And I do mean famous, not infamous.The Lazy House...  ...amous.The Lazy House in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan is widely known for its very rude staff. As a dir...  ...ervice experience is that a refreshing break from Japan 's famously excellent customer service.The waitsta...

Found a very cool bookstore in Tokyo! Each square on the bookshelves is rented to a different person. The renters are free to curate and sell whatever books they want in their shelf space. My favorite was the shelf fille...

Tettyo Saito, 30, has spent many years as a hikikomori--a socially reclusive person. He failed college entrance exams and so stayed at home with his parents, rarely leaving. He watched a lot of movies during that time, i...

The Nakizumo Crying Baby Festival is an annual rit...  ...annual ritual conducted in Shinto shrines across Japan . Sumo wrestlers carry babies into a dohyo (a sumo...  ...baby that cries the loudest is the winner.Why do Japanese families do this? Traditionally, an innocent baby...

STAR TREK STATE DINNER: Japan PM Fumio Kishida: "Let me conclude with the line...  ...il 11, 2024 Fumio Kishida, the Prime Minister of Japan , attended a dinner at the White House yesterday....  ...noted the connection between his city and that of Japanese -American Star Trek...

Mainichi (Google Translate version in English) rep...  ...r Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohuku University in Sendai, Japan argues that the most common surname, Sato, will b...  ...due to declining population, although everyone in Japan

'Rumors are circulating the internet with the exci...  ...ting the internet with the exciting news that the Japanese division of McDonald's will soon offer perfume th...  ...s from the official Twitter account of McDonald's Japanese branch, so it's probably true.When do we gaijin g...

Fifteen demonstrators in Tokyo marched through the...  ...their protest of the celebration of Christmas in Japan . This was not a nationalist objection to a holida...  ...of Unpopular People.Sora News 24 explains that in Japan , which has only a very small Christian population...

Being a civilized, sensible, and well-informed peo...  ...ivilized, sensible, and well-informed people, the Japanese have an appreciation for Texas. Twitter user @cha...  ...s, discovered this on his ongoing journey through Japan .He reports that his hosts, upon learning that @ch...

If I had known this was a sport when I was younger, I'd be a world champion by now.Spoon & Tamago informs us that there was a "spacing out" competition in Tokyo. For an hour and a half, competitors lay still and did...