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Netizens react to the goal that decided Japan's victory over Spain at the World Cup:
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A new PSA from Japan's Ministry of Health, encouraging people to take their masks off when outdoors. At the end it briefly tells people to keep on masks when commuting, meeting elderly people, and when feeling ill.
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An advanced monkey-based simulation of tonight's Japan vs. Croatia match has determined that Japan will win 3-1 and advance to the next round of the World Cup:
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Ogawa Sayuri, a former member of the Unification Church, told to NTV that her mother felt it was her religious duty to have more children to give away to childless Church members. Two of Ogawa's siblings were sent away via the Church's adoption system: youtube.com/watch?v=tAhQYF…
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Video of about 60 members of Yamato Q, a Japanese offshoot of the QAnon movement, marching today in Tokyo. Waving Trump flags, they shouted out anti-vaccine conspiracy claims about health officials and political higher-ups all faking their vaccinations.🤡 twitter.com/fujiwara_g1/st…
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Japan's Health Ministry will be classifying certain acts that force children to participate in religious activities as child abuse (for example, telling them they will burn in hell if they don't believe/participate): japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/polit…
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Police in Saitama took 15 hours to arrest a man suspected of murdering 3 people, even though he lived just 80 meters away and neighbors had witnessed him leaving the crime scene. (Because he didn't answer his door when they first rang his doorbell.)
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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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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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A video of Tokugawa Iehiro, the 19th generation head of the Tokugawa clan. He is the keeper of the Tokugawa clan seal, used by the Shogunate to sign the 1858 US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce. twitter.com/nhk_nw9/status…
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A new article about the LDP and the Unification Church from the Guardian: "How Shinzo Abe’s murder and his ties to Moonies blindsided Japanese politics" (featuring quotes from myself and @knakano1970): theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
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Nakayama Kiku, one of the last surviving members of a unit of high school girls who were conscripted into service as military nurses during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, passed away this week. She was very active in educating people about the horrors of war.
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This morning two ponies escaped from their enclosure and ran around the city of Maebashi in Gunma prefecture. Several Twitter users uploaded videos of their encounters with the pony duo:
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Twitter is having problems today. Japanese Twitter users have taken note, and several of the top trending terms in Japan are related to tweets failing to send.
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Sushi restaurant chain Sushiro is considering legal action against young people shown doing rude/disgusting stuff to their conveyer belt sushi in viral TikTok videos. You can see some examples of this under the hashtag #寿司テロ ("sushi terrorism"). news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/87be0…
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CDPJ lawmaker Yoshida Harumi suggested that the government's policies to encourage more children should include allowing married couples the choice to choose separate surnames. As this video shows, LDP politicians jeered & heckled her:
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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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Many Japanese Twitter users are talking about popular artists and non-bot friends whose accounts were purged today in what appears to be a mass suspension aimed at spam/bot accounts. Until today, Japanese Twitter has largely not cared about Elon Musk's takeover of the company... twitter.com/mrjeffu/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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The Japanese government actually produced a short Isekai anime movie in 2022 to promote their territorial claim to the Southern Kuril Islands. A girl gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1945, experiencing the Soviet invasion of the islands (24 minutes): youtube.com/watch?v=dJdjY_…
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Scientists were given permission to analyze a mummified "mermaid" allegedly caught by Japanese fishermen in the 18th century, and now displayed at a temple in Okayama. CT scans revealed it was several different fish stitched together.
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This historical footage shows how it used to be extremely common for Tokyoites to just dump trash in the streets/canals. The Japanese government tried very hard prior to the 1964 Olympics to make citizens change their behavior and keep the streets clean.
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The Hitachi City Kamine Zoo held a drill today simulating the escape of one of its Asian black bears. As this NHK news video shows, it was quite realistic:
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Tokyo Governor Koike was asked to clarify her position on the 1923 massacre of Koreans that took place in Tokyo following the Great Kanto Earthquake. She said that it's up to historians to figure out what happened.(They already have - massacres happened) news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3c057…
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From NTV's Bankisha program: a report about a 49 year-old Japanese man with no military experience who volunteered for the Ukrainian military. Recruiters almost rejected him, but his past experience as a yakuza convinced them of his willingness to fight. youtube.com/watch?v=meyEu8…
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