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The Chinese theatrical release of Spirited Away is next week and they just released these beautiful posters:
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Tobe Zoo in Aichi conducted a lion escape drill today.
Note the expression on the actual lions faces.
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Photo of 10-year old Sumire Kanamura, Japan’s youngest pro Go player, defeating her 50-year old opponent to advance into the 2nd round
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A few years ago a pro-undergrounding group created this image of Hokusai’s Red Fuji with utility poles and power lines to show how ugly they are.
But it had the opposite effect. People loved the image.
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Japanese artist Atsuko Yukawa has been creating miniature, battery-powered wire sculptures. Here is one of her latest:
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Here is another one of Yukawa’s wire sculptures: a cat chasing another cat. Note the expression of the real cat at the end
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Japanese priests eating breakfast with cats. This is the Twitter content I’m here for. twitter.com/nasu_chourakuj…
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#地味ハロウィン
① woman who missed trash pickup
② guy who face-swapped with Starbucks cup
③ photo assistant whose job it is to make child laugh
④ Banksy remote-controlling his shredder at auction
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Incredible hand-painted orb of a Japanese suburban neighborhood by artist @samejimadaisuke
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Remembering the good old days when Hong Kong police were more this, and less this
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This is bullshit
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May everyone’s 2020 be as chill as these capybara’s taking a yuzu hot bath
twitter.com/capybarahp/sta…
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Japan’s cherry blossom forecast for 2020 has been announced.
Tokyo’s bloom is expected to start on March 19, 2 days earlier than last year, with full-bloom arriving around March 25.
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皆さん、想像してみてください。広大な海のど真ん中で溺れながらもうこれでお終いだと思った瞬間、何故かデカプリオに救助されるんですよ
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Shinjuku Station Southeast Plaza through the years 😭
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“And now you do what they told ya” sounds like “break the nuggets, dad” in Japanese
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The pandemic has birthed a new Japanese word: オン飲み (on-nomi; online drinking)
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In the wake of #COVID19 an old Japanese folklore has recently resurfaced.
According to legend, a yokai called アマビエ (Amabie) emerged from the sea and told locals how to combat a coming epidemic: “draw a picture of me and show it to everyone”
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Meanwhile, Utsunomiya has installed gyoza street lights
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Rare combination of cherry blossoms and snow in Tokyo yesterday. Yes the world is ending but it’s still beautiful sankei.com/smp/photo/stor…
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It’s hard to overstate the significance of Ken Shimura for anyone who grew up watching Japanese TV in the 80s and 90s.
The only silver lining is that maybe more Japanese will begin to take the coronavirus more seriously now.
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Japanese prefectural government worker’s high-tech solution to social distancing. Omg I can’t even...
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Great use of augmented reality: @kskee created this social distancing ruler to visualize how much space we should be keeping.
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If you’re thinking of flying to Japan, know that Narita is asking you to sleep in baggage claim until your test results are in twitter.com/misachasu0209/…
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