This week’s “Nanikore Chin Hyakkei” had a segment about a samurai wedding at Matsue Castle:

The wedding was modeled after the kind of celebration that might occur if the groom had been a feudal lord. Their friends and family were dressed in samurai attire, taking on the role of the lord’s retainers.
The couple [...]

A Fuji TV news report about how protective masks that offer “99%” virus protection are selling well:

A study conducted by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan found that most masks are far less effective than their packages claim. Of the fifteen brands of 99% anti-viral masks tested, twelve had filters with below 95% [...]

Nothing nightmare inducing about this.

Aw, I didn’t ruin your post-beauty-queen-sex-scandal spirits, did I?
If this product has convinced you that you need an ultrasonic ion brush, you can buy it here, but I think the sound will melt your brains.
I could go on about the infamous dentata of the Japanese archipelago, but I am sure the [...]

Halls cough drops are so refreshing that they’ll cause your chest to give birth to bird-humans:

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NTV’s evening news weatherman reports from the Akiba:F blood donation facility in Akihabara, checking out some of the figures and high tech gadgets on display:

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Japanese and Indonesian researchers filmed this rare footage of a “prehistoric” fish:

The creature was found on October 6 at a depth of 161 metres (528 feet) in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, where the Indonesian coelacanth was first discovered, according to the researchers.
Video footage showed the 31.5 centimetre (12.6-inch) coelacanth, coloured blue with white spots, [...]

A 39-year-old employee of the Nara city government is caught in the act of using his mobile phone camera to take a photo up the skirt of a high school girl:

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An interesting video showing the various people who buy sausages from a shop on a train station platform in Osaka:

Thousands of commuters pass through Kyobashi Station in Osaka every day. For 600 of them the singular highlight is a sausage.
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A fan of the idol group AKB48 has stolen mail belonging to group members by taking advantage of the fact that Japanese post offices apparently do not ask for ID when you turn in change of address forms:

In the specific case of which Shibuya is accused, he registered his address as that of one member [...]

Leave it to a clown like Sean Hannity to take a single quote by an American and interpret it to mean that the Japanese are “mortified” by Obama’s bowing before Emperor Akihito.

In the real world (a place far away from the planet Hannity resides on), few in the Japanese media said anything about Obama’s bow [...]

Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, appeared on Monday’s episode of the Daily Show to talk about his encounters with the yakuza:

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Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Jake Adelstein

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A very popular video on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga features clips of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama spliced together to make it look like he is questioning himself over a funding scandal:

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