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OVERHEARD

COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 15, 2019
Sightseeing overload
'What's that one?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 8, 2019
Come rain, come shine
'I never know what to make of rainy season.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 1, 2019
Overheard in the newsroom
'I could never do the splits but I could cross my legs.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 25, 2019
Singing from the same songbook
'What sing shall we song?' [sic]
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 18, 2019
Prawns vs. shrimp
'Does this ebi dish have big ebi or small ebi in it?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 11, 2019
Reiwa whiskers
'What did you do during your break?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 4, 2019
A new era of weather?
'Considering the weather over the past few days, it's less Reiwa and more 'Rain-wa.''
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 27, 2019
It will never fly
'Can chickens fly?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 20, 2019
Father and son
'I want to be like Dad when I grow up.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 13, 2019
Too much of a good thing
'Did you enjoy your cherry blossom viewing party over the weekend?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 6, 2019
A sound that can't be put into words
'What do you call that sound that's made by people wearing baggy tracksuit pants when the material around their legs brushes against each other when they walk?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 30, 2019
Room with a view
'Is the ISS (International Space Station) a hotel for astronauts?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 23, 2019
Ambitious karoake request
'Do you think they have Slayer at karoake?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 16, 2019
Tough dieting choices
'A hot chocolate, please.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 9, 2019
Putting a face to a name
'Do you have any Facebook friends whose face you can't remember?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 2, 2019
The meat of the matter
'I want to eat meat.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Feb 23, 2019
Defying atmospheric physics
'Running in a circle and yet always running into a headwind.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Feb 16, 2019
Ticking all the right boxes
'I watched someone buy a set of cardboard boxes on Amazon on my way to work this morning.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Feb 9, 2019
Believing is not seeing
'Did you see the snow the other night?'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Feb 2, 2019
Emergency stop
'I love the way elderly women in Japan stop their bikes at traffic lights by jumping off them as they're moving.'
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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