A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. picked by topofall 10 months ago

Autumn is the most beautiful season in Japan. The trees turn red or yellow all together, it is called "Ko-Yo" in Japanese. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The apology on Japan's contribution to forced women prostitution was not convincing enough. picked by maxriter 3 years ago

Two decades after the "bubble economy", when the ostentatiously wealthy sprinkled gold on food and drank pink Dom Perignon champagne by the magnum, the glass is filling again in Japan with a Martini on rare ice. The "diamond-tini", a cocktail with a hint of lime and chilled Belvedere vodka over a 1.06-carat stone, is topping the Ritz-Carlton beverage menu at a cool 1.8 million ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Eleven junior high school students in Japan managed to make themselves so anxious Saturday by telling ghost stories that they were hospitalized. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Japan always amazes me - how can a country so technologically advanced still brew in the moral
dark ages? Wow! picked by kxmk 3 years ago

These two daikon radishes were discovered growing next to each other in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan. Possibly NSFW... Not Safe For Wok picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Happy tourists visiting the wildlife park in Japan might have thought they were treating the monkeys.

But they have left many of them so overweight they can hardly get around. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Rare pictures of German prisoners of war from World War I showing the Japanese how to produce sausages have been discovered. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Japanese scientists said Thursday they had successfully cloned the ancestral bull of a luxurious brand of beef, possibly opening the way to distribute cloned beef. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

What is it with the Japanese and their weird obsessions and products?

No one does weird toys like Japan does weird toys… from presidential action figures to toilet training tigers, we’ve found the strangest and most bizarre Japanese toys ever picked by bingo 5 months ago

North America will soon follow. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Anybody with a set of XY chromosomes dreams of ditching everything after high school or college, and taking an RV with some buddies to travel around the country in a massive road trip adventure. Few follow through on this dream of dreams, but these guys from Japan decided to build a two story, fully outfitted, transforming masterpiece of travel to do just that. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Aokigahara Forest, the most haunted location in all of Japan, is a purgatory for the unsettled ghosts who have been torn from their lives and howl their suffering on the winds. It's where modern-day debtors seek eternal relief in this economic downturn. Here's a chilling description of the forest, with interesting historical details. picked by meggysue 8 months ago

Microsoft Co., the Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp., will not cut the price of its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan in the near future to shore up its weak sales. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Tree-House restaurant, on Highway 58 at the entrance in Onoyama Park in the south of Japan. What may look like a genuine tree is actually a man-made concrete structure, just like the French used to build in the late 19th century. Customers actually have to get in an elevator inside the “trunk” to reach the restaurant. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A pair of melons from the Japanese city of Yubari -- better known lately for going bankrupt than for its farm produce -- fetched a record 2 million yen (8,400 pounds) at the season's first auction on Tuesday. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

It seems an unlikely venue for a potential revolution in public transport - a sleepy town in the lush, pine-carpeted mountains of rural Japan. But this is where travellers began paying yesterday to board the world's first hybrid train service. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Modelled on the fiendishly complex Tokyo Metro map, the latest Web Trend Map (the 2007/V2 version) organises some of cyberspace's movers and shakers into an easy-to-read chart. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago