Tokyo streets
It came as an enormous shock to the entire team to hear that the legend that is Mr. Sato rarely visited Starbucks coffee houses.
Surrounded by the well-dressed, coffee sipping elite and with fancy lingo like “tall” and “grande” being thrown around, our reporter felt completely out of his depth at Starbucks and rarely dared to set foot inside even to grab a quick take-out coffee.
But after playing a lot of Black Ops 2 on the new office Wii U, a brilliant idea came to us…
From Russia with love (for J-pop), we present trilingual cover band Pudra1
What Are You Afraid Of? 19 Bizarre Phobias Revealed2
Chinese woman wearing nothing but an iPad on subway picked up by authorities3
Waiter, I think some pasta got into my plate of locusts4
Take a Ride on the Zoo Train Where the Seats Stare Back5
Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal1
China’s Photoshop Experts Will Fix Your Bad Photos, But Be Careful What You Wish For2
Chinese Photoshop Trolling Part 2: Now with 20% More Shirtless Men!3
Fashion Friends: Twitter Proves Almost Every Japanese College Student Wears the Same Exact Outfit4Take a Ride on the Zoo Train Where the Seats Stare Back5
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan1Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal2
Real-Life Barbie Gives Her Friends and Family a Makeover, Turns Them into Dolls3
Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”4
Oozing up From Below, Mysterious Marshmallow-like Substance Covers Nanjing Street5
We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Peenzilla Worship! Japan’s Kanamara Festival Coming Up this April!2
Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum3
Chinese Student’s Bicycle Seat Breaks and… Gyah!4
Before and After: 31 Startling Images of Plastic Surgery in Korea 【Photo Album】5
Japanese mom shows daughter how it’s done with awesome old-school gaming notebook
The Best of the Best of Manga: Shonen Jump’s 20 Best Sellers of All-Time
Japanese politicians are time lords! Government considers speeding time up by two hours
Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal
What Talent! One Student’s Amazing Short Animated Film Sets Internet Abuzz With Excitement 【Video】
Xbox Live hacked? Rumours flood the internet after ominous tweet left by hacker 【Updated】
The Top 25 Things In Japan Most Likely To Blow Foreigner’s Minds
We devour a mountain of ramen (toppings)
Fashion Friends: Twitter Proves Almost Every Japanese College Student Wears the Same Exact Outfit
Canadian Student in Japan Ruins Delicious Snack for the Entire Country
Philip Kendall
Writer / Translator Hailing from Liverpool in the UK, Philip Kendall made Japan his second home in the summer of 2006 after dolefully abandoning his childhood dream of becoming a ghost buster.
Steven Simonitch
Writer/Translator Though a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Steven currently resides in Nagano, Japan, where he is known by the old lady at the supermarket as “the white guy who always buys 2 packs of natto.
Master Blaster
Writer / Translator Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Steven Le Blanc and Masami M.
Kay
Writer / Translator Kay is a native Japanese who has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. She currently resides in Tokyo and enjoys writing about a wide range of topics, including all things cute and glamorous.
Michelle Lynn Dinh
Writer / Translator Originally from California, Michelle is currently working as an assistant English teacher on the tiny island of Chiburi in Shimane prefecture.
Jessica Ocheltree
Writer / Translator Jessica Ocheltree is a freelance writer and editor living in the exciting, interesting and sometimes perplexing city of Tokyo.
We answer the age old question: How many McDonald’s fries can one person stuff into their mouth in one sitting?