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· Bryan Ke
Japanese fans go viral for cleaning up everyone’s mess at the World Cup — again
Japanese football fans were filmed cleaning the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, on Monday after the opening game between Qatar and Ecuador. The inspiring moment was shared on Twitter and Instagram by Bahraini YouTuber Omar Al-Farooq. The viral video has been viewed more than…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese singer Ado thought she was being pranked when she snagged role in ‘One Piece Film: Red’
Japanese singer Ado first thought she was being pranked after learning that she would be singing the part of Uta in “One Piece Film: Red.” “I really didn’t believe it was true, to the point that I thought that there was a hidden camera somewhere shooting me reacting to a ‘Let’s…
· Ryan General
Japanese man sets off fireworks at Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble Crossing
A Japanese man is under investigation after setting off fireworks at Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble Crossing, an intersection considered one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world. Witnesses say the man discharged around 50 fireworks on Monday at around 10 p.m. In a video of…
· Ryan General
Rats observed bopping to the beat of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ in Japanese study
Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo have discovered that rats can move to the beat of catchy songs, an ability previously attributed only to humans The researchers attached movement sensors to rodents and made them listen to four different tempos of Mozart’s “Sonata…
· Bryan Ke
This Japanese treat has a waiting time of 30 years
Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop founded in the city of Takasago in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture in 1926, has a 30-year waitlist for its world-famous Kobe beef Extreme Croquettes. The store began selling beef croquettes after World War II and became a hit after a report about them…
· William Yuk
Japanese YouTuber recreates ‘Chainsaw Man’ opening using ‘Animal Crossing’
Mashing-up one of the season’s goriest anime with a mellowed-out island sandbox video game might seem like an odd combination, but that’s exactly what one YouTube creator set out to do. On Friday, Twitter user @yo_dakun shared the thumbnail for a video from his YouTube channel…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese mom has her 9-year-old daughter undergo double eyelid surgery to be ‘beautiful’
Rucchi, one half of a mother-daughter YouTube duo, paid thousands of dollars to have her 9-year-old daughter Micchi undergo double eyelid surgery to change her appearance. “A girl needs double eyelids,” Rucchi tells Vice Asia in a recent video. “I have never seen a girl with…
· Bryan Ke
23-year-old Japanese man begins nonstop, round-the-world journey in his yacht
Hirotsugu Kimura, a 23-year-old corporate employee, left Shin Nishinomiya Yacht Harbor in Nishinomiya, a city in western Japan’s Hyogo prefecture, on Saturday to become the youngest Japanese person to set sail nonstop around the world unassisted. “I finally got the feeling that…
· Daniel Anderson
K-pop Weekly: BTS’ RM, Red Velvet, BoA, ITZY, New Jeans announce new albums; Spire CEO resigns; SEVENTEEN debuts Japanese EP
K-pop Weekly took a hiatus last week with respect to the tragic incident in Itaewon. This week, there has been a slow but steady stream of new music releases from the likes of AleXa, OH MY GIRL member YooA, SEVENTEEN and more. Additionally, fans can soon expect new music from an…
· Michelle De Pacina
‘Tom and Jerry’ get kawaii for new Japanese animated series
Classic American cartoon duo Tom and Jerry will make their first-ever made-in-Japan series debut on Nov. 11. As cheese is the favorite food of Jerry the mouse, the special project will be released in time for “Cheese Day.” The special feature, which gives the characters an…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese pet cremators exposed for burning animals along with trash
Gorin Corp., a cremation services firm that provided subcontractors to Owari Hokubu Seien in the Japanese city of Inuyama, learned that the crematory’s workers had been burning their trash along with the corpses of pet animals for at least a decade now. The firm launched a…
· Isa Peralta
‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ beats ‘Pokémon’ to become Japan’s best-selling game of all time
“Animal Crossing: New Horizons” has been named Japan’s best-selling game of all time. Game Data Library, a website that claims to be the internet’s largest database of Japanese game sales, shared in a tweet posted on Tuesday that 10.45 million copies of “Animal Crossing: New…
· Iris Jung
Iconic Japanese candy featured in ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ discontinued
Sakuma’s Drops candy will be discontinued as its maker, Tokyo-based Sakuma Seika Co., goes out of business. Established by Sojiro Sakuma in 1908, the candy was produced during World War II. The colorful 114-year-old candy has been sold for generations, even making a notable…
· Carl Samson
4 men wanted for stealing Tesla outside Japanese restaurant in Tennessee
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, are looking for four men who allegedly stole a Tesla from outside the Osaka Japanese Cuisine restaurant on Poplar Avenue on Saturday night. The suspects arrived in a black Infiniti sedan, which parked near the Tesla. The electric car’s built-in GPS…
· Editorial Staff
Japan’s hot new drink is… water. Literally.
Asahi, one of the largest beer brewers in Japan, is now selling hot bottled water. The product, called Oishi Mizu Tennensui Sayu, became available in stores at the start of this month. Due to Japanese beverage regulations, Oishi Mizu Tennensui Sayu – with “sayu” being the…
· Bryan Ke
Viral face wash ad reveals a Japanese-speaking Lionel Messi
An old Japanese ad featuring Paris Saint-Germain football star Lionel Messi has left netizens in stitches after it resurfaced on social media and went viral last month. Messi, 35, became the face of Angfa Scalp-D facial wash in 2013. He appeared in the company’s two-part…
· Ryan General
81-year-old Japanese man confesses to pushing wheelchair-bound wife into sea
Japanese authorities in Kanagawa Prefecture have arrested an 81-year-old man who confessed to killing his wheelchair-bound wife by pushing her into the sea. Hiroshi Fujiwara told investigators that he had grown tired of taking care of his 79-year-old wife, Teruko, who lost the…
· Isa Peralta
Japan’s newest ice cream flavor is… crab?
Kani Doraku, a popular chain of crab specialty restaurants in Japan, will release crab ice cream on Nov. 6. The unique treat, which reportedly consists of salty vanilla ice cream and chunks of crab meat, features salt from Christmas Island in the Republic of Kiribati. According…
· Ryan General
Japanese pianist attacked in NYC in 2020 finds ‘will to return’ to music
Japanese jazz pianist Tadataka Unno was brutally attacked by a group of youths in Harlem, New York, in late September 2020. Two years after the attack, the 42-year-old musician shared that he has now found the will to return to music through the help and support of the people…
· Iris Jung
This hilarious Japanese Halloween trend celebrates the mundane
A popular Japanese Halloween subculture encourages participants to dress as ordinary people in mundane situations. The annual tradition was started on Daily Portal Z in 2014 by adults who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed.”…
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