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· Bryan Ke
‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ in Japanese gets US, Canada screenings
A limited-time screening of the Japanese version of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” will hit select theaters across the United States and Canada. The special screenings, some of which will not include English subtitles, are scheduled for 10 theaters in Los Angeles, San Francisco,…
· Ryan General
Japanese teacher’s colleagues shocked after he is arrested while moonlighting at host club
A junior high school math teacher in Japan who was secretly working at a host club was arrested after allegedly soliciting a plain-clothed police officer to patronize the club. The teacher, who lived with his parents, had reportedly been working at a host club two or three times…
· Bryan Ke
Babies battle it out in 1-on-1 crying matches during Japanese traditional festival
Japan’s “crying baby sumo” festival, which involves scared infants competing against each other by loudly weeping, has returned for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival, which is known as Nakizumo in Japanese but also referred to as the Crying Baby Festival,…
· Iris Jung
Italian and Japanese food the most popular cuisines on Instagram, study says
Italian, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Mexican cuisines are the most popular cuisines on Instagram worldwide, according to a recent study. Published on The Picky Eater by board-certified health coach Anjali Shah on April 2, the study was conducted by analyzing Instagram hashtags…
· Michelle De Pacina
French tourist in Japan arrested for punching woman in the face
A French tourist was arrested for physically assaulting a woman in Roppongi, Japan. Charlie Evan, a 23-year-old French national, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of punching a woman in the face and leaving her injured on the streets of Tokyo’s Minato ward.
· Michelle De Pacina
Why most Japanese people don’t want to live past 100
Most people in Japan do not want to live to or beyond 100 years old, according to a new survey. In September 2022, a research firm commissioned by the Japan Hospice Palliative Care Foundation in Osaka conducted an online survey with approximately 500 men and 500 women aged in…
· Ryan General
First ladies Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida plant sakura tree to mark US-Japan friendship
The first ladies of the U.S. and Japan honored the friendship between their countries by planting a cherry tree at the White House on Monday. The sapling, which Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida planted near the East Wing, was sourced from a Yoshino tree planted on the south grounds…
· Michelle De Pacina
Japanese American author calls out Scholastic for asking her to cut ‘racism’ from kid’s book
Maggie Tokuda-Hall, an Oakland author of Japanese descent, has called out Scholastic’s “deeply offensive” suggested revisions to her 2022 children’s book while offering to license it for their Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) narratives collection.…
· Michelle De Pacina
24-year-old man arrested for throwing pipe bomb at Japan PM Kishida
A 24-year-old man was arrested for throwing an explosive device at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign event in western Japan. Kishida was visiting Saikazaki port in Wakayama prefecture to deliver a speech in support of his ruling party’s candidate in a local…
· Carl Samson
Fin Facts: 12 surprising things you didn’t know about the cherry blossom, Japan’s unofficial national flower
Spring is in the air, and so is the sight of blooming cherry blossoms. Unless you’ve been living under a rock that’s devoid of this marvelous image, you ought to know by now that these delicate, pale pink beauties happen to be Japan’s unofficial national flower.
· Ryan General
Video: Japanese ‘fartist’ blows away ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judges
Japanese entertainer Ichikawa Koikuchi left “Britain’s Got Talent” judges impressed with his unique comedy act during the show’s Season 16 opener on Saturday night. The self-proclaimed “fartist” performed a series of acts that involved him farting into a tube, blowing out the…
· Bryan Ke
One of Japan’s most popular soufflé chains comes to Los Angeles
Gram Cafe and Pancakes, a popular Japanese soufflé chain with outlets in countries like Hong Kong and Canada, opened its second United States branch in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County last week. The Japanese chain first opened its L.A. branch on April 8 at the…
· Michelle De Pacina
Japan: Students who are late due to reporting sexual assault should not be penalized
The Japanese government has asked schools not to penalize students for being late to class if they were filing a police report regarding a sexual assault they experienced during their commute to school. The request is part of the government’s anti-groping campaign aimed to…
· Carl Samson
Japan approves plan for its first-ever casino as part of $13.5 billion resort
Japan approved the creation of its first-ever legal casino on Friday. Set to open on Osaka’s artificial Yumeshima island in fall 2029, the integrated resort complex will feature gambling facilities, a hotel, theater, museum, conference center, shopping mall, exhibition hall,…
· Michelle De Pacina
Japanese café waitress fired for mixing own blood in cocktails
A waitress from a Japanese café in Hokkaido, Japan, was fired for mixing her own blood in the cocktails she served. The Mondaiji café in Sapporo announced the news on Twitter, saying that they have fired the unidentified woman who made customers drinks — called orikaku, or…
· Michelle De Pacina
Japan’s population shrinks to under 125 million in 12th straight year of decline
Japan’s population has fallen under 125 million during its 12th straight year of decline. The Japanese population reportedly decreased by 556,000 to 124.9 million in 2022 compared to a year earlier, according to government data released on Wednesday.
· Bryan Ke
Meet Yui Susaki, the 24-year-old Japanese female wrestler with 12 gold medals and a 72-0 record
Meet Yui Susaki, a 24-year-old Japanese female wrestler with a dozen gold medals under her belt who has been dominating international wrestling competitions. At 22 years old, Susaki dominated the women’s freestyle 50 kilograms competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics without…
· Carl Samson
Japanese railroad workers build safe passages for wandering turtles
Railroad workers in the coastal city of Kobe in central Japan have built safe passages for turtles that wander onto railway tracks. The safety channels, developed by West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) and Suma Aqualife Park, consist of U-shaped concrete ditches strategically…
· Ines Shin
This Japanese AI can re-create what you see by analyzing a brain scan
Researchers at Osaka University have developed an artificial intelligence system for reconstructing images using brain scans. Neuroscientist Yu Takagi and his research partner Shinji Nishimoto used a model they created, along with the 2022 German AI algorithm Stable Diffusion,…
· Michelle De Pacina
2 diners in Japan arrested for dipping their chopsticks into restaurant’s communal container
Police in Japan have arrested two men accused of contaminating a communal container of pickled ginger at a popular beef bowl restaurant chain as part of a prank. On Sept. 29, 2022, Toshihide Oka, 34, recorded Ryu Shimazu, 35, shoveling pickled ginger from a condiment container…
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