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Logan Paul is Only Getting More Subscribers After Filming Japanese Suicide Victim
For a moment there it almost appeared that Logan Paul’s career was over. After the massive backlash he drew on Monday and Tuesday for posting a video featuring a suicide victim’s dead body, everyone said he is finished.
· Ryan General
Japanese Police Want Logan Paul For Questioning Following ‘Suicide Forest’ Incident
Logan Paul may have given his apologies and gone on a temporary hiatus on YouTube, but his problems over the “insensitive” video in Japan’s “suicide forest” is far from over. According to the Associated Press, authorities in Japan have expressed that they want to question the…
· Editorial Staff
Logan Paul Fans Are Attacking a Japanese Vlogger With Racial Slurs
A Japanese vlogger is being cyberbullied by Logan Paul fans after she condemned his now-deleted YouTube video where he jokingly mocks a suicide victim he discovered in Japan’s infamous “Suicide Forest.” Reina Scully, a 29-year-old vlogger who initially gained famed by being a…
· Carl Samson
Japanese Wrestler Goes Crazy When Brazilian Opponent Weighs 28 Pounds Above Limit
Shinobu Kandori, a Japanese pro wrestler-turned-politician, was extremely disappointed when her opponent weighed way above the limit for their match scheduled last month. Kandori, 53, had not competed in mixed martial arts since 2003. She is now a member of Japan’s Liberal…
· Bryan Ke
Japan’s Most Famous AV Star Sora Aoi Gets Engaged, Breaks Fan’s Hearts to Pieces
Former Japanese adult video (AV) star, Sola Aoi — or Sora Aoi — officially announced in her recent Instagram update that she recently married Japanese musician DJ Non. She made the announcement on Jan. 1 on her Instagram where she posted a photo of herself with a ring on her…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Inside Aokigahara, Japan’s Infamous Suicide Forest
Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Golden Gate Bridge. Prince Edward Viaduct. Aokigahara Forest. What do these things have in common? They’re the most common places for people to commit suicide. The difference between Prince Edward Viaduct and the other two bridges, however, is that…
· Khier Casino
Japanese Netizens Warn Logan Paul to Stay Out of Japan for Laughing at Suicide Victim
Logan Paul released an apology video on Tuesday for recording the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, but Japanese netizens want him to stay far away from their country and never come back. Paul has since taken down the YouTube vlog, titled “We found…
· Editorial Staff
Logan Paul is Losing Subscribers By the SECOND After Posting Japanese Suicide Video
Logan Paul, a Viner turned YouTuber who recently drew backlash for posting a Japanese suicide victim’s corpse in a VLOG, is losing subscribers by the second. The 22-year-old YouTube sensation as already lost over 6,000 subscribers today, according to analytics tool Social Blade.…
· Ryan General
Logan Paul Who Loves Making Racist Asian Jokes Shows Japanese Suicide Victim’s Body in VLOG
Former Vine star and currently YouTube’s resident bumhole Logan Paul visited Japan’s Aokigahara forest famously known as the “suicide forest”. The site, which has earned its moniker for the hundreds of suicides committed there, is situated on the slopes of Mt. Fuji.
· Heather Johnson Yu
Retired Japanese Tennis Star Harvests Clams in Freezing Water, Reminds You to Never Give Up
Meet Matsuoka Shuzo. He’s a retired tennis-player-turned-motivational-life-coach known throughout the world for his inspirational quotes and videos.
· Bryan Ke
Japanese Woman Dies After Being Imprisoned for More Than 15 Years By Her Parents
A 33-year-old Japanese woman reportedly froze to death in her tiny windowless room where she was confined by her parents for more than 15 years, believing she had a form of mental illness that made her violent. The body of the victim, Airi Kakimoto, who was was 145 centimeters…
· Carl Samson
How the Japanese Celebrate Oshogatsu, Their Version of New Year
As the calendar turns to 2018, the Japanese will be celebrating Oshogatsu, a unique tradition marking the beginning of a new year. Oshogatsu, also called shōgatsu, is initially based on the Chinese lunar calendar. But in 1873, five years after the Meiji restoration, Japan…
· Carl Samson
Meet the Japanese-American Lawyer Who Fought for Interracial Marriage in the 1960s
William Marutani, a Japanese-American lawyer from Kent, Washington, is not exactly a household name. But if walls from one courtroom half a century ago could talk, they would have named him as one of the forerunners of interracial marriage.
· Ryan General
KFC Japan Makes $53 Million During Christmas Weekend
The uniquely Japanese tradition of feasting on some Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas brought in over $53 million in sales for the American fast food restaurant over the holiday weekend. KFC is extremely popular in Japan during the holidays that many place their orders for the…
· Editorial Staff
Japan’s Kotatsu is the Coziest Way to Stay Warm in Winter
Ahh, winter — when humanity wages war against the plummeting temperatures. In the battle against the bitter cold, some batten down the hatches by turning up the heat, while others arm themselves with an extra blanket.
· Carl Samson
Magical Japanese Fish Can Literally Be Made into a Sharp Kitchen Knife
In Japan, a dried, fermented, and smoked tuna called katsuobushi, dubbed the “world’s hardest food”, has proven its mettle by being turned into a functioning kitchen knife. It’s pretty unbelievable, considering that katsuobushi, sometimes called okaka, is often used as flakes to…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese People Are Going Bananas Over This Extremely Photogenic Gorilla
Many netizens from Japan have had their hearts stolen by the extremely photogenic silverback western lowland gorilla, Shabani, from Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan, with some even calling him Ikemen, or “handsome guy.” There’s just something about the way he stares into the…
· Carl Samson
Japan Welcomes 2018 With a TV Show About a Man Who Eats Alone
While many parts of the world will be watching fireworks and singing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve, our friends in Japan will be curling up on couches to see a TV show starring a man who eats all by himself. Kodoku no Gurume, also known as “The Solitary Gourmet,” now in its…
· Carl Samson
Japanese Restaurant Server Gets $500 Tip From Woman Dining ALONE on Christmas Eve
A Japanese restaurant server in Kaneohe, Hawaii, received a generous tip from a woman who dined all by herself on the afternoon of December 24. Seated at a table for four at Ichiriki Japanese Nabe Restaurant, the customer tipped Dimitri Peterson Kaliko a whopping $500 and left a…
· Carl Samson
Japanese Ex-leader of Peru Receives Presidential Pardon, Enrages Entire Country
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski triggered protests after pardoning Alberto Fujimori, a former head of state serving 25 years for human rights violations. Kuczynski pardoned 79-year-old Fujimori on December 23, as doctors determined that the latter “suffers from a…
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