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Japanese companies have a reputation for working their employees hard, but some of them also offer some great perks. One of the nicer ones is a company apartment building, which som...

Why so serious, Chiba?
SoraNews24 strives to bring our readers all the important political information in the ever-changing landscape of Japanese government on all levels. Whether its a Member of Parliament caught watching crocodile videos or...

If Donald Trump called you on the phone asking for cash in broken Japanese, would you give him a single yen?
One of the most common scams in Japan involves a fraudster calling an elderly person on the phone and saying “It's me! I'm in troub...

“I'm so sick of my own cooking!” sighed a girlfriend of mine in the middle of last year.
Her outburst took me by surprise as she's quite the chef. I get it, though — sometimes you just want to be served something on a fancy plate, be deligh...

Teachers who violate rule will face disciplinary action.
Like pretty much all forms of communications technology, social media has progressed from being only for tech-savvy enthusiasts to something just about everyone makes use of. With that ...

“Buried voices” get the attention they deserve, and bring about positive change.
As March 11 approaches, people around Japan are now reflecting on the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on this day ten years ago, and remembering a...

Collected volume is sized to fit the hands of the Titans themselves.
The Attack on Titan manga began in 2009, and it's scheduled to come to an end next month when its final chapter is published in the April 9 issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine...

The town is called Fukuyama now, but once upon a time it was Kusado Sengencho.
The first mental image many people have when they hear the words “history museum” is of a collection of artifacts inside sealed, climate-controlled glass exhib...

Unique serving style attracts attention online.
From sushi burritos to kebab sushi rolls, we've tried a lot of unusual sushi in Japan. However, there's one sushi restaurant now tempting us with an extra-special way of serving sushi that's surpr...

Nothing to shed tears over, really.
From shuttering factory doors to endangering cultural traditions, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been widespread throughout Japan, and naturally criminal yakuza groups have also been impacted op...