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Half-Japanese Oona McGee hails from Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a journalist and copywriter before making the move to Japan over a decade ago. Now she spends her days exploring the streets of Tokyo with her laptop and camera, always in search of new cafes, restaurants, events and stories to share with our readers. As an experienced food and travel reporter, Oona has travelled extensively through all 47 prefectures of Japan, and is constantly researching new destinations and drawing up itineraries for her next adventure.

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Travellers sleep on cardboard beds at Narita Airport while waiting for coronavirus test results

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2020
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Arrivals area now dubbed the “Cardboard Box Hotel” and the “Corona Refugee Camp“.

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• (airport • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Narita Airport • news • PCR test • quarantine • Tokyo • travel)

Police with batons patrol Kabukicho, tell people to go home during coronavirus crisis【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2020

Imposing scene has some people now fearing the authorities. 

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• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • Kabukicho • lockdown • news • police • shinjuku • state of emergency • Tokyo • videos)

Japanese Prime Minister appears with Gen Hoshino in awkward “stay home” video

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2020

Abe joins a viral trend, makes people cringe around the country. 

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• (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • Gen Hoshino • government • music • politicians • politics • prime minister • Shinzo Abe • Tokyo • twitter • videos • viral)

Shibuya rats appear on streets as people stay home during coronavirus outbreak【Pics, Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2020

When people stay away, the rats come out to play. 

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• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • news • rats • Shibuya • state of emergency • Tokyo • twitter)

People in Japan queue for one last drink at Starbucks before 850 stores close

• Oona McGee
  Apr 12, 2020

Coffeehouse chain shuts its doors to keep customers away but ends up attracting crowds instead.

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• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • state of emergency • twitter)

Japanese wife creates izakaya pub at home during coronavirus outbreak

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2020

When your husband can’t go out to the izakaya during a pandemic, you bring the izakaya to him.

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• (cheap eats • coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • drinking • food • izakaya • Japanese wife • love • marriage • restaurants • romance • society)

Japanese students learn English with help from a dating sim artist

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2020

Studying is much more exciting when you can imagine yourself dating one of the textbook characters.

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• (anime • dating simulators • deep learning • Japanese students • junior high school • learning English • LovePlus • romance games • schools • students • Textbooks • video • video games)

Japanese convenience store praised for low-tech anti-coronavirus system

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2020

Unusual idea to protect staff and customers during a state of emergency might just work.

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience stores • coronavirus • COVID-19 • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)

Japanese boy bands debut new hand-washing song with dance moves and English lyrics 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2020

Arashi, Hey! Say! JUMP, KAT-TUN, and former Smap member Kimutaku are just some of the members to appear in these videos.

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• (arashi • boy bands • coronavirus • COVID-19 • hand washing • J-Pop • Johnny & Associates • Johnny's • kimutaku • music • video • Yamapi • YouTube)

The customers Japanese convenience store clerks hate the most

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2020

How to avoid being that customer staff can’t stand. 

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• (combini • convenience stores • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)

One-Punch Man artist shares 10-year-old daughter’s drawings online

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2020

Manga art looks like it’s drawn by someone twice her age.  

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• Japan
• (anime • art • artists • children • drawing • illustration • manga • One-Punch Man • twitter • Yusuke Murata)

Social distancing ideals vs reality: Beautiful Thai woman reveals the difference【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 6, 2020

Behind the gorgeous Instagram photos, there’s a slob slurping noodles in her loungewear.

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• (beautiful women • coronavirus • cosplay • COVID-19 • funny • ideal vs. reality • jishuku • self-isolation • social distancing)

Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen singer washes hands against coronavirus in new “PPAP 2020” song 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 6, 2020

“I have a hand. I have a soap. Wash wash wash wash wash wash wash wash.”

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• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • crazy • Daimaou Kosaka • funny • hand washing • music • pen pineapple apple pen • Pikotaro • ppap • video • weird • YouTube)

Harajuku looks eerily quiet during the coronavirus outbreak 【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 4, 2020

Does this mean young people are heeding the government’s advice to stay at home? 

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• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • Harajuku • news • social distancing • Tokyo)

Samurai Mac burgers arrive at McDonald’s Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 3, 2020

Which warrior faction do you belong to?

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• (Big Mac • burgers • cheap eats • fast food • food and drink • limited edition • McDonald's • samurai)

Anime memes appear on Twitter as PM says two masks will be sent to all Japanese households

• Oona McGee
  Apr 3, 2020

Really, Prime Minister? Only two?

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• (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • face masks • government • masks • memes • news • Shinzo Abe • twitter)

Rick and Morty star in epic Samurai & Shogun short for Adult Swim【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2020

Sword fight between Samurai Rick and Ninja Rick results in one of them losing a head.

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• (Adult Swim • Akira Kurosawa • anime • Lone Wolf and Cub • Rick and Morty • samurai)

Japan now has a manga-style coronavirus awareness campaign

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2020

One of these “faces” discriminates against people who have the virus. 

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• (ads • advertising • anime • art • coronavirus • COVID-19 • discrimination • Japanese Red Cross Society • manga)

The sad story of the Japanese vending machine set to disappear at the end of the year

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2020

A little bit of history gone forever as Kirin puts an end to a beloved mainstay.

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• (cool • drinks • Hiroshima • Kirin • Nakanohigashi Station • retro • vending machines • weird)

Ueno Park looks eerily deserted in the midst of the coronavirus 【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2020

The cherry blossom trees are in full bloom, but there’s no one around to enjoy them. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • government • hanami • news • photos • sakura • Ueno Park)

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