Japan

I have no idea whether today’s Strange Japan story is real. It was shared on Twitter, and the author of

Imagine being a teacher and ending up losing your job because you had another job. That is exactly what happened

Idol Anaru Rairai returned to the spotlight after a performance that quickly went viral on social media. A member of

On February 7, between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., a woman in her 20s living in the city of Nanyo,

Ryuta Watanabe, 38, lived in Hokkaido with his three partners in a polygamous relationship that was never officially registered. The

Recently, SPA published an article featuring Kawagoe Niko, who worked as a chef in a hotel but decided to radically

In 2016, a famous Japanese ice cream company publicly apologized to its consumers through a TV commercial — and the

Our story begins on December 9, 2025, when an employee at a laundromat in a rural town in Japan noticed

The Japanese people are known for their incredible level of politeness and respect, which can leave some foreigners confused during

Real life can sometimes be stranger than any movie script, and this is one of those cases where Japan decided

Our Strange Japan story today is about a 24-year-old man who worked as a teacher at a school in rural

The vast majority of Japanese women regret having married their husbands, according to a survey conducted by the company Presia,

A medical school exam applied by the Aichi Medical University in Japan became a topic of discussion again, even though

In April of last year, we reported that a 23-year-old woman named Saki Sato, a former cosplayer, had been arrested

Although we are already in 2026, this is a case that happened in 2024 (and was only judged at the

A Japanese woman filed a lawsuit against a man with whom she had a sexual relationship after discovering that he

A new survey has revealed a troubling fact about relationships in Japan: fatigue from marriage hunting is already affecting the