IN PHOTOS: Scars of Typhoon Hagibis
(Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 13, 2019, shows houses in Nagano, central Japan, submerged after the Chikuma River overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis.) (The Chikuma River in Nag…
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Olympics: IOC mulls moving 2020 marathons, race walking events to Sapporo
KYODO NEWS - Oct 16, 2019 - 23:36 | Sports, News, AllTOKYO - The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday it is planning to move the 2020 Tokyo Olympic women's and men…
Netflix’s The Naked Director: A Dodgy Dive into Japanese Porn and “Real” Sex
By Annelise Giseburt Oct 16, 2019 9 min readThis article contains spoilers for season one of The Naked Director. The Naked Director is obsessed with real sex. And indeed, The Naked Director…
2019 Top Jobs in Japan Week 43
Tourism taxi driver, freelance writers, and boutique hotel staff among our top picks for this week! On Oct 21, 2019If you’re looking to work in Japan, check back here each week as we look throug…
8 Halloween Treats You Can Get at the Convenience Store in Japan
As usual, the big convenience store chains—7-Eleven, Family Mart and Lawson—are releasing a number of scary snacks to celebrate Halloween. Chocolate Cream DaifukuThe chocolate cream inside …
Top Jobs in Japan You Can Apply to From Overseas – Week 42, 2019
Ski instructor, full-stack engineer, and game producer among our top picks for those living overseas who want to come and work in Japan. On Oct 17, 2019Each week GaijinPot looks through its…
5 Scary Japanese Foods and Why You Should Try Them
I’m from Australia, where the Japanese dining landscape is mostly dried seabeds of sushi and tempura bound by rivers of teriyaki sauce. Tsuru tsuru tororoPhoto: Audrey Foo Tororo, grated mountai…
A Guide on Where to See the Mummies of Yamagata
Six of them, from the Shingon Buddhist sect, are centered around the rural city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata, in northern Japan. From Tsuruoka station, get off at Michi no ekki Gassan. It’s a 35 m…
Nissin is releasing an obsessively designed fork specifically for Cup Noodle
photos by Akihiro Yoshida courtesy nendoPrior to Momofuku Ando releasing his revolutionary Cup Noodle into the world in 1971, he went on a fact-finding mission to America. This is what’s sa…
Takigawa: a Minimal Sushi Shop in Fukuoka
all photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real ArchitectsAs dusk settles in, the lights flicker on at Takigawa, a new sushi shop that opened over the summer in Fukuoka. A single lamp wit…