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What's Behind Japan's Obsession With Cuteness?

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EXPLAIN YOURSELF, KITTY What's Behind Japan's Obsession With Cuteness? digg.com From Hello Kitty, to Kumamon the bear, to schoolgirl fashion, a look into the roots and effects of Japan's obsession with the "kawaii" aesthetic. WHAT'S HAPPENING Melania Trump May Have Plagiarized Part Of Her Convention Speech From Michelle Obama WATCH: Iowa Rep Steve King Makes White Supremacist Remarks On Live TV 'Pokémon Go' Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price ISIS Claims Responsibility For Train Attack In Germany Russia Faces Full Ban From Rio 2016 After Doping Scandal GEAR WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Bag Lets You Pack And Unpack In Seconds risegear.com Rise Gear is a neat freak's dream. Pack your stuff in the bag's interior shelves and then hang everything up when you get to where you're going. So smart, so simple, so why didn't we think of this sooner? AMERICAN EXPORTS MADE IN THE USA The American Who Accidentally Became A Chinese Movie Star nytimes.com The journey of Jonathan Kos-Read, better known as Cao Cao, is a good guide for anyone seeking to make it in China's budding, chaotic film industry. UM, TO BECOME CHINESE MOVIE STARS? Why Americans Renounce Their Citizenship vice.com Daniel Kuettel considered himself both as American as apple pie and as Swiss as an army knife. His distant relatives on his mother's side had come to America on the Mayflower, and Kuettel had spent three years in active service for the US Army. So why would he renounce his citizenship? AT LEAST WE CAN PLAY IN OUR BACKYARDS VIDEO: Korean Gamers Want To Play 'Pokémon Go' So Bad They're Flocking To A Town Where A Glitch Lets Them Play digg.com The hit mobile game "Pokémon Go" hasn't launched in South Korea yet, but that hasn't stopped passionate fans from finding a work around. Due to a glitch in Google Maps, the small town of Sokcho, right along the DMZ, has access the game and people are traveling there en masse. A LAND OF CONFUSION TEACH A MAN TO KILL FOR A FISH A Fish So Coveted People Have Smuggled, Kidnapped, And Killed For It blog.longreads.com The Asian arowana's status among wealthy buyers has made it the object of a thriving black market. A TOUCH OF GENIUS When Genesis Ruled the World medium.com The band's 1986 hot streak, as a group and as solo artists, impressed everyone — even Patrick Bateman. CREATING A LOT OF BUZZ One Man's Obsessive Quest To Create A Million-Dollar Vibrator thrillist.com Burn's accomplishments are many, but one thing continues to elude him: the million-dollar vibrator. It's now designed, prototyped, and ready to go, but it took years of hustle, hard work, and enduring the taunts of friends and colleagues to get there. BEFORE YOU GO NOT YOUR NORMAL SEA PIGS Boar Emerges From The Ocean, Starts A Rampage On Beach digg.com Pigs can't fly, but they sure can swim. And destroy things, too. Today, try and strike a balance between boar and bore. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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