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Even when they’re at their cringiest, do Japanese people give hardcore Japanophiles a free pass?
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.
It’s not very often we’re able to follow the line “he never even saw it coming” with “but then he casually watched it zoom over the horizon…”
Believe it or not, there’s a perfectly good reason for these costumes.
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For those who need something to have recurring nightmares about for the rest of their lives.
The Osaka area’s Kansai Electric Power Company, also known as KEPCO, has recently released a new commercial that’s a nostalgia-inducing picture-walk through the last 65 years of life in Japan.
Passersby witness frightening scene as it happens.
JAL returns with another dance video, this time with new costumes and a handsome male member who can really bust a move.
This new device will take playful pictures of Goldy, Bubbles, and the rest of your piscine pals.
Marine wildlife volunteers cleverly fight garbage with garbage in order to successfully rescue this trapped porcupine fish.
Chinese cities shot in time-lapse and tilt-shift give a view of the most populated country in the world from a completely new angle.
Snowboard, pursued by a bear.
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