Two Japanese men were arrested this week for allegedly contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast-food restaurant as part of a prank that has spiraled into what some have called sushi ...

Japan’s stomach-churning “sushi terrorism” is running rampant. Police busted two men in Osaka this week for contaminating a communal bowl of pickled ginger at a fast-food restaurant as part of a viral ...

Japan is known for pulling off some insane — and pants-wettingly terrifying — pranks, but this may take the cake. Someone went through an elaborate amount of trouble (and cost!) to have a 1:1-scale ...

Japanese police have brought in, questioned, and charged a 13-year-old female student from the city of Kariya for sharing browser exploit code online. The code was a mere prank that triggered an ...

Japanese police in the city of Kariya have questioned and charged a 13-year-old female student for distributing malicious code online after she linked to the code on an online message board. The ...

Prank shows have been popular on television since the beginning of TV broadcasting, with the legendary “Candid Camera” show first airing in 1948 and running through the 1970s. That show has been ...

This may be the meanest/best/coolest prank I’ve ever seen. The Japanese are not known for pulling punches on pranks but this one really takes the cake. It starts with the victim walking down the ...

One of the two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam, the exiled brother of North Korea’s leader, was hired to take part in what she believed to be a Japanese prank show in the weeks prior to his ...

April Fool's Day is already over in Japan, but we can still appreciate one of this year's pranks: a fake video for the next Apple gadget. No, it's not a particularly novel joke, but it is interesting ...