?’ but not one person asks ‘Why did he accept it & leave his family behind?’ or ‘why did the company ask this of someone w/ a wife and kid?’” twitter.com/mou72468300/st…
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Reporter goes to a Yamagata Prefecture legislative meeting where only 2 reps out of 39 are women. One of them gets up to talk and the men start talking amongst themselves, ignoring her.
The topic at hand was the gender gap 💀 twitter.com/ogawat0802/sta…
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A maiko (apprentice geisha) wrote a long thread about her victimization at the hands of customers. The user below has translated the thread into English. An important read. twitter.com/glsfrg/status/…
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A former apprentice geisha who spent six years in a Kyoto geisha house has created a flurry of online activity after describing abuses in the traditional industry. unseenjapan.com/abuse-in-the-g…
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Today is Tanabata here in Japan - an annual holiday celebrating the reunion of the star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi. This user created a beautiful onigiri to celebrate, showing the tradition of hanging tanzaku wish cards from stalks of bamboo.🎋twitter.com/mZHtgivNQr33RC…
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The suspect in the shooting of former Japan PM Abe Shinzo has been identified as Yamagami Tetsuya, a man in his 40s. Asahi and others reporting the weapon was a sawed-off shotgun - i.e., a weapon that a civilian could secure under Japanese law.
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Asahi with an incredible picture of the suspect being apprehended as he attempts to flee.
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As many predict the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe to have major effects on tomorrow's elections, #投票は香典じゃない ("a vote is not a funeral offering") is now trending on JPN Twitter.
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"The realization that this country is blanketed in vastly more religious atmosphere than foreign individuals are aware of will now likely spread overseas. All it takes is looking at the ties political leaders share with all sorts of religious groups."
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Worth noting that the Unification Church has been successfully sued in Japan for coercive recruitment and donation-sourcing. Members have been told their deceased loved ones are on a lower strata of the afterlife, and can only be saved by donations...
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"This is an announcement of the results of my PCR test."
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....("Yo! Say!" sounds exactly like 「陽性」: "Positive.")
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"I'm certain there's YouTubers already planning on filming themselves venturing into cults. And they're going to be like 'they were friendlier than I expected.' Cause everyone loves a 'they look scary but they're actually nice~'-type story." 1/2
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"A miraculous chimera of a photograph in which Kirby and Gengar have fused inside of the arcade crane game"
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The hashtag "So the LDP was just the Unification Church after all" (#自民党って統一教会だったんだな) trends on Japanese Twitter as users contend with discussion regarding the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's connections to the "new religion" founded by Sun Myung Moon.
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An important video to watch regarding perceptions of biracial people (ハフ) in Japan. Increasingly visible in both daily life and in media, and yet still occupying an ambiguous space as Japanese citizens and residents. twitter.com/annaPHd9pj/sta…
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.