No, Japan’s prime minster did not make friends with a cockroach, despite what you may have heard

The (Mostly Fictional) Cockroaches in Japanese Markets

You might have read that Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi has a new friend.

No, Japan’s prime minster did not make friends with a cockroach, despite what you may have heard

Some reminders: Japan isn’t always as wacky as foreign media wants to think it is, literal translation can trip non-linguists up, and Osamu Tezuka was a really good manga creator. The official Twitter account of British newspaper The Telegraph greets visitors with “We speak your mind.” Honestly, that’s a pretty presumptuous statement, and a recent headline from the paper regarding Japanese prime minster Sanae Takaichi suggests that maybe the pap…