Nightlyowl

so far ive heard of

a guy discovering the town hes lived in for 10 years and getting enthralled by local history he keeps learning about on park plaques

finding magikarp in your shower

someone got arrested for walking around a graveyard at 3 am looking??? for??? pokemon??? hol y shit? or something like that??? 

the police station memo in australia politely and cutely asking “budding pokemon trainers” not to actually come in to the police station for the sandshrew sneaking around in there, and that they can catch it by being close to the building, and to “look both ways before crossing the street”

speaking of which, some person who had pokego for only 15 minutes and successfully crossed a 4 lane intersection for a pokemon

An important perspective in light of recent events.

Idols are meant to be pretty, fun, cute, and flirtatious, so that fans can fantasize about being with them which drives sales of branded merchandize.

An Idol that has romantic or sexual pursuits is no longer perceived as available, in addition to it conflicting with fetishized virginity.

Basically, the Idol industry in Japan is the epitomy of a misogynistic sex-sells industry where the product is a fantasy relationship with a woman who is performing to make herself desirable. 

Many, many idols are extremely salty about this and will go to great lengths to mock and disparage the system, but they can’t do much to get it changed or go against it because their entire career will be destroyed if it is publicly discovered that they have or have had anything close to a relationship or sex.

And the companies absolutely do fire idols who do so, and destroy any potential they have as a career public figure for the rest of their lives. It’s horrifying.

Source

Video of Tama

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.