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2026 (Page 56)

Japanese politician arrested on charges of accepting bribes to reduce number of monkeys in park

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2026
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Investigators say city councilman was involved in monkey business.

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• Japan
• (animals • bribe • bribery • crazy • crime • monkeys • parks • politicians • weird • zoos)

Mt. Fuji decorated with a 500,000-flower pink carpet is Japan’s ultimate spring view

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 10, 2026

With mirrors, art installations, and a Peter Rabbit garden, this festival is the perfect day trip from Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • festival • field sakura • flower festival • flowers • Fuji Five Lakes • Fuji Motosuko Resort • Fuji Shibazakura Festival • Lake Motosu • Mt. Fuji • nature • Shibazakura • tourism • tourist spots • travel • Yamanashi)

New Travelling Bento pouches turn your luggage into a Japanese lunch box

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2026

Make your next journey delicious and Instgrammable.

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• Japan
• (backpacks • bags • bento • cool • cute • fashion • food • hinomaru bento • omurice • pouches • travel • travel accessories • travel packs • travel pouches • weird)

McDonald’s and Gundam team up for customized anime mecha and fried chicken sandwiches[Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2026

Char’s invasion of Side 7 looks a little different in this continuity.

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• Japan
• (anime • Chicken Tatsuta • fast food • food • fried chicken • funny • Gundam • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)

Does a long line mean a sweeter deal? We compare two sweets from a Hokkaido food fair【Taste test】

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 9, 2026

We try to find out whether waiting in a longer line equates to a more delicious sweet through a blind office taste test.

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• Japan
• (COK • Hokkaido • omiyage • Shiroi Koibito • SNJO • Snow Cheese • Snow Milk Cheese • sweets • taste test • Yuichiro Wasai)

Family Mart unveils new Japanese bread that elevates convenience store food to mocchiri levels

• Oona McGee
  Apr 9, 2026

Japan’s trend for soft, chewy bread just got even more intense.

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• Japan
• (bread • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • Famima Bakery • food • Japanese convenience stores • mocchiri)

Häagen-Dazs releases new Green Tea sandwich in Japan for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Apr 9, 2026

We find out if this ice cream has what it takes to make matcha lovers swoon.

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• Japan
• (COK • Crispy Sandwich • food • green tea • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • matcha • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Schoolkids learn life skills through shopping field trips at street markets in Kochi Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 9, 2026

The unexpectedly cutest part of shopping at Kochi’s Thursday Market was seeing some fellow shoppers of the very small variety in action. 

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• Japan
• (COK • educational • elementary school • field trip • Kochi Prefecture • life skills • preschool • shopping • SNJO • Thursday Market)

Japanese manhole lid raises eyebrows with fertility god symbol that looks like… well, you know

• SoraNews24
  Apr 9, 2026

Festival of the Steel Phallus deity gets a steel lid in a rural city. 

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• Japan
• (culture • fertility • fertility god • Iwate • Kanamara • Kanamara Daimyojin • Kanamara Festival • manhole covers • manhole lids • Ninohe • shrines • temples • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Foreign man arrested for walking on Shinkansen tracks, claims he was on the run from yakuza

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2026

If you’re going to do something like this, you need a very good, or at least a very crazy, reason for doing it.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • crazy • crime • shinkansen • trains • weird • yakuza)

Man bites woman at cherry blossom park in Japan, dies shortly after

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2026

Senior citizen passes away shortly after being arrested and taken to hospital by police.

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• Japan
• (biting • crazy • crime • scary • video • weird)

New 7-Eleven sandwich goes viral in Japan, but is it everything it’s cracked up to be?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2026

We find out if this “Greedy Sandwich” with cherry blossom bread tastes as good as it looks.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience store sandwich • convenience store sandwiches • convenience stores • cool • fairy bread • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese fruit sandwiches • Japanese sandwich • Japanese sandwiches • sandwiches • sweets)

How to take your home ramen to the next level by making your own chashu pork in a frying pan

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2026

If you’ve got a frying pan and some aluminum foil, this kurukuru chashu recipe is ready to revolutionize your home cooking.

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• Japan
• (aluminum foil • chashu • COK • cooking • food • pork • ramen • recipe • SNJO)

Deer that appeared in downtown Osaka gets a new home, a new name, and a lot of snacks[Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2026

Likely wanderer from Nara Park won’t be going back, but has a new place to live in a hot spring town.

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• Japan
• (animals • crazy • cute • deer • environment • moving • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • nature • Osaka • Shika-yan • touching • video • weird)

Famous koi ponds overwhelmed with tourists throwing thousands of coins in them

• Master Blaster
  Apr 8, 2026

Koi and coins don’t mix.

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• Japan
• (coins • culture • Japanese etiquette • koi • luck • Oshino Hakkai • ponds • superstition)

Peanuts and Coke becomes a viral hit in Japan, but is it a trend worth joining?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2026

“Farmer’s Coke” is having a moment in Japan, and surprising people in the U.S.

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• Japan
• (COK • Cola • cool • drink hack • drinks • Farmer's Coke • hack • Haruki Murakami • peanut cola • Peanuts and Coke • Peanuts cola • SNJO • taste test • trends • viral • viral trends • weird)

McDonald’s Japan adds new Hello Kitty and Pompompurin drinks to the menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2026

Sanrio characters add sweetness to first-ever McDonald’s smoothie and frappe collaboration, complete with a Japanese idol commercial. 

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• Japan
• (Ano • commercial • cool • cute • drinks • fast food • hack • Hello Kitty • idol • Idols • Japanese commercials • Japanese idols • Kawaii • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pompompurin • Sanrio)

New Japanese KitKats come in sakura flavour, with poetic symbolism for success

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2026

“Sakura saku” literally means “Sakura bloom” but it’s also code for something else. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • chocolate • COK • food • Japanese chocolate • Japanese KitKats • Kit Kat • KitKats • limited edition • marketing • Nestle • new • sakura • SNO • sweets)

7-Eleven Japan’s new baked-in-store sweet treat is only available in three parts of the country

• SoraNews24
  Apr 7, 2026

This is one of 7-Eleven Japan’s rarest sweets, but is it worth tracking down?

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• Japan
• (7 Cafe Bakery • 7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • food • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 7, 2026

Requirement to be added to “jobs in which Japanese is used.”

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• Japan
• (COK • foreigners in Japan • Japan visa • Japan work visa • Japanese language • linguistics • Living in Japan • society • Specialist in Humanities and International Services • Specialist in Humanities International Services • working in Japan)

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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