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Japanese man dumped just before Christmas hopes for a sympathetic ear, gets emotionally punched twice more in the gut instead.
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Your beautiful girlfriend gets changed, has dinner and drinks sake while chatting to you on a video call.
Poll results show the majority of women are happy when men strike up conversations with them at Halloween.
Survey finds a big gap in the dating histories of women who enjoy Japanese girls’ comics and those who don’t.
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Introducing some of the strange situations that had Japanese Twitter users both amused, and bemused.
Tough love from Akihabara-based matchmaking service reflects the changing nature of anime fandom.
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