The cobra couldn’t keep up with the cat’s incredible speed and reflexes, so it fled the fight!
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u/Infamous-Office9698 — 4 days ago
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r/TikTokCringe r/lowlevelaware r/radio r/HorseRacingJP r/Justfuckmyshitup r/bicycling r/repost r/google r/baseball r/japanrail r/Tokyo r/nope r/ScamCenter r/sony r/interestingasfuck r/shortwave r/japannews r/kurtisconner r/newsokunomoral r/newsokuexp r/runtoJapan2 r/cybersecurity r/olympics r/WorkplaceSafety r/BakaNewsJP r/phishing r/CyberNews
▲ 3 r/radio
Does anyone remember Deutsche Welle’s old Japanese-language shortwave sign-on?
I used to listen to Deutsche Welle’s Japanese-language shortwave service when I was in junior high school.
I remember the opening announcement saying something like, “This is Deutsche Welle, broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany,” and I also remember Bonn being mentioned. However, I don’t remember Cologne being mentioned at all.
Does anyone have an old recording of Deutsche Welle’s Japanese service, or remember exactly how the station identification/opening announcement was worded?
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 1 month ago
▲ 9 r/BakaNewsJP
円安・円高の定義はyahoonewsが変える？
金融アナリストの世界では円安修正が進行すると円安になるみたいだｗ
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 1 month ago
▲ 7 r/lowlevelaware
昔、福岡で陥没事故があった。
大きな下水管が破損し、そこから流れ出る汚水を垂れ流している映像がテレビで流れ続けていた時の2chの盛り上がり方がすごかった。あのカキコしていた連中が今、LLLに流れ込んできている（と思う）。
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 1 month ago
▲ 47 r/Tokyo
For anyone obsessed with Tokyo’s hidden history: "Earth Diver" (アースダイバー) is an incredible read (and easy to read via Kindle translation)
If you live in Tokyo or love wandering the city and wondering why certain neighborhoods feel the way they do, you need to check out "Earth Diver" (アースダイバー) by anthropologist Shinichi Nakazawa.
What is it? The core premise is brilliant: Nakazawa overlays modern maps of Tokyo with topographical maps from the Jomon period (when sea levels were much higher and Tokyo was full of inlets, peninsulas, and cliffs).
He traces how ancient sacred spots, burial grounds, and shorelines evolved directly into modern Tokyo's landmarks—like why shrines sit on specific hills, how old boundaries shaped modern nightlife districts (like Roppongi, Shinjuku, and Shibuya), and the invisible spiritual geography beneath the asphalt.
Why Kindle makes it accessible: There isn't an official English translation yet, but the Kindle edition is available on Amazon Japan. If you read it through the Kindle app (on iPad/PC/Phone), you can use the built-in instant translation/dictionary tools to read through it even if your Japanese isn't fluent.
- Title: 増補改訂 アースダイバー (Earth Diver - Expanded & Revised Edition)
- Author: 中沢新一 (Shinichi Nakazawa)
Has anyone else here read it? It completely changed how I look at everyday streets and train lines around the city.
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 265 r/baseball
Teruaki Sato is hitting .315 with 28 HR, 78 RBI and a 1.021 OPS — and I think his eventual MLB contract could surpass both Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto
Teruaki Sato may be one of the most interesting future MLB free-agent/posting cases in Japan.
As of August 17, the Hanshin Tigers third baseman is hitting:
.315 / 28 HR / 78 RBI / 1.021 OPS
This comes after a 2025 season in which he hit 40 home runs, drove in 102 runs and won the Central League MVP.
He is also not just a DH-type slugger. Sato has spent most of his career playing third base, although there have reportedly been differing opinions among MLB scouts about whether he can remain there in the majors.
Several MLB teams have already been linked to him, including the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers and Phillies.
But there is another part of Sato's value that may be difficult to see just from his statistics.
He plays for the Hanshin Tigers.
For people who don't follow NPB closely, Hanshin is not simply another Japanese baseball team. The Tigers have one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in Japanese sports, particularly in Osaka and the wider Kansai region.
Japanese stars moving to MLB obviously bring commercial value from Japan — what you might loosely call "Japan money."
But Sato could be an unusually strong case because he may bring a significant portion of an already extremely passionate regional fan base with him.
If he becomes available to MLB clubs while still in his prime, with this level of left-handed power, acceptable defensive value and the commercial pull of being a Hanshin superstar, I would not be surprised if the bidding becomes much more aggressive than people currently expect.
In fact, I think there is at least a plausible case that Sato could eventually receive a larger MLB contract than either Munetaka Murakami or Kazuma Okamoto.
That may sound aggressive, but if you're an MLB front office, you're not just buying his home runs.
You're potentially buying the best years of a middle-of-the-order bat — and acquiring one of the biggest baseball personalities from one of Japan's biggest baseball markets at the same time.
