An unemployed 29 year-old man is arrested in Fukuoka after attacking an 11 year old boy during a Yu-Gi-Oh! card tournament when the boy was upset at losing.

Economic analyst and television personality Morinaga Takuro suggests a 'handsome tax' which will double the income tax of attractive men; 2ch netizen repsonses.

Japanese netizens respond to a Financial Times article that terms Japan as 'nostalgic' and Korea as 'forward-looking' in the upcoming elections in both nations.

A well-known feminist advises teenage boy in a national newspaper column to lose his virginity through sex with an older woman, readers outraged. Netizen responses.

Japanese energy companies plan 'mega solar panels' as a clean-energy alternative to conventional power sources after Fukushima; netizens respond to the plans.

When a tweet in which user claimed to be trapped in a collapsing house after December 7 earthquake is revealed to be false, netizens across Japan share their rage.

A post on Reddit Japan remarking how Japanese people age was recently re-translated into Japanese, leading netizens to muse on differences in the aging process.

A farmer in Hyogo Prefecture who started taking pictures of unusual daikon that grew in his fields has become a Twitter sensation thanks to his radical radishes.