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Japan’s top rice-growing prefecture designs character, releases two videos in hope of changing anime breakfast trope.
Decision follows backlash to advice such as “A woman’s enemy is always other women,” but not everyone is happy.
Change is part of first update to Guidelines for Official Writing Composition in 70 years.
Kimonos and gangsta flair to celebrate freedom and individuality before conforming to Japanese society.
For a service that promises a clean break with a bad job, this taishoku daikou has a lot of strings attached.
On average, parents in Prefecture #1 are paying around five times more to send kids to school than parents in Prefecture #47.
Tired of being told there’s no point in playing games, he shows how the question misses the point.
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