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Take the “Public” Out of Public Bathing and Make a Natural Hot Spring in the Comfort of Your Own Home

Jun 30, 2012 by Master Blaster
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One of Japan’s greatest features is its many natural hot springs called onsens. Thanks to its highly volcanic location, Japan’s countryside is dotted with resorts welcoming tourists all year round.

For some foreigners visiting or living in Japan, public bathing isn’t a very appealing recreation. Reasons for this include tattoos which are considered verboten in many onsens, and the fact that foreigners tend to stick out like a sore thumb and might draw uncomfortable stares while bathing.

Now there’s another way to enjoy the relaxing and curative properties of a natural hot spring in the comfort of your own bathroom. If you want to know how, then give our easy manual “How to Set Up an Onsen in Your Own Home” a quick read.

Jun 28, 2012 by danielnishina
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Maybe, along with the drive to to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before, we also want to explore our minds and consciousness. And maybe inevitably that sometimes comes out to be inventing new ways to mess with our own heads. And so, the eggheads at Riken Research have developed the “Substitutional Reality System“. Read More

Using Gay Sex to Teach Japanese?

Jun 4, 2012 by Jessica
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Currently, there are people all over the world studying Japanese, and naturally, they would like to learn something more than the stiff conversations found in your average textbook. They want to learn the language that Japanese really use in their daily lives.

In response to this desire, lots of situational educational materials have sprung up, but we’ve discovered one from China that is targeted at a very specific demographic: females who like the homoerotic comics known as yaoi. Read More

Kyoto Bee Research Center Is the Bee’s Knees

Jun 4, 2012 by Jessica
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Kyoto Sangyo University opened a brand-new research facility this week, the Honeybee Industry Research Center, to study the ecology of the little bumblers and the benefits of their honey. This kind of specialized facility is extremely rare and is generating a lot of buzz among entomologists. Read More

Sneak Peek Into Japanese All-Boys High Schools: 50 Surprising and Unsurprising Things You’d See

May 18, 2012 by Mac Denny
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It’s hard to imagine what goes on inside Japanese high schools without setting foot inside of one, and even if you’re able to do that, sometimes it’s hard to decipher what’s happening in front of your eyes.

Nonetheless, high school is high school, right? Playing with abandon on the field or court with your sports team, teen romances that run hot and cold, and a host of other universal events unfold at your typical co-ed secondary school.

Within the gates of the Japanese all-boys high school, however, lies a world beyond comprehension. It can be both humorous and painful, proper and vulgar. Let’s take a look at 50 things you would find in the typical Japanese all-boys high school. Read More

Gnarly Eraser Shavings Ball Rubs Some the Wrong Way

May 16, 2012 by Mac Denny
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Imagine the number of mistakes you’d have to make to amass a pile of eraser shavings big enough to make a sphere as big as a softball.

May 11, 2012 by Master Blaster
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Back in 2008, at an Osaka elementary school there was an incident involving a 3rd grade student who smashed two bottles of milk together during lunch time. As a result, the bottles shattered sending a shard of glass into the child’s eye and leaving him disabled. It’s certainly a terrible accident but what followed had turned the public’s sympathy into outrage.

May 11, 2012 by Jessica
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Across all times and cultures, there have been a variety of hygienic practices, some of which we would regard with horror today. One of those, which has been much discussed recently, is the practice of drinking one’s own urine to promote good health. Yes, you read that correctly, drinking a steaming glass of your own pee as a health supplement. Read More

Learn How to Sleep in a Toilet Stall Like a Pro

Apr 26, 2012 by Master Blaster
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With the warmer weather coming we are bound to have those days where a particularly heavy lunch or wild night before turns us into zombies by 1:45pm. The question is what do you do?

Many of us plug through the rest of the afternoon for fear that dozing at our desks would land us out of a job. Some among us have pondered the idea of catching some sleep atop the toilet; the only place you’re guaranteed some privacy in an office environment. However, many are turned off by fears or stigmas that might be associated with sleeping in the crapper.

Then there are a select few – 30% according to a recent survey of middle-aged businessmen – who have the guts to go that extra mile and take a nap sitting on the can so that they can return to work refreshed. RocketNews24 would like to now share some of their various tactics, so that you too can embark on the noble art of “toilet napping.”

Apr 9, 2012 by Jessica
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If you are feeling a bit nostalgic for the school lunch experience, you don’t have to pass yourself off as a grade schooler and sneak into your local elementary school. You can find healthy, hearty school lunch recipes in a recently published book by nutrition specialist Katsuko Fujiwara called “School Lunches at Home“.

