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OVERHEARD

COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 1, 2014
Lost in translation
Dad, are we lost?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 25, 2014
Trick or treat?
Decided on a Halloween costume?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 18, 2014
Cute has no bounds
A male teacher wearing a nectie stands among female students in a college elevator.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 11, 2014
Give a dog a bad name
Dad, dad. Look at that cute cat.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 4, 2014
Swallow tale
Does that restaurant serve grilled swalllows?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 27, 2014
Invisible touch
Did an invisible man just use the elevator?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 20, 2014
Taxing problem
Is tax included on this?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 13, 2014
Life's a beach
Teenage boy #1: It's so hot. I wish I was at the beach.
COMMUNITY / Voices
Sep 6, 2014
House of cards
Middle-aged man: I'd like to apply for your prestigious credit card. Here's my completed application form.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 30, 2014
Pasta pan
Customer: What type of bread is this?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 23, 2014
Lost in direction
American traveler #1: Why don't you just use your GPS?
COMMUNITY / Voices
Aug 16, 2014
Family planning
Middle-aged woman: I'd like to go on a two-month prescription plan please.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 9, 2014
Hot potato
Salaryman #1: This doesn't taste much like uni (sea urchin).
COMMUNITY / Voices
Aug 2, 2014
Bank holiday
Australian tourist: You've got to be kidding me — the best place for me to withdraw cash during my stay in Japan is at the Post Office?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 26, 2014
'Eigonomics'
Middle-aged woman (watching Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak in the Diet on television): Apparently he's very good at speaking English.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 19, 2014
Overheard in the newsroom
Editor #1: The best Disney song ever was 'Beauty and the Beast.' It had Celine Dion on it!
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 12, 2014
Unclear on the concept
Twenty-something man: There's three lanes. Over there is a cycling lane.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 5, 2014
Open secret
Man #1: Can I tell everyone in the company about it tomorrow?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 28, 2014
As you like it
Father: I'll delete your Facebook account if you don't hurry up and do what I say.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 21, 2014
Park life
Elderly woman (speaking to a man sitting on a park bench drinking beer and listening to a transistor radio): Is that the soccer (match between Japan and Cote d'Ivoire)?
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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