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2026 (Page 24)

Starbucks Japan teams up with Traveler’s Company for new stationery and goods collection

• Oona McGee
  Aug 7, 2026
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Coffee and travel come together in a new range of exclusives by cult-favourite Japanese stationery brand.

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• Japan
• (drinkware • Japanese stationery • limited edition • merchandise • Reserve Roastery • Reserve Roastery Tokyo • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • stationery • travel • Traveler's notebook • Traveler’s Company • tumblers)

Over 400 titles of free translated manga from publisher Shueisha available for a limited time

• Master Blaster
  Aug 6, 2026

It’s their birthday, but we’re getting the presents!

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• Global, Internet, Japan
• (anniversaries • free • Hideaki Hayashi • manga • Manga Million • Shueisha • translation)

Kochia calling: Right now is a great off-season season to visit this beautiful Japanese park

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2026

Before Hitachi Seaside Park turns red for autumn, it’s got a beautiful summer color to show you too.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • Hitachi • Hitachi Seaside Park • Japan travel • kochia • nature • outdoors • parks • tourism • travel)

Resident Evil’s terrifying Licker becomes a bag in Japan that wants to feed you

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2026

After years of this video game horror trying to eat us, it’s finally going to help us with our hunger instead.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • bags • Capcom • COK • crazy • funny • popcorn • popcorn buckets • Resident Evil • scary • theme parks • Universal Horror Nights • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • video games)

Japan’s largest online flea market reminds users that selling used school swimsuits is prohibited

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2026

Even if they’ve been professionally cleaned, used school swimsuits are too dirty for this marketplace.

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• Japan
• (crazy • fashion • mercari • school swimsuits • schools • society • swimsuits • weird • youth)

Starbucks Japan to open Shinkansen platform stores at Kyoto and Nagoya stations

• Oona McGee
  Aug 6, 2026

New stores add a fresh taste and aroma to high-speed travel on Japan’s busiest bullet train route.

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• Japan
• (bullet trains • cafes • coffee • cool • drinks • Japanese trains • Kyoto • Kyoto Station • Nagoya • Nagoya Station • news • Shin-Yokohama • shinkansen • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Tokaido Shinkansen • trains • travel • Yokohama)

Aichi city throws year-long 20th birthday bash for giant beckoning cat statue, Hello Kitty invited

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 6, 2026

The 20th birthday of a local legend calls for collaborations with Hello Kitty, Chubu Centrair International Airport, and 15 local businesses.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • Aichi Prefecture • beckoning cat • cats • Chubu Centrair International Airport • cool • cute • Hello Kitty • Japan travel • lucky cat • manekineko • pottery • Tokoname • Tokonyan • tourism • travel)

Final Fantasy plushie shoulder bags are fuzzy and functional [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Chocobo, Moogle, and two more Final Fantasy mascot creatures want to go with you on your outside-the-house adventures.

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• Japan
• (bags • Cactaur • Chocobo • cool • cute • fashion • Final Fantasy • Moogle • Square Enix • video games)

Akita Kanto Festival, one of Japan’s most spectacular summer festivals, gets an anime twist this year

• Oona McGee
  Aug 5, 2026

Towering lanterns, traditional balancing skills, and a special anime collaboration make this an unforgettable Japanese festival experience.

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• Japan
• (Akita • anime • festivals • Golden Kamuy • Japanese festivals • Kanto • Kanto festival • manga • SNJO • summer • Tohoku)

U.S. government reportedly planning to close Nagoya consulate

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Move would leave Japan’s fourth-largest city without consular services.

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• Japan, USA
• (COK • consulate • embassy • internationalism • Nagoya • Nagoya consulate • society • U.S. consulate • U.S. Embassy)

Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain is now serving up simmered kinmedai.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • fast food • fish • food • gyudon • kinmedai • restaurants • sea bream • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)

Pokémon Center Online designates first Pokémon items that will require Japanese ID card to buy

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2026

Fans will need to be residents of Japan in order to buy these items from the Pokémon Center Online.

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• Japan
• (anime • card games • collectible card games • manga • My Number Card • Pokemon • Pokémon card game • pokemon cards • Pokémon Center Online • Pokémon Company • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)

Toyota Museum’s international retro vehicle parade returns to Aichi this autumn

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 4, 2026

Cruise over to Moricoro Park for 120 vintage cars or apply and show off your own pre-1997 classic.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • cars • classic cars • COK • cool • Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park • Moricoro Park • Nagakute • retro • TOYOTA • Vintage)

Tokyo’s Haneda Airport airlines announce stricter luggage check-in deadline for domestic flights

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2026

JAL and ANA among carriers to start requiring earlier baggage check-in very soon.

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• Japan
• (Air travel • airlines • airplanes • ANA • COK • Haneda • Haneda Airport • JAL • Japan travel • tourism • travel)

Sanrio characters join forces with your favorite Japanese snack mascots as prizes at Family Mart

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 4, 2026

The convenience store chain offers the summer’s most kawaii collab by bringing 26 characters from different worlds together.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Hello Kitty • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Sanrio)

Coco’s Japan is very confident in their chilled ramen, but should they be? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2026

Premium-priced hiyashi chuka comes to the American coffee shop’s Japanese branches.

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• Japan
• (Coco's • Coco’s Japan • COK • cold ramen • food • hiyashi chuka • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

Is covering your entire upper body with cooling strips enough to fend off Japan’s summer heat?

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2026

Mr. Sato thinks it might be, and when was the last time he had an idea that didn’t pan out?

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• Japan
• (COK • cooling patches • cooling strips • crazy • experiment • funny • heat • Hiepita • Mr. Sato • SNJO)

Pokémon comes to McDonald’s Japan for new Happy Meals toys, brings every generation’s starters

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2026

You can’t celebrate 30 years of Pokémon without 30 years of starters, plus a few more Pocket Monster all-stars.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meal toys • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)

Sweet dreams are made of cheese at this all-you-can-eat cheese and doria restaurant

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 4, 2026

Our stomachs are more than pleased after eating all of the cheese.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • cheese • COK • doria • Jiyugaoka • Saint Marc • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo)

Japan’s favorite popsicles add multilingual packaging to better connect with foreign tourists

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2026

Garigari-kun wants to make friends with/be eaten by people from all over the world.

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• Japan
• (Akagi Nyugyo • food • Garigari-kun • internationalism • Japam travel • popsicles • shaved ice • sweets • tourism • travel)

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  6. Starbucks Japan reveals this year’s lucky bag, but you’ll have to act fast to get one
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  8. First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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  1. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
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  3. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
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  8. Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
  9. Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods for 2026, with exclusive holiday surprises
  10. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan

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  1. Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia
  2. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  4. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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  8. New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
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  10. Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
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  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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