Who needs drugs, gambling, and prostitution when there’s an ocean full of slimy black gold for the taking?
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Now one of the most influential firms in the video game industry, few know of the company’s past struggles.
He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return.
Kobe-based yakuza group beckons trick-or-treating kids with cotton candy in Frozen bags at its criminal headquarters.
Mr. Sato experiences a classic of Japanese hairstyling from the Showa Era to get in touch with… Eh, okay. He lost a bet.
After living in Tokyo for ten years, our Osaka-born writer Seiji Nakazawa shares some experiences from his hometown he thought were normal but actually weren’t.
Who beats out religious proponents and yakuza for the most feared customer to encounter at a mobile phone counter?
One of the gangsters reportedly admitted, “I have never met anyone as tough as those deliverymen.”
A handful of golf courses in Fukuoka Prefecture have refused to add a certain checkbox to their applications for fear of their lives.
You can take a doll out of the store, but the staff will have to cut off one of its fingers first…
Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that the convenience store is the prefect place to get snacks, pay your bills, buy adult material, and get into a fight. Wait, what?
Hello Kitty loves to cosplay and this time she’s dressing up as a badass schoolgirl with a machine gun.
Police were luckily able to return all the fighters to Adventure Mode before any serious injuries were sustained.
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