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【Sad News】 Hiroshima Elementary School Girl Killed by Own Abusive Mother
A 28-year-old single mother from the town of Fuchu, Hiroshima was arrested earlier this month after causing the death of her 10-year-old daughter, exposing a long history of abuse and neglect in the...
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Modern-Day Hachikō: Dog Waits Over a Week for Its Owner in the Snow and Rain
A dog in the city of Iida, Nagano prefecture, has become the focus of Japanese animal lovers’ attention this week after he was spotted waiting patiently at the side of a mountain road for more than...
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Sad Tweet from Sharp Galapagos Touches Japanese Twitterverse
Official corporate Twitter feeds are generally boring affairs. Unless you’re really into the product or service mentioned and need to know immediately when something new happens there’s not much...
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Student Misses Out on School Trip After Teacher Misplaces Passport
If there were ever a reason to hold a grudge against your homeroom teacher, losing your passport right before the big school trip aboard and forcing you to stay behind and study would be a good one....
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Woman Despairs Over the Size of Her Son’s Penis, Drowns Him in the Bath
In by far the saddest news story of the day so far, a 38-year-old Indonesian woman has been arrested after drowning her son in the family bathtub, giving the reason that his penis was “too small” for...
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Pensioner Dies After Being Denied Treatment at 25 Different Hospitals
A 75-year-old man from Saitama Prefecture, Japan, has died after being refused treatment as many as 36 times at 25 different hospitals in an around the prefecture, Japanese website The Mainichi has...
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Google Maps Offers Rare Look Inside Abandoned Fukushima Town
Google Japan has announced that it is now possible for Google Maps users to access street view images of Namie, a coastal town in Fukushima that was severely affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake...
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Giant rubber duck bursts at an art festival in Taiwan
The world’s favorite giant rubber duck was reported to have burst while making its stop at Taoyuan, Taiwan. The cause of this unfortunate accident is, it seems, a case of failure to adapt to its new...
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Here’s your heart-breaking short story of the day, written on a 1,000 yen bill
Perhaps one of the saddest things ever written is Hemingway’s famous six-word story: “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” Though short in the extreme, it’s amazing how much emotion and information can...
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Behold: the saddest Christmas tree in all of Japan
Lonely this Christmas? Shiga Prefecture’s Pieri Moriyama shopping mall most certainly is. Although technically still operating, the once thriving shopping centre is now home to just 14 stores after...
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A mother’s cell phone: Probably the most moving story you’ll read today
Filial piety isn’t just an empty phrase–it’s a very important cultural concept throughout Asia and, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the rest of the world. While not all of us have the best...
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Intel’s surprising new commercial hits us right in the feels – we dare you...
For a company that deals solely with all things cold, technical and inorganic, it turns out that computer chip maker Intel actually has a surprisingly soft, feeling heart. In what we can only describe...
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Autopsy of deer in a Chinese zoo reveals startling cause of death
While the silly news last year about a Chinese zoo trying to pass a dog for a lion made headlines around the world, the story this time is a lot more disturbing. A zoo in Xiamen (also known as Amoy)...
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Girl who lost father in last year’s deadly Hokkaido blizzard pens...
While Tokyo’s recent blizzard showed us the lighter side of natural disasters with amusing snow sculptures and insane images of overly panicked urbanites, these kind of storms have the potential to be...
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Seoul anti-suicide initiative backfires, deaths increase by more than six times
Like many of the world’s largest and oldest metropolises, Seoul owes part of its development to its location on the banks of a river. In the case of the Korean capital, being situated along the Han...
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10-year-old letter arrives from daughter lost to tsunami (you might need...
‘I wonder if you’ll have a grandchild when you get this letter?’ These are the words written by a woman 10 years ago, before she lost her life in the March 2011 tsunami. Her mother and father were...
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First Santa, now this?! Heartbreaking photo of garbage truck debunks “Teddy...
“Every time a child throws away a teddy bear, an angel molests a kitten.” Ok, I don’t know if there’s any truth to that, but we do know one dismal fact: reliable sources confirmed, once and for all,...
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Beautiful 400-year-old garden in Okayama about to be replaced with...
Japan loves to devise top three lists, and Okayama City’s Korakuen is held to be one of the country’s three best gardens. Anyone who’s visited will tell you that it’s indeed beautiful, but Korakuen...
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Fear Factor meets Next Top Model in China’s modeling competition extravaganza
Modeling is a tough business. You need the body, the face, and perhaps the most difficult thing to achieve: the walk. All the top models must combine these three components perfectly. In an industry...
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Hiroshima begins recovery projects following tragic, deadly landslides
In the early hours of the morning on August 20, Hiroshima City was hit by severe thunderstorms. As the downpour continued, the ground gave way in the Asanami and Asakita Wards, triggering landslides...
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