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"In the deep mountains, remote from anywhere, where not even the streetlights shine. Only this telephone box shone out; around it was only darkness."
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A new JP gov report on remote work found that a higher frequency of remote work leads to longer sleep for employees and, combined with office work in appropriate doses, fosters greater happiness.
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"Just got to my hotel in Kobe and I don't think it's gonna work out..." twitter.com/ibukiinterpres…
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"Doraemon failing to read the room"
A parody poster for Shinkai Makoto's "Suzume no Tojimari," currently in theaters in Japan.
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“Hide and seek with my 3 and 2yo but both thought the other was hiding” twitter.com/NatsuTagu/stat…
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"This is an announcement of the results of my PCR test."
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....("Yo! Say!" sounds exactly like 「陽性」: "Positive.")
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The average voice actor in Japan only makes around 2 million yen (USD $13,850) a year off their work. Many work part-time jobs to make ends meet and spend a significant chunk of their income on expenses such as voice training.
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Snow has come early to parts of Hokkaido, resulting in a beautiful “collaboration” of fall and winter.
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"A Clodsire Zenzai Soup
#pokemonsv "
Zenzai is a sweet traditional soup made from anko (sweet red beans), perfect for the cold winter months. Clodsire is a Clodsire.
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Super Typhoon Nanmadol - known as Typhoon no. 14 in Japan - is projected to make landfall in Kyushu in the coming day. The typhoon has the possibility of being one of the strongest recorded storms to ever reach mainland Japan. Be careful out there!
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(CW: Racism)
We wonder if Cosmos International School in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture would mind telling the class why their Google images contain a pic of a teacher in full blackface?
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"The realization that this country is blanketed in vastly more religious atmosphere than foreign individuals are aware of will now likely spread overseas. All it takes is looking at the ties political leaders share with all sorts of religious groups."
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With Japan set to host the G7 Summit in May, it would be shocking if same-sex marriage didn't come up in discussion. Japan remains the only G7 country without LGBTQ+ protections.
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A high school in Hyogo Prefecture has apologized after a softball coach hit a student so hard he dislocated her jaw. Her crime? Forgetting her uniform. The teacher is on home suspension; the school is “considering” further disciplinary action. twitter.com/ntvnewszero/st…
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The bus cafe for @colabo_official, an org that helps at-risk girls earn their independence, had its bus cafe in Tokyo damaged. It’s an escalation in violence towards Colabo and its founder @colabo_yumeno, who’s been the target of vicious attacks online for years. twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/…
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Kira kira names (キラキラネーム) in Japan can be divided into a few categories. They can be concepts (Beauty, 美) or pop culture references (Pikachu, 光宙). They’re also commonly ateji names where the phonetic reading has no relation to the kanji’s meaning (Maria, 真理亜).
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Former volleyball star Oyama Kana wrote on her blog that a bus driver refused to open the door and took off when he saw her double baby stroller for her twins. While some sympathized, other commenters blasted her saying she was expecting “special treatment”.
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"Well done on getting into the bag!"
This is an interesting example of how Japanese sentences can consist entirely of foreign loan words. We have three words in Katakana: ナイス・リュック・イン！(Naisu ryukku in!) Breaking that down, we get...
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Women in Japan have been speaking out about workplace harassment for ages. And they've even complained of harassment during the hiring process itself.
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Kanagawa Prefecture’s Labor Standards Board has agreed with a transgender woman that a boss who (among other things) told her to “change your sex in your family registry” if she wanted to be addressed as a woman committed gender identity harassment - a rare ruling in Japan.
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Japanese new religious movement Sukyo Mahikari purports to seek true happiness through the practice of universal principles. But there's a dark side to the movement, which harbors anti-Semitic and doomsday beliefs similar to those of the infamous Aum Shinrikyo cult.
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(TW: sexual assault)
“Kagawa Teruyuki admitting on his am show he committed sexual assault, apologizing, & doing the show as normal is super-scary. Japan is so lax towards sex offenders? I don’t wanna see the face of someone who unhooked a woman’s bra w/o permission, twitter.com/tenshicos/stat…
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Fuemi's illustrated "farewell to Abe" - which includes English translations - is a must read. twitter.com/fuemiad/status…
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A woman who spent 10 million yen on host clubs in 6 years says that when she ran out of money, her host’s attitude did a 180. She says he bullied her into removing her brand clothes and selling them for cash. “Now I get why there are so many pawn shops in Kabukicho,” she says.
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Asahi’s latest polling shows support for Kishida’s gov plummeting in the wake of Abe’s state funeral: a full 50% disapprove of his leadership and only 40% approve. It’s the 2nd straight month that disapproval has climbed.
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