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I have seen a lot of accounts spreading this fake news story. These beds were 1) designed before COVID-19 with recyclability in mind and 2) can stand up to 200kg (440lbs) of weight. mainichi.jp/english/articl… twitter.com/aravosis/statu…
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A new Kinnikuman anime is going out to mark the 40th anniversary of the original TV series. Some elements of the 1980s original are not going to be included if they want an international audience in 2023. *Warning: racist content in this video* https://t.co/b6agZRJip2
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A video showing how to get workers to embrace Marxist ideology (from the 2009 Japanese comedy tokusatsu series "The Ancient Dogoo Girl"[古代少女ドグちゃん]):
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He says wanted to dress up as Zelensky because of the president's reputation as the manliest of men. His friends humorously interrupt to reveal that he struggled for 4 years before finally passing Kyoto University's notoriously difficult entry exam.
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The March is quite large. Hundreds of people are carrying flags and very professional looking banners.
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From ANN: a Japanese language school in Gunma prefecture offered about 40 Ukrainian students the opportunity to study in Japan. The students were led to believe it was free. However, after arriving, the school demanded that they pay tuition fees: youtube.com/watch?v=GHDNg2…
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"Marshmallow" is trending in Japan after the suspension of the official Twitter account of Marshmallow QA - a service that let followers ask Twitter users questions anonymously. Many users are claiming that there has been a mass suspension of accounts that used Marshmallow.
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The 2019 footage in this Asahi TV report about a Kurdish man being brutalized while in an immigration detention center is truly horrifying: today a Japanese court ordered the government to pay ¥220,000 ($1,640) in damages to the man.
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Upper House lawmaker Nishida Shōji (LDP), one Japan's leading voices against LGBT rights, was asked to clarify his statements about "forces that seek to divide" Japanese society. He said It's the Marxists. His ideas about Marxism are fleshed out on his YouTube channel... twitter.com/tbsradio_news/…
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces and Police held a joint anti-terrorism drill today. The scenario involved 3 annoying YouTubers filming themselves as they tried to force their way into a military base with a backpack full of explosives.
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EDM musician/burlesque dancer DJ Tiara is running as a candidate in Tokyo's Minato ward assembly election. This is how she was campaigning today. twitter.com/nm__Masato/sta…
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Kyoto's Shimogamo shrine hosted its annual display of Kemari, a traditional Japanese game that became popular among nobility in the 11th century. It's a bit like hacky sack, using a deerskin ball that that is more than twice the weight of a soccer ball.
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Eri Arfiya, a Georgetown graduate who speaks 7 languages and worked at the United Nations, was elected to Japan's House of Representatives today. She will be the first-ever Diet member of Uyghur ancestry. Here is a news report about her from 2022:
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The alleged shooter's name has been released: Yamagami Tetsuya (山上徹也). From witness reports of smoke and the weird appearance of his firearm, it looks like some kind of homemade weapon.
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A #JapanPolitics thread: The assassination of former Prime Minister Abe has led to greater attention to the controversial relationship between conservative Japanese politicians and religious groups, particularly the Unification Church. Let's look at what is being reported... 1/
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A second clip of more #StopTheSteaI protesters in this march. They are chanting anti CCP and anti media slogans in Japanese and English.
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Here is an NHK news clip about Yoneda Ayu, a 28 year-old doctor who was recently selected by JAXA for astronaut training. As a child she read a manga about Japan's first female astronaut, Mukai Chiyaki, and decided she wanted to go to space too: twitter.com/nhk_nw9/status…
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Video of fans in Shibuya celebrating Japan's World Cup victory over Spain. It looked like Japan had very little chance to advance to the next round, but they once again surprised the world:
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This video shows yesterday's robbery of a Rolex watch shop in Tokyo's Ginza district. It seems carrying out a robbery in broad daylight while witnessed filmed it was not a great idea: police have already arrested 4 suspects, with one still on the run.
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Moroi Nanako (Independent) recently ran a successful one-person campaign for the Toyohashi city assembly. She had no campaign office and no campaign staff. She also did not use a loudspeaker van because they are noisy and wake up babies/small children.
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"Young people, don't vote." - This short commercial features older Japanese people telling young voters that everything is fine and they don't need to show up to this year's election. The older people will vote and decide everything instead.
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A clip of what it sounded like when Japan's national broadcaster was faced with the impossible task of providing simultaneous interpretation for today's American presidential debate. #Debates2020 twitter.com/mi2_yes/status…
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Shared by Hokkaido's official Twitter account: a cartoon from the perspective of an Ainu family that lived in the southern Kuril islands and was expelled from their homeland by the Soviet military when the islands were seized at the end of World War II.
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This man who helped tackle the Kishida bomb attack suspect today has become a subject of discussion on Japanese Twitter: was he just a normal "old dude at the fishing port" (漁港のおじさん) or was he a plainclothes cop that was of the Prime Minister's security detail? twitter.com/mrjeffu/status…
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Update: Yamamoto Miyuki tweeted yesterday that she was the "Asahara Shoko of the Reiwa Era" and would attack Funabashi station with Sarin nerve gas. She dared the police to stop her. Police then went to her house and arrested her. twitter.com/mrjeffu/status…
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