🚨What's the Nankai Trough earthquake? Japan is warning that the risk of the long-feared Nankai Trough earthquake is "higher than normal" following today's quake off Kyushu. The country estimates such a quake could kill as many as 320,000 people.

This is the son of friends’ friends. He went missing in Japan August 28!!! Anyone with info please contact the police or German embassy. Thx!

Japan is losing its passion for travel. Even as the influx of international tourists into the country continues to set new records, Japanese citizens are showing a growing preference for staying home. eu1.hubs.ly/H0cG1S40

I could have needed that sign two weeks ago in Italy 😒 😬

October is Women's Month! What about the other 11 months? I had a playlist that was already almost all women so I moved the men and here we are! Apple Music: apple.co/3XMugBs Spotify: bit.ly/4gFl0Ym

I signed this online petition to halt the brutal culling of hundreds of healthy trees in Jingu Gaien. And I'm sharing it because I don't think this only a local problem. Global warming is an urgent issue. Every tree and plant is precious. #神宮外苑の樹木伐採に反対します

heartbreaking 🌳 🌲

A cover by Barry Blitt, from 2016. #NewYorkerCovers

📚ドイツ日本研究所 (DIJ Tokyo) では司書 1名を募集いたします (常勤職員)#司書 応募締切日：2024年12月1日（日本時間） 勤務開始は2025年3月1日からの予定です。 公募情報 jla.or.jp/job//tabid/650… 日本図書館協会/JLA オンライン申請システム karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/8f0…

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

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FWIW: we will never get rid of fact-checkers.

Timely reminder

This won't be the first time Google has altered its maps to please nationalists: If you access Google Maps from Korea you won't see the "Sea of Japan." Anti-Japanese nationalists in Korea convinced Google to change its name to "East Sea"(even if you are browsing in English).

oh no 🫠🫣

Für alle, die behaupten, daß das Klima sich in den letzten Jahrhunderten viel stärker geändert hätte als heutzutage: Seit 1200 wird in Japan das Datum der ersten Kirschblüte akribisch festgehalten: Man sieht ein Jahrtausend Konstanz & die starke Verfrühung in den letzten Jahren.

Für alle, die behaupten, daß das Klima sich in den letzten Jahrhunderten viel stärker geändert hätte als heutzutage: Seit 1200 Jahren wird in Japan das Datum der ersten Kirschblüte akribisch festgehalten: Man sieht ein Jahrtausend Konstanz & die starke Verfrühung in den letzten

Japanese netizens are shocked by a post from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected].

What a clap back from Germany.

This video is the best explanation of how the MAGA cult came into being that I’ve ever seen. Watch every second of it.