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“I really want to have x with a Japanese women” Olympic athletes on dating apps

AUTO TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE| Near the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Village in Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. When I start up the dating app Tinder, I see athletes of both sexes posing with their toned bodies, looking confident and physically beautiful. In the background of their profiles are the emblems of the Olympics, their country’s flag, and […]

It’s Getting More Likely The Japanese Would Fight For Taiwan

JAPAN| Japanese authorities, increasingly worried about China’s determination to invade and forcibly “reunify” Taiwan, reportedly asked American officials to share U.S. plans for defending Taiwan. That’s the bombshell news from Financial Times reporters Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille. The Americans “demurred,” Sevastopulo and Hille wrote, “because it wanted to focus on boosting co-ordination with Tokyo […]

53-year-old Japanese woman arrested for squirting water gun at Olympic torch

JAPAN| A 53-year-old woman in Japan has been arrested after she sprayed a water gun at the Olympic torch as a runner carried it past her, Japanese media The Mainichi reported. Police have said that the woman has since admitted to her actions and said that her motive was to protest the Olympics. Shouted anti-Olympic slogans as […]

Man arrested after 32-hour hostage standoff at Saitama internet cafe

A 40-year-old male customer at an internet cafe near Tokyo was arrested Friday night after holding a female worker hostage for more than 32 hours in a small room, police said. The worker in her 20s was released with no visible injuries. Police officers broke the door’s lock with special tools and stormed into the […]

How I escaped Japan in a box : Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn

JAPAN| At 10.30pm on a cold December night in 2019, a former titan of the global car industry lay bundled inside a box on board a plane, waiting to flee Japan. “The plane was scheduled to take off at 11pm,” recalls Carlos Ghosn.”The 30 minutes waiting in the box on the plane, waiting for it […]

Japan Gets Its Chance At Star Wars With Anime Anthology

This weekend, Disney announced Star Wars: Visions, an anime anthology of original shorts. Seven anime studios are putting their unique spin on the world of Star Wars, a first for the franchise. Yet, it feels like Star Wars has finally come full circle. “Japanese animation inspired a lot of the people at Lucasfilm over the […]

DNA study traces origins of Japanese to Paleolithic man

Modern Japanese appear to be genetically descended from the Paleolithic Minatogawa people, according to DNA analysis of human remains in Okinawa Prefecture dating from 20,000 years ago. According to current mainstream theory, Japanese have mixed origins in the Jomon people known for their distinctive pottery culture (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with […]

S Korea hates Japan more than N Korea, Gallup Poll reveals

TOKYO| Nothing brings a nation together like a common enemy and the Olympics give us an excuse to degrade every other country on the planet world without it seeming xenophobic. It was in the midst of this festive atmosphere that Gallup Korea published their annual poll showing the country’s opinion of the rest of the […]

Maggie Mac Neil swims to Canada’s 1st gold medal of Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO| Maggie Mac Neil won Canada’s first gold medal of these Olympics, capturing the women’s 100-metre butterfly in a Canadian record of 55.59 seconds on Monday morning in Tokyo. China’s Zhang Yufei (55.64) took the silver and Australia’s Emma McKeon (55.72) claimed bronze.Mac Neil, from London, Ont., is competing in her first Olympics and already […]

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 […]