Ben Humphreys

Japanese Equivalent of The Onion

I love The Onion. For a long time I wished there was an equivalent satrirical site in Japanese. Someone just told me about the Kyoko Shimbun, a Japanese site full of made-up amusing stories.

For example they have a story on McDonalds Japan releasing the McDonal-don, a bowl of rice (don) topped with a burger.

Another story on naturally drying baumkuhen cakes in the sun.

Discovering that pi is only 10 digits long. Calculations until now having been a bug in the program running them. The quote from the researcher at the end is great.

The stories are short enough and have a good variety of vocabulary to be a pretty good way to practice Japanese I think.