#unseenjapan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unseenjapan, aggregated by home.social.
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Tourists to Japan today crave something fresh and undiscovered. According to recent surveys, Katsuyama City in Fukui Prefecture has surprisingly become a new favorite, winning over visitors’ hearts quickly. Here's why you should go.
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Musical roads are variations on the rumble strip, which warns sleepy drivers when they’re veering off the road. Some enterprising folks discovered that, if you put such grooves in the road apart at specified intervals, they’ll produce musical notes.
https://unseen-japan.com/musical-roads-japan-anime/
#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #travel #tourism #tours #japantours
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Cosplayer Enako made a poster she intends to distribute at Comiket 106, encouraging stinky attendees to "come to Comiket after bathing!" The poster says "take a bath" and "stop looking for reasons not to bathe."
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The 1970 World Expo in Osaka popularized the idea of leaving one lane of an escalator open for walking in Japan. Now, the 2025 Osaka Expo, along with cities like Nagoya, is trying to reverse that habit in the name of efficiency and safety.
https://unseen-japan.com/escalator-two-lanes-standing-japan/
#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #news #safety #osakaexpo #expo
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"Put the receipt from the photo frame I bought in the photo frame"
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It's a drink that some call "the worst cola in the world." It also has its ardent fans. What it doesn't have any longer is a place at Osaka Expo. A South Korean import shop at Expo has pulled McCol from its shelves due to its ties to the Unification Church.
https://unseen-japan.com/unification-church-drink/
#japan #unseenjapan #osaka #osakaexpo #travel #politics #religion
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For Cat Day (Neko no Hi), which was on 2/22, the Japan Automobile Federation tweeted a warning to drivers to make sure their engine hoods are shut & they don't hear any cat sounds from their cars. It says it received 28 requests in Oct 2024 for help rescuing cats who'd crawled into engines.
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Chiitan, a genderless fairy baby otter, has a worldwide following, with over two million followers on social media site X. The character has received a lot of support and love in particular from the LGBTQ community after coming out affirmatively for transgender rights.
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There have been zero female professional shogi (Japanese chess) players in the country's regular league since its inception in 1924. This week, pro women's player Nishiyama Tomoka came close to breaking down that 100-year-old wall. Sadly, it was not to be.
https://unseen-japan.com/shogi-female-player-regular-league/
#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #chess #shogi #japanesechess #games #women
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The days of using "chan" and "kun" in the Japanese business world may be ending. Research shows that most company managers are now referring to their staff w/ the honorific "-san." Some companies even mandate it. The goal: reduce workplace harassment.
https://unseen-japan.com/santsuke-japanese-business-honorifics/
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The Japanese series EXTREMELY INAPPROPRIATE! contrasts changes in "acceptability" between the Showa and today's Reiwa era in blunt terms - e.g., a scene in Ep. 1 (set in 1986) where a teacher hands out adult vids & calls a female teacher "Miss Big Ol' T!tties."
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Spurred by colonialist propaganda that called his people "a dying race," Iboshi Hokuto spent his short life in service to his belief that "only the Ainu could save the Ainu." Learn more about his efforts to preserve Ainu culture and traditions in our latest.
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It was one of the most infamous cases of karoshi (working to death) Japan has seen. Learn how the tragic loss of Takahashi Matsuri shook the country, and what changed - and what hasn't - since then.
https://unseen-japan.com/japan-suicide-karoshi-overwork-dentsu/
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Kugyo’s final acts lead us to believe he thought the murder of his uncle, the ruler Minamoto no Sanetomo, would result in his ascension to shogun. Certainly, he had a claim, given his late father’s position. Had someone convinced him this would be possible?
https://unseen-japan.com/to-kill-a-shogun-the-sad-tale-of-minamoto-no-sanetomo/
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Minamoto no Sanetomo’s murder not only brought an end to the line of one of Japan’s great conquerers. It also helped usher in a war between the samurai and the emperor that would cement warrior power in Japan for more than six centuries to come.
https://unseen-japan.com/to-kill-a-shogun-the-sad-tale-of-minamoto-no-sanetomo/