Author: Japan Reacts Editorial

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the reality facing second-year junior high school girls in Osaka who keep scrolling social media, only to find hours have slipped by before they notice. Overseas, there’s a growing movement to restrict minors’ social media use, amid concerns about the effects on mental and physical health. The 5ch thread reacting to this report was full of confusion over the unfamiliar term “dopa-gaki” (“dopamine kid”), alongside comments like “people in their 50s are more addicted than middle and high schoolers” and “we were the same way back in the old flat-rate dial-up internet days (Telehodai).” Many posters argued that social media addiction isn’t a generational issue but a problem with mechanisms built to trigger dopamine release.

They keep scrolling social media, and before they know it, hours have passed. The number of young people with this kind of “social media addiction” is rising. Concerns about the impact on mental and physical health have sparked moves overseas to restrict use by minors.

Junior high school girls, phones in hand, say they “end up watching social media for way too long” (September, Kita Ward, Osaka)

In mid-September, in Chayamachi, Umeda — an Osaka district lined with fashion buildings — three second-year junior high school girls from Osaka walked by, phones in colorful cases in hand.

Source: yomiuri.co.jp / Read the original article here

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Endless social media scrolling 👦🤳 — before you know it, 11 hours a day: ‘dopa-gaki’ second-year junior high schoolers.”

On the morning of the 5th, a commotion broke out at a gas station in Onojo City, Fukuoka Prefecture, when a 4-ton truck slowly drove onto the premises with white smoke rising from its cargo bed. An employee reportedly called the fire department, saying “the truck came in with its cargo bed on fire.” On the thread, many voiced shock, saying “of all places, it drove into a spot where open flames are strictly forbidden,” while others defended the move, arguing “this is the only place around with equipment to handle it” — sparking a debate over just where a truck with a fire onboard should actually flee to. A similar past case — a sweet-potato vending truck reportedly driving into a fire station — was also cited, and opinions were divided over just how much firefighting equipment gas stations actually have on hand.

This morning in Onojo City, Fukuoka Prefecture, there was a commotion when a smoking truck drove onto the grounds of a gas station.

A single truck, driving slowly while white smoke poured from its cargo bed.

At around 9:30 this morning, in the Kamiohori area of Onojo City, Fukuoka Prefecture, an employee at the gas station called the fire department, saying “a 4-ton truck came in with its cargo bed on fire.”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

171AnonymousOct 5, 2026 17:01

Nobody realizes just how much vaporized gasoline billows out and spreads around while you're fueling up
That's exactly why they even install those static-electricity discharge pads for your hands…

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Fukuoka] ‘We saw smoke, so it drove into the gas station’ — Smoking truck barges in.”