One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea's leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...

Two Japanese men were arrested this week for allegedly contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast-food restaurant as part of a prank that has spiraled into what some have called sushi ...

All the mysteries around ‘One Piece’ match perfectly with the enigma that is its own author, the legendary Eiichiro Oda. A mangaka of whom there are very few images of on the Internet, and some of ...

Oh Japan. You never are one to do things by half are you? This dinosaur prank will delight everyone, especially Jurassic Park fans, not only because the dinosaur looks so real, but because the poor ...

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Few other countries match Japan’s influence on electronics, car manufacturing, and art in general. Such an impact is made possible by the country’s weird kind of creativity, which gave birth to this ...

An early-morning gaze at Mount Fuji sounds romantic enough – but not when catapulted into the air, strapped to a bed with fireworks spraying out the sides. One unwitting man experienced just that, who ...

Japanese prank show slings sleeping man fifty metres into the air Just when you think you've seen every type of crazy Japanese TV show, another premise surfaces. The latest involves one of the ...

Count on the Japanese to come up with silly game shows and hilarious pranks. And they’ve done it again. As part of a local variety show, a man dresses up as a T-Rex dinosaur and chases an unsuspecting ...

This may be the meanest/best/coolest prank I’ve ever seen. The Japanese are not known for pulling punches on pranks but this one really takes the cake. It starts with the victim walking down the ...

One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea’s leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...

One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea’s leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...