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This Is What School Lunch Is Like In Japan — And It’s Amazing

March 26, 2022 by Japan Informer

In Japan, lunchtime is about so much more than food. In this elementary school located in Saitama, Japan, lunch is turned into a 45-minute educational period, just like math or reading. The students grow and peel their own vegetables on the school’s farm. They serve meals to their own peers inside their classroom. They do full cleanups after lunch. Each step in … [Read more...] about This Is What School Lunch Is Like In Japan — And It’s Amazing

Japanese Show “Old Enough” Showcases Toddlers Experiencing Adult Chores

If you’ve been browsing Netflix during the past few days, there’s a high chance you’ve been hit across the face by a bizarre-looking Japanese documentary. Whatever your preferred experience with the channel is, whether you like Bridgerton or Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, or documentaries from the second world war, it’s there. In multi-colored bubble letters […]

Japanese Government Is Selling Houses for $500 to Populate The Rural Area

Did you know that there are more than 8 million empty homes in rural Japan that are being sold at very low costs? Here is an empty property located in Tochigi, a prefecture North of Tokyo. This house is a vacant one and is one of the 8 million houses that need occupants. Here are […]

One-Third Of Major Japanese Companies Don’t Have Female Executives

In total, 33.4 percent of the top companies listed in Japan did not have female executives at the end of July, and more than 50 percent in specific sectors such as shipping, pulp, and paper, the Cabinet Office said last week. In the 2,189 companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, […]

Japanese YouTuber Invents Light Bulb That Flickers When a Couple Breaks Up

Japanese YouTuber Marina Fujiwara has made a gadget that squints brilliantly at whatever point somebody shares a separation post on the web. The gadget, which means to make single individuals feel better during the Christmas season, resembles a normal bulb associated with the web through a “connect,” as indicated by Fujiwara’s blog entry as deciphered […]

Japanese deliveryman continues working despite losing a finger

In Japan, where the term “karoshi” or death by overwork, was coined, some workers will go to great lengths to complete their tasks. Recently, a deliveryman in Kyoto continued with his job despite losing the tip of his finger on the way. The police found his severed fingertip on a street in Maizuru City, but […]

Japan’s Professor Wins Ig Nobel Prize For Research On Knob Turning

Small-known academic topics like why ducklings swim in a line configuration are honored by annual satirical awards. The best method to flip a knob is one of life’s underappreciated talents. A study into this unanswered subject has now been honored with an Ig Nobel prize, one of science’s most prestigious honors. A group of Japanese […]

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Aluminum foil looks pretty boring. It is used for packaging, insulation, cooking… and making really shiny balls that appear to have no real purpose, apparently. That’s right, thanks to a Japanese jeweler, the whole country became obsessed with refining these metal leaves, and we aren’t sure how to react. According to Twitter user @puchuco709, they took […]

19-Year-Old Japanese Girl Turns Herself In For Cheating And Leaking University Exams

A 19-year-old female student from Osaka Prefecture has turned herself over to the authorities in west Japan and claimed that she was involved in cheating and leaked the unified entrance exam, investigation sources told reporters on Thursday. Her admission was made after a photo of the question on world history was released through a video-calling […]

Private Sleeping Pods in ReBorn Overnight Busses in Japan

If you live in Japan and are looking for comfortable long travel over night busses, The Willer Express ReBorn busses have got you covered. They offer spacious first-class seats at affordable prices to make your journey relaxing. Traveling around Japan is very easy thanks to its 98 airports, which are more than double the total […]

15 Countries And Their Typical School Uniforms

Schools in many countries around the world require their students to wear uniforms. This practice can be traced all the way back to 16th century England and the Christ Hospital School in London which in 1552 was the first school to introduce uniforms. Since then many debates have been had whether or not wearing uniforms […]