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TIL Alan Menken, composer responsible for “Disney Renaissance” soundtracks like Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, etc. wrote a song exclusively for the Japanese Disney-Sea ride “Sinbad’s Storybook Adventure” and it’s only ever been officially released in Japanese.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 1:47 am

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There was once a Japanese man named Fuk

by cringeyjokesman May 13, 2022, 4:05 pm

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TIL that the popular manga/anime One Punch Man was inspired by the even more popular children’s anime An Pan Man. The characters are a play on each other with their color schemes reversed and the play on names(One Punch Man pronounced Wan Pan Man in Japanese).

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 2:48 pm

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TIL that in 1976 ultranationalist Japanese porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flew a suicide attack (Kamikaze) on Yakuza / political fixer Yoshia Komoda‘s home because he was involved in a bribery scandal.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 7:04 am

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TIL Mariano Marcos (the father of former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and grandfather of president-elect Bongbong Marcos), was executed by guerillas for alleged collaboration with the Japanese. His hands were tied to water buffaloes who riped his body apart alive in different directions.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 2:08 am

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TIL in Japanese Mythology, the sun goddess once shut herself in a cave because another god was being a dick to her, and was lured out because of another goddess dancing topless on a table.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 1:16 am

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TIL: Japan is one of few countries that doesn’t let you become a citizen of another country without giving up your Japanese citizenship. They officially do this to stop the Japanese culture from becoming more globalist.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 12:10 pm

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TIL the original Dynasty Warriors (DW1) started off as a 1-on-1 fighting game similar to Soulcalibur before being remade into a hack-and-slash and renamed in Japanese by adding “真” (shin, meaning “true”) to its name (DW2 is just 新・三国無双 in Japanese, without the 2)

by whatilearned May 3, 2022, 4:25 am

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A Japanese myth about love..

by cringeyjokesman May 1, 2022, 9:41 am

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TIL the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force is converting the helicopter carrier JS Izumo into a fixed-wing aircraft carrier, their first since WW2

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 6:21 pm

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when you playing japanese game

by CopyPastaArchive April 27, 2022, 10:08 am

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TIL the producer of the Sonic games Yuji Naka was visiting an American studio and said in his native Japanese how he was going to poach their game engine to use for Sonic Adventure. The game was cancelled because most of the development team spoke Japanese and quit on the spot in disgust.

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 1:42 am

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