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With stablemaster in poor health and out of the picture, new rules were put in place, prompting escape to karaoke box.
A pattern emerges in how creators pick characters’ birthday dates, with one day in particular being a major cluster.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education continues mental gymnastics and insists that undercuts cause harmful incidents and accidents.
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Mom and Dad buck conventional Japanese wisdom when their kid says he’s had enough of his job.
“So is this the start of the Coronavirus Challenge Lottery?” asks opponent of Shinjuku program.
Teacher says book reports just make kids hate books, but some say they’re vital to developing important lifelong skills.
Childbirth rates in Japan may be low, but couples are getting started earlier than before.
Japanese people ask the same old questions but this card causes them to have very different reactions.
Especially for men, snatching an unassuming red envelope from the ground can lead to a shocking proposition.
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