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Plans to use traditional Japanese kintsugi techniques to make them look as good as new, or perhaps even better.
Kumamoto Prefecture is still reeling after back-to-back large scale earthquakes struck the region late last week. Yet somehow Japan’s major convenience store chains have managed to get 97 percent of their shops up and running in a matter of days.
It’s not very often we’re able to follow the line “he never even saw it coming” with “but then he casually watched it zoom over the horizon…”
Mobile kitchens provide comfort food, in the truest sense of the word, for thousands of earthquake victims.
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For those who need something to have recurring nightmares about for the rest of their lives.
Here comes a message of encouragement from the voice of one of anime’s most famous seafaring heroes.
A tweet made by Osaka police in response to a molestation case has resulted in severe backlash and cries of victim shaming.
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