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10 Most Famous Cat Breeds In Japan

June 27, 2024 by Japan Daily Leave a Comment

Let’s remember our feline friends who have made the internet a riot with their funny, cute videos and photos. Cats are the most notable thing on the internet. Japan has kept cats as domestic pets for thousands of years. There are close to 10,000,000 cats in Japan, making them more popular than dogs. Japan has two wild cats: the Amur Yamaneko and the other is known as the … [Read more...] about 10 Most Famous Cat Breeds In Japan

10 Reasons Why The Japanese Live Longer Than Any Other People On Earth

It’s no secret that the people of the land of the rising sun tend to outlive pretty much everyone else. For years, people in the West have been looking at the Japanese and scratching their heads, witnessing as Japan rose from having one of the lowest life expectancies post-WWII to topping the charts globally. What […]

Japanese women’s breast size boasts 40 years of continued growth

Well, there’s no denying it any more: the size of Japanese mammaries have become larger. We know this thanks to a survey by lingerie manufacturer Triumph International Japan, which recently made public the results of its research. According to Nikkan Gendai (Aug 7), the subjects of the survey were Japanese females between the ages of […]

Junior High School Principal in Japan Dismissed Over Coffee Cup Incident

A 59-year-old junior high school principal in Japan has been dismissed from his position and stripped of his pension following allegations of overfilling a coffee cup at a convenience store. The incident, which involved the principal paying for a regular-sized coffee but filling a large-sized cup at a self-service machine, occurred at a store in […]

Nippon’s Digital Numerology: The Pocket Bell

In the 1990s while I was awkwardly transitioning from childhood to adulthood, the world was in the throes of another strange transitional period between analog and digital. It was a time when the internet was still charged by the minute and your high score in Slingo could be ruined when your sister picked up the phone and […]

Job Hunting Season in Japan – Shuukatsu

It’s almost that time of year again when you’ll see many recent graduates in their best black suits, roaming the streets to attend interviews and/or training sessions, and becoming indoctrinated into, and swallowed up by the infernal corporate machine. You see, Japan has a rather unique approach to Job Hunting, also called shukatsu, which is […]