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Some clever kids made a randoseru (backpack) that was a little easier to handle. Sadly, a bunch of grumpy "I walked four miles in the snow to school uphill both ways" adults had some insulting words for the inventors of the "samposeru".
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Kira kira names (キラキラネーム) in Japan can be divided into a few categories. They can be concepts (Beauty, 美) or pop culture references (Pikachu, 光宙). They’re also commonly ateji names where the phonetic reading has no relation to the kanji’s meaning (Maria, 真理亜).
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The (over?) use of "yabai" in Japanese isn’t something everyone here celebrates. There are those sounding the alarm about the perceived diminishment of Japanese youths’ vocabularies; in other words, some people think things are getting quite yabai out there.
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New Post: A woman who suffered sexual assault in Japan's JET program found a lack of accountability across the entire system. @farrahakase interviews SaseboAnon on her four-year legal battle and on what JET must do to ensure the safety of future participants.
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“The female officer in Sasebo leaned in and asked why I was bothering to report him for sexual assault. 'Why are you doing this to him? You know, when we catch someone for shoplifting, we take them in and give them a warning so they can think about their actions.’”
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Dr. Kikuchi Misako tried to withdraw nearly 20m yen from a dead 90yo patient’s bank. When that didn’t work, she went to the patient’s sister (who has Alzheimer’s), brought her back ON THE SAME DAY & tried to convince the bank she was the dead woman.
This was not successful.
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Songwriter Akiyama Kiiro (real name Arai Yuya), who wrote music for My Hero Academia & The Promised Neverland, has been arrested for assaulting a woman in his home. Neighbors say it wasn’t the first time they’d heard fighting and sounds of violence from the apartment.
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A Tokyo court has ruled that the Japanese government violated the rights to equality and dignity of defendants by not allowing for same sex marriage. However it dismissed the defendant’s plea for damages. This makes the 2nd court ruling in favor of same sex marriage in Japan.
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YouTube has deleted 200 video of so called “burakumin areas” that included houses and maps to locations of Japan’s so-called “lower” class. The company said the videos violate its policy on hate speech. The deletion was the result of a petition drive by burakumin advocates.
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Someone took all the music they found on signs and made it into actual music. twitter.com/nsmrnoak/statu…
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Sugita Mio has - finally - apologized for years of discriminatory statements such as calling LGBTQ people “unproductive” and referring to Koreans and Ainu people as “cosplayers”. This comes after the Vice Minister has been called out by Diet members for weeks.
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OP want foreigners to declare their “respect” for Japan when entering because Japan is a country “for the Japanese.”
Of course “respect” here is just a euphemism for deference to hard-right policies, discrimination and, ultimately, eliminationism…but go off.
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Reports have surfaced that a man with Down's Syndrome died in Aichi Prefecture in 2021 because hospital staff prescribed him *15 times* the standard for a laxative. He was admitted to the hospital the next day but subsequently passed away. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"I need you to be calm and listen to me. While you were sleeping Japan defeated Germany and Spain in upset victories and advanced to 1st place in the group stage" twitter.com/tobeyan/status…
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Journalist Ito Shiori shined a spotlight on the shameful stigma surrounding rape in Japan when she went public with her own rape in 2017. That same year, she published her memoir Black Box, chronicling her quest for justice; both for herself and for other sexual assault victims.
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Sagawa Issei, who killed and cannibalized Dutch student Renee Hartevelt in Paris, got away with it, and then made money off of his infamy, has died. Users in Japan are uniformly wishing him the most miserable time possible in hell. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Videographer @RIO_AKIYAMA has been filming Pride Parades (at personal expense) all across Japan. They’ve added videos of a slew of new cities - including Wakayama, Kyoto, Tokyo (Shibuya), Nagoya and others - to their Note account (linked below).
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A survey by Kyodo News found 334 prefectural governmental officials have ties to the Unification Church. Of those, 80% belong to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is under fire for failing to detail how the Church may have influenced legislation in Japan.
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"The happy dance of a parrot who managed to get let out of his cage at 10 at night😳"
twitter.com/pase_ume/statu…
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"A Clodsire Zenzai Soup
#pokemonsv "
Zenzai is a sweet traditional soup made from anko (sweet red beans), perfect for the cold winter months. Clodsire is a Clodsire.
twitter.com/twst_poko/stat…
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The mother of Kimura Hana, the wrestler and Terrace House star who committed suicide after online bullying, has sued Fuji Television for over USD $1M for failing to protect the show’s actors.
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“Sorting through my pics and chortled by myself over Jaws drowning” twitter.com/nekozenoshin/s…
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In one extreme reaction to the news that Okada Nana was dating, a longtime fan destroyed all their Okada merchandise and posted a picture of the shredded remains, proclaiming he’d “taken his life back.”
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“The rabbit’s too liberated” twitter.com/pon0412x/statu…
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Former volleyball star Oyama Kana wrote on her blog that a bus driver refused to open the door and took off when he saw her double baby stroller for her twins. While some sympathized, other commenters blasted her saying she was expecting “special treatment”.
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.