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TV weatherman Horai Daisuke gives a spooky rendition of the autumn leaves/weather report for the Kansai region - morphing into the long-necked Rokurokubi (ろくろ首), a ghastly apparition from Japanese folklore.
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In Nagoya, two large boars barreled down on a group of 10 people. They were saved by a cop who shot his gun in the air and shouted, “I’ll shoot!” (撃つぞ！).
The boars, who’ve obviously been practicing their Japanese, stopped & sauntered off to less gun-filled pastures.
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The LDP’s Aso Taro, who’s previously scolded women for not having enough babies, is now saying he doesn’t see the value in compulsory education beyond elementary school: “Adults don’t need to know differential & integral calculus or factorization.”
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“Assassin’s pasta” (暗殺者のパスタ) is a recipe from Japan-resident Italian chef Marco Macri generating buzz on JP Twitter. It involves first frying the pasta in oil, garlic, and tomato sauce before boiling it slowly in a ladled tomato soup base until cooked through. twitter.com/c_chan1110/sta…
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“Why I can’t get anything done” twitter.com/cutest_animal1…
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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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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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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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“Two cats start dancing mid-fight” twitter.com/animal_iyashl/…
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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 bought this tatami chair from Cainz thinking the cat would end up using it but I didn't expect this" twitter.com/sumochi3310/st…
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"So this is how I play Elden Ring." twitter.com/totomaru_hanmi…
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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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"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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In a case suing for marriage equality in Japan, Kawachi Shino told the court about how she’s faced discrimination all her life, starting when she was a teenager & saw “homosexuality” defined in a dictionary as “sexual perversion”.
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At a press conference, former SDF soldier Gonoi Rina responded to five men from her unit being discharged for sexual harassment: “If I hadn’t spoken up under my real name, they’d have done it again. In my unit, sexual harassment was used as a form of communication.”
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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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Yesterday we wrote about how the records of several prominent juvenile court cases in Japan had been expunged. Today it's come out that the records related to the dissolution of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult behind the Tokyo sarin gas attack, have also been permanently deleted.
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Japan is reopening for visa-free tourist travel on October 11th. Here's what we know so far and a backgrounder on the long wait. We'll update this as more information comes in.
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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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“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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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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Zainichi Koreans are the descendants of forced laborers from Imperial Japan and face ongoing hate and discrimination. Some cities in Japan have enacted hate law ordinances primarily aimed at curbing anti-Korean hate. See @ForeignAffairs for more.
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"I was given an Akabeko and though it would be cute seeing my cat give it a punch to get the head moving, but I never told my cat to go this far...😂"
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New Post: You may think you know what that word means in Japanese because you heard it in English. But don't be so sure! We dive into the most common "false friends" you're liable to encounter in your Japanese studies.
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.