Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare says Japanese people need to eat more vegetables. The exhortation has led to an online backlash, with people responding that they’d love to – if they could afford them.
Nonconsensual photography is a rising problem in Japan. Authorities say they’re also seeing a spike at schools – including more cases of kids committing the crime against their peers.
World-famous singer Ado revealed recently she’s been living in the United States for a while. Sadly, she says, it hasn’t automatically improved her English speaking – a lament that resonates with many second language speakers.
A new report based on historical documents shows that Japan’s government feared Korean students would talk about the Kanto Massacre. The government kept tabs on the students and refused to let them return to Korea out of fear it would destabilize Japan’s colonization of the peninsula.
An Itoku supermarket in Akita City finally re-opened after a bear invaded and occupied it for over two days. While residents are happy to have their store back, others have expressed anger at authorities for killing the noble creature.
After seeing Yamanashi Prefecture’s success with levying entrance fees on Mt. Fuji hikers, Shizokua says it’ll follow suit. The prefecture says it’ll propose a 4000 yen (USD $26) fee per hiker for entrance to all three trailheads in a bid to counter overtourism.
A new meme in China featuring beloved Sanrio character Hello Kitty has also caught fire – and sparked debate – in Japan. Some say they resonate with the meme’s anti-workplace theme, while others decry the “misuse” of Kitty-chan’s wholesome image.
The student-led paper for Tokyo University says a graduate program used an HTML trick to prevent mainland Chinese students from applying.
In 2016, a former pirate manga website tried to take a current pirate hentai anime website legit. In a new paper, a researcher explores how it all went wrong – and what the failure says about hentai’s place in the larger US adult entertainment industry.
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