Celebrity chef Kawagoe Tatsuya comes under fire from netizens for comments on customers who complained about the outlandish hidden water charge in his restaurant.

Netizens celebrate Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso Taro for eating an ice-cream in a convenience store car park; photo approaches 20,000 re-tweets.

A woman who reported suspected child abuse was forced to give her personal details in front of the child's mother by police, woman fears for personal safety.

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.

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.

Koiyamagata station in Tottori Prefecture, which has only 2 passengers a day, has been renovated and painted pink to encourage lovers to visit; 2ch netizens respond