Diplomat Sugihara Chiune was conflicted. Surely Sugihara, in his empathy, had been considering helping those Jews he had personally encountered. And yet he knew that the Japanese government would never agree to issue hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of visas to fleeing Jews.

I find it very funny just how much Japanese people seem to really like Yasuke and consider him one of the most famous samurai, and by far the most famous foreign samurai. And then pasty white dudes with K-On PFPs go 'NOOOOO YOU'RE DISRESPECTING THE CULTURE!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!'

Tired of all the too-literal explanations of all my train delays recently, I decided to make this liberally translated chart. Because of course I did. Feel free to tell me what I missed 😉

It was perhaps Japan's most horrific murder. So why were all the offenders given such light sentences - and why do they walk free today? A look into the case of Furuta Junko and how it shocked Japan - and the world.

'Osaka on a rainy night looking all the world like Cyberpunk'

What happens if you're in a Japanese subway and your fare card stops working? Some folks found out the hard way recently. Here's how to avoid finding yourself in the same pickle.

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A science & engineering student at Waseda University tried to use smart glasses to take pics of an exam and feed them to X, where other users gave him the answers. Someone busted him & now he faces charges. (The kicker? He still failed the test.)

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File under “choosing the bear”: Saga prefecture police arrested a 63yo employee at a religious org for stalking a woman in her 20s w/ whom he’d had a sugar b*by relationship. The man put a GPS tracker on her bike & copied her apartment key so he could touch & sniff her clothes.