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There's a pro-Trump #StopTheSteaI march happening in Tokyo right now. Quite a few people chanting "God Bless Trump" and anti-China slogans.
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A video shot yesterday from the gate of the Enoshima Shrine shows some major crowding. https://t.co/1EZemo7WfZ
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The March is quite large. Hundreds of people are carrying flags and very professional looking banners.
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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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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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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 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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A Japanese journalist who has spent years trying to import American conservative culture war ideology to Japan goes on Fox News to denounce US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel's friendliness towards Japanese people who support LGBTQ rights.
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The BBC has aired a documentary about Johnny Kitagawa, showing "how denial and media silence allowed Japan's most powerful pop music mogul to exploit teenage boys for decades." bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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As Japanese conservative politicians scramble to cut or downplay ties to the Unification Church, Donald Trump and Mike Pence both spoke via video to a Unification Church UFP summit held in Korea this week. twitter.com/cult_and_fraud…
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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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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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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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A #JapanPolitics thread (Part 2): The assassination of former Prime Minister Abe has led to greater attention to the controversial relationship between conservative Japanese politicians and the Unification Church. Let's look at what is being reported...
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Watanabe Tadahiro (Ishin Party), a longtime campaigner for a barrier-free society, was elected to the Chiba city assembly on Sunday. He is the founder of Universal Access Designing, a non-profit that works to improve the accessibility of local tourist facilities. twitter.com/tadahiro_wt/st…
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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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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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Somebody made a game where you play as Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko and have to run/fly around a city, scolding people who aren't following social distancing rules. #COVID19 #Japan #Tokyo #gaming twitter.com/motulo/status/…
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2/ Many social media users are filling in the blanks and guessing: one of the trending terms on Twitter in Japan is "Unification Church" - the name of a religious organization founded in Korea that had its Nara branch at the station where Abe was shot.
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7/ Japanese police/media are facing a very unpleasant situation. If they report the details of what the shooter is saying, it could increase hate towards a specific group, towards all new religious movements, and/or towards foreigners. twitter.com/mclaughlin_lev…
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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 tweet has blown up overnight, with a lot of really bad takes in response to it. Just to clarify: several hundred people marching in Tokyo does not mean that this is a mainstream view in Japan. Also, this march is not endorsed by Japan's conservative government. twitter.com/mrjeffu/status…
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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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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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