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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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For the next game:
Players must remove the packaging around the conbini onigiri without damaging the seaweed
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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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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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Guy who leans in as his Mario Kart character turns a curve: twitter.com/NendooMAN/stat…
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Girl who started decluttering but ended up on her phone twitter.com/itochan525/sta…
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Tried to remove her mask but her glasses came off with it twitter.com/suiru_k/status…
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That neighbor in the murder-mystery that’s like, “I haven’t seen my neighbor in 3 days” twitter.com/ABK40/status/1…
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That cashier who looks away as you enter your debit PIN twitter.com/ochagakari/sta…
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That person who brought their own bag to the supermarket but it wasn’t enough twitter.com/dosanko_madam/…
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Retro-style video accompanying a karaoke song that has nothing to do with the lyrics twitter.com/purotein_oyazi…
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Person who booked a conference room but there’s someone in it and now they’re checking to make sure they actually booked it before knocking twitter.com/ssg_pr/status/…
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oh, yesterday was Ichinomiya City’s office desk chair marathon
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I needed a laugh so revisited this golden video from last year twitter.com/Johnny_suputam…
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When Kyoto’s Eizan Railway passes through their famed “momiji tunnel” they slow down and, at night, turn their lights off for this surreal view:
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Ahead of the winter solstice tomorrow, the capybara of Nasu Oukoku Zoo took their annual yuzu hot bath
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Yachiyodo, a 110-year old Japanese marshmallow company, has found unlikely success in their fishmallow, which is proving popular at BBQs: yachiyodo.co.jp
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A cold front over the weekend dumped a large amount of snow on many parts of southern Japan. Here is Kyoto’s Kinkakuji
twitter.com/nhk_news/statu…
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Good morning to Wakayama Railway deputy president Nitama, who was promoted today in a ceremony. President Nitama previously held the position of station master
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Interesting new development at Shinjuku’s giant kitty screen
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Nagoya’s Higashiyama Zoo held an escape drill yesterday envisioning a scenario in which one of their pygmy hippopotamuses escapes.
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Cup Noodle lid holder that slowly clouds up as you wait 3 minutes
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NHK has some time-lapse footage of the past 11 years in Tohoku visualizing the post-tsunami recovery. This is Kesenuma (Miyagi) which has come a long way:
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ピクサー最新作『私ときどきレッサーパンダ』のメイキング動画に題名候補がたくさん挙がってて一つが『となりのトロント』で草
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There’s a cafe in Koenji that only allows writers working on a deadline.
When you check in you have to enter the number of words you need and by what time.
Every hour the manager will check in on you (you choose the tone: mild, normal or hard)
koenji-sankakuchitai.blog.jp/ManuscriptWrit…
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