And these recipes aren’t just any old standby. They’re the kind of meals that make everyone happy. Kids want school meals to be delicious, parents want them to be nutritious, and schools just want them to be reasonably priced and easy to prepare. That’s a high bar to clear, but with over 20,000 schools in Japan offering a school lunch program, there were sure to be a few offerings that hit the trifecta, and Fujiwara has compiled some of the best for you.
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JAXA Invents Camera That Measures Radiation

Apr 3, 2012 by Jessica
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On March 29th, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they have developed a prototype camera which detects gamma-ray emitting radioactive material such as cesium and shows the exposure distribution over an image. They hope that it can be used to make clean-up of contaminated areas around Fukushima Daiichi more efficient by locating places where radioactive matter has accumulated.
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Japanese Regrets: Lack of Qualifications More Troubling Than Ill-Advised Hook-Ups

Apr 2, 2012 by Jessica
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The Japanese web portal goo recently asked its users their biggest regret from their college years. It seems in Japan as well, those heady days of freedom in university offer more than plentiful chances for screw-ups. Youth is one factor, but compared to middle school and high school students, university students have a whole lot more time on their hands and a whole lot less supervision, leading to a lot of navel-gazing, time-wasting and jack-assery. Some things are true the world over, I guess!
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Chinese Students Invoke Sun Tzu For Claiming Classroom Seats: Chains, Toilet Paper and Mittens Among Weapons Used

Mar 31, 2012 by Master Blaster
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Getting a seat in class is a very tense situation. It can make or break the way your day or year will go, depending on the class system. Clearly sitting with your friends is important, as is getting out of the teacher’s line of sight if you want to doze off for a bit.

It’s funny how many students obediently follow imaginary rules like “calling” their seats as a way of reserving where you want to sit. As the unwritten, unspoken rule goes: callings may be verbal or implied by leaving one’s personal possessions in the location of the seat. Any calling dispute, such as simultaneous callings is to be determined by an ad hoc challenge, preferably rock-paper-scissors.

Such a rule doesn’t seem to exist in Chinese schools, however, as this lack of social etiquette has turned classrooms into the Thunderdome of seat saving, where the one rule is – there are no rules.

Mar 22, 2012 by Kay
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Japanese companies Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd and Digital Ehon have come out with an innovative App that is sure to appeal to art lovers. The App, called “My Unryuzu”, has been developed in collaboration with the art exhibit “Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” that is being held at the Tokyo National Museum from March 20th to June 10th. Read More

Get a Complete Psych Profile in a Few Minutes Using Only a Pen and Paper

Mar 21, 2012 by Master Blaster
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The internet is home to thousands of thousands of tests and quizzes each promising everything from your IQ to the Glee character that most resembles you. Now we bring you a new test that really kinda probably doesn’t work, but it’s fun to try.

Using just a pen and paper you can get a snapshot of your current mental state. But to get a super-duper accurate reading you CANNOT scroll down to until you complete each step, OK?

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Revisit 20 Photos of Some of The Most Powerful Moments and People in Modern History

Mar 12, 2012 by Master Blaster
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Thanks to the proliferation of the internet we can see countless images in an instant with the click of a mouse. Most of the pictures available online, however, are of cats with misspelled captions or people confusing Joseph Kony with Carl Weathers.

Feb 24, 2012 by Master Blaster
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On 31 January, Mie University’s Social Studies Department announced the hiring of their newest teacher – “the last living ninja” Jinichi Kawakami. Would-be students from all over are lining up to learn from the 21st head of the approximately 500 year-old Koga Ninja Clan.

Mie Prefecture, which is home to Iga city and its famous ninja museum, intends to spread the word of ninja culture to Japan and beyond, with the added benefit of promoting their own ninja-based-tourism industry.

Jan 27, 2012 by Jessica
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There is an annual student event at the prestigious private college Ritsumeikan University. It’s called the Igakukan Dash, after the hall where it takes place.

Every year, just before the final deadline for turning in theses, a few desperate latecomers will come dashing through the hallway to get their papers in on time. Naturally, a large crowd of spectators always gathers to cheer and heckle these deadline daredevils. Read More

McDonald’s Attempts To Ban Japanese University Students From Store During Testing Week

Jan 20, 2012 by Steven
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Anyone who has lived in a college town in America has probably experienced walking into a fast food restaurant or coffee shop during exam week to find every table occupied by students with their noses pressed into their textbooks.

While residents may grumble about it from time to time, hoarding a table for long study sessions is more or less a socially accepted practice in America and other Western countries.

However, this is not the case in Japan, where the prevailing view is that customers should leave soon after they finish eating to make room for other people who may want to sit down. Of course, given that Japan has nowhere near the amount of developable land as America, that way of thinking is only natural.

Yet times change and recently more and more Japanese students are choosing eateries as their cramming location of choice.

Students at Kansai Gakuin Univeristy in Hyogo Prefecture are no exception, with the McDonald’s in front of Kōtōen Station being a popular location in particular.

However, controversy erupted earlier this week when the manager of the McDonald’s, with the endorsement of the university, banned students from entering the store during finals week.

Dec 3, 2011 by Steven
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It’s no secret that Chinese society places an excessive emphasis on academic records. Many parents believe that entrance into a good school corresponds to their children’s happiness. Some parents go so far as to bribe teachers to have their children’s grades raised and, in some extreme cases, teachers actually demand bribes from parents.

In such a society where the school teacher holds a unique position of power, it is crucial to foster a set of strong moral standards and ensure that teachers adhere to them.

Or you could go ahead and publish a wacky set of guidelines like those found in the Guangdong province’s “Teacher’s Professional Ethics Reader,” which contains all the ground rules you need to know to be an ethical teacher, including: “Gifts from parents and guardians must be returned within 24 hours,” “No photos of family members in the teachers room,” and “No vintage or worn jeans.” Read More