You’ve probably heard about Japan’s wild fruit market, where a single bunch of grapes can cost over 10,000 yen. But those prices are not for any fruit; they’re for luxury Japanese fruit that has been carefully hand-raised and specially bred to not only thrive in the Japanese environment but also be…
What would you do if you opened up your toilet lid to reveal a snake coiled up in your toilet bowl? At the very least, shut the lid and decide to do your business elsewhere, probably. That’s what one man did after finding a 1.6-meter-long snake in his toilet on October 2. At around…
On Feb 15, the trial began for Sei Kato, a former Kanagawa prefectural police officer, on corruption charges. Kato stands accused of accepting kickbacks from a funeral home near his police station in exchange for setting them up with the families of people who recently died. Kato has pled guilty and…