Exam season has arrived but don’t gripe, Japan has found a solution.

Not really but for what they believe will bring better luck is a wonton noodles known as “Ganbare Students” (try your hardest or don’t give up) by Myoujou FOods. They are sold in convenience stores all over with cherry blossom colored wontons with flowers embedded in the soup’s kamaboko (if eaten, they bring good fortune supposedly).

But if you’re not hungry and need some loving, there’s also lotion! Waimack Jewel Cosmetics released a “refreshing lotion” designed to clear your mind and encourage students.

All of it sounds like a hoax to me but I wouldn’t mind trying out those wontons.

Source: CScoutJapan
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Tags: exams, lotion, ramen, student

A Japanese school teacher thought it would be funny to trick a group of students into making a sexual hand gesture otherwise known as the “shocker”. If you don’t know what it is, let urban dictionary school you. Not only did the teacher take the photo but they shared it with their friends and submitted it to Digg.com. The photo was originally submitted to Flickr but now has been deleted. Thank God.

Honestly, what kind of teacher does this to their students?

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The girls in Ms. Motoko Okubo classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen Middle School in Tokyo, Japan have got to be the luckiest girls. Apparently, their administration thought it would be an awesome idea if they started using the Nintendo DS as a method of teaching English. Well they’ve been experimenting since late May and so far the results have been impressive. The students not only enjoy playing the DS, but the average vocabulary per student has increased by 35% - pretty impressive for a 2 month span. It also has had a positive impact on the slackers.

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