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Ardent followers of QAnon are pouring into the streets in Japan. Behind them is Ichibei Okamoto a Trump-loving YouTuber pushing baseless conspiracy theories to thousands.
In the 18 months since he started posting conspiracy theory videos, Okamoto has become one of the m…
Cheryl Teh
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The man arrested over the shooting of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe told police he was 'dissatisfied' with Abe: report
A man in a grey polo shirt was seen being tackled by several men in suits after the attack, which t…
Cheryl Teh
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A snake combusted after sparking a power outage that struck 9,800 homes in Japan's Fukushima amid a heatwave
The Tohoku Electric Power Company said the snake could have slithered over a live fire, causing a p…
Cheryl Teh
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China refutes NASA chief's claim that the country is looking to take over the moon
NASA chief Bill Nelson told a German news outlet that he was concerned China would land on the moon…
Cheryl Teh
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4 in 10 single Japanese men in their 20s have never been on a date, new government report finds
Only 25% of the women in their 20s surveyed by the Japanese government said they had never been on …
Cheryl Teh
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Video shows woman in China keeping in her son locked in a tiny cage so she can watch over him while she works
The mother said she operates a pushcart to sell desserts and had no choice but to lock her son insi…
Cheryl Teh
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Japanese man pays nearly $16,000 for life-size dog costume to fulfill his dream of transforming into an animal
The man shared clips of himself modeling the costume and now produces YouTube videos in which he fr…
Cheryl Teh
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'We are the last generation': China's youth rallied around a now-censored social media hashtag to rage about their disillusionment with life and disdain at draconian lockdowns
Crippling depression over the economy, the environment, and COVID-19, have led many young Chinese p…
Cheryl Teh
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A baseless conspiracy theory is brewing on China's Twitter, with social media users accusing the US of creating and leaking the monkeypox virus
People on China's Twitter-like Weibo posited, without evidence, that a US-linked terrorist group wa…
Cheryl Teh
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Airbnb to pull all listings in mainland China amid prolonged lockdowns and the country's harsh Covid-zero policy: report
According to CNBC, Airbnb stays in China have made up just 1% of the company's revenue over the las…
Cheryl Teh
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Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter
Musk just last week expressed his desire to meet Yilong Ma — a Chinese man who went viral for…
Cheryl Teh
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A couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law for $650,000 for not giving them a grandchild
Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad want their son and his wife to pay them $650,000, the amount they spent …
Cheryl Teh
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Elon Musk says he wants to meet his Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma — that is, if he isn't a deepfake
Musk first noticed Ma last year when a video of the latter surfaced on TikTok, prompting the billio…
Cheryl Teh
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Meet the 'most handsome man in China' — a Tibetan yak herder who's threatening to sue online critics for claiming he's just a pretty face
Tibetan herder Dingzhen Zhenzhu is hitting back at his critics who have mocked him for being the ep…
Cheryl Teh
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Police arrested a self-proclaimed 'holy man' whose followers ate his feces and drank his urine in hopes of being cured of illnesses
Followers of Thawee lived in his jungle dwelling, and were consuming his excrement and other bodily…
Cheryl Teh
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Beijing is cheering the election of a China loyalist as Hong Kong's next leader, heralding the start of a 'democracy with Hong Kong characteristics'
Beijing's new security office in Hong Kong hailed Lee's election as a step forward for Hong Kong to…
Cheryl Teh
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A Japanese cafe for writers struggling with deadlines provides a unique service: They'll pressure you to keep working and won't allow you to leave until you're done
Visitors to the cafe can pay for a service where staff will hover behind their seat to check on one…
Cheryl Teh
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An NYU professor living in Shanghai says his family has turned into 'hunter-gatherers' and bartered food to survive the city's COVID-19 lockdown
"It's an interesting sociological experience, coming to a city where it's not our home country, and…
Cheryl Teh
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Sellers on Taobao, China's Amazon, are hawking shirts emblazoned with the Russian pro-war 'Z' logo
"For victory!" read a review in Chinese from one of the shirt's buyers on the Taobao marketplace, w…
Cheryl Teh
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Shanghai is flying drones over districts to tell citizens under lockdown to 'curb your soul's desire for freedom' and comply with COVID-19 restrictions
A drone broadcasted the message: "Control your soul's desire for freedom. Do not open the window or…