Mask Can Amplify Voice and Translate Messages [Video]
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: Face masks will be the new normal until the next year or so as the world continues to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Japanese scientists have created a…
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Self-described “Tuna King” in Japan buys massive tuna for $1.8 million
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: A Japanese restaurant owner has spent a whopping $1.8 million on a massive 608-pound tuna fish at a New Year’s auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on Sunday. Self-proclaimed “Tuna King” Kiyoshi Kimura, who…
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Japanese lab worker infected with herpes B virus by a monkey
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: On Friday, an unnamed employee of a Japanese pharmaceutical company who was involved in the study of macaque monkeys was confirmed to have been infected with herpes…
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Japan Imported Ebola And Four Other Deadly Pathogens To Prepare For Potential Olympic Outbreak
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: Ahead of the Olympic games in Japan next summer, the country decided to prepare diagnostic tests for potential outbreaks — by importing the Ebola virus and four…
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Japan’s new pop-up museum is dedicated to POOP
A new pop-up museum in Yokohama, Japan is drawing crowds and instantly becoming a hit, especially to children and the children-at-heart. The Unko Museum, which had 10,000 visitors during its…
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Meet the Man Who Married a Teen Anime Hologram
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: A 35-year-old Japanese school administrator married a hologram of the virtual reality singer Hatsune Miku in Tokyo last month. Akihiko Kondo confessed that he had been in…
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Japanese female monkeys practice sex with deer
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: A recent study in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior reveals an occurrence of sexual activity between different animal species in Japan. Adult Japanese female macaques have taken to mounting sika…
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Ghost ships with skeletons on board, washed up on Japan’s shore
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: The Japenese Coast Guard discovered at least four ships that have washed up on Japan’s shore this month. On Monday, eight bodies almost reduced to skeletons were found on…
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Dangerous radioactive material from Fukushima nuclear plant, found in beaches
WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED: On March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude-9 hit northeastern Japan causing a massive tsunami that has a direct financial damage of about $199 billion. The Fukushima…
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