Man Fails at Claw Machine Game 200 Times in a Row, Calls Police
Claw machines are infamous for being deceptively easy, but actually excruciatingly difficult to master, and one Japanese man found out just how difficult after failing to win a single price after 200 consecutive tries. Twitter user Ogarun, who happens to be a big fan of claw machine games, or “UFO Cathers” as they are called […]
Company Gifts Employees 4,116 New Cars as Bonus for Surpassing Profit Targets
A Chinese steel production company recently made international news headlines for offering 4,116 of its employees brand new cars as bonus for surpassing profit targets for the fifth consecutive year. On October 1st, Jiangxi West Dajiu Iron & Steel Corporation organized an epic event to celebrate its success and reward employees for contributing to its […]
Botched Wrinkle Fillers Leave Woman With Half-Face Paralysis
A 29-year-old woman in China has suffered paralysis in the left side of her face after having wrinkle fillers injected at a cosmetic clinic. Doctors fear that the symptoms may be permanent. On September 12, Ms. Zhao, from Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. went to the local cosmetic hospital for a procedure she had undergone several […]
25-Year-Old’s Japanese Girl’s Plastic Surgery Transformation Stuns Internet
Mikishi, a 25-year-old girl from Japan, has been getting a lot of attention on Asian social media lately, because of her drastic plastic surgery transformation. Ever since taking to Twitter to confess that her appearance is the result of several bouts of plastic surgery, back in March of this year, 25-year-old Mikishi has become somewhat […]
Woman Shocked to Discover Two Long Needles Embedded in Her Brain
A Chinese woman who underwent a CT scan following a minor car accident learned that she had two metallic needles embedded deep in her brain. The 29-year-old woman from Zhengzhou had been involved in a car accident and was advised to get a CT scan to make sure that there was no damage to her […]
9-Year-Old Boy Drops Out of School, Spends Next 17 Years Chasing His Father’s Killer
Chinese media recently reported the fascinating story of a young boy who, after witnessing his father’s murder at the hands of a neighbor, when he was 9-years-old, spent the next 17 years trying to catch the culprit. Looking back on that fateful day of August 9th, 2000, Xiang Mingqian wishes he had never thrown that […]
Underage Couple Forced to Marry After Dating After Sunset
A fifteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl in Indonesia were reportedly forced to marry after breaking a local custom that forbids dating after sunset. Child marriage has been a controversial issue in Indonesia for a long time, and last week it was once again brought into the limelight by the story of a young teenage […]
Indian Man Spends 30 Years Single-Handedly Digging Water Canal to His Village
Laungi Bhuiyan, a pensioner from the Indian state of Bihar, has become known as “Canal Man” after it was revealed that he spent 30 years of his life digging a 3-kilometer-long water canal, all by himself, using hand tools. The remote village of Kothilawa, in the Lahthua area of Gaya district, had always suffered water […]
‘Vertical Forest’ in Chinese Residential Complex Becomes Mosquito-Infested Jungle
The Qiyi City Forest Garden residential complex in Chengdu, China, was supposed to be a green paradise for its residents, but two years on, the vertical forest concept has turned into a nightmare. Back in 2018, the idea of living among dozens of exotic plants proved very exciting for the people of Chengdu, one of […]
Hongeo – South Korea’s Stinkiest Food Smells Like a Public Restroom
Hongeo is a bizarre South Korean dish with a pungent aroma that most people describe as a mix of dirty public toilet and wet laundry left untended for days. Made from skate, a bottom-dwelling ray fish, Hongeo is considered by far South Korea’s smelliest food. It’s so stinky that many South Koreans wouldn’t come near […]
Court Decides 22-Year-Old Woman Must Bring Up 2-Year-Old Brother, Because Their Parents Can’t Afford to
Chinese social media has been abuzz about the controversial story of a couple who took their own daughter to court in order to make her raise her toddler brother, because they couldn’t afford to. According to several news reports in China, a couple who for several years had survived on their child’s monthly allowance alone […]
15-Year-Old Girl Claims People Always Mistake Her Youthful-Looking Father for Her Boyfriend
A 15-year-old Chinese girl and her youthful-looking father have been getting a lot of attention on Asian social media recently because they look more like a romantic couple than father and daughter. Qi Bao and her 35-year-old father have always been very close, but their relationship has become a bit more complicated recently, because as […]
Japanese Restaurant Finds Success With “Delivery Macho” Service
After struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic, a sushi restaurant in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, has found success with an ingenious “macho delivery” service that involves using buff bodybuilders as delivery boys. Masanori Sugiura, a third-generation owner of the 60-year-old sushi restaurant Imazushi in the city of Anjo, started working out at the gym […]
Japanese Province Is Struggling to Stop People From Sleeping on Roads
Police in the Japanese province of Okinawa have been struggling with a phenomenon called rojo-ne, which translates literally as “sleeping on the road”. Imagine driving home late at night and seeing someone laying in the middle of the road. Or worse yet, not seeing that someone in time to actually slam the brakes. Such nightmare […]
Wakaresaseya – Japan’s Professional Relationship Busters
In a country that eschews confrontation and frowns upon public display of passion, bold entrepreneurs eager to take up the burden of ending a romantic relationship on a client’s behalf can make a fortune. The Wakaresaseya, literally “breaker-uppers”, are professional agents that specialize in destroying relationships, be they marriages or affairs, for a fee. After […]