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Raw liver has long been a delicacy in Japan, but after food poisoning worries, the country's health ministry decided…

It started out as a typical Sunday. Shoppers crowded into Osaka's Shinsaibashi, one of the city's fashionable…

This April, Japanese illustrator Mao Sugiyama offered to cook a special meal: the illustrator's surgically removed…

There's a crime wave in Japan. The victims are famous and beloved, but helpless and unable to fend for themselves.…

This morning in Japan, kids and adults alike paused momentarily. They wore funny glasses and turned their eyes to…

Most teachers are regular folks. Before they entered education, maybe they worked in an office. Maybe they were…

Japan's Mainichi Daily News lists Hiroyuki Miura (not pictured) as "unemployed". That's not exactly fair. He's…

The stereotype is that Gundam is for males. That it's only men in their forties and thirties who build Gundam…

With over thirty members, you'd think it'd be no biggie if AKB48's 17-year-old Yumi Wakatsuki was M.I.A. Yet, this…

They don't just sneak around, they sleep around. And if they're already in a relationship, they're called cheaters.…