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Beloved 16-bit game’s protagonist seemingly makes cameo appearance in the clouds of amazing video.
Fatbergs be gone with this new method of washing your rear without a Japanese washlet toilet.
People aren’t getting bit by the aggravating insects in Japan this summer, those some might say the reason why is something even worse.
Scientists from Tokyo and Ibaraki discover there’s a cutoff point where kicking actually starts to slow you down.
Celebrate the arrival of Japan’s deep space probe at its asteroid destination with a dessert both achingly gorgeous and totally affordable.
Citizens filled with pride in their country, anger at Mercator projection as distance from Hokkaido to Okinawa is shown to equal Denmark to Spain.
A tiny cyborg model at the moment, this contraption marks the beginning of robots taking over humanity.
Perplexing perspectives: when left is right, and right is right, our brains melt but we’re impressed nonetheless.
It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
Troubling statistic is coupled with an additional one-in-four saying they’ve heard the word, but don’t know what it means.
This simple procedure can be done in the comfort of your own home, changing the world as we know it.
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
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