Spotted on Japanese social media:

A sales rep from an industrial sensor company in Japan said "I'll send the quote soon" and left. The customer walked back to their desk, and the quote was already in their inbox.

The rep's car was still in the customer's parking lot.

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Japanese travelers compared notes on the whole apple waiting in hotel rooms abroad.

One side asked who flies with a knife. The other side just bites it.

Someone's boss once turned the fruit away at the door, sure he'd be charged for it.

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One commenter wrote a two-line skit. "Where's the operator?" "Something about shukkō?"

That could be 出向 (posted to another site) or 出航 (a ship setting sail). Same sound. Reassigned, or sailed off in the container?

English "shipped out" happens to cover both.

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An excavator fits its shipping container wall to wall.

The operator gets out through the front windshield. Then he takes his shoes off before walking across the top.

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How does the operator get out after parking an excavator in a shipping container with no room on either side?

Commenters: "Operator included." "Ready to use straight out of the box."

The manufacturer: through the front windshield. Shoes off first.

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A Japanese developer broke ground at the British Library with a Shinto ceremony.

The priest was Dutch.

What the ceremony is, and why the replies in Japan drifted to fairies.

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Spotted on Japanese social media:

A cat in Japan skipped the water entirely and just kept licking the other cat, who was busy drinking.

That is not water. That is a cat drinking water.

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Translation note: Japanese net slang writes "lol" as 草 (kusa, "grass"), because a row of w's looks like grass.

Under a video about bad breath, one commenter wrote 臭 instead: the kanji for "stink," also read kusa.

Same sound. Same laugh. New smell.

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A man already known on Japanese TV for the smell behind his ears was told his breath might be worse.

So he entered "breath sumo": two people, face to face, breathing on each other until one gives up.

Viewers pointed out it scores defense, too.

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Translation note: 「月に代わっておしおきよ」

The familiar English is "In the name of the Moon." Acting in someone's name implies authority.

代わって means "in place of," which leaves open whether the Moon punishes anyone.

おしおき is what a parent gives a naughty kid.

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The Moon is Sailor Moon's home kingdom. So when she punishes villains "in the Moon's place," she is technically a foreign power enforcing law on Earth.

One reply called it interference in internal affairs. Another said Earth should be left to Endymion.

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Spotted on Japanese social media:

A sign on an aquarium tank in Japan: "An octopus has gone missing. If you see it walking around, please catch it or tell a staff member."

It was found safe.

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Translation note: one reply called the Civil War-era Texas cattle 野良牛 (nora-ushi).

Nora means stray, usually cats and dogs with no owner. "Stray cow" sounds like one cow that wandered off. Nora-ushi sounds like a whole herd living on its own.

English has a word: maverick.

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Japanese users were marveling at Texas cattle multiplying unsupervised during the Civil War. Then an American mentioned a giraffe that escaped in Texas and went unseen for months.

One reply: in Japan, a giraffe gets ten minutes. Posing as a statue.

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Translation note: one reply called the exchange 即オチ2コマ, "instant fall in two panels." It's a manga meme: panel one, someone swears they'll never give in. Panel two, they've given in completely.

English has "famous last words," but that stops at panel one.

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A little girl from overseas was promised Japanese clothes, then shown a folded yukata. She refused to believe it.

"That's just fabric!"

Then it was tied on. The replies wandered off to saris, ancient Greece, and the Flat-Clothes Tribe.

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Translation note: 全ツッパ (zentsuppa)

Mahjong slang for pushing every tile forward no matter how dangerous the table looks.

"Went all in" keeps the result but loses the picture: a big brother at a school festival, playing like a hardened mahjong parlor regular. For candy.

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Casinos are a standard booth at Japanese high school festivals. Candy for prizes. Bottle caps for chips. Students on all fours as racehorses.

It started with a middle schooler who toured her dream school and came home having won back her brother's losses.

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Lady Gaga is in a new Japanese TV ad. For a convenience store.

It isn't selling anything. It's a help-wanted ad.

Her name tag spells her name in katakana. It also has a barcode for clocking in.

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Translation note: a reply read "円高:ニポンダイスキ 円安:イクラハラエルネン". Strong yen: "I love Nippon." Weak yen: "So how much can you pay?"

It's all katakana, the script for foreign words, so it sounds like a foreign star. English has no such switch. All caps had to do.

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