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Infographic argues that today’s youth really isn’t so different from the pre-smartphone generation.
Apparently people in Japan are finding it harder and harder not to assault their friendly neighborhood train station staff as incidents of assault are on the rise.
With rules regarding everything from tea to elevators, some new employees think it’s all too much.
Follow-up interviews to the dramatic Marriage Market Takeover documentary shed light on the beliefs of China’s “Leftover Women” and their parents’ eroding difficulties in accepting them.
Wait, you mean some women can’t cook?
Internet users offer counterpoints that suggest disgruntled high school student may, in fact, not know everything.
Unless your definition of “almost none” is “enough to get a side job.” Then go right ahead.
Just before her 100th birthday, one woman in Hyogo Prefecture sadly decides to blow out the candles for good.
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Apparently, some Japanese men really don’t like to eat alone in public. But are they simply too shy, or is there something else going on?
With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, activists in Singapore are using clever advertising campaigns and humor to try to trigger a baby boom.
Japanese blogger and internationalist Madame Riri explores five prejudices and misconceptions foreign male-Japanese female couples experience in Japan.
To coincide with Japan’s annual “Kanji of the Year” event, which reveals the mood of 2015 with a Chinese character, popular online dictionary site Weblio asked its Japanese users to nominate an “English vocabulary word of the Year”. The top ten results provide a unique insight into the hot topics of interest in Japan in 2015.
‘Tis the season for grumbling about cultural differences, but does it have to be?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare found that lower-income families consumed fewer vegetables and had fewer teeth.
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