[Link] A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High

Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com

The straw-colored drug, sold in sleek vape cases, looks strikingly similar to the cannabis oil Hiro has tried abroad. When it’s smoked, he said the difference is even harder to tell. 

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[Link] Does Global Warming Make Rice Taste Better?

Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com

Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the culinary cornerstone for half of humanity.

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[Link] Now Married, Japan’s Ex-Princess Mako to Move from Palace to a One-Bedroom in New York

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Four years after publicly announcing their engagement, former Princess Mako of Japan has officially tied the knot with her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro.

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[Link] Japanese Host Club With a Nazi Theme Apologizes for Its Lack of ‘Awareness’

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Staffed with male hosts who entertain and pour customers’ drinks, the club, called Unfair, opened on Sunday in the southern prefecture of Osaka.

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[Link] ‘You’ll Regret This For the Rest of Your Life’: Yakuza Boss Told Judge After Death Sentence

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of one of Japan’s most dangerous crime groups, Kudo-kai, was convicted for the attacks, including the killing of a fishermen’s union chief, carried out between 1998 and 2014. His second-in-command, 65-year-old Fumio Tanoue, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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