Japanese artist explains why turning your ashes into a pencil is a better choice than turning them into a diamond.
Cremation is the norm in Japan, and the ashes of the deceased are usually divided up…

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The rubber eraser is said to be roughly 250 years old.
Osaka-based stationery company Seed, who has been making erasers since the 1950s, has developed a translucent eraser.
Seed says they came up wit…

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Animation isn’t supposed to be this rad.
As we’ve established more than once, Lupin III: The First, the upcoming CG animated film entry in the Lupin III series of high-flying anime thievery, looks.
A…

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The same anomaly that makes foreigners feel icky is harnessed by Japanese people to get breathing room on public transport.
▲ “On a flight the young guy in the seat next to me was invading my space w…

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While many men who dress as women are perfectly happy with their masculine features, others prefer a softer, curvier look.
But not everyone is blessed with a feminine bodyline or androgynous looks th…

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Producers for A Silent Voice are planning to accommodate fans who, like the series’ female lead, can’t hear.
As such, it’s only fitting that theaters nationwide will be showing the film with Japanese…

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Brand-new middle school to let students of any gender wear whatever uniform components they feel comfortable in out of consideration to LGBT youths.
In 2012, Kashiwanoha Elementary School was opened …

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File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License PhotoOn November 25, 1952, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap opened in London.
UPI File Photo | License PhotoOn November 25, 1947, film industry executives introd…

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TOKYO -- American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and Japanese producer Mata Yamamoto announced today they will jointly produce a film on the life and work of controversial novelist and political righ…

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TOKYO -- A Tokyo man tried today to commit hara-kiri at the shrine honoring Japan's war dead, imitating the ritual suicide 10 years ago of famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima, police said.
'Long liv…

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