Japanese never stops being full of surprises. 😁 I was wondering about ロコミ (rokomi) today, meaning word-of-mouth, but these days mostly "online review".
マリオ (Mario Menti)
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Swiss-Brit 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇹🇼 ❤️ cats, japan, taiwan, books, running, drums, cooking, (mostly weird) music and tinkering with technology. 日本語を勉強しています。 https://menti.net Currently listening to / 現在聴いている曲: @mariolistens.neko.cat
This is fun, and a band I didn't know before. #喃語 (nango, which could either mean "babble" or "sweet nothings") describe themselves as a "poetic alternative rock band", but you probably have to watch the video to get a better idea 😁.
喃語 - 大小中大中大小大小大中中大小中小小中大中小小小(MV) - YouTube
#喃語喃語 / あうおあう より【大小中大中大小大小大中中大小中小小中大中小小小】Director : Daisuke K...
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I don't really care about football but I still hate FIFA. 😂
I love Zazen Boys so much, and bringing on a children's choir is just so (typically) strange, but quite lovely. I love how after he introduces the Kamome Children's Choir, he asks "Have you finished your summer holiday homework? OK, I'll buy a Nintendo DS for each two of you". 😁 #ZazenBoys
Zazen Boys with かもめ児童合唱団 - ブルーサンダー Live at 日比谷野外音楽堂 8.31 2025 - YouTube
地獄のTHE MATSURI SESSION 2025年8月31日(日)日比谷野外大音楽堂第一部「地獄のブルーサンダー」出演:ZA...
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‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima | Japan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/hiroshima-memoir-kiyoshi-tanimoto-day-atomic-bomb-fell-exclusive-extract
‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima | Japan | The Guardian
In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child
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Japanese author Keigo Higashino, a prolific writer best known for his numerous hit mystery novels and lauded for his intricate plotting and creativity, has died. He was 68. 👉 ebx.sh/Z34GU3
And Burnham is thinking of going ahead with new North Sea oil and gas drilling... 💀 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/25/france-spain-wildfires-latest-news-updates-madrid-cap-ferret-bordeaux-gironde?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live | Wildfires | The Guardian
Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Former stray cat becomes star employee at Hualien Bus Station - Focus Taiwan https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202607240021
Former stray cat becomes star employee at Hualien Bus Station - Focus Taiwan
An orange tabby believed to have raided a display of fish treats at Hualien Bus Station has gone from stray kitten to local celebrity, "working" four half-day shifts a week greeting passengers and helping promote animal welfare.
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For anyone who watched ガス人間 (Human Vapor) ☺️ #ガス人間 #HumanVapor いとしのエリー [2024 Remaster] https://youtube.com/watch?v=xDRNp15kG-A&is=k3EZ3CB8DLYIwYzW
いとしのエリー [2024 Remaster] - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Victor Entertainment, Inc.いとしのエリー [2024 Re...
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A 61yo unemployed man was arrested in Kyoto for causing sleep disorders and other illnesses after loudly playing the radio and electric guitar for 10 years (apparently it was getting worse recently, hence the police)... look at the collection of guitars and amps they confiscated from his house. 😅
京都の住宅街でラジオやギターで“騒音” 無職男を逮捕 近隣住民は睡眠障害に… - YouTube
京都市の住宅街で、10年近くにわたり、昼夜を問わずラジオやギターによる騒音を出し続け、近隣住民に睡眠障害などの傷害を負わせたとして、...
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夫源病 🥴 Japanese has a word for when your husband makes you sick - The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/07/17/language/japanese-husband-stress-illness/
Japanese has a word for when your husband makes you sick - The Japan Times
Explore Japan’s “husband-origin illness” while learning vocabulary and grammar about marriage, retirement and relationships.
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「酷暑日」へようこそ。 Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree heat | Japan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/japan-heat-kokushobi-cruelly-hot-40c-weather
Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree heat | Japan | The Guardian
In April Japan coined term kokushobi for days above 40C as country advises workers to wear shorts to the office to cope with stifling heat
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This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w agoDrill, baby, drill.
Our teenage cat Jiji seems to be mates with all the cats in the neighbourhood. Twice in the last week I heard him come in at like 3 in the morning, and there was another black cat in the house. And just now, a black and white cat that I've never seen before walked into the living room 😂
Not a great game, but at least socialist country beats right-wing nutcase country 😅
And they're playing The Final Countdown during the break... Why is everything so stupid.
That damaged my perception of America more than the Iran war. At least the Muppets weren't complicit in the latter