Train officials at Japan Railway's Minami-Urawa station were joined this morning by some 40 commuters eager to help push a 70,000 pound train car off a trapped passenger.

UPDATE: Snopes has rated this trend "Fake" based on an article by "Tokyo-based journalist Mark Schreiber" who traced its origins to a story on a subculture website that "had all the trappings of an urban legend."

The partially decomposed bodies of two North Korean sailors were found in the waters off Japan this weekend. Both sailors had been crew members on a North Korean cargo ship that went missing in late December.

A 25-year-old Japanese man confessed this week to slashing as many as 1,000 tires in a bizarre, yet apparently successful scheme to pick up female drivers.

A woman has had the tips of five of her toes removed after police say a coworker who was stalking her slipped hydrofluoric acid into her shoes.

A municipal legislator from Japan who goes by his pro-wrestling handle "Skull Reaper A-ji" won a seat on the Oita city council fair and square, but his fellow lawmakers are refusing to allow him to attend council meetings, claiming his Lucha-libre-style mask is in violation of a rule of order prohibiting council members from wearing hats while in session.

Here's Domino's Pizza Japan president Scott Oellkers introducing a new Domino's pizza iPhone app. What is it about this? The jump cuts? The closeups of Oellkers' eyeballs? Oellkers' own natural showmanship? The little flourish he does at the end?

While being interviewed recently for a Japanese TV show, Leonardo DiCaprio was asked if he did any celebrity impressions. DiCaprio confessed he did do one impression — of his Departed co-star Jack Nicholson.

Japan-based university student Sharla and her BFF Mira attempt to demonstrate how to properly consume "Japanese Condom Ice Cream," and inadvertently capture "the highest number of unintentional sexual innuendos you'll ever find in one place."

The first rule of seafood is, "if you see food, you eat it."

Japan's most-wanted hacker is also one its most brazen. After taunting authorities for months, the hacker sent them a mocking clue in the form of a memory card strapped to a cat which lived on an island near Tokyo. Above is video of the authorities capturing the cat on January 5th, which was tracked down only after they solved a bunch of riddles the hacker emailed to dozens of Japanese newspapers on New Years Day.

With over 150 million views on YouTube, it's long past time that Sneezing Baby Panda shove over and give another cute baby panda a chance at Internet superstardom.

Courtesy of China comes a remarkable no-mess yolk separation technique that requires nothing more than an ordinary water bottle.

Scientists working in Japan have uncovered the world's newest Godzillas: butterflies collected from the site of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

If there was one thing you could always count on, it was that if you, a red-blooded American male, were ever to experience the pain of hair loss, there would always be a strong, welcoming, American-owned Hair Club For Men for you to turn to. Well. Things have changed.

The BBC reported Thursday that a cloud that totally looked kind of like a hat was spotted over Japan Wednesday morning.

The dream of the nineties is alive in Tokyo, according to The Washington Post. Apparently people over there still use fax machines. And not just for sending…what documents do you send via a fax machine, anyway? Whatever, they use them for sending absolutely every kind of document.

City officials in Ichihara, Japan have just opened what they are calling "the biggest public toilet in the world," The Japan Times reports.

Johnny Depp probably expected Japanese fans cosplaying as Barnabas Collins at the Tokyo premiere of Dark Shadows, but what could have prepared him for a fan cosplaying as Johnny Depp?

It's been more than a year since the Japanese tusnami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the clean-up continues. But a bit of background radiation has not stopped a crew of Japanese hipsters from doing their hip business in the area. They've formed the "Gamma Watch Squadron," the world's coolest nuclear watchdogs.