Japan's new care workers: bodybuilders, wrestlers and MMA fighters (gifted link)
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Yakult ladies are an icon in Japan
22 votes -
Culture is the mass-synchronization of framings
38 votes -
We bought an old house in the Japanese countryside
27 votes -
Beloved cat stationmaster in Japan dies
17 votes -
Determinate self-sabotage, or obsessive connoisseurship?
15 votes -
Japanese workers in their twenties turn to resignation agencies
48 votes -
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter
19 votes -
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
28 votes -
In Japan, nearly 4,000 who died alone at home not found for over a month
25 votes -
Kabosu, the beloved Shiba-Inu behind the Doge meme, passes away at 18
36 votes -
The dark reality of Japanese host clubs
10 votes -
Fascinating publication by and for hikikomori (Japanese language)
17 votes -
Population decline in Japan has led to more than 8000 public school closures since 2002
59 votes -
Why are gender pay gaps so large in Japan and South Korea?
21 votes -
Japan's ridiculous weatherwoman fiasco
57 votes -
We moved into a vacant house in the Japanese countryside (and only pay $300/year for rent)
19 votes -
Looking for decent tatami mats in the usa. I'm (mostly) clueless on this matter.
and a good japanese futon mattress as well. i'm moving from a house into an apartment and am scaling my life down significantly. this seems a pretty good option... but unfortunately i don't know a...
and a good japanese futon mattress as well.
i'm moving from a house into an apartment and am scaling my life down significantly. this seems a pretty good option... but unfortunately i don't know a whole lot about either of these (yet) so i'm looking for some guidance.
thanks!
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Japan’s ‘evaporated’ people: Inside an industry that helps people disappear
6 votes -
Why Japan is giving away eight million free houses
7 votes -
Yale academic suggests mass suicide for Japan’s elderly
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Kane Tanaka: Japanese woman certified world's oldest person dies, aged 119
6 votes -
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe only allows writers on a deadline, and won’t let them leave until finished
8 votes -
Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in
6 votes -
Japanese Self-Defense Forces enlist anime boys to try to attract new human recruits
9 votes -
Twilight of the Yakuza
3 votes -
Who buys porn magazines anymore? We asked the editor of one.
11 votes -
Japanophilia
6 votes -
Rwandan single mothers turn to online babysitting of Japanese kids
12 votes -
Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
24 votes -
This Buddhist monk is a celebrity makeup artist
5 votes -
Japan's births decline to lowest number on record
11 votes -
Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
16 votes -
How Japan copied American culture and made it better
7 votes -
For Japanese, family names are the worst growing pains
21 votes -
After the tsunami
4 votes -
Widow, 81, sole resident of remote island disputed by South Korea and Japan
3 votes -
Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
9 votes -
A generation in Japan faces a lonely death
19 votes -
Binary skin - Exploring Japan’s virtual YouTuber phenomenon
17 votes -
Japan’s rent-a-family industry
16 votes -
How to destroy people: Japan's untouchables
11 votes -
Dying alone in Japan: The industry devoted to what's left behind
6 votes -
Japan’s vegetable-eating men - A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads
7 votes