A Japanese reader named Mika has written to ask how the foreign readership of this site views Japanese girls with yaeba:
I research what foreigners feel about Japanese culture.
Especially I am interested in Yaeba.

Yaeba means double teeth/crooked teeth.
As I understand, Only Japanese feel it cute.
I am Japanese girl and have Yaeba.
Japanese say to me your teeth [...]

Sachiyo, a Japanese woman who blogs in English about her life in Jamaica, has written a very interesting post about how some people think Japanese women are popular in that country. Here’s a short excerpt in which she mentions men who approach her on the street:
A man who comes up and says “You come [...]

Back in September, people from all walks of Japanese internetness gathered under the banner of networking. Somehow I got invited then, and yet again. This time Danny Choo hosted and organized the event, with Andrew Shuttleworth co-hosting, and the number of attendees was even greater than before.
Here’s my humble recap, in video [...]

Erika Toda goes nude in a commercial for Cup Noodle Light (Cup Noodle in a smaller cup with air-dried noodles = healthy):

And Kyoko Uchida’s commercial for the same product:

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Make-up artists extraordinaire Ikko gives Akiko Wada an extreme make-over:

She ends up looking like an entirely different person, but it’s not quite a radical as the time she became a black man.
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Fuji TV news reports on how sword fighting classes are becoming popular among young women in Japan:

Their reporter joins one of the 2-hour classes to investigate. The class starts with some demonstration fights. After practicing basic movements, swords are passed out to the students so they can try out some techniques. [...]

This guy was following us around almost from the moment we stepped out of Ueno station telling me I shouldn’t be with a Japanese woman (I was standing beside a friend’s wife, and the friend was standing on the other side of her. Why he assumed she and I were together I do not know). [...]

A video report from a Wall Street Journal article about a “princess boom” in Japan:

Saw a commercial on TV yesterday for the website やりすぎ.jp/, a site with movies of girls in bikinis trying to lift stuff with their tongues:

The site appears to be a promotion for a television show that airs Monday nights at 9:00PM on TV Tokyo.
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Leo Lewis of the Times has examined the impact of the financial crisis on Japanese women who hang out at a bar in Roppongi Hills hoping to meet rich foreign bankers:
In its prime, the 54 storeys of the Roppongi Hills office tower were a focal point for much that was positive about Japan: it was [...]

How big does freak eater Gal Sone’s stomach get after eating a gigantic meal? Here’s a clip from a quiz show that asked contestants to estimate how many centimeters her waist would expand after completing one of her typical eating challenges:

The verdict – an increase from 63 centimeters to 83 centimeters!
[via EatFeats]
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Two members of the Japanese comedy trio Morisanchu visited Turkey recently and tried to become belly dancers. They attempted to use dumbness as a substitute for skill:

*Warning: Headline may not match contents of video.