Japan Trends

Cool news, stories, products, tech, gadgets, subcultures, and more from Japan. (Website currently on hiatus.)

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Fabricating life in the Japanese village of Ichinono – in pictures https://t.co/2VRIzgHzXW

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@callistoroll He has to be trolling us, right?

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@Peckitt True, I stayed overnight, had a bunch of tests, and then an operation, which came to well over ¥100,000. But I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap a checkup with a specialist and two X-rays each time was. Thank goodness for national health insurance.

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@Peckitt Breaking my self-imposed Twitter/X hiatus to ask a genuine question. Sorry to hear you are in pain but why does the X-ray cost so much? I've had several X-rays in the past few weeks. Two X-rays and appointment with a specialist cost me about ¥1,000 with national health insurance.

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@GearoidReidy You didn’t say “defend.” You said you want Japan to “tool up for war,”which is totally different. Japan has one of the largest militaries in the world and has a security treaty with the US. It can defend itself.

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Great rundown on the controversy surrounding whether Koike graduated from Cairo University, by @philipbrasor . He predicts that the mainstream media isn’t going to pursue the matter. Will this time be different? https://t.co/rWKlh1vEEC

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@GearoidReidy We would like to read your critique of this hot take but why the need for such a snarky and condescending post?

[kydeanderic (@ bluesky) @KydeandEric]

here are some photos i took last night in koenji, tokyo during a livestream.

shot on a sony a7siii & minolta 50mm f1.4 md rokkor lens.

[Gaijin Mommy @GaijinMommy]

Did it take you a moment, as it did for me, to appreciate the brilliance of this post and become 💀?

a) a Japanese pear

b) an ant

[Mulboyne @Mulboyne]

Toyo Keizai has a piece looking at how My Basket has upended retail industry received opinion that supermarket formats are unprofitable. https://t.co/GDI5gPbzm9

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Cherry blossom is livening up the National Diet Library.

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Kyoto Shimbun says Japan needs a comprehensive approach to immigration, rather than piecemeal policies. The editorial asks for a basic law to promote co-existence which treats immigrants as human beings, and not simply as resouces. https://t.co/KteMw1Banh

[powderbum @powderbum75]

名前は。。。

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Oppeheimer is now out in Japanese theaters. This Nagasaki TV report about a special screening earlier this month had a positive reaction from a-bomb survivor Tomonaga Masao, who thought the film had an anti-nuclear message: https://t.co/pLCMDCo7Vx

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Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" is getting new attention with the the release of a Netflix adaptation. Ken Liu's English translation came out in 2014. The 2019 Japanese transation names three translators, and one supervisor on the cover.

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Matsuda Seiko successfully took a correspondence course at the Law Faculty of Chuo University. The 62 year old singer attended a graduation ceremony, and has been awarded a degree. https://t.co/ZR1PaVi65e

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Attention everyone who doesn’t want to get murdered by a mamachari on the sidewalk: I made you this graph!

[Patrick Macias @Patrick_Macias]

Wow. End of an era. The iconic ALTA department store in #Tokyo #Shinjuku, established in 1980 and immortalized in many #anime, movies, and TV shows has announced it is closing down for good on Feb 28, 2025. https://t.co/4sVQQfqoGq

[Andy Sharp @sharp_writing]

In 2023, not a single Western entry made it to Apple Music's annual list of the top 100 streamed songs in Japan. Even with online streaming and CD sales combined, Western music that ranked in Billboard Japan's weekly Hot 100 chart accounted for a mere 0.3% in 2023, compared with 29.8% in 2008