Few other countries match Japan’s influence on electronics, car manufacturing, and art in general. Such an impact is made possible by the country’s weird kind of creativity, which gave birth to this ...

Japan’s stomach-churning “sushi terrorism” is running rampant. Police busted two men in Osaka this week for contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast-food restaurant as part of a viral ...

Two Japanese men were arrested this week for allegedly contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast-food restaurant as part of a prank that has spiraled into what some have called sushi ...

Police in central Japan have arrested three people for taking part in pranks at a sushi conveyor belt restaurant. The acts, which appear to be becoming more commonplace, have been dubbed online as ...

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A viral video of a customer licking items on a sushi belt have prompted national anger. Videos of unhygienic pranks at sushi belt restaurants in Japan have forced chains to instate new dining rules ...

All the mysteries around ‘One Piece’ match perfectly with the enigma that is its own author, the legendary Eiichiro Oda. A mangaka of whom there are very few images of on the Internet, and some of ...

Some pranks are very clever. Some are complicated. The above prank is very simple, but incredibly effective. The woman being tricked is actress Aki Takejo. This wasn’t the only prank she endured.

One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea’s leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...

April Fool's Day is already over in Japan, but we can still appreciate one of this year's pranks: a fake video for the next Apple gadget. No, it's not a particularly novel joke, but it is interesting ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese whalers helped the conservation cause by overreacting to harmless protesters who boarded one whaling ship and hurled rancid ...

One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea’s leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...