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  • 2017-12-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Tokyo Open the First Human Meat Restaurant? (en)
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  • In November 2017, many Internet users began encountering multiple posted versions of an article reporting that the city of Tokyo had recently seen the opening of a restaurant (operating under a Japanese name meaning Edible Brother) that serves human flesh to customers: The abrupt opening to the article and its use of stilted English should have been giveaways that it was likely a truncated copy of something originally published in a language other than English. Indeed, the source was a 12 July 2016 spoof published by La Voz Popular, a Spanish-language satirical publication. The fake La Voz Popular article was combined with elements from a 2016 April Fool's joke (about the Japanese government's supposedly approving the first 'ethical; human flesh noodle shop) and photographs of props created to promote the zombie video game Resident Evil 6 (which were repurposed for an earlier similar hoax) in order to further the fabricated tale. As the Mexican news site Verne noted of the November 2017 version of the hoax: (en)
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