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March, 2020 (Page 3)

Shakey’s Japan releases Mojo Potato recipe to keep home cooks happy during coronavirus outbreak

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2020
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A delicious social distancing strategy.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • food • Mojo Potatoes • potatoes • Shakey's • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

IOC President is “in 100-percent agreement” with Japan’s proposal to postpone Tokyo Olympics

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2020

Also agrees with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s proposal to have the Games by next summer at the latest.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • IOC • Olympics • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

Mr. Sato records his own CD while working from a karaoke room

• Master Blaster
  Mar 25, 2020

It had always been our writer’s dream to cut an album, but there was just one problem…

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• Japan
• (Casablanca Dandy • CD • COK • karaoke • Kenji Sawada • Mr. Sato • music • recording • SNJO • Takemoto Piano • Tokyo)

Domino’s offers sakura videos, free second pizzas to get Japan to do cherry blossom parties at home

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2020

A subdued sakura season is a sad turn of events for Japan, but free pizza always puts a smile on people’s faces.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom-viewing • cherry blossoms • cool • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • dominos pizza • food • hanami • pizza • sakura • video • videos)

Japanese cat is singularly perturbed by owner’s piano music, requests a concert cancelation

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 25, 2020

This one cat would like to call in a complaint about her owner’s rendition of “I Stepped on the Cat.”

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• Internet, Japan
• (cat • cats • funny • I stepped on the cat • music • pets • piano • video)

Beautiful anime fantasy mom is now teaching Japanese people how to speak English

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2020

Fans of Do You Love Your Mom? Will learn how to say “You may not look at me in the nude” as part of new textbook.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? • linguistics • Teaching English in Japan • weird)

Video shows final moment for Harajuku Station as Tokyo landmark closes after 96 years in service

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2020

Farewell, Harajuku Station…and hello, Harajuku Station!

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• Japan
• (COK • Harajuku • Harajuku Station • stations • Tokyo • trains • travel)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposes postponing Tokyo Olympics for up to one year

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2020

Reported conference call asks IOC to change Tokyo 2020 to Tokyo 2021.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • IOC • Olympics • Shinzo Abe • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

Japanese Twitter user offers explanation for why Japan’s coronavirus outbreak has been so small

• Dale Roll
  Mar 24, 2020

Despite not being on lockdown, why has Japan been able to keep coronavirus infection and fatality numbers so low?

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• Japan
• (cluster outbreak • COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • data • medicine • society • virus)

Japanese convenience store overtaken by nature and vending machines, looks like a Ghibli movie

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2020

Street-corner shambles holds a magical allure. 

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• Japan
• (architecture • buildings • convenience stores • cool • Daily Yamazaki • haikyo • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • Saitama • weird)

Indulge in this sumo, public bath-themed room during your next stay in Tokyo’s Harajuku district

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 24, 2020

“Dosukoi” is the next iteration of themed travel accommodations being offered by the fun and inventive Moshi Moshi Rooms.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • Airbnb • Asobi System • Harajuku • hotels • Moshi Moshi Rooms • public bath • public baths • Rokuyon • sento • Sumo • travel)

Eat a mountain of chicken katsu at this restaurant in Nara【Photos】

• Shannon
  Mar 24, 2020

If you’re into eating challenges, this is one you won’t want to miss out on.

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• Japan
• (food challenge • food review • K. Masami • Nara • SNJO • tonkatsu • Tonmasa)

Caravan company offers discount during coronavirus, despite social distancing recommendations

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 24, 2020

Now you can get some real social distance by… working from home with other people?

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• Japan
• (camper vans • caravan • corona virus • discount • Native Caravan Co. • telecommuting • weird • work from home)

Tokyo could be put on coronavirus lockdown, governor says

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2020

Life has stayed remarkably normal in Japan’s capital during the coronavirus outbreak, but that could be changing soon.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • lockdown • social distancing • society • Tokyo • Yuriko Koike)

Japan’s Cats and Dominos video warms the heart, makes us want to stay home and watch it all day【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2020

Not going anywhere for a while? Let this awesomely adorable video keep you company!

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• Japan
• (animals • awesome • cats • cool • cute • dominoes • pets • video)

Tokyo Olympics loses first participant as Canada withdraws from Games over coronavirus concerns

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2020

Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams won’t be heading to Japan this summer, and one other nation is already following suit.

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• Australia, Canada, Japan
• (2020 Olympics • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • Olympics • paralympics • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

Digital resurrection after death? 63 percent of Japanese and American survey participants say nah

• Eli Pang
  Mar 23, 2020

Dead folks tell no tales unless they become an AI-programmed hologram!

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• Japan
• (AI • artificial intelligence • D.E.A.D • technology • whatever inc)

Japan’s gothic lolita fashion rental shop gives our reporter her first taste of lolita life【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2020

Dozens of options and delivery to your door lower the entry barrier for first-timers.

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• Japan
• (cool • fashion • gothic lolita • Lolita fashion • Natsuki Gojo • rental • SNJO)

Japanese cat does a perfectly graceful acrobatic flip to escape from the perilous shower room【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 23, 2020

That we could all so effortlessly swoop away from our problems!

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• Japan
• (adorable • cats • cats are liquid • cats of Twitter • funny • video)

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Why this centuries’ old Shinto shrine is suddenly also a hot spot for anime fan art【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2020

Whether you call it Demon Slayer or Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kamado Shrine is the place to go for fans of the hit anime/manga.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • COK • Dazaifu • Demon Slayer • ema • Fukuoka • Kamado Shrine • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • shinto • shrines • SNJO • travel)

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