Archive for the ‘PEOPLE’ Category

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  Love Teacher

  • Featured, FUNNY, PEOPLE • 2260

  Teachers play an important role in education and life lessons. They deal with long hours and low pay. Sometime, it’s important...

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  Friends

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 3101

  Here is a set of famous pictures from the Japanese internet. Both are of simple daily activities amongst friends, but both...

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  Girl Otaku Rooms

  • Featured, GIRLS, JAPAN, PEOPLE, SOCIETY, TRENDS • 4428

  For those of you who thought being an Otaku was only for lonely guys, think again. Here is a rare glimpse into the rooms of...

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  Halloween in Tokyo

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 9927

  Halloween is relatively a recent “holiday” in Japan. Through proper commercialization with no regards to the original purpose...

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  Crazy Japanese Trains

  • Featured, FUNNY, PEOPLE • 9733

  In the urban jungle, you have to be prepared for anything. So in a wild and funky city like Tokyo, the trains are a mecca for...

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  Average Japanese Face

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 2503

    BEHOLD!! The average face of a 20 year old Japanese guy!! Nothing too exciting though. Sad to say noone here at Tokyo Insider...

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  A Glimpse at the Real Yakuza

  • Featured, LIFE, PEOPLE, SOCIETY • 16706

  The Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) are alive and well in Japan and VERY active in all parts of society. They own businesses, influence...

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  Help the old people

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 1003

  A majority of Japan’s population is over 50 yrs old. Along with that comes unique societal problems. Health care, insurance,...

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  It’s a crime to spit on train attendants

  • Featured, LIFE, PEOPLE • 1183

  Just in case you didn’t know, it is a crime to spit on train attendants and other personnel. wwww You know this happens a lot...

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  The subtle hero…

  • Featured, FUNNY, PEOPLE • 1576

  The world has responded generously and graciously to help all of those hit with despair, sorrow, and pain created by the...

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  Everything’s gonna be alright…

  • Featured, FUNNY, PEOPLE • 1181

    Sent from my iPhone...

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  Earthquakes, nuclear plant explosion, and wind.

  • Featured, PEOPLE, POLITICS • 1448

  There was another magnitude 6+ earthquake in the Shizuoka prefecture last night and some more explosions at the nuclear plant....

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  Fear, Anxiety…An amateur nuclear crisis recap

  • Featured, PEOPLE, POLITICS • 2465

  Let me start off straight. I am scared. We are all scared…not that scary movie kind of scared… a real raw, blunt, scared....

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  Panic at the supermarkets

  • Featured, PEOPLE, POLITICS • 1177

  Now a common sight at most Tokyo convenience stores and supermarkets. No water, tissue paper, instant ramen and instant food....

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  Today’s Tokyo earthquake edition

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 1062

  As transit is completely shut down, people take to the streets to try and find away home, or lodging. Most hotels are booked...

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  30,000

  • Featured, JAPAN, PEOPLE, TRENDS • 4668

  There has to be something wrong with a country where 30,000+ educated people have committed suicide every year for the past  7...

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  Role Model…

  • Featured, JAPAN, PEOPLE • 2290

  This simple Tokyo Metro community service  ad shows a lady doing a good deed. She’s getting the bag for the old lady… But I...

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  Lady Gaga looks like…

  • ART, Featured, FUNNY, PEOPLE • 1227

  and resembling the popular “Mirabakesso” Alpaca TV character from Kurare, Lady Gaga…...

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  Beware of the Umbrella Thief…they’re probably your friend…

  • Featured, PEOPLE • 3809

  For a country that prides itself so much on courtesy, cleanliness and politeness…there is one thing I just can’t understand....