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All right ya’ll buckle up it’s time for this year’s round-up of Japan’s #地味ハロウィン (mundane Halloween) costumes. Outfits so ordinary they have to be explained.
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omg peak librarian: every time someone goes into Fukui Prefectural Library and asks for a book but gets the title wrong, librarians catalog the mistake into a "misremembered book titles" section that gets published to their website
library-archives.pref.fukui.lg.jp/tosyo/category…
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For the next game:
Players must remove the packaging around the conbini onigiri without damaging the seaweed
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Clarification: the sunken ships are on the neighboring Island of Iwojima, which rose up from the sea due to all the tectonic activity.
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A new volcanic islet has emerged along the Ogasawara island chain, which isn’t that rare. What’s rare is for sunken ships from WWII to emerge with it: youtu.be/uTGGhRrHo0Q
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I thought we were done with the craziest parts of the pandemic but the Hoshinya Tokyo hotel just proved me wrong
hoshinoresorts.com/information/re…
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ways to say I don't know in kansai-ben:
shiran (知らん) - no idea
shiranwa (知らんわ) - how should I know
shiranshi (知らんし) - don't know, don't care
shirannen (知らんねん) - sorry, don't know
shirangana (知らんがな) - IDGAF
shirankedo (知らんけど) - unsure/don't take my word
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This is Japan's very first known photo of a pet cat. It was taken by Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu around 1868 and features his pet cat Han.
shizubi.jp/exhibition/101…
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Studio Ghibli (@JP_GHIBLI) has been tweeting images of Mei and Satsuki’s home being built in the new Ghibli Park and I can’t 😭😭😭
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I love how the translator was really going for it and then just gave up at the end
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Cup Noodle is so excited about their 50th anniversary that they created Cup Noodle-flavored sodas.
store.nissin.com/jp/special/cup…
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Can’t stop thinking about this cat table with a lid
spoon-tamago.com/2021/08/16/din…
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Kosuke Yasukawa, a practicing physician in the US, created this graphic that illustrates the gap in perceptions of COVID-19 symptoms between the public and doctors
asahi.com/ajw/articles/1…
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Wholesome story of the day: Fukuoka City has re-painted one of their port cranes to look like a giraffe.
Unveiling the paint job, the mayor noted that he hopes it cheers up the kids in Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, which looks over the port.
sankei.com/article/202107…
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Stunning video from Omega, the official timekeeper of the Olympics
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I don’t know who needs to see this, but it’s a capybara onsen cheescake
spoon-tamago.com/2021/07/18/cap…
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Rare footage of Shinjuku’s giant kitty, seen just once a day at 7AM sharp
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A new supersized 3D screen has gone up in Shinjuku. This giant kitty will be featured in between broadcasts.
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If you like nondescript Japanese street scenes and contemporary dance, then the nonsensical dance unit @aguyoshi is for you:
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Starbucks is celebrating 25 years in Japan by releasing a frappuccino unique to every single prefecture:
starbucks.co.jp/cafe/jimoto_fr…
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me emerging from quarantine having forgotten how to properly interact with others
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I never knew this but The Hungry Caterpillar was first printed in Japan because Eric Carle couldn’t find a printer in the U.S. who could create the unique pages and binding
asahi.com/sp/ajw/article…
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Wow - fashion magazine publisher Takarajima-sha took out full page ads in today’s Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkei newspapers.
“No vaccine. No medicine
Do you expect us to fight with bamboo spears.
At this rate, politics will kill us”
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今日からニューヨークは市が運営している施設ならアポ無しで誰でもワクチン摂取できるようになりました。その施設の一つが自然史博物館の巨大クジラホール。模型にはすでに大きな注射用保護パッドが貼られててかわいい。
スプタマ編集長。Founder and Editor of @SpoonTamago and @SpoonTamagoShop. Raised in Tokyo, based in Brooklyn.