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Bra That Grows Rice Showcased in Japan

JAPAN| Developed by Triumph, a company that has created other offbeat bras in the past, the rice bra reflects the interest more and more women show in agriculture. The weird rice bra features two cups that resemble plant pots, made from recyclable plastic. They can both be filled with soil and rice seeds, and watered […]

Japan study reveals long-term effects of COVID-19

NHK — JUN 18 Three study groups at the health ministry have been conducting the research. A team involving Keio University Professor Fukunaga Koichi asked 246 people who had been hospitalized for coronavirus infection what symptoms, if any, they had six months after diagnosis. About 80 percent of the respondents said they felt their health had […]

Japan University Offers Ninja Studies Degree

Mie University produced its first every ninja studies graduate this summer; 45-year-old Genichi Mitsuhashi. While you do not have to physically train as a ninja, Mitsuhashi embraced his studies wholeheartedly and starting living a ninja way of life. Speaking to Japan Times, he explained, ‘I read that ninjas worked as farmers in the morning and […]

Japanese Artists Reimagined Countries And Their Flags As Anime Characters For 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO| While Tokyo is busy with the preparations for the 2020 Olympics, people are already psyched for it. Some Japanese artists have created an unofficial promotion campaign for the big event, drawing inspiration from a subject they are incredibly passionate about Anime. They’ve been reimagining the participating countries as badass characters who are ready to […]

Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito claim Japan’s first ever Olympic gold in table tennis

JAPAN| History has been made at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after Japan’s Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito became the first pair to win table tennis Mixed Doubles gold at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Monday 26th July. In an extraordinary final which went the distance, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen made an explosive start […]

Meet Japanese Schoolgirl Gangs of 70’s That Become a Menace to Patriarchy

Nearly 50 years ago, Japan’s schoolgirl ga‌‌n‌‌gs known as the “sukeban” successfully defied the immaculate image of the Japanese sch‌oo‌l girl. The subculture of sukeban (loosely translated as the slang “girlboss”) emerged in the late 1960s and persisted throughout the 70s in Japan. While the term itself mainly refers to the female g‌a‌n‌g leader of […]

Team USA Fails to Medal at Opening of Summer Olympics for First Time in Decades

TOKYO| Team USA athletes suffered multiple upset losses in the first official day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, the first time in decades the U.S. has walked away with no medals on Day 1 of the Summer Games. A total of 11 gold medals were given out Saturday for events in archery, […]

Tokyo Olympic ceremony director fired over Holocaust jokes

TOKYO| The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on Thursday fired a director of the creative team behind the games’ opening and closing ceremonies for joking in the past about the Holocaust, the decision coming just a day before the start of the global sporting event. The dismissal of former comedian Kentaro Kobayashi is the latest in […]

Mother leaves a cardboard cut-out of herself in her toddler’s room to stop him from crying

A mother leaves a cardboard cut-out of herself in her one-year-old son’s room to stop him from crying in an ingenious hack for parents. Fuki Sato from Japan puts the print up around the house so her toddler feels like she is there. The boy caught on within 20 minutes the first time, but his […]

The Unlikely Success Story of a Man Who Gets Paid to Do Nothing

A 37-year-old Japanese man has built a successful career by renting himself out to do nothing. For some reason, he is inundated with requests from people who just want him by their side. In just two years, Shoji Morimoto has gone from being just another unemployed middle-aged man in Tokyo, to a minor Japanese celebrity, […]