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This ancient piece of Japanese wisdom tells us that the answers we seek are at our fingertips. Moreover, it exhorts us to seek out that wisdom ourselves rather than relying on others. We would expect nothing less from such a deeply spiritual nation.
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“My 3yo, who named each and every individual shrimp in the gratin and then couldn’t eat it” twitter.com/NatsuTagu/stat…
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If you've ever wanted to see a close-up shot of a tanuki - this does a good job of showing how much so-called "raccoon dogs" actually differ from raccoons.
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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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"As a Black female resident of Japan, it’s not lost on me that even within the monolith of gaikokujin, there is still a hierarchy of treatment based on nationality, skin color, and yes, race." (@ladyscribe21)
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On a concerning note, 40% of teachers surveyed in Japan subscribe to the outdated belief that sexual orientation was a choice. Clearly, it's not just kids, but teachers and school staff who need support and education as well.
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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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The hottest new product in Japan is...hot water? Sayu is water heated to between 50 to 60 degrees and sold from the warm drink section of stores. Asahi was unsure it would sell but it's being snapped up by young consumers who drink it for its supposed health benefits.
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"They happily viewed both rain and hydrangeas together."
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"Bought this speaker at Daiso, and since it's supposed to be able to play songs off of SD cards, I tried playing one of K.K. Slider's songs on it. It looks all retro and cute, just like something out of a house in Animal Crossing."
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Shinkai Makoto’s new film SUZUME NO TOJIMARI depicts the amusement park Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland in Okayama Prefecture as abandoned - which doesn’t sit well w/ its operators. “Our park is bright & fun & a place of joy….No one who’s seen the movie has visited.”
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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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Japan Twitter users are trending a hashtag calling for former politician Hashimoto Kotoe’s account to be frozen after she tweeted that protests over Abe’s state funeral were a “mobilization of homeless people” who “stank horribly”.
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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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"This ain't the expression to give towards a cake a person fought so ardently to bake for you"
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There's an issue with growing YouTuber aspirations in Japan - many job contracts forbid secondary revenue streams. This month, a Wakayama fireman was docked 10% of his pay when it was discovered he had a modest-sized, monetized gaming channel.
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JPN-language Twitter didn't initially have as negative a reaction upon the change of management here, but after various outages and service problems things have been taking a turn. Today is one among many where issues with Twitter are trending - today, it's "the Twitter Ice Age."
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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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Actress/singer Natsuki Mari spoke out about Japan’s gender gap at an illumination event sponsored by Kose in Shibuya that aims to draw attention to domestic violence. “Japan is still a men’s-first society,” Natsuki said. “I long for a world where women can live as equals.”
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Melonpan, the sweet baked good that delights people across East Asia, was the creation of one Armenian man living in diaspora in Japan. This is his, and his diaspora's, story - as told by our incredible @riversidewings.
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New Post: Death Note voice actress Hirano Aya talked recently about threats against her life. Sadly, her story isn't a rare case in the anime industry. We look at a phenomenon that some voice actors say is deterring talent from entering the profession.
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チンチン can mean “penis”, but can also mean “extremely hot” in Aichi Prefecture. The unfortunate example sentence at the end can be read as “When Dodekabashi fights an enemy, its beak gets hot/becomes a d*ck”. twitter.com/akki_stsa/stat…
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"Ishihara Shintaro consistently discriminated against women.
In 2001, he quoted someone else to express his misogyny: ''When women lose their reproductive ability, their life is purposeless and a crime.'"
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Also ironic given that we just wrote yesterday about a temple bathroom that had to be demolished because people kept trashing it out.
Japan’s like any other country on Earth, folks. Let it go.
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Elon Musk's recent comment that Twitter is "Japan-centric" is drawing interesting comments from JP users on Twitter's appeal. Many cite the service's character limit as working well w/ the Japanese language, while others say it's where they always go for info during earthquakes.
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.