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If you’ve ever wandered through a Japanese park, you’ve probably noticed them: those random bronze statues of graceful young women, […]

Osaka’s danjiri festivals have been going on for centuries. Instead of the usual shoulder-carried mikoshi portable shrines you see at […]

Shibuya is treating Halloween like a security operation this year, and the ward is not being subtle about it. The […]

Japan’s railway industry is staring at a shortage of more than 20,000 workers by fiscal 2028. Recruiting and training enough […]

Most international visitors treat Japan like a two-stop tour: Tokyo, Kyoto, maybe Osaka if they get ambitious. Kagoshima, down at […]

What happens if you get sick in Japan as a tourist? Nobody plans to spend part of their Japan trip […]

You can hide the visa stamps. You cannot hide the programming. 1. You bow on the phone.The other person is […]

Someone on X dropped a letter that immediately went nuclear. A woman went to a regular yakitori place with her […]

TV personality Takei Sō recently posted a photo from a work trip that immediately made people laugh. He thought he’d […]

Summer’s wrapping up and the water’s getting colder, but Kyra Shirahase (sometimes styled Kaira) is making sure we don’t forget […]

On September 2, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education dismissed a 53-year-old senior teacher at a public high school in […]

A quarter of first-time marriages in Japan now involve a wife who’s older than her husband. That’s a record high, […]

A former female prosecutor who says she was sexually assaulted by the old head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors […]

A woman in her 30s has been living two very different lives. By day she works as a home helper […]

A Japanese creator just pointed out something that sounds almost too strange until you sit with it. Yuh Mashiro published […]

Singer, model, and TV personality Ricca Kanon put it out there on social media at the end of August: she’s […]