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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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Cleverly designed bath-use glasses that don’t fog up make a splash in Japan
- Krista Rogers
Apr 28, 2025 - Tweet
A prize-winning Japanese author helps make waves in the glasses and plastic bath tubs industries.
- Japan
- (anti-fog • bath • glasses • heat-resistant • Kerorin • Megane Store • ofuro • onsen • product • sauna • Sonoko Machida)
Kirby Cafe x Captain Sweets Burger release “double strawberry burgers” exclusive to Tokyo Station
- Krista Rogers
Apr 17, 2025
Don’t panic–these “burgers” aren’t a combination of meat and sweets but are rather burger-shaped cookie sandwiches in Kirby-inspired pink.
- Japan
- (Captain Sweets Burger • collaboration • cookie sandwich • Kirby • Kirby Café • nintendo • pink • souvenir • strawberry • Tokyo Station)
Noodle chain Marugame rolls out strawberry milk udon donuts for new spring sweets lineup
- Krista Rogers
Apr 15, 2025
These sweet treats–made not from udon flour but from actual mashed udon noodles–are delightfully chewy and pack a flavorful punch.
- Japan
- (donuts • food • Hokuto Matsumura • Kaito Takahashi • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • strawberries • strawberry • sweets • udon • Udonatsu • Udonuts)
The ultimate SoraNews24 anpan showdown: Which sweet bread will reign supreme?
- Krista Rogers
Apr 11, 2025
Our team gathers their favorite anpan and tasks Go Hatori with being the Anpan Judge to determine the best of them all.
- Japan
- (anko • anpan • best • bread • COK • contest • Go Hatori • judge • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Aomori soul food koganeyaki steals our hearts but not our wallets at only 70 yen each
- Krista Rogers
Apr 9, 2025
We find happiness in a small Japanese confection that would require real effort to break the bank.
- Japan
- (Aomori • bus • COK • confection • Hirosaki • Kawagoe Koganeyaki • koganeyaki • Masanuki Sunakoma • overnight • Snack • SNJO • sweets • travel • wagashi)
New tanuki soba specialty restaurant in Ikebukuro serves up soba with a unique taste and visuals
- Krista Rogers
Apr 5, 2025
The noodles at Tanuki Soba wa Nomimono don’t look like any bowl of tanuki soba that we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining.
- Japan
- (COK • dining • gourmet • Ikebukuro • nomimono • Noodles • Restaurant • SNJO • tanuki soba • Tokyo)
Sweets maker Funabashiya celebrates 220 years at popular Tokyo shrine’s Wisteria Festival
- Krista Rogers
Apr 1, 2025
Enjoy limited-edition sweet treats from a master wagashi maker directly under the wisteria flowers at Kameido Tenjin Shrine in April.
- Japan
- (anmitsu • beautiful • COK • flowers • Funabashiya • Kameido Tenjin Shrine • kuzu-mochi • shrines • sweets • temples • wagashi • wisteria)
The number of entrance exam takers at a top public high school in Okayama falls short, all pass
- Krista Rogers
Mar 26, 2025
The lower-than-usual number of students points to both population-based and educational trends reflective of many other areas of the country.
- Japan
- (cram school • entrance exam • high school • jukensei • juku • Okayama • pass • private • public • school • students)
Museum unveils its first reconstructed bust of a prehistoric Yayoi-period woman
- Krista Rogers
Mar 25, 2025
The statue offers a peek into the past based on actual skeletal remains and DNA analysis from southern Japan–and kind of looks like someone I know.
- Japan
- (Aoya • Aoyakamijichi • archaeology • bust • DNA • museum • reconstruction • Tottori • Yayoi)
Is “Nagoya skipping” a cause of the exodus of young people from the city?
- Krista Rogers
Mar 22, 2025
Data suggests that a relative lack of live music and performances is a contributing factor as to why many young people move to Tokyo or Osaka.
- Japan
- (Aichi Prefecture • concerts • music • Nagoya • Nagoya-skipping • society)
Naruto Shippuden x Maeda Coffee collaboration cafe event is coming to Kyoto this week
- Krista Rogers
Mar 19, 2025
“Believe it!” or not, it’s the perfect season to enjoy coffee in the company of some old shinobi friends (and foes).
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • coffee • drinks • food • Kyoto • Maeda Coffee • manga • Naruto • Naruto Shippuden • special menu • sweets)
Case Closed: Detective Conan passenger trains in Tottori are about to get a fresh new look
- Krista Rogers
Mar 12, 2025
There’s only one truth here and it’s that fans will be excited to ride in these stylishly updated train cars!
- Japan
- (anime • Detective Conan • JR West • manga • new • San'in Main Line • themed train • Tottori • Tottori Station • trains • Yonago Station)
Edible deep-fried “coal” souvenir ignites our curiosity, so naturally we try it for ourselves
- Krista Rogers
Mar 11, 2025
Spoiler alert: No, it’s not really coal, but it could seriously be a carbon copy.
- Japan
- (coal • edible • fish • food • Fukushima • Iwaki • local product • marlin • taste test • weird)
Japanese travelers choose the top five inn cats that they want to meet in the whole country
- Krista Rogers
Mar 6, 2025
Cat got your tongue on where to stay? Choose one of these lodgings where the felines play a purrfect part of the customer service.
- Japan
- (Cat Day • cats • customer service • hotels • inns • Jalan • Neko no Hi • ranking • ryokan • survey • tourism • travel)
Tokyo’s indoor Tenbou-Park Sakura Festival is perfect for those with pollen allergies
- Krista Rogers
Mar 4, 2025
Sakura-seekers should swing by this spring event in a popular shopping complex to enjoy the spring blossoms without the sniffles.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cherry blossoms • COK • Ikebukuro • observatory • sakura • Sunshine 60 • Sunshine City)
That time we were either genius or insane to eat natto with Yukimi Daifuku per official advice
- Krista Rogers
Feb 25, 2025
Plus, we tried crafting even crazier natto x mochi ice cream variations featuring kimchi, squid, and more.
7-Eleven Japan teams up with gourmet Mochizuki-san manga for a line of hefty, bingeable foods
- Krista Rogers
Feb 24, 2025
It’s a collaboration that seemed destined to happen, but will the real deal meet the high expectations–and high calories–of the popular manga?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • Ahiruneko • bento • binge-eating • campaign • COK • convenience store • dokagui • Dokagui Daisuki • konbini • manga • Mochizuki-san • rice ball • SNJO)
Udon soup-scented bath salts from Kagawa are flying off the shelves and into bathtubs everywhere
- Krista Rogers
Feb 20, 2025
Be careful that you don’t start drinking your bath water by mistake or you’ll find yourself in even hotter water.
- Japan
- (bath • bath salts • cool • crazy • food • funny • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • udon • weird)
Experience picking your own tea with a side of history at Chazuna in Kyoto’s Uji City
- Krista Rogers
Feb 18, 2025
We’re ready to spill the tea on this spring’s event in Japan’s most famous city for green tea.
- Japan
- (Chazuna • COK • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • museum • tea • tea picking • tourism • travel • Uji)
Fortune Tea Chabashira tea-ses increased good luck with every cup
- Krista Rogers
Feb 12, 2025
Besides having a higher chance of finding an upright tea stalk, it also brews up the most beau-tea-ful and tas-tea cup of leaf water ever.
- Japan
- (5 Coin • chabashira • COK • gold leaf • good fortune • lucky • Makinohara • Shizuoka • SNJO • tea)
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