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Children shouting 'Shorinji!' at police boxes across Japan, a report says.
Bicycle 'blue tickets' hit 15,919 in their first six months, a report says.
The tattooist who said '99% of people with tattoos are idiots' is retiring.
Comedian Highheel Momoko fumed on the radio about a taxi driver.
A YouTuber couple say a fake-police scam took almost everything they had.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested on suspicion of catching a deer with an illegal snare in the hills of Kasugai, Aichi.
Women in Japan in their 30s and 40s are doing less sport and losing fitness, and housework and childcare may be why.
Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is making a new Space Battleship Yamato film.
A month after Japan cut the speed limit on residential streets to 30 km/h, a TV crew clocked 30 cars and found 4 within it.
Tokyo's Chiyoda ward will survey runners' bad manners around the Imperial Palace.
A city ordered the removal of a mosque built without permission.
A food delivery rider was arrested for molesting a child who was home alone.
A Japanese weekly ran a story about a Japanese YouTuber living in Taiwan who spat night-market food out on camera, said he hated Taiwan, and then put "To the low-class people of Taiwan" on the thumbnail of his explanation video.
A Japanese tabloid put "people make too much fuss about tattoos these days" in its headline.
A father whose son was killed by a lorry at an unsignalled crossing says he still regrets not buying the helmet.
A woman held over cocaine put her tongue out and winked at the camera on her way to the prosecutors.
A Tokyo city bus driver, running empty, repeatedly honked and flashed his lights at a car, shouted an insult, and has been referred to prosecutors for road rage.
Cars keep crossing yellow centre lines to pass cyclists under Japan's new rule, so Tokyo police will repaint half of the city's yellow lines white.
A woman drove the wrong way down a Tokyo expressway to escape the police, was arrested in Shibuya for carrying a knife, and was released the same night.
A 25-year-old tailgated a car, ran the other driver down, dragged him, and told police he only meant to scare him.
Kura Sushi cancelled its Chiikawa campaign over staff misconduct with the prizes.
An 18-year-old father was arrested for killing his two-month-old baby.
Five high schoolers were arrested for a honey-trap robbery in Shibuya.
A salon charges you for being 15 minutes late, then keeps you waiting 30.
"Should the Imperial Palace run be banned?" I counted 3,570 comments — 90 percent agreement, and the page is written by the people who were told to get out of the way
Chilled crab ramen at a Tokyo festival left 76 people sick.
FamilyMart said hijabs are fine under its new uniform rules, and the internet caught fire.
From September 1, the speed limit on roughly 70 percent of Japan's roads drops from 60 to 30 km/h.
One illegally parked car stopped a Shibuya bus for 23 minutes.
"He shines brightest now," said the headline.
Under a headline about 'smelly ojisan,' the most-read comment was an ojisan's laundry recipe.
Seven teenagers competed over how many minutes they could delay trains.
The driver was arrested for attempted murder.
A Turkish driver was arrested for drifting on a Japanese public road.
"99% of my tattoo clients are idiots." The room agreed 7.3 to 1 — and added the missing words: in Japan.
The comments knew his hotel room number.
Japan's feeds laugh at "ojisan fashion".
It was never about smoking.
He broke up the cat fight.
Daily life
Cigarettes, neighbours, trains, cats. The smaller the subject, the less guarded the replies. These are the frictions that never became news.
Children shouting 'Shorinji!' at police boxes across Japan, a report says.
Bicycle 'blue tickets' hit 15,919 in their first six months, a report says.
The tattooist who said '99% of people with tattoos are idiots' is retiring.
Comedian Highheel Momoko fumed on the radio about a taxi driver.
A YouTuber couple say a fake-police scam took almost everything they had.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested on suspicion of catching a deer with an illegal snare in the hills of Kasugai, Aichi.
Women in Japan in their 30s and 40s are doing less sport and losing fitness, and housework and childcare may be why.
Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is making a new Space Battleship Yamato film.
A month after Japan cut the speed limit on residential streets to 30 km/h, a TV crew clocked 30 cars and found 4 within it.
Tokyo's Chiyoda ward will survey runners' bad manners around the Imperial Palace.
A city ordered the removal of a mosque built without permission.
A food delivery rider was arrested for molesting a child who was home alone.
A Japanese weekly ran a story about a Japanese YouTuber living in Taiwan who spat night-market food out on camera, said he hated Taiwan, and then put "To the low-class people of Taiwan" on the thumbnail of his explanation video.
A Japanese tabloid put "people make too much fuss about tattoos these days" in its headline.
A father whose son was killed by a lorry at an unsignalled crossing says he still regrets not buying the helmet.
A woman held over cocaine put her tongue out and winked at the camera on her way to the prosecutors.
A Tokyo city bus driver, running empty, repeatedly honked and flashed his lights at a car, shouted an insult, and has been referred to prosecutors for road rage.
Cars keep crossing yellow centre lines to pass cyclists under Japan's new rule, so Tokyo police will repaint half of the city's yellow lines white.
A woman drove the wrong way down a Tokyo expressway to escape the police, was arrested in Shibuya for carrying a knife, and was released the same night.
A 25-year-old tailgated a car, ran the other driver down, dragged him, and told police he only meant to scare him.
Kura Sushi cancelled its Chiikawa campaign over staff misconduct with the prizes.
An 18-year-old father was arrested for killing his two-month-old baby.
Five high schoolers were arrested for a honey-trap robbery in Shibuya.
A salon charges you for being 15 minutes late, then keeps you waiting 30.
"Should the Imperial Palace run be banned?" I counted 3,570 comments — 90 percent agreement, and the page is written by the people who were told to get out of the way
Chilled crab ramen at a Tokyo festival left 76 people sick.
FamilyMart said hijabs are fine under its new uniform rules, and the internet caught fire.
From September 1, the speed limit on roughly 70 percent of Japan's roads drops from 60 to 30 km/h.
One illegally parked car stopped a Shibuya bus for 23 minutes.
"He shines brightest now," said the headline.
Under a headline about 'smelly ojisan,' the most-read comment was an ojisan's laundry recipe.
Seven teenagers competed over how many minutes they could delay trains.
The driver was arrested for attempted murder.
A Turkish driver was arrested for drifting on a Japanese public road.
"99% of my tattoo clients are idiots." The room agreed 7.3 to 1 — and added the missing words: in Japan.
The comments knew his hotel room number.
Japan's feeds laugh at "ojisan fashion".
It was never about smoking.
He broke up the cat fight.