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31 Oct, 13 tweets, 4 min read
All right ya’ll buckle up it’s time for this year’s round-up of Japan’s #地味ハロウィン (mundane Halloween) costumes. Outfits so ordinary they have to be explained.
Guy who leans in as his Mario Kart character turns a curve:
Girl who started decluttering but ended up on her phone
Tried to remove her mask but her glasses came off with it
Person who forgot they were wearing a mask and took a sip of their coffee
That neighbor in the murder-mystery that’s like, “I haven’t seen my neighbor in 3 days”
I really liked this next one: @oka6 was that zookeeper who found the missing snake
That person who showed up for the free trial lesson
That person who was sitting in the front row of a magic show and was asked to participate
That cashier who looks away as you enter your debit PIN
That person who brought their own bag to the supermarket but it wasn’t enough
Retro-style video accompanying a karaoke song that has nothing to do with the lyrics
Person who booked a conference room but there’s someone in it and now they’re checking to make sure they actually booked it before knocking

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18 Oct
A new volcanic islet has emerged along the Ogasawara island chain, which isn’t that rare. What’s rare is for sunken ships from WWII to emerge with it:
Geologists have been monitoring the islet since last month when it appeared and agree that it probably won’t last long. So the ships may also disappear once again.

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Clarification: the sunken ships are on the neighboring Island of Iwojima, which rose up from the sea due to all the tectonic activity.
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16 Oct 20
This is some amazingly comedic footage: today, over 100 police officers raided the Tokyo headquarters of an ultra-leftist group.

First, as they’re trying to saw their way in, the group’s representative just opens a door and is like, dude just use the door
Then, the group’s representative takes each officer’s temperature and gives each permission to enter

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13 Aug 20
Just what 2020 needed: an ancient burial ground with 1500 remains has been discovered at a redevelopment site in Osaka.
sankei.com/photo/story/ne…
researchers suspect this is the Umeda Graves, 1 of 7 historically significant graveyards in Osaka.

It's noted in the top right of this illustration, which depicts a test of courage in which locals would visit all 7 sites in a single day.
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21 May 20
The cafe at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka, Japan uses stuffed Capybaras to enforce social distancing

(Photos by @chacha0rca)
Why Capybaras, you ask? Well this zoo is credited with being the first (in 1982) to introduce the animals to hot baths and ever since then it’s become a thing:
izushaboten.com/kapibara/histo…
If you visit the restaurant, be sure to order the Capyburger.
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30 May 18
Ramen (ラーメン)

We all love it, right? Ultimate comfort food, late-night snack, hangover cure, etc. It's become one of Japan's most popular exports.

Some know that men (麺) means noodle. But what does Ra mean?

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Ramen has been around for hundreds of years. But it was relatively recent that it took on the name ramen (ラーメン)

It was originally a Chinese food called chuka-soba or shina-soba (lots of history, not gonna go there right now)
In the 1920s there was an eatery in Sapporo called Takeya Shokudo. It was located right near Hokkaido University and its clientel were mostly students.

In this old photo (taken around 1930) you can see all their delivery boys and it shows how popular the joint was.
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