Comedian Ken Shimura plays table tennis with Pan-kun the chimpanzee (from Shimura Zoo): — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subs...
A dog and a monkey in Tottori who are the buddies: Dogs have long been used in Japan to protect crops from monkeys. There is a Japanese phrase that describes two people who are always fighting: ̶...
A Japanese TV program shows the top three results of a survey that asked people in 50 different countries if they believed in UFO’s: As you can see, Japan is ranked second, with 45.3%. Mexico a...
The Daily Mail has posted a collection of photos showing how things have changed since the March 11th tsunami: See More At: “Eleven months after the tsunami ravaged Japan, a series of pictures ...
A news video about the safe recovery of 13 small dogs that were stolen along with a van in Kobe: The van belonged to a dog grooming school and the dogs belonged to customers. The theft took place on ...
Here’s the latest episode of Korean ultra-nationalists’ ongoing struggle to force the world to use a Korea-centric name for the Sea of Japan: Seoul officials plan to ask the International...
Somebody has translated an Japanese TV documentary about Sea Shepherd’s activities in Taiji and uploaded the video to youtube: Part 1 Part 2 The documentary mentions how “The Cove” ...
A video shows a group of babies Tohoku receiving a gift of wooden chairs from a Hokkaido-based project: All of the babies were born on March 11th 2011, the day of the great earthquake and tsunami. Ea...
Former Tokyo-based freelance journalist Christopher Johnson has been sending Cease and Desist letters to JapanProbe. In these letters, he claimed that his journalism “been beyond reproach for 2...
On January 20th and 23rd, I wrote posts about Canadian journalist Christopher Johnson’s account of being denied entry to Japan: Christopher Johnson Under Fire For “Gaijin Gulag” Article “Gaijin...
Taiwan’s NMA news reports on how Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish has been “dating” adult film actress Kirara Asuka: center> Even though baseball season hasn’t started just ye...
Some Japanese netizens have a theory about this man, who has often been seen accompanying the South Korean pop group KARA: They think he’s the same person as this ruffian who clashed with polic...
The Tokyo Gate Bridge will open to traffic next week. To celebrate the opening of a new Tokyo landmark, a special running event was held there yesterday. Here’s a video of about 5,500 runners c...
Italian tennis player Sara Errani has confessed that she skipped the September 2011 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo because she was afraid of radiation: Sara Errani has admitted fears of a radiation ...
A Japanese news report about a group of 15 Chinese “trainee” workers who survived the March 11th tsunami, went back to China, and are now coming back to Tohoku to once again work in facto...
If you watch Nihon TV’s Zip! morning show, you probably recognize the dog in the picture above. It’s Zippei (ジッペイ), a cute and fluffy Samoyed dog that travels around Japan as the televisi...
Image: What the Media Told Us The Chairman of the UNSCEAR has announced that the health effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will be relatively small because radiation was leaked into ...
For the last several years, South Korean ultra-nationalists have been lobbying publishing companies and governments around the world, demanding that “East Sea” replace or be written along...
A photo of a school lunch served at public schools in Fukushima city (bread, one weiner, milk, and corn soup): It does not appear to be a result of the March 11th disaster. It’s supposedly due ...
Somebody hacked the YouTube account of LDP lawmaker Shoji Nishida and put up ads for Russian camgirls: The video has already been taken down, but caused much consternation when it was discovered earl...
A man brings coffee and a gramophone to Tohoku (video by Mackenzie Sheppard): A short vignette of Yoshi Masuda–a coffee enthusiast who is sharing his passion for coffee with victims of the Grea...
Just stumbled upon Castle Tintagel, a business near Mejiro station in Tokyo that offers lessons in medieval European swordfighting. Here’s a YouTube video about it: Ever wanted to be a medieval...
As human beings, we need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Luckily, the Japanese Diet is moving to protect this nation’s water supply from potential threats: The legisl...
Remember Kevin Maher, who lost his position in 2011 as director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Japan Affairs after American students told the Japanese media that he had called Okinawans ...
The cover-up has come to an end! Prime Minister Noda has removed his eye patch: He’d been wearing the patch for the last two weeks: Complete with patch – more surgical than piratical — the prem...
The trailer for “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” a short documentary about the aftermath of the March 11th disaster: Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan’s recent tsunam...
If you’ve been watching the news the last few days, chances are you’ve heard about that researchers are now saying that Tokyo is facing a 70% chance of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the n...
Are you wondering how a group at the Tokyo University Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) calculated a 70% chance of a Magnitude 7 quake occurring in the Tokyo area within the next four years? If so,...
Kentucky Fried Chicken has brought its famous Double Down sandwich to Japan. Who needs bread when you can have healthy pieces of fried chicken instead? It’s currently available only at the KFC ...
Part I: Visa status announced, then deleted A quick update on the ongoing tale of Christopher Johnson, a freelance journalist whose Narita Airport “Gaijin Gulag” story has been picked up ...
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