A Japanese woman facing trial for poisoning her husband with cyanide may have also murdered as many as six former boyfriends, authorities say.

This may not be the most efficient method of preparing shrimp, but it's definitely the most explodey. The double-barrel "cooking detonation velocity" cannon propels prawns through jets of egg, flour, flame, and heavy metal music to land fully cooked on a plate.

On Wednesday, the Japanese heavy metal/teen-pop hybrid band Babymetal played a nearly sold-out show at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. I didn't go, and after watching a few of their videos this morning, I'm really, really regretting it.

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"You may abandon your own body, but you must preserve your honor." - Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

The United States Air Force has said that three U.S. airmen were swept out to sea off the coast of Japan on Sunday, resulting in the death of one and leaving two others missing. A strong typhoon named Phanfone was responsible for their disappearance.

Mount Ontake, a volcano that spontaneously erupted in Japan on Saturday, has left dozens of hikers presumed dead near its peak, a spokesperson for the Japanese police said. The mountain continues to spew dangerous smoke, making rescue efforts difficult.

At around 12 p.m. local time today, Japan's Mount Ontake erupted, trapping some 150 climbers on the volcano, the BBC reports. One of those caught in the disaster was YouTube user Kuroda Terutoshi, who uploaded this video showing the eruption's enormous ash cloud overtaking the hiker and his party.

An abandoned dog that narrowly escaped being euthanized years ago was an active participant in rescue efforts in Hiroshima, after recent landslides killed more than 50 residents and left many missing.

Hot news out of Japan: Hello Kitty—a stuffed animal that looks like a cat, talks like a cat, and is named after a cat—actually isn't a cat at all.

Portuguese football stud Cristiano Ronaldo was recently convinced, either by a lot of money or some sort of solemn blood debt, to endorse a Japanese product called the Facial Fitness PAO, a workout device for your face. As you can see in this commercial, a PAO session involves cramming a bite-plate with wings into your mouth and bobbing your head like you're fellating the Golden Snitch.

Twenty-nine sumo wrestlers from the Hakkaku Stable squeeze into a "tiny propeller plane" on their way to a training camp earlier this week. "It was packed tightly," the official Hakkuku Twitter account understated. [Photo: @hakkakubeya via Telegraph]

A 16-year-old student in Nagasaki was arrested by police after the dismembered body of her classmate was discovered in her apartment. The student allegedly confessed to police that she sawed off 15-year-old Aiwa Matsuo's head and hand after beating her with a hammer and strangling her with rope. Police are currently investigating a possible connection between Matsuo's murder and a series of incriminating posts on popular Japanese forum 2Channel.

Japanese artist Rokudenashiko was arrested after turning her vagina selfie into a 3-D printed "pussy boat" and sending the scans to her supporters from a crowdfunding campaign. Police said that sending the scans (which could be used to 3-D print more vagina selfies) breaks Japan's obscenity laws.

A wedding hall operator in Japan forked over $5,400 for a bunch of 30 Ruby Roman grapes, which are apparently the most expensive grapes in the world. These grapes, the wedding hall says, will be served to couples who have their weddings at the venue in Kanazawa. It is unclear if couples would be allowed to eat the grapes of if they will just be permitted to look at them.

Ryutaro Nonomura, an assemblyman for Hyogo Prefecture, burst into tears after a reporter questioned his use of public funds to pay for frequent trips to an area hot spring. He told reporters, in between breaths as he continued to weep hysterically, "I'm putting my life on the line!"

As we've been told a million times before, "Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word fuck." Sadly, this versatile, essential word has been largely left out of English education in Japan, so a British fellow took it upon himself to fix the problem.

Japan's Parliament passed a law Wednesday that officially outlaws the possession of child pornography. Anime cartoons and manga comics, however, are exempted from this law, their sometimes sexually-charged material notwithstanding.

On the 10th anniversary of the release of Disney's Frozen—okay, it only feels like 10 years—a woman is reportedly asking for a divorce because her husband just doesn't think the movie is that great.

A Chinese student living in Japan was attacked on social media after showing up late to a reservation at one of the finest sushi spots in Tokyo, trying to order "cooked sushi" to go, and then ranting about the food and service online.