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A program on NHK interviewed over 10 children from LGBT households about some of the issues faced by LGBT families in Japan. unseenjapan.com/lgbt-couple-ch…
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Meanwhile, news stories in Japan are all about how prices on consumer goods and gas are going through the roof while real wages have remained flat for three DECADES.
Tell the whole story instead of just generating simple soundbites for clicks, please. twitter.com/MarketUrbanism…
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Akiyama Kiiro, the songwriter for My Hero Academia who was arrested for assaulting a woman in his home in Tokyo, will not face charges. Prosecutors declined to explain why.
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Juna (13yo), a model for gyaru fashion mag egg, says she’s taking classes in a room where she’s the only student bc of her school’s regulations against dyed hair. She’s isolated from her classmates & can’t participate in group activities like music.
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As actor Ozawa Ren tries to rehabilitate himself, this Bunshun interview reminds us that just last year he denied any abuse of his 16yo victim, called it “consensual S&M”, and accused his victim of “revenge p0rn” for sharing pics of her bruises.
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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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The walls of Shibuya’s “transparent toilet” are supposed to turn opaque when someone’s using it. But…they…don’t always do that. Apparently, a dip in temperature can harden the wall’s material and elongate transition time, leaving some doing their business in full public view.
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A guide to “how anyone can draw Pochita” from Chainsaw Man: “First, draw the blade. Then, sketch in the skeleton. Next, attach the musculature to it. Finally add & color the skin and you’re done!” twitter.com/Gyoza_2001/sta…
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FInally, Japan is rapidly moving towards greater acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Once Tokyo implements its partnership system this year, a majority of the country's residents in same-sex relationships will have marriage rights. unseenjapan.com/lgbt-partnersh…
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Earlier this year, a maiko (apprentice geisha) spoke out about abuses within her community. Her tale went beyond the difficult stories of isolation and confinement one might expect - they revealed an upsetting trend of sexualizing pressure placed upon a then-underaged girl.
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Asahi with an incredible picture of the suspect being apprehended as he attempts to flee.
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The age of consent issue is particularly sending me. It’s an obsession among a certain genre of weeb who (1) should get FBI visits and (2) don’t realize that Japan is simply raising the national age to the de facto average. It’s 18 in some small places like *checks notes* Tokyo.
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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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Late Xmas gift for y’all: General Affairs Vice Minister Sugita Mio resigned two days ago after months of controversy regarding her discriminatory statements towards LGBTQ people, indigenous people, Koreans, and…well, just about everyone except old powerful men.
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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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Liberal Democratic Party rep and strategy chair Nishida Shoji says Japan shouldn’t regulate hate speech against LGBTQ people because it’s a human rights violation that will “split our society”, so, therefore, we…need to…allow hate speech to…preserve harmony? 🧐
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“Hit-by-a-car-yesterday deer sashimi, 900 yen” twitter.com/ami105610/stat…
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It’s one of those “what was he thinking” sort of crimes: a man in Tokyo got drunk with a friend, beat him up for 9 HOURS for “lying”, then loaded him into his car and drove 12 hours to Kitakyushu, where he left him while attending a BBQ and singing karaoke with a friend.
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There's a tradition dating from the Edo era of eating "toshikoshi soba" on New Year's Eve - "year-crossing soba." It's often said the long, thin noodles represent long life. Here, a soba seller poses with a towering delivery in a 1935 photo.
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One Japanese Buddhist priest shares his view on abortion: “Of course we can’t take life. Buddhist law doesn’t allow that. On the other hand, a woman shouldn’t have to have a baby if she doesn’t want to. A child should not have to be born into a family that doesn’t want it."
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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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"...The first step should be to re-work the legal system to restore to these extant people their legal rights."
This discussion comes as PM Kishida has pushed back against the popular desire for creating a legal structure for same-sex marriage in Japan.
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I wonder how it must feel to be so loud and yet so wrong. twitter.com/nanisupremacis…
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New Post: Japan's aging population has some unexpected consequences. One is hunting. Fewer and less-mobile hunters mean fewer people to control Japan's wild animal population. Japan's deer and wild boars are taking that as a sign that it's time to revolt against human rule.
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"Here in Japan, being different from other people makes you a potential scapegoat…. Even if a rule is clearly ridiculous, nobody will speak out against it. People think, “If I say something, others will think I’m different.” - Takami Koushun, author of Battle Royale
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.