New father makes mental note of the economic upside of breastfeeding, passes those savings on to his beloved wife.
romance (Page 13)
Some say the Pokémon GO craze is over, but the bond between true lovers is eternal (and in this case kind of weird).
This is it. Two years after the start of the project, SoraNews24’s most consistent bachelor takes one last shot at romance as he meets Mimi.
Think Japanese businessmen don’t care about their wives? This one does, and he’s got no time for anyone keeping him from taking care of her.
Hint: marriage might be more likely to go well if the sight of your beloved-to-be doesn’t make you throw up a little in your mouth.
Carefully designed features promise to keep you warm and bring you closer together at outdoor events.
He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return.
After fleeing a restaurant when a women he met online wasn’t who he thought she was, one man was surprised to get a call from the police.
With an Olympic medal on his resume, Shoma Uno says he’d like to enter a video game tournament.
According to one little sister, the key to getting a girlfriend or boyfriend? Loneliness, and not going to amusement arcades on your own.
10 picks for when it’s just the two of you…but Your Name isn’t number one on the list.
Participants say that even if a guy were to spend three times as much on a thank-you present, it still wouldn’t be enough.
Apparently the breakup wasn’t as mutual as he thought, man discovers when getting home-made Pop Team Epic chocolate.
In Japan, women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s Day, but are guys going to get what they really want?
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, but this tale of deception has a double-twist ending.
Bad news for the country’s declining birth rate is accompanied by rosier development about divorce.


















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