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Earlier this month the group’s leader, Takeo Shimizu, made his 1st public appearance in 51 years (!) at a rally, which is what triggered the raid:
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Then, the group’s representative takes each officer’s temperature and gives each permission to enter
Japan, never change 🤣
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First, as they’re trying to saw their way in, the group’s representative just opens a door and is like, dude just use the door
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This is some amazingly comedic footage: today, over 100 police officers raided the Tokyo headquarters of an ultra-leftist group.
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Minami-Sanriku, a day after it was flattened by the tsunami vs last month
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You guys... Japan Post is rolling out these delivery robots and they’re too cute. This is the future I was promised ❤️
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Mt. Fuji received its first dusting of snow (known as 雪化粧; snow make-up) for the year last night, 32 days earlier than last year
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Studio Ghibli just announced they’ll be uploading 50 free stills from each of their movies: “feel free to use them as you wish, within the bounds of common sense”
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Just what 2020 needed: an ancient burial ground with 1500 remains has been discovered at a redevelopment site in Osaka.
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Modern-day chindogu maker Marina Fujiwara created a tool that lets you escape from Zoom meetings or online happy hours
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Japanese bagmaker Tsuchiya Kaban has created a leather bag specifically for carrying watermelons tsuchiya-kaban.jp/blogs/library/…
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omg these photos of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi in NYC in 1971
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If your glasses are gonna fog up anyway, might as well wear a ramen mask twitter.com/iine_piroshiki…
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Even the Streetcars in Sapporo wear masks
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New favorite Japanese word game. Each person is secretly assigned A~H and you have to guess which they’re acting out just by the way they say the word:
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Interesting blog post from a Japanese biz consultant discussing inquiries around Zoom meeting hierarchy.
- is there a way to make senior executive squares bigger?
- should younger employees join meetings earlier so they can greet their bosses?
😂
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Can someone please start an Insta account of Japanese retro storefronts with rounded corner windows twitter.com/hikarudon12/st…
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Kobe’s RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research utilized a supercomputer to analyze how cough germs can spread inside an office, even with partitions.
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Because they invest in infrastructure twitter.com/christoq/statu…
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The cafe at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka, Japan uses stuffed Capybaras to enforce social distancing
(Photos by @chacha0rca)
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BREAKING: Japanese politician busted for looking at alligator pics during debate
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I want to see this same experiment but with nagashi-somen twitter.com/Johnny_suputam…
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Here’s a link to the article: www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2020…
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NHK conducted an experiment to see how germs spread at a cruise buffet.
They applied fluorescent paint to the hands of 1 person and then had a group of 10 people dine.
In 30 min the paint had transferred to every individual and was on the faces of 3.
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While closed, the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium is allowing some of its animals to roam the park for rare, inter-species meet-ups
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