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Nothing makes for a cosier interior than a lizard spitting out radioactive heat rays over you and your house guests.
Out of 852 examined buildings in the city, researchers say the Shibuya fashion mecca is the least prepared for a major trembler.
The future is here, but some residents aren’t prepared to accept an artificially intelligent mayor so soon.
But there’s a comical silver lining that has heartbroken fans drying their eyes.
Female employee finds two different men camped out in the ladies’ restroom in roughly an hour.
What makes a fried nugget so good that it causes a songstress to cram her mouth full with them and create international headlines?
Numbers for high school teachers aren’t much rosier in recent study by education ministry.
Japanese social media users fall in love as dog chases down Google Street View car many times its size.
When a company ensures that everyone deserves a second chance, it’s a company worth working for.
Dwango, the operators of Japan’s Nico Nico Douga streaming service, want to connect passionate cosplayers with paying jobs.
Japanese kids are unsubscribing from a future in content creation in favour of old-school aspirations.
Ash has a whole new set of pals for Everybody’s Story, but his old friends are nowhere to be seen.
If you guessed the prank is that the model in this picture is actually a man, he makes no secret about that, and the real trick is something else.
Months after the Logan Paul scandal, a Japanese YouTube personality offers free hugs at Aokigahara in video that claims to show a life being saved.
From this day forward, all math professors should be called “fantasistas of number theory.”
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