The Yahya festival in Owase featured naked men jumping into the sea. This February, men wore underwear and swimming trunks. Organizers and police were concerned that photos and video on social media might cause problems. chunichi.co.jp/article/847615

I’m thinking about making my own Youtube channel to explain Japanese legal system. Do you have an idea for the name of the channel?

卵フェス ("Egg Fes") in Ikebukuro next month. 60 varieties of egg on show, with an all-you-can-eat tamago kake gohan (TKG) deal, provided you book. ikebukuro.keizai.biz/headline/3510/

The Shinchosha Club is a set of rooms near the publisher's head office, which authors use to shut themselves away and write. Toshinari Masuda says they are haunted by the ghosts of Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

I might have a dark cast of mind after that ghost tweet. The Hotel Metroplitan's Suica penguin cake looks like he's laid out on a slab in the morgue. ikebukuro.metropolitan.jp/restaurant/lis…

The Sky News Presidential Debate logo seems almost like subliminal advertising for Japanese plastic model maker Tamiya.

Nikkan Spa quotes a real estate agent saying 60-70% of stores in Ameyoko have foreign owners. Article calls it a 令和の闇市 ("Reiwa black market"), which is a reference to the way some postwar black markets were run by Korean and Chinese nationals. nikkan-spa.jp/2019404

Foreign ownership has also become a topic in Osaka. x.com/Mulboyne/statu…

TV Asahi explains how Japanese travellers to Britain will need an ETA from the 8th of January next year. The online reaction indicates this is the first time many have heard the news. news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_internati…

Judging from the floor guide, this new Shibuya site has everything. prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p…

A passenger on the last train was left stranded overnight on the platform at Kitahiroshima Station in Hokkaido. Station staff only checked monitors and didn't make the rounds before locking up. The passenger was let out the next morning. uhb.jp/news/single.ht…