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These girls literally drive away ogres during Japan’s annual Setsubun bean-throwing festival.
Clearing snow is hard work. Besides, you don’t need to see where you’re going when you’re driving, right?
It’s hard to get beat by an inanimate, frozen foe, but then again it’s also hard to be this cute.
Power of love gets an assist from the power of creativity for heartwarming shared bicycle ride.
Swish that camera around and take a virtual tour of famous sightseeing spots as if you were there, all in the comfort of your own home.
Some would say Nintendo’s video games killed the conventional kids’ toy market, but now they might be bringing it back.
Most people in Japan outgrow this game by the time they finish grade school, but Kyoko Fukada had adults’ attention.
My Grizzly Bear teaches us all the great deal of responsibility that goes into raising a lovable-but-feisty 300-kilogram wild animal.
The speedrunners train-ed hard, let’s hope they don’t run out of steam and go off the rails.
While the traditional kagami-mochi display is made of pounded rice, this one is made entirely of fluff.
After getting shut down once, you’d have thought the developers might have learned a lesson or two.
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