Every Few Months, a Photo of a Sleeping Japanese Man Breaks the Internet
A salaryman unconscious on a station floor, briefcase placed neatly beside him, wallet visible. The comments split into…
Read →A Train Company Apologised for Leaving 20 Seconds Early. It Was Not a Joke.
Not twenty minutes. Twenty seconds. And the statement was completely sincere, which is the part that broke everybody.
Read →The Stray Cat Who Was Promoted to Station Master and Saved an Entire Railway
She got a hat. She got an office. She got roughly 1.1 billion yen of economic impact and, eventually, a shrine.
Read →400 Kit Kat Flavours Is Not Japan Being Random. It Is Japan Being Ruthless.
Wasabi. Sake. Baked potato. Cough drop. Every one is a real product, and every one is a business decision made by an adult.
Read →Hang on — the rest of this site is in Japanese?
It is. JAPAN NOW is the English corner of 英会話学習ラボ, a site that teaches English to Japanese learners. Which means the other 600 pages are the exact mirror of this one: what Japanese people find impossible about your language, what they are taught, and where the misunderstandings actually begin. If this page was fun, that is the other half of the same joke.
Look at the Japanese side