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New Yorker article highlights the culture of suicide in Japan 25 Jun 2013 | 07:19 pm
There’s a great article in the New Yorker this week about a Buddhist monk named Nemoto who has dedicated his life to supporting suicidal people in Japan. More fascinating than the statistics about sui...
Ad campaign to end ALS delivers important messages via friends and celebrities 25 Jun 2013 | 06:56 pm
My high school friend Hiro Fujita was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in late 2010, and ever since then he has quickly lost the ability to control his entire body, with the exception of one ...
Oldest woman alive provides clues to longevity 19 Apr 2013 | 12:44 am
Demographically, as a Japanese woman, I’m likely to live pretty much forever — average life expectancy of 87. Longevity researchers have zeroed in on three characteristics that people who live a long ...
Photos of school girls blowing other school girls away 30 Mar 2013 | 01:09 am
Can anybody verify whether this is indeed now a thing in Japan? A much more offbeat and dramatic iteration of the wedding jump tradition? Link (Thanks, Todd!)
Radioactive Man, short doc about a man who lives in the Fukushima exclusion zone 18 Mar 2013 | 10:30 pm
This is a great mini-documentary by Vice Japan about a man who decided not to move out of the town of Tomioka in Fukushima prefecture, deserted after being designated as part of the exclusion zone pos...
This boy and his French bulldog are besties 14 Feb 2013 | 01:43 am
This photo montage of a French bulldog and his little boy owner friend will definitely fulfill your cuteness quota for the day. via Buzzfeed
People competing to get the thinnest shaving of wood possible 10 Feb 2013 | 10:19 pm
Kezuroukai (a play on words meaning “let’s shave, shall we?” and “Wood Planing Competition”) is held every year in a different region of Japan. Wood shaving enthusiasts from all over the country gathe...
Janitor secretly draws intricate maze over seven years 4 Feb 2013 | 08:19 pm
Check out this crazy intricate maze created by an anonymous Japanese man – actually, a janitor who happens to be the father of a Twitter user who casually posted a photo on her feed one day. He had dr...
Aloe full body mud mask for dogs 18 Jan 2013 | 07:03 pm
Of all the crazy pampering shenanigans that Japanese pet owners can indulge in, a full body aloe extract mud mask is definitely the strangest. I found this along Komazawa Dori in the Ebisu-Daikanyama ...
The simplicity and design of MUJI makes a debut in San Francisco 4 Dec 2012 | 08:50 pm
I’m excited to hear about the opening of MUJI USA’s flagship store in San Francisco. During Reverse Tofu in October, I had the incredible opportunity of talking to Mr. MUJI himself — the original desi...
