Meet Pocha-Home, a comedian group who makes a living out of being overweight in Japan. (JESSEOGN)

Japanese Conveyor Belt Sushi in Tokyo Harajuku. A guide for travelers coming to Japan on what to order at a Conveyor Belt Sushi restaurant. (Paolo fromTOKYO)

Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world and the population is generally known to be on the slim side. (Asian Boss)

The bursting of Japan’s asset bubble in the early 1990s was one of the most consequential financial shocks suffered by a major economy. Not only did it consign the country to decades of little to no growth, it entrenched a deflationary mindset among consumers and businesses that has proved difficult to break. (South China Morning Post)

Uber aims to have all taxis worldwide registered on its app by 2025. But a man known as the ‘Taxi Prince’ is throwing off those plans. (Wall Street Journal)

East Japan Railway is offering its bullet trains to haul large quantities of goods long distances, coming to the aid of a logistics industry scrambling ahead of a legal change regarding truckers' overtime. (Nikkei)

The Emperor of Japan, Hironomiya Naruhito, and Empress Masako Owada will meet President Joko Widodo on Monday at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, West Java, during their inaugural visit to Indonesia. (Antara)

The U.S. Treasury Department has removed Japan from a list of major trading partners that it monitors for potentially unfair foreign exchange practices for the first time since 2016, when the current format of designation began. (Japan Today)

A fashion show was held in a train in Osaka on Saturday to promote the understanding of sexual minorities. (NOJ)

A man in his 50s died after being stung by a bee while weeding a riverbed in Saitama, TV Asashi reports. (NOJ)

Sunday was "Father's Day" in Japan, but a private survey found that 90 percent of fathers feel "disparity with Mother's Day". (NOJ)

Japan's space agency has nominated its astronaut Yui Kimiya for his second stay in the International Space Station. The trip is likely to take place around 2024. (NHK)

The Japanese government is introducing laws that will require Apple to allow users nationwide to download apps outside their official app stores. (appleinsider.com)

Japan's parliament has raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit that had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women. (ABC)

Sweltering weather prevailed across western and eastern Japan on Friday with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius in many parts. (NHK)

The operators of three Shinkansen bullet train lines say they will allow online bookings up to one year in advance starting this year. (NHK)

In short, feminists think they have stopped the commodification of sex but they are actually promoting the commodification of sex. (Japanese Comedian Meshida)

Japan Airlines has reached an agreement with Intelsat to upgrade about 50 Boeing 737s and 767s to the company’s 2Ku inflight connectivity solution "to offer more robust inflight connectivity for passengers". (futuretravelexperience.com)

Japan's parliament on Friday enacted a law to create a pool of funds to cover part of a substantial increase in defense spending to protect the country against security threats from its neighbors. (Kyodo)

The Japanese government will cover half the cost of a new supercomputer being built in Hokkaido, which alone will triple the nation's processing capabilities for developing generative artificial intelligence. (Nikkei)

Japan's 10-year government bond yield weakened and 10-year futures rose on Friday after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged. (Reuters)

The Japanese internet has an abundance of dark and unsettling content within it. Among Japan's most infamous threads, often called a creepypasta, is known as "リアル," Simply the word "Real." (Sakura Stardust)

Japanese wrestler Shogo Uozumi moved to Senegal to try his hand at the western African nation’s style of wrestling. Laamb combines physical combat with some acrobatics. (South China Morning Post)

Kayne West is receiving online backlash for having sushi served on naked women at his 46th birthday party. (FUNG BROS.)

Conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi opened its first mainland China location Thursday in Shanghai, aiming to have 100 outlets in the world's second-largest economy by 2033 as locals resume dining out after long COVID shutdowns. (Nikkei)