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High-heel bandit nabbed in Tokyo, 450 pairs of women’s shoes seized
The hostesses of Tokyo’s red-light districts can rest easier tonight, knowing that their Jimmy Choos and Louboutins are safe. Police arrested 28-year-old Sho Sato for a rash of shoe thefts from clubs...
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Mie Prefecture dentist arrested after massaging woman’s chest in order to fix...
It’s an excuse so implausible that it sounds like something straight out of the plot of an adult video, but a dentist in Japan’s Mie Prefecture was arrested earlier this week after fondling a young...
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Quiz of the Week: Round 6 (Now made with the tears of sad children*)
*made from concentrate Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to round 6 of our weekly multiple choice quiz! We hope you’ve all had a great week and enjoyed the news we’ve had to offer, and of course...
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“Sexist” pro-nuclear politician elected as Tokyo’s newest governor
Yoichi Masuzoe, the politician who once publicly stated that women “are not normal” during their period and “couldn’t possibly” be relied upon to run the country because of it, has been elected as...
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Underground pipe explodes, creates a 10-metre man-made geiser in Kanagawa...
Japan’s Kanto region just can’t catch a break recently – first heavy snow brings the capital city to its knees (and this writer given the X of denial as he was told “Sorry, sir, the flight has already...
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Man arrested after forcing his 9-year-old stepson to play violent video games
Police in Kyoto have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of coercion after it was claimed that he had repeatedly forced his nine-year-old stepson to play violent and age-inappropriate video games...
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Quiz of the Week: Round 7 (Because what else are you gonna do? Go outside...
Hello there, beautiful. Welcome to round seven of our weekly multiple-choice quiz! It’s been a busy and extra weird kind of week for news stories from Asia (yes, even by our standards), so we hope...
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Quiz of the Week: Round 8 (More fun than a swift kick in the nuts)
Happy Friday, everyone! We trust you’ve all had a fun week and, if you happen to be one of the poor souls stuck in the snow in Kanto and Northeastern Japan this past seven days, that you’re gradually...
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Two-year-old girl in China uses kitchen knife to “play house”, accidentally...
A two-year-old girl in China’s Anhui Province is recovering in hospital after accidentally cutting off four of her own fingers while playing unattended at home. Unbeknown to her mother, the little...
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Quiz of the Week: Round 9 (It’s like a comb-over for your soul)
You’re back! Lovely to see you. Now shut up and face the corner. Yes, that’s right boys and girls, it’s time for another multiple choice quiz where we throw random bizarre questions at you and see how...
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Close call – Passenger plane passed through North Korean missile trajectory...
At approximately 4:17 p.m. on Tuesday this week, North Korea fired seven short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast into the Sea of Japan. While this in itself is not especially unusual for the...
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71-year-old driver of 2-ton truck arrested in Kobe, “never had a licence” in...
Police in Kobe arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of driving without a valid licence on Monday this week after a local police officer recognised the vehicle’s number plate following a prior...
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Mystery, rumour and speculation after Malaysia Airlines plane disappears...
People all over Asia wait with bated breath today for news about the Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared without trace on Saturday last week. Earlier today, debris described as possibly from a...
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Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki retires as producer
Suzuki takes less hands-on role at studio he co-founded with Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata. 65-year-old producer Toshio Suzuki is voluntarily stepping down from his position at Studio Ghibli, although...
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Another “Beautiful woman doing things” goes viral in China
It might say something about the gender disparity still prevalent in Asia that whenever a woman of above-average physical attractiveness does something other than breath air, online message boards in...
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Newsflash: Chinese satellite photos show “possible debris” from missing...
Chinese authorities have released satellite images which show what they believe could be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without trace last Saturday. It has now...
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Tokushima City wages war on toilet paper bandits as 900 rolls go missing from...
Police may or may not be on the lookout for a woman with chronic diarrhoea this week after it became clear than an incredible 900 rolls of toilet paper have been swiped from city hall restrooms in...
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Sad news: 1,266 famous Tokyo plum trees get the axe to prevent spread of...
It’s cherry blossom time in Tokyo, which means that the plum blossom season is just coming to a close, and one of Tokyo’s most popular spots to see plum blossom, Umeno Park in Ome, has finished the...
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But it’s good for the skin! Russian cheese factory busted after employees...
To add to our gross-out file, a Russian court ruled today that the Omsk Cheeses factory be closed for 40 days after a photo of employees enjoying a milk bath in one of its vats went viral on social...
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NHK has been reporting the wrong weather in Kōchi Prefecture for… four years?!
It was announced on April 13 that the Kōchi NHK station’s weekday evening news has been showing the wrong icons for weather conditions in the corner of the screen for four years. Where the following...
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