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“Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy more...

“A robo-girl in a leather miniskirt challenges Japan's most invincible middle manager to a subway-train seat-getting duel — which escalates into a space battle — in this demented moment from Japan's DVD magazine Grasshoppa!. The DVD mag, which only lasted more...

Women tend to wear their hair long when Japan's economy is doing well and short when there is a slump, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing a survey conducted by Japanese cosmetics company Kao Corp.

Rachmaninov was known to compose piano music that was very difficult to play, at least for the fact that he had bigger hands than most people, and wrote pieces for himself. Japanese people, on the other hand, have small hands. more...

Has reuters lost their mind?

"Tagata Jinja is a Shinto shrine in Komaki just north of Nagoya, and as such is just one of many that can be found throughout Japan. It symbolizes the strong spatial and temporal linkage of the people to the community more...

“I’m the Mekuri Master, the Skirt-Flip King. The name isn’t their idea… It’s mine. I’m a man who was born to lift skirts. You think any so-called “rules” are gonna stop me? When classes get out, I race through the more...