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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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Japanese company develops matcha paste that retains more health benefits than a cup of green tea

• Oona McGee
  Apr 25, 2018
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The next new trend for gourmets is green tea pastes, in four differently coloured tea varieties.

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• (cooking • food • green tea • hojicha • matcha • new • recipes • sencha • Shizuoka • tea)

New Japanese Kit Kat flavour on its way, as finalists from international voting announced

• Oona McGee
  Apr 24, 2018

The top 21 flavours, tallied from votes around the world, include Wasabi Cheese, Fresh Ginger, and Pearl.

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• (chocolate • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • Nestle Japan • sweets)

Japanese pizza chain makes headlines with weirdly wonderful fish-shaped pizza

• Oona McGee
  Apr 20, 2018

The feast inside this fish’s belly is just as surprising as its pie-crust casing.

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• Japan
• (Aoki's Pizza • fish • food • LOL • mackerel • pizza • wtf • Yokkaichi)

Genius mother comes up with clever solution to stop teenage son from untucking his school shirt

• Oona McGee
  Apr 19, 2018

Clever trick ensures students will never want to untuck their school shirts for that “cool look