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Baseball players like Frozen too: “Let It Go” chosen for Spring Koshien...
That’s it, we’ve seen it all now! The lead song, “Let It Go!” from Disney’s Frozen has really taken over Japan now (in case you weren’t already 100 percent positive that it had)! We already knew that...
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A manly affair: celebrating Valentine’s Day at a Japanese all-boys school
In a country where girls traditionally give chocolate to boys on Valentine’s Day and the boys returning the favor exactly one month later on White Day, February 14 in Japan has got to be a pretty...
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Kind train station staff help lost entrance exam takers get to, and hopefully...
Many people who have spent time in Japan have stories of someone doing something really nice for them out of simple kindness. Such encounters range from getting a bag of onions from a shop owner to...
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Tiffany necklaces?! Are recent grads’ commemorative gifts from their high...
Take a moment to think back to your high school graduation. As recent or as long ago as it may have been, do you recall getting a present from your school; a nice momentum to celebrate your years...
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Japanese girl finds “school love,” but with a surprising “partner”
Oh, the teenage years; raging hormones, confused identities, and the endless search for that special someone. One Japanese high school girl seemed to not only find herself a boyfriend, but also...
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Boy entering all-girls high school creates real-life harem anime
Any guy who’s watched a harem anime before – one where a single male is surrounded by many women – has probably giggled to himself about what it would be like to be in a similar situation himself....
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A young Japanese couple can thank Twitter for helping them achieve their...
What does one have to do to get someone to go out with them? Sometimes all you need is a sweet one-liner to go from acquaintance to significant other, and other times it takes the full force of the...
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Taiwanese schoolgirl uniforms getting insanely cute, we suspect anime, AKB48...
Apparently, there’s some sort of AKB48 contest happening right now in Japan. We think it’s to select the next round of girls to replace those who’ve “graduated” this year (read: become of legal...
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TMI alert! Japanese high school students are causing a stir online by sharing...
A day doesn’t go by that the morality police aren’t up in arms about something the rest of the world finds innocuous. Whether it’s the “music these days” or “those kids and their crazy hair,” we...
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Japanese high school baseball players are all class, immediately clean...
Any good athlete obviously needs some measure of speed, strength, and stamina, but the list of necessities starts getting much longer if we’re talking about good student athletes. Youth sports are...
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Losing high school baseball team’s manners continue to impress, this time at...
We’ve seen impeccable displays of manners from Japanese high school baseball teams on many occasions before, from the respectful bowing of Yamagata Chuo High School to the classy stadium-cleaning deed...
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Cover your eyes! Japanese girls do the “Party Monster” dance, make us blush...
Picture this: you’re a Japanese high school girl. Apart from classes and schoolmate drama, there’s really not a lot exciting going on. You’re too young to drink, and you’re probably under pressure...
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Japanese high school teacher’s scathing, two-foot-long note to students is...
Being a teacher is one of the most rewarding yet difficult jobs one can do; on the one hand, you’re helping to shape the next generation, and you get to help kids learn and grow. On the other hand,...
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High school students’ teacup ride blows up online, looks more fun than the...
For many of our readers, the “culture festivals” held at high schools and colleges will already be familiar thanks to their prevalence in anime and TV dramas produced in Japan. Even if you’ve never...
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Second-year Japanese high school student creates amazingly realistic dioramas
When I was in high school I thought I was pretty good at drawing, only to take a look at some of my work 10 years later and realize how hideous most of it looked. In fact, it’s more than a little...
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Can you spot what’s odd about this Japanese classroom?【Video】
Japanese commercials are known all over the world for being just as entertaining as the programs they interrupt. Whether they’re ridiculously cute, heartbreakingly sad, a little confusing, or...
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Japanese high school boys hold annual beauty pageant, look as cute as ever【Pics】
Beauty pageants for boys dressed up as girls are kind of a thing in Japan now. Whether you think they’re awesome or kind of confusing, you can’t help but admit that the entrants usually manage to pull...
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Life imitating anime: Japanese people tell us about their most “anime” moments
14 Japanese volunteers tell us about moments in their lives that seemed to come straight out of an anime. A lot of the situations that happen in anime, like people punching holes in each other and...
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Train continues to stop at rural station for lone schoolgirl until she...
The story of the lone schoolgirl and the country train that takes her to school every day is capturing hearts around the world. A tiny train station in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, made...
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Mother’s note to son in the final bento of his high school life gives Twitter...
When this high-school kid opened up the last hand-made bento lunch of his high school life, he found a note from his mother with a sweet and surprising message… In Japan, where motherhood is a...
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