Japanese monks are planning to send a Buddhist temple into space that will orbit the Earth every 90 minutes. Daigoji Temple, founded in 874 and named after Japan's 60th emperor Daigo who was buried there, has a profound meaning for Japanese culture and is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage…
A Japanese company which specialises in masturbation aids has taken “one giant leap” to make the first-ever sex toy for use in outer space. The company Tenga, which is a sexual wellness company based in Japan, announced its ‘Tenga Rocket Project’ in cooperation with Japanese space development startup Interstellar Technologies…
The Japanese ‘Twitter Killer’ convicted of murdering nine people has said that he wants to marry someone so he can receive a visitor while on death row. Takhiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after the body parts of eight women and one man were found in his flat in the…
A fishing boat that went missing during a powerful Japanese tsunami has been found 10 years later on a small Pacific island. The small fishing vessel went missing from the city of Kesennuma in the prefecture of Miyagi in the north-eastern Japanese region of Tohoku following the Great East Japan…
This deaf Japanese model has won the hearts and minds of her army of online followers due to her beauty and courage in the face of adversity. News of Japanese model Yurika Gazuma’s growing popularity was first reported by local media on 7th December. The model has nearly 50,000 followers…
