Radio calisthenics to encourage fitness are making a comeback with the help of a perpetually popular Pokémon.
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Even if you don’t have four arms, folks of all ages and physiologies can break a sweat with Machamp!
Real-life bodybuilders stand in for anime weightlifters in otaku community’s favorite workout anthem.
A bold new frontier in multi-tasking.
A shocking experiment, brought to you by the chief of SoraNews24’s Department of Bad Ideas.
Pikotaro’s unique brand of musical weirdness gives birth to a stay-home fitness routine he can barely complete.
With the walls closing in on him in his Tokyo apartment, SoraNews24’s Go Hatori figures out a way to work his body and free his mind.
Mr. Sato is wiser, and healthier, than people think, and he’s here to help you stay loose and limber.
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Japan’s most meaningless road sign discovered, has Internet feeling lost
Life-size Pikachu figure that wirelessly charges electronics fills us with joy/jealousy【Video】
This simple picture of a stairway is worth a thousand words about Japanese culture
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Hotel guest who boiled crabs in room’s kettle angry to have to pay for damages
Old Enough: Netflix show sparks global debate on parenting and child safety
We test out the portable shower backpack Amazon recommended to us (which also only has two stars)
Girlfriend shows Gundam fan an extremely clever new way to photograph the life-size mech in Tokyo
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One Punch Man manga artist’s amazing “practice” drawing is so good we think he might not be human
How to use the new floating hologram registers at 7-Eleven
Liev Schreiber’s son deemed “too beautiful” in Japan
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Top 10 anime women with biggest, most impactful breasts, voted by thousands of Japanese netizens
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Miss Universe 2021 Japan entry slammed for wearing “dead person’s kimono”
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You’re not supposed to drink this special sake from Japan【Non taste-test】
Man who accidentally received entire town’s COVID-19 relief money vanishes
We visit the 24-hour male-only sauna just outside of Hakata Station and ponder a strange sight
Town in Yamaguchi accidentally sends everyone’s COVID-19 relief money to one person
Let’s find out if mixing milk and a lemon-lime soda makes cream soda
How should you respond when a Japanese person gives you a compliment?
Plushie versions of ancient Japanese protection charms are our new favourite capsule toys
20 things to buy at the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo store
The late, great David Bowie visits Kyoto in these shots taken in the 1980s【Photos】
Eating sushi…from a vending machine? We try Toyama Prefecture’s local delicacy, masuzushi
Survey asks Japan’s ex-NEETs if they miss their lazy, carefree days after finally getting a job
Parents of schoolboy ordered to pay 15 million yen after wayward soccer ball leads to man’s death
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