Taking a photo with a big celebrity crush results in high anxiety but also boosts something else unexpectedly for our writer. It was the very first time for our Japanese-language reporter Udon...
One commenter even said “How did this get approved?” In this day and age, protecting your privacy is becoming more and more difficult. And while there have been many genius ways to protect yo...
A Taiwanese-born New Zealander has had his passport photo rejected by his own government due to “closed eyes”. Richard Lee was attempting to renew his passport online to take a trip to Austra...
https://soranews24.com/2016/12/09/eyes-are-closed-asian-mans-passport-photo-denied/
This viral photograph proves that sometimes the best things in life are closest to home. Twitter user @Go_to_Sekai travelled the globe for fours years, taking some amazing photographs only to c...
In general, we expect people to be able to identify their family on sight, even if it’s just from the backs of their heads. After all, for better or worse, these are the people we grew up with...
In these days of social networks many of us have come up on the problem of which profile picture to use. Scrolling through all the photos you’ve reluctantly let people take of you, it’s hard ...
In a documentary about the making of Spirited Away, director Hayao Miyazaki is shown in his studio explaining how he wants a certain scene to look. When the dragon’s jaws are wrenched open, h...
It’s natural to think of people in the old-timey days as having no time for joviality, what with being tied up in battling polio, Kaisers, and other threats most of the developed world doesn’...
Just days after their launch, a handful of somewhat worrying images appeared online showing iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones which had bent, apparently after having been kept in their owners�...
Sometimes a single glance says it all, and in this particular case, the startled face of this cute cat screams, “Hurry, mom!!! Something’s not right!” But what exactly has this little kitty...
As mentioned at the end of last week’s Pic of the Week, we’ve decided to open the contest up and make it as fair as possible by asking you, the good-looking, intelligent, art-appreciating p...
https://soranews24.com/2014/08/25/pic-of-the-week-hey-you-its-time-to-vote/
One of our favorite things about Japan is the convenience of just about everything, especially the vending machines. Wherever you are, there’s at least one machine just waiting to quench your t...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you have done us proud. Last week we asked you for your funny, cute, beautiful and inspiring photos from Japan and Asia, and by the beard of Mr. Sato did you...
https://soranews24.com/2014/08/13/pic-of-the-week-round-1-winner/
Back in September 2011, there were widespread flight cancellations across China that were blamed on inclement weather. It was an unusually large disruption to the air traffic across a large count...
Cats are odd creatures. On the one hand, they exert their power over their owners humans on a near daily basis, ignoring us when we call them despite their ears clearly twitching in our directi...
A voyeur was arrested by police in China’s southern Fujian province earlier this week after a neighbor caught him taking naked photos of her while she was in the shower. For full details, chec...
Take a quick look at the picture above. Does it make you hungry? Or did you uncontrollably scream out “cuuute!”? One Twitter user has been gaining a lot of attention for getting a bit of a gr...
https://soranews24.com/2014/05/14/delicious-fried-chicken-or-adorable-puppies-you-decide/
When you think about all the power our modern devices burn through each day, particularly when some of us leave our gear switched on when it really needn’t be, it seems like a tremendous waste....
Yes, it’s still only Wednesday, and that means we’re only half way through the week. But if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person like the little guy pictured above, that means we’re no...
https://soranews24.com/2014/02/05/perfectly-timed-photo-reminds-us-that-lifes-not-all-bad/
Its popularity may be dwindling in today’s world of ultra-rich football and baseball teams and their players, but there’s something wonderfully dignified, almost majestic, about sumo. And as ...