Save The Woods – Canoe made from disposable chopsticks

It is a nice idea to be worried about preventing the waste of
waribashi—disposable chopsticks—millions of disposable chopsticks are
thrown away after a single-use.
 A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama
has built a 4-meter long canoe from 7,382 of used
disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bothered
that perfectly good wood was going to [...]

Japanese man finds homeless woman living in his closet

 You won’t belive it.
 
A homeless woman has been arrested after living undetected for almost a year in a tiny cupboard in a man’s house in Japan. The woman, identified as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found by police searching the home of the man, who believed he lived alone in Fukuoka.

The resident of the house, who [...]