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 113 r/HorseRacingJP
January 7, 2011 – The day the “Baba o Narasu Kuruma” crashed the party at Kasamatsu
On this day at Kasamatsu Racecourse, Race 3 (Wakatae Tokubetsu, Dirt 1800m, 5 runners) turned into one of the most absurd incidents in Japanese racing history.
Mid-race, two harrow (track-leveling) vehicles suddenly drove onto the course and blocked the horses on the final straight. The horses managed to weave around or go outside the tractors and all finished safely, but the race was declared void because of the interference. All bets (¥7,862,000) were refunded.
The cause was pure human error: the track maintenance staff mistook the 1800m race for an 800m race (both start from the same point) and thought the race was already over after the first circuit.
The track announcer’s stunned call — “Baba o narasu kuruma ga 2-dai dete orimasu” (“There are two track-leveling vehicles on the straight”) — became legendary, and the incident is still remembered as the “Baba o Narasu Kuruma Incident” or the “Kasamatsu Grand Steeplechase.”
No horses or jockeys were injured, but it remains one of the most surreal moments in local racing history.
Anyone else remember this one?
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 21 r/japannews
A 10,000-firework festival across three Japanese cities was canceled. The organizers say they were preparing for it. The cities say they weren’t involved.
A bizarre story is unfolding in Shiga Prefecture.
An event called the “Lake Biwa Three-City Simultaneous Fireworks Festival” was advertised for August 22, with fireworks planned in Hikone, Nagahama and Takashima.
This was not presented as a small local event. Organizers advertised more than 10,000 fireworks across the three cities and recruited food vendors, charging a ¥50,000 participation fee.
Then things became strange.
The three city governments announced that they were not involved in the event, and according to MBS, the organizers had not submitted the prefectural permit application required for using Lake Biwa under the River Act.
The event was subsequently canceled.
Yet the organizers told MBS that they had intended to hold the festival from the beginning and had been conducting “discussions, coordination and concrete preparations” with fireworks companies and other businesses.
That is what makes this story so unusual.
If this was simply a scam, the enormous scale of the proposed event seems oddly disproportionate to the relatively modest amounts reportedly collected from individual vendors and ticket buyers.
But there is another possibility: the organizers may actually have believed they could pull it off.
Other reports indicate that at least one fireworks company was approached about a contract worth tens of millions of yen. If true, this was not necessarily an event that existed only on a website.
Which raises an even stranger question:
Did someone really believe they could announce and sell a three-city fireworks festival first, and work out the government permits, police coordination, fire safety, traffic control and other logistics later?
If so, this may turn out to be less a conventional fraud story than a spectacular case of amateur event planning colliding with reality.
The next important question is refunds.
If buyers and vendors are not fully refunded, and if the matter becomes a criminal investigation, one obvious issue will be the timeline: when did the organizers realize that the festival could no longer realistically be held, and did they continue accepting money after that point?
Because much of the operation appears to have been conducted online, there may also be a substantial digital trail — ticket transactions, payment records, website updates, emails and communications with contractors.
So the most interesting question may not be simply:
“Why was the festival canceled?”
It may be:
“At what point did the organizers realize that this enormous event was no longer realistically possible?”
And that is what makes the organizers’ response so fascinating: they are not saying the festival was fictional. They are saying they genuinely intended to hold it.
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 14 r/lowlevelaware
実は俺はNASAから解放された異星人だ。でも、好きな子が出来てしまった。どうやってカミングアウトすればいいか教えてくれ。
reddit.comu/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 82 r/cybersecurity
North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says
North Korean hacking group Kimsuky reportedly builds AI tools for cyberattacks
A North Korean-linked hacking group is reportedly moving beyond simply using generative AI for phishing.
According to South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians, Kimsuky has set up local AI environments using tools including Ollama, GPT4All and Msty, as well as RAG-based document search systems. Researchers also found AI agent development frameworks, speech-to-text software and Cursor, an AI-assisted coding tool.
The interesting part is that these systems can apparently run locally, allowing operators to process stolen or sensitive documents without sending them to external AI services.
Genians says this could allow Kimsuky to integrate existing AI models into malware development, stolen-data analysis and attack automation, while also producing more convincing phishing and decoy documents.
Reuters notes that the findings have not been independently verified.
Source: Reuters
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago
▲ 87 r/HorseRacingJP
Found this Mainichi Shimbun article from May 20, 2026, featuring Seina Imamura's historic Classic run—used as packing material from a 100-yen shop! 🐴📰
Hey r/HorseRacingJP!
I came across this interesting piece of racing history while shopping. This article from the Mainichi Shimbun (dated May 20, 2026) discusses 22-year-old jockey Seina Imamura taking on the Yushun Himba (Oaks・JG1) on May 24 with Jouryoku Piero (ジョウリョクピエロ).
The funniest part? It was being used as protective packing material in a 100-yen shop! Just thought it was a neat, slightly random find for Japanese racing fans. What do you guys think?
u/Infamous-Office9698 — 2 months ago