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Lipton releases… Pudding Milk Tea in Japan?!?

Oona McGee
May 2, 2026
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Lipton caters to the Japanese market with an exclusive new dessert beverage.

Japan
(desserts • drinks • food • Japanese desserts • Japanese sweets • latte • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Lipton • milk tea • Morinaga • new • pudding • purin • sweets • tea • tea latte • weird)

Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp

Master Blaster
May 2, 2026

Pray to get ahead or to keep your head.

Japan
(bicycle helmets • bicycles • bicycling • COK • culture • cycling • Mie Prefecture • religion • safety • shinto • shrines)

Bandai cancels gacha/blind-buy system for anime cosmetics, will let fans choose what they buy

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2026

Reversal of policy for new Chara Cosme releases follows survey showing immense dislike for randomized merch purchases.

Japan
(anime • Bandai • blind-buy • Chara Cosmetic • cosmetics • CreerBeaute • gacha • Idolish7 • makeup • manga • Touken Ranbu)

Retro-style Evangelion T-shirts coming to Uniqlo sister brand GU[Photos]

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2026

Vintage-look shirts celebrate the original vintage of the landmark anime series.

Japan
(anime • Evangelion • fashion • GU • manga • shirts • t-shirts)

Only five branches of Japan’s beef bowl giant Matsuya serve milk shakes, but how do they taste?

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2026

Matsuya makes the step from beefy bowls to milky drinks, but only at select locations for now.

Japan
(beef bowls • COK • drinks • fast food • food • gyudon • Matsuya • milk shakes • shakes • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Japan’s Mister Donut Japan tries its hand at Taiwanese-style street food donuts

Elliot Hale
May 1, 2026

Do they live up to the hype of their Taiwanese inspiration?

Japan
(COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • new • Sakupofun • SNJO • street food • sweets • Taiwanese street food • taste test • Yui Imai)

Police in Japan summoned to deal with bank intruder…who is also a deer[Video]

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2026

Local residents thought a robbery was in progress when they saw police cars outside the bank, but something even more unexpected was going on.

Japan
(animals • banks • crazy • deer • funny • video • weird)

Live-action Ghibli Princess Mononoke stage play tickets are now on sale

Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2026

Advance tickets for the latest Studio Ghibli screen-to-stage anime adaptation show up earlier than expected.

Japan
(anime • kabuki • Live action • manga • Princess Mononoke • stage plays • Studio Ghibli)

Japan enters Golden Week vacation period, survey shows one in three plan to ride it out at home

Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2026

Japan’s all-for-fun spring holiday season is a little tarnished these days.

Japan
(Golden Week • overtourism • society • survey • tourism • travel)

Studio Ghibli releases new anime keychains that are like miniature figurines

Oona McGee
Apr 30, 2026

Special collection includes the Spirited Away train that lights up at the push of a button.

Japan
(anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Hin • Howl's Moving Castle • keychain • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Japan’s new Pokémon jackets give you the look and powers of the Kanto starter trio

Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2026

Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle jackets won’t be available in stores, though.

Japan
(anime • BOSS • Boss coffee • Bulbasaur • canned coffee • Charmander • coffee • cool • drinks • fashion • jackets • manga • Pokemon • shirts • squirtle • t-shirts • video games)

War in Iran threatening Japan’s pudding production

Master Blaster
Apr 30, 2026

If you don’t end the war, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t end the war?!

Japan
(business • COK • food • Iran • naptha • oil crisis • plastic • pudding • purin • USA • war)

Tokyo store makes you to pass a quiz in order to buy Pokémon cards as part of anti-scalper policy

Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2026

As new shipment of Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion packs comes in, Bic Camera makes a new rule.

Japan
(anime • Bic Camera • card games • collectible card games • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon card game • pokemon cards • pokemon trading card game • resellers • scalpers • trading card games • video games)

Dorayaki from 89-year-old Japanese confectionery shop is one of the best sweets hidden in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Apr 29, 2026

Filled with a special “phantom butter” from Calpis, you won’t find a treat like this anywhere else in Japan.

Japan
(dorayaki • hidden gems • Japanese sweets • monaka • old shops • Otsuka • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • tradition • traditional • traditoinal sweets • wagashi)

An interview with Evangelion’s composer, Shiro Sagisu

Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2026

Our anime-loving musician reporter sits down for a talk with an anime music legend.

Japan
(anime • COK • Evangelion • interview • manga • Seiji Nakazawa • Shiro Sagisu • SNJO • Yngwie Malmsteen)

Make-them-yourself Pokémon frappes arrive at Japanese convenience stores, can be mixed at home too

Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2026

Family Mart’s Pokémon Pokopia dessert drinks are supposed to be mixed in-store, but there’s an alternative.

Japan
(anime • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • Famima Cafe • Famima Frappe • Japanese convenience stores • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon Pokopia • SNJO • taste test • video games)

Finnish design brand Iittala partners with Pokémon for a golden first collaborative tableware set

Krista Rogers
Apr 29, 2026

The brand’s Origo line of bold-patterned tableware makes for a shockingly good partner with the world’s favorite Pokémon.

Japan
(30th anniversary • Atre Ebisu • design brand • event • Finnish • iittala • Pokemon • pop-up • tableware)

Second-generation sumo burger coming to Burger King Japan with return of Baby Body Burger

Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2026

New collaboration with Japan Sumo Association is even more deacdent than the last.

Japan
(Baby Body Burger • big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Japan Sumo Association • Sumo)

This Mother’s Day, why not give the gift of a single, really expensive, never-picked mango?

Master Blaster
Apr 28, 2026

Get your mother the mother of all mangoes.

Japan
(crazy • expensive food • food • fruit • fruits • gifts • mangoes • Miyazaki Ripe Mango • Mother's Day)

Sanrio amusement park in Tokyo to host Psycho Game horror event this summer[Video]

Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2026

After Hello Kitty goes home for the day, some decidedly less cute characters will be taking over Sanrio Puroland.

Japan
(Amusement Parks • crazy • haunted houses • Hello Kitty • Horror • Obaken • Sanrio • Sanrio Puroland • scary • theme parks • video • weird)

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