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Help keep Japan’s convenience stores convenient by learning and following these six Japanese etiquette points.
Pretty Cure encourages boys who feel like it to wear dresses and be princesses, hotel apologizes for not being progressive enough.
Japanese government votes to amend laws, bringing down age of legal adulthood but raising marrying age for women and gender reassignment surgery.
Researcher says more than half of central Tokyo convenience stores have foreigners working the graveyard shift.
Close to half say they weren’t in a relationship with the guy at the time.
Programmer from overseas leaves change out in public to test Japanese honesty, ends up with more money than he started with.
Distressing video recorded in Tokyo’s busiest station shines light on a problem women have been complaining about for years.
Frustrated professional busts up her office’s outdated “tea squad” tradition with a perfectly salted comeback.
Respondents also discuss whether it’s cheating on your boyfriend if you hug or hold hands with someone else.
Exasperated mom says cute animal characters are showing young students exactly what not to do in life.
The Internet has a great time with the “Please don’t feed the pigeons!” campaign, in which pigeons tell passers-by where they can stick their birdseed.
Back-to-back unanimous votes draw praise from Minister in Charge of Women’s Empowerment, but will anything really change?
Demand grows more than 10 times in size in just five years as Japanese family dynamics change.
Exasperated wife says “OK. Should I pick something up for us instead?” is the wrong answer.
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