Scott Wilson

After getting bored with high school French, Scott came to a crossroads in life whether to study Japanese or Native American Mohawk instead. Mohawk's lack of kanji was its ultimate downfall, and Scott hasn't looked back since. After years of non-stop sweating while working as a translator in sweltering Okinawa, he moved back to his native, delightfully frigid Massachusetts to work as a private Japanese tutor. His hobbies include re-reading One Piece for the hundredth time, dreaming about Shakey's Pizza, and getting feedback on stories he's written from both his wife and cat.

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W.T.F. Japan: The top five “sora” references of all time! 【Weird Top Five】

At SoraNews24, we love “sora,” the Japanese word for sky, so let’s take a look at some of the most memorable instances of the word in Japanese history.

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Train station entrance in Yokohama is straight out of a post-apocalyptic horror game【Video】

Nope.

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After reopening, Japan to require foreigners to eat *daily* sushi to revitalize tourism industry

Will it taste as good when shoved down our throats?

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High school girls in Japan create and sell “butt-shaped soap,” praised as “way too high quality”

Design based on “naked festival” fundoshi butts.

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Japanese first grader wins math contest by quantifying “which hiragana are the hardest to write”

The search for the objectively hardest hiragana.

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Japanese Twitter user gives perfect comeback when grandma starts hating on video games

So simple, yet so effective.

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Need a work-from-home office fast? Set up this Japanese cardboard desk in less than 1 minute

Eco-friendly *and* tiny-home-friendly.

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Passing the JLPT N1 — Here’s how I did it, so you can too!

Strategies to take down the N1 final boss.

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Tokyo hot spring allows guests with tattoos to bathe… with some very odd restrictions

Progress! …kind of?

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Japanese elementary school teacher under fire after selling students’ personal info online

“I want to know how much they offered him.”

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Snow in Japan turns vending machine into ice-cold gacha game

Pick a button, any button!

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Mother of Sanrio character My Melody gets flak online for dispensing horrible love/life advice

Excuse me, what did you say?!

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Married Japanese men and women rank the things they miss most about single life

Interesting overlaps and differences between genders.

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Hidden Easter Egg in Akira shows animator’s hilarious passive-aggressive frustrations

When you hate your boss but you’re also on a deadline.

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These dozens of AI-generated Pokémon look more official than some actual official ones【Pics】

“I’d believe it if someone told me they were real Pokémon.”

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Amigara Fault for cars?! Tunnel in Okayama just barely big enough for vehicles to fit through

It was made for me… and my car.

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Tokyo middle school leaflet asks students to write down, turn in their social media passwords

The board of education’s excuse doesn’t really hold up.

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Japanese police officer comes up with cute reminder to help people not get scammed over the phone

His pun-game is almost as strong as his origami-game.

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14-year-old Japanese girl tosses cart from roof of Don Quijote, arrested for attempted murder

“Horrifying….”

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Come camp with us on Mt. Jinbagata, the best view you can get without breaking a sweat【SoraCamp】

You bring the marshmallows, we’ll bring the pics.

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