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Dress code detail is a waste of time to even discuss, frustrated junior high teacher says.
Sexy science experiment tests one of Japan’s most persistent pieces of folk wisdom.
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16-year-old who attends all-boys high school was feeling lovelorn, so the aquarium offered an unorthodox solution.
Why fix a problem in seconds when you can throw an extended hissy fit instead?
“To serve and protect” gets trumped by “to ogle and leer” as violent-crime suspect slips out of detention center.
Perhaps even stranger still, this particular person has achieved an almost cult-like status among some Japanese women.
Poor triangulation skills lead to a heated argument with a surprising solution to the mystery.
Staff says it takes the audible appreciation of its residents’ imagined flavor as a compliment.
Public broadcaster NHK chose a strange way to show the “waist-deep snow” of this hot spring town in northern Japan.
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