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Oona McGee

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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Photo of manspreading on Japanese train stirs up heated debate and interesting solutions

Oona McGee
Jan 25, 2019
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Some of these ideas might actually work if they were put into action.

Japan
(Japanese trains • manspreading • trains • transport • twitter)

Japanese Shiba Inu stops baby’s cries like a doting parent, melts hearts for being a good dog

Oona McGee
Jan 24, 2019

Doge shows off a special technique for instantly calming a crying baby.

Japan
(animals • cute • doge • dogs • Kawaii • pets • shiba • Shiba dog • Shiba Inu)

We eat a meal to remember…at a Japanese police station in Fukuoka

Oona McGee
Jan 24, 2019

Lunch and law enforcement make for a thrilling combination.

Japan
(cafes • cafeteria • food • Fukuoka • Japanese food • Japanese Police • katsudon • Kyushu • police • police stations • restaurants • RNO)

We try a pay-to-use premium Japanese toilet at Ikebukuro train station in Tokyo

Oona McGee
Jan 24, 2019

With so many clean free-to-use toilets in Japan, we had to find out why you would pay to use one.

Japan
(Ikebukuro • Japanese toilets • Japanese train stations • Toilets • Tokyo • Toto • train stations)

Japan travel: Best things to see, eat and do in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture

Oona McGee
Jan 23, 2019

Cycle on water, visit scenic sites and enjoy some of the best sushi in the country at the westernmost tip of Japan’s main island.

Japan
(Chofu • food • Kanmon Straits • Karato Fish Market • Shimonoseki • Shimonoseki Bridge • sushi • tourism • tourists • travel • Tsunoshima • Yamaguchi)

We try the new teriyaki burgers from McDonald’s Japan 【Taste Test】

Oona McGee
Jan 22, 2019

How do they stack up against the original Teriyaki McBurger?

Japan
(burgers • fast food • food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • RNO • taste test • teriyaki • teriyaki burger • Teriyaki McBurger)

Shake Shack Japan unveils new sakura cherry blossom drinks for 2019

Oona McGee
Jan 22, 2019

The Shack-ura Shake now comes in two different flavours for a limited time.

Japan
(cherry blossoms • drinks • fast food • limited edition • sakura • Shake Shack • Shakura)

Taste the Earth with Japan’s new Sublime Volcanic KitKats

Oona McGee
Jan 21, 2019

We try the newest sensation in the sweets world: chocolate made from volcanoes.

Japan
(chocolates • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat Chocolatory • Kit Kats • Sublime Volcanic • volcanic chocolate)

“Short skirts cause sexual assaults” according to Japanese school uniform poster

Oona McGee
Jan 19, 2019

Poster implies that female students are to blame for groping.

Japan
(chikan • groping • high school girls • Japanese schools • MeToo • School Uniforms • schools • sexual assault • sexual harassment • students)

Coca-Cola Japan unveils new sakura design bottle for cherry blossom season 2019

Oona McGee
Jan 18, 2019

A perfect partner for hanami picnics.

Japan
(cherry blossoms • Coca-Cola • Coke • design • drinks • hanami • limited edition • marketing • sakura • spring)

“Meat futon” skit with girls in bikinis on Japanese TV slammed as sexist and outdated

Oona McGee
Jan 17, 2019

Look carefully and you’ll see Japan’s Benny Hill sandwiched in between these women.

Japan
(Fuji TV • gender inequality • Japanese TV • Japanese women • Ken Shimura • sexism • sexist • TV shows • video • women)

Japan travel: Best places to see, eat and stay at Nagato and Mine in Yamaguchi Prefecture

Oona McGee
Jan 17, 2019

This is where you’ll find Japan’s largest cave, a BBQ by the sea, and a rural hotel where Russian President Putin slept in a room behind bulletproof glass.