Japanese Truck Driver Admits to Stealing Over 5,800 Bicycle Seats Over 25 Years
I don’t know what it is about Japanese men and bicycle seats, but for some reason some men can never have enough of these seats. Just a few months after writing about a man who stole 159 bike seats in a year, we now have the story of another Japanese man who claims to have […]
Japanese Youtuber Finds Online Fame by Cooking Stuff on His Computer’s CPU
Japan has always been a rich source of wacky news and ideas, and it doesn’t look like things are going to change anytime soon. Its latest offering – a YouTube channel focused mainly on cooking various foods on a hot computer CPU. You probably already know that CPUs tend to get very hot, especially under […]
Japanese Housewife Creates Insanely Realistic Cat-Shaped Handbags
Japanese housewife and amateur designer Pico grew up collecting faux-fur animals and now spends whatever free time she has creating her own. And, as you can see, she’s really good at it! A self-described cat enthusiast, Pico first attracted media attention five years ago, when photos of one of her incredibly realistic creations went viral […]
This Japanese Smartphone Won’t Let You Take Inappropriate Photos
Japanese company Tone Mobile has been getting a lot of attention ever since it launched its Tone e20 model, the world’s first smartphone that prevents users from taking “inappropriate” (nude) photos. The Tone e20 is not a particularly attractive phone, and its spec sheet isn’t exactly impressive either, but it does one thing that no […]
Japan’s Ingenious Solution to Help Turtles Cross Train Tracks
Turtles may be cute, but they are also slow and clumsy, which doesn’t really help them when they are trying to cross train tracks. Luckily, for the turtles in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture, railway operators and a local aquarium teamed up to find a solution. Between 2002 and 2014, disruptions of train operation caused by turtles […]
Japan’s “Poop Soil Master” Shunned Indoor Pooping 45 Years Ago
A 70-year-old Japanese man who describes himself as a professional “fundoshi”, or “poop soil master” has been moving bowels outdoors for almost half a centuries, and encouraging others to follow his example. Masana Izawa, a published mushroom and moss photographer, is famous for avoiding indoor toilets as much as he can. In fact, he prides […]
Japanese Art Student Creates Wearable Clothes Exclusively Out of Rubber Bands
Looking at the stylish garments made by graduating art student Rie Sakamoto, you’d be tempted to think they are made of brown yarn, but in fact, every piece in her collection is made of knitted rubber bands. Rie Sakamoto is graduating from Tama Art University, in Tokyo this year and for her thesis she decided […]
Japanese Model Divorces Husband One Week into Marriage, After Being Told to Spend Less
Japanese model Kato Sari recently finalized her divorce from her husband, after getting separated from him just a week into their marriage, due to her uncontrolled money spending habits. 29-year-old Kato Sari has always been known for her luxurious lifestyle and love of expensive fashion brands, but her husband never imagined that her spending habits […]
Japanese Postman “Couldn’t Be Bothered” to Deliver 24,000 Pieces of Mail
A 61-year-old postal worker from the Japanese city of Yokohama was recently arrested for hoarding around 24,000 pieces of mail that he had failed to deliver since back in 2003. Officials at Japan Post, the government-owned mail service, noticed there was something peculiar about the unnamed postal worker’s activity last year, and he was let […]
The Japanese Rogue Convenience Store That Dared Closed Down for a Day on New Year’s
A convenience store owner in Osaka, japan, sparked a lot of controversy recently when he decided to close his business for a day on New Year’s. Appaerntly that was a pretty big deal in a country where convenience stores a traditionally open 24/7, all year long. While convenience stores are still pretty popular in the […]
Japanese Billionaire to Donate $9 Million to Random Twitter Followers to See If Money Makes Them Happier
A Japanese billionaire has announced plans to donate a billion yen (about $9 million) to 1,000 of his Twitter followers in an intriguing social experiment designed to show how money affects people’s lives. On January 1st, Yusaku Maezawa, founder of Japan’s largest fashion retail website, tweeted that he would be giving away 1 billion Japanese […]
This Petite Japanese Schoolgirl Is Actually a 42-Year-Old Man
It sounds almost impossible to believe, but the Japanese schoolgirl in the pictures below is actually a middle-aged, married man. According to Wikipedia, Takuma Tani is a Japanese male vocalist born in 1977. That description doesn’t fit too well with his current image, because virtually every photo of the guy has him looking like a […]
The Unbelievably Realistic Feline Drawings of Yuki Kudo
When it comes to hyper-realistic drawing, cats and other felines must be among the most difficult things to pull odd due to their fur. Getting every strand just right requires a steady hand and mountains of patience, and that’s what makes Yuki Kudo’s artworks so damn special. Over the past decade, we’ve posted some pretty […]
Mom Uses Several Life-Size Cardboard Cutouts of Herself to Trick Toddler Son Into Thinking She Is Always Around
A young Japanese couple have come up with an ingenious way of making their one-year-old son stop crying whenever he notices that his mother isn’t around – life-size cardboard cutouts of the woman placed strategically in the room he is playing in. Fuki Sato recently became an overnight sensation after photos of her life-size cutouts […]
Japanese Company Pays People to Be Filmed in Their Own Homes for a Month
Our online data is already monetized by several technology giants, but one Japanese IT company thinks real-life data could be monetized as well, and it’s willing to pay people to have their everyday life video-recorded and sold to various businesses. Last month, Tokyo-based Plasma.inc made national news headlines for inviting people to take part in […]