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A woman’s husband thought he was having an affair because he seemed so happy & was coming home late from work. So she hired a detective agency…and found out he was just a massive Hatsune Miku fan who was attending 3D concerts and singing her songs alone in karaoke rooms 💀 twitter.com/Miku_miku_pand…
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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.
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These are literally just ordinary Japanese words, please stop doing this we’re all begging you twitter.com/TessaRDavis/st…
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Footage from Tokyo Trans March 2022, held today.
"We were blessed with great weather - what a perfect day👍"
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“Tried making a Rirakkuma pancake and the result is a charred corpse” twitter.com/etoriasan/stat…
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The “woke localizers are ruining anime and manga” types have resorted to just outright lying about what the original Japanese says, knowing full well that their marks can’t read a lick of the language anyhow.
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Man is shocked to learn that mixed race people in Japan have the audacity to *checks notes* exist.
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Imagine thinking Japanese homeless people don’t exist. twitter.com/DaveAtherton20…
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“Climbed Mt. Fuji yesterday and someone there ordered Domino’s Pizza” twitter.com/fatmanairsoft/…
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“At the conveyor belt sushi place where the customers also revolve” twitter.com/cobalt_kura/st…
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Konishi Hiroko shared how her refusal to join Fruits Basket director Daichi Akitaro in a mixed onsen led to losing out on acting roles. She also spoke to the hustle culture and the expectation to “sell yourself” for roles — which often included providing “service” to male staff.
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A 32yo Tokyo man will not be tried for sneaking into a woman’s apartment and installing a camera to spy on her. No reason was given for refusing to prosecute him.
Women in Japan often don’t come forward when they’re the victims of such crimes. This is why.
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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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(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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The manga SHE LOVES TO COOK, & SHE LOVES TO EAT advertised its latest volume in conjunction with Marriage for All Japan to call for equal marriage rights. The catch-copy reads: “We won’t let this end as just a story”. twitter.com/Tsuku_Tabe/sta…
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Japan’s right wingers are after actress Maki Yoko after she told a South Korean magazine she was “embarrassed” to be Japanese after learning how the country had treated Zainichi Koreans. Supporters are trending #真木よう子さんを支持します (I support Maki Yoko) in response.
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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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For fans (推し) who don’t know what to bring to an idol signing event, OP recommends…the cover from your air conditioner? “I haven’t replaced it in over 10 years, it’s where I can always see it, & best of all I can lie convincingly that my idol came to visit (don’t do this)” twitter.com/hangyodonmax/s…
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Weebs: Sexual diversity in Japan is a Western woke corruption!!!
Japan: Here’s a book by author Mitsubishi Junko that documents the history of queer sexuality in Japan since the birth of Jesus
(And yeah you bet I’m gonna read it) twitter.com/Iwanamishoten/…
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The announcement that Pixiv will work to create a more friendly working environment for all of its employees is drawing fire from Westerners who are under the impression that Japan doesn’t have (1) an issue with workplace harassment, (2) LGBTQ+ people, or (3) women.
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LGBTQ groups in Japan are reminding people ahead of Hatsumode, the first shrine visit of the year, that the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership (神道政治連盟) considers same-sex attraction a mental illness - and that donating to member shrines supports them. twitter.com/shinto_lgbtq/s…
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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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"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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Twitter user has a sad that the Japan of their demented imagination never actually existed
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.