3-Eyed ‘Cod Piece’ At Fukushima Station Sparks Criticism
The statue of a three-eyed cod with nuclear radiation equipment at JR Fukushima station has attracted criticism that it gives the impression Fukushima residents...
Tokyo Hit By ‘Gorilla Rain’
Areas around central Tokyo today experienced sudden bursts of “Gorilla Rain”.
Salarymen who didn't take an umbrella to work today and were outside when the...
Female University Students In Japan Given Artificially Higher Grades In Home Economics
Prospective female university students who took entrance exams at some of Japan’s most prestigious universities are finding out their home economics results were deliberately...
Typhoon Shanshan A Major Disappointment
Typhoon Shanshan has turned out to be a major disappointment and is now expected to travel north constituting little more than a few showers...
Drunk Salaryman Gets Head Stuck Up Own Arse, Causes Panic On Yamanote Line
A drunk passenger in his 50s caused temporary panic on Tokyo’s Yamanote loop line at Hamamatsucho station on Wednesday after his head got stuck...
Cookie Wrapped In Plastic Wrapped In Plastic Placed In Plastic Bag
Two batches of two cookies wrapped in separate plastic wrappers in Japan have been enclosed in another plastic wrapper.
The two sets of plastic wrappers...
Japan Reaches 100% Humidity
Temperatures reached as high as 37.1 degrees today at 11:55 a.m. in the Kanto region with humidity peaking at 100 per cent just after...
Sometimes People Think I Don’t Understand Japanese But I Just Couldn’t Hear
A foreigner living in the Kansai region in Japan has revealed that on some occasions an inability to hear will be misconstrued as a...
Returnee Gaijin Still Bowing
A gaijin who previously lived in Nagoya for five years is still bowing despite having returned home to Gaikoku over one year ago.
Post-gaijin Frank...
Abe To Accept More Foreign Workers Desperate Enough To Leave Families Behind In Gaikoku
Japan will start to accept more foreign workers from April next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday, as long as those workers are...
