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The product shown here is a mango (マンゴー) pie cake, but the discount sticker turns マンゴー into manko (マンコ), or “p*ssy” 💀 twitter.com/kamuiy/status/…
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JP basketball player Hachimura Aren is speaking out after another JP player, Monica Okoye, publicized racist DMs she received: “It’s easy to ignore such slander, but I think it’s important to speak about the reality of our lives.” Both are half Japanese. huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp…
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.@HuffPostJapan profiles Nakao Abel (中尾英鈴), a half-Nigerian/Japanese man who’s questioned routinely by Tokyo police - including one time when his genitals were groped in a drug search after cops stopped him for “looking away from the patrol car”.
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An izakaya makes it clear it doesn’t want no single people, no families, and no damn foreigners. twitter.com/sho_in_bayern/…
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Just two months ago, authorities in Shibuya sparked an outcry when they evicted unhoused people from Mitake Park. The unhoused problem may be more pronounced in the US but saying it doesn’t exist in Japan is rank ignorance.
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In that moment, with thousands of lives on the line, Sugihara Chiune was no average man.
With Yukiko’s agreement, he made his decision. Under his own authority as Japanese vice-consul to Lithuania, Sugihara would issue thousands of Jewish refugees visas written by his own hand.
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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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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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"You say 'I don't like seeing them' about us; but who am I? A loyal son to my parents; a reliable brother to my siblings; a cheerful buddy to my friends; a dear dad to my cats; a beloved partner to my fiancé...just a person making up part of this society."twitter.com/ToriToruTori/s…
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Just days after his boss threw cold water on national marriage equality, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's secretary makes blatantly anti-LGBTQ+ comments: "There are lots of people put off by same-sex marriage. I don’t want them living next to me either."
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More on Gwen Stefani's "I'm Japanese" comments. She apparently made them multiple times in her interview with Allure. And she made them to an Asian reporter.
The cringe. It's over 9000.
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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…
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Former Prime Minister Abe has passed away.
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Congrats on being disinvited from most people's homes throughout the world.
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Some especially impressive engineering by a high school class for their bunka-sai (school festival). Who knows - they may have a career ahead of them as imagineers at Tokyo Disney.
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Takahashi Matsuri started working at Dentsu in April 2015. Nine months later, she took her own life. Her tragic fall brought forth cries for reform. But it’s also brought criticism that neither the government nor Japanese corporations are doing enough.
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File under “Japanese is Hard” - someone partially graffitied “kenka” (fight, brawl) on this beam. Says OP: “They couldn’t remember the ‘ka’ and gave up.” twitter.com/sewashi__/stat…
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What appear at first to be photographs of Japanese urban spaces are actually highly-detailed pieces of paper cut art. Impressive work by artist Saito Hiroki.
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TV Tokyo has been doing a Spider-Man "roadshow," airing Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. JPN Twitter is reacting.
"'Tomorrow evening's roadshow feature, Spider-Man 2, is the heaven-sent film in which you can witness the legendary May Punch👊"
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"The moment the blackout hit, seen in realtime as my younger brother was on his way home on his motorcycle when the earthquake occurred."
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Reading this cost me brain cells I will never get back. twitter.com/PopCrave/statu…
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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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LDP politician Onoda Kimi makes the (baseless) charge again that foreigners are sucking money out of Japan’s social safety net and it needs to be stopped.
The ironic thing, though?
Onoda is a half-American born in Chicago, Illinois. twitter.com/8ueBd6tf29iYRp…
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"Our walk today, when the wind was blowing so fiercely that I could no longer tell head from tail🐾
#pomeranian "
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While Japan boasts one of the highest adoption rates in the world, the majority of those don’t involve children at all, but rather adult men. As of 2017, a whopping 98% of all adoptions in Japan were of adult men. Japan makes it easy to adopt men, and not always for good reasons.
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.