Interesting news and stories translated into English from Japan and the Japanese-language internet.
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A Kobe man has been arrested by police after being discovered hiding in a gutter to look up women's skirts as they passed by; netizens amused by his ingenuity.48 -
A hapless station worker mishears and mistakes a woman who fell onto the train tracks for someone's bag, signals for train to depart; Japanese netizens astounded. -
Eyeball licking fetish among elementary school students causes increasing numbers of children to wear eyepatches due to infection Naver Matome reports; responses. -
Iwate Prefectural Assemblyman Koizumi Mitsuo writes an angry blog post about his treatment by staff at a public hospital who called him by number; netizens amused. -
A customer sues travel company because the tour guide left him at London Heathrow, saying: "Do your best to get home"; netizens outraged at travel company attitude. -
The chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission, Furuya Keiji, has become a national hero for suggesting police relax traffic enforcement; netizens happy. -
The Baidu IME program for inputting Japanese language uses a cute manga girl to prevent users from uninstalling the program, crying if they do; 2ch responses. -
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An English teacher in a Kanagawa middle school creates a scandal by accidentally showing his students a porn DVD instead of "The Sound of Music"; netizens amused. -
Netizens discuss the announcement of Yaguchi Mari's divorce follow her scandalous affair with another man, as Yaguchi's public image takes a spectacular nosedive. -
A boy tweets his experience of standing up for a pregnant woman and her child, who had Down Syndrome, when they were attacked by two schoolgirls; netizens inspired. -
Three political parties have jointly submitted proposed revisions to Japan's child pornography law to the Lower House to prohibit possession of child pornography. -
A survey posted on Yahoo! Japan that asks men between 24 and 35 which manga heroine is their ideal woman trends online; but netizens disagree with the top choices. -
An Osaka fishmonger is criticized for taking the law into his own hands by displaying photographs of shoplifters in his store unless a fine is paid; responses. -
Police confirm that a man arrested last week in a street slashing incident in Ikuno, Osaka, is an unemployed man who holds South Korean nationality; 2ch responds. -
Former Morning Musume member Yaguchi Mari misses a regular TV appearance due to illness days after her adultery scandal was revealed; netizens critical. -
Tokyo governor Inose Naoki proposes changing Japan's time zone to two hours earlier so that Tokyo finance markets will open first in the world; netizens respond. -
Japanese fast food chain Lotteria introduces a "ramen burger", which features a patty made of dried ramen noodles and an accompanying soup; netizens unsure.
