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Krista Rogers

Starting with a love of J-Pop and J-dramas when she was 13, Krista Rogers has left her quiet New England hometown in the States both to study abroad in Tokyo and to work on the JET Program in beautiful Yamagata prefecture. She misses chatting in the local dialect and staging Kamehameha battles in the hallway with her students. Although she's currently working on her master's degree in Boston, she will without a doubt be back in Japan before long and buying way too much at Book-Off and Tower Records again. When she needs a break from schoolwork, Krista enjoys eating yakiniku, figure skating, finding cute cafes, watching Big Bang MVs, and continuing on her quest to catch 'em all.

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Japan’s free stock image site of muscular men doing whimsical and mundane things reveals rankings

Krista Rogers
3 days ago
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The site with a goal of “Adding muscles to everyday life” has released a new gallery collecting its most viral muscly moments up to the present.

Japan
(free • macho • Muscle Plus • muscular men • photos • revitalization • stock images • trending • viral)

Tokyo Skytree set to offer breathtaking Diamond Fuji natural phenomenon view this month

Krista Rogers
4 days ago

The Tokyo landmark is a perfect spot on an ancient ley line of spiritual power to view the sight of Mt. Fuji with a diamond of light on its summit.

Japan
(beautiful • COK • Diamond Fuji • ley line • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • spiritual • Tokyo Skytree)

Baum vending machine in a Yokohama station lets us eat cake served on a luxury cruise ship

Krista Rogers
Oct 27, 2026

Our favorite kind wasn’t even the one we expected, but they were all the baum-dot-com.

Japan
(Asuka III • Bashamichi Station • baum • cake • Cocotomo • COK • cruise • dessert • food • gluten-free • Minatomirai Line • SNJO • vending machine • weird • Yokohama)

Beloved, 100-year-old Tokyo public bathhouse Sengenyu is about to get a second life this December

Krista Rogers
Oct 27, 2026

Various entities take a dip together to save a community institution and preserve public bath culture for the next generation to enjoy.

Japan
(art • collaboration • crowdfunding • Nihon University • onsen • preservation • public bath • reopening • Sengenyu • sento • Tokyo)

Family Mart enters the soft serve game with giga-sized cones of milk or matcha goodness

Krista Rogers
Oct 22, 2026

Four stores in Tokyo recently started selling the soft serve in three flavors with little to no fanfare. Read More

Japan
(COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • konbini • Mr. Sato • SNJO • soft cream • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo)

It’s time for the kokia to shine at this herb gardens and ropeway attraction in Kobe

Krista Rogers
Oct 21, 2026

The park’s Garden Fest 2026 -Autumn- event is enveloped in a sea of fire this year that’s perfect for making fall memories.

Japan
(autumn • beautiful • COK • fall • firebush • gardens • Kobe • kokia • nature • outdoors • parks • ropeway)

We waited three hours to get into the new carb heaven all-you-can-eat bread restaurant in Osaka

Krista Rogers
Oct 14, 2026

We still had to wait three hours to get in to this new eatery one-and-a-half months after opening, but we finally understood why once it was our turn.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • bakeries • bread • carbs • COK • line • restaurants • SNJO • St. Marc Cafe)

Bilingual illustrated ninja guide stealthily drops courtesy of a top ninja researcher in Japan

Krista Rogers
Oct 14, 2026

A new visual guide for the ninja enthusiast in your life sheds light on the myth and fact behind Japan’s historical agents of infiltration.

Japan
(bilingual • book • COK • cool • culture • English • guide • history • illustrated • Natsume-sha • new • Ninja • Yamada • Yuji)

Nissin takes the lid off its first-ever Cup Noodle Point Program for you to win fun prizes

Krista Rogers
Oct 6, 2026

The more noodles you slurp up, the more kinds of instant noodle-themed prizes you can enter to win.

Japan
(Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Mystery Meat • food • instant • Nissin • point program • rewards • USJ)

Sendai Bank gifts babies their weight at birth in money upon opening a new bank account

Krista Rogers
Oct 6, 2026

Having a big baby may be decidedly not fun for the mother, the baby’s first bank account will positively rejoice!

Japan
(babies • bank account • birth • child-rearing • finances • Miyagi Prefecture • money • Sendai Bank • weight)

Sample lots of little Japanese dishes at this hidden all-you-can-eat lunch buffet in Shinjuku

Krista Rogers
Oct 1, 2026

Want to try all kinds of Japanese dishes but don’t know where to start? This gem with “hidden” in its name has got you covered.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • buffet • COK • food • Japanese food • Kakurebo • lunch • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • tabehodai • Tokyo)

Pickling Shine Muscats was not on our bingo card, but were we grapeful we tried?【SoraKitchen】

Krista Rogers
Sep 29, 2026

We followed a tip we heard through the grapevine that Japan’s sweet grape variety is even sweeter when pickled in a bed of fermented rice bran.

Japan
(COK • crazy • food • fruits • grapes • nukadoko • pickles • pickling • recipe • rice bran • Shine Muscat • SNJO • SoraKitchen • weird)

Denny’s Mapputatsu? Parfait is hiding a big secret in plain sight that splits us down the middle

Krista Rogers
Sep 22, 2026

The Mapputatsu? Parfait tackles food waste without sacrificing visuals so that you can still happily feed both yourself and your phone.

Japan
(Denny's • food waste • grapes • half sized • Mapputatsu • parfait • Shine Muscat)

The number of centenarians living in Japan tops 100,000 for the first time

Krista Rogers
Sep 21, 2026

Perhaps even more impressively, it’s also the 56th consecutive year that centenarian numbers have broken records.

Japan
(centenarian • demographics • Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare • numbers • old • population • trends)

Snow Salt Soft Cream Cafe & Bar for grown-ups opens in Tokyo’s Ueno area with a bookish surprise

Krista Rogers
Sep 16, 2026

Adults can indulge in a coffee or alcoholic beverage paired with soft serve ice cream at this new oasis of calm in the city.
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Japan
(affogato • bars • cafes • COK • food • ice cream • SNJO • Snow Salt • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo • Ueno)

Starbucks and clothing brand Beams team up for launch of second collaborative core collection

Krista Rogers
Sep 15, 2026

You can wear your love for coffee on your sleeve in this new series of Starbucks Stand by Beams clothing and lifestyle goods–literally, in one case.