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Legendary anime figure weights in on debate of if you have an obligation to pay for your child’s education if their dream is to make ero games.
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.
Survey reveals pitifully low numerical score women give their chests, seeks to answer if nipple size or bounciness is more important for ideal breasts.
Move would balance marriage age for men and women, make sex-change operations more easily available.
High schooler hopes the prefecture will shed its disaster zone image, and that the rest of Japan will start to see Fukushima as normal again.
Child development expert weighs in on the tricky question, offers a solution from Japan’s samurai-era past.
Tokyo’s much-ballyhooed Kichijoji only makes it to number-three, while an outsider with easy access to Tokyo takes the top spot.
Manners maketh the man. Unless he’s at a convenience store, according to some Japanese social media users as debate over manners erupts.
Aging, shrinking human population says it can no longer take care of all of the frisky felines.
Formula works out to 18 percent lighter than Japan Medical Association guidelines, but not everyone thinks it’s a problem.
Call for more balanced language following gold and silver medals for Japanese figure skaters runs into strong backlash.
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.
Organizers find a way to let vision-impaired kids express their opinion of which of the adorable characters best represents Japan.
Japanese people not in employment or education have said “If you get a job, you lose!” but how do they feel once they actually join the workforce?
With Valentine’s Day approaching, the Tokyo-based candy company says “You do you, and we’ll do us.”
In Japan, women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s Day, but are guys going to get what they really want?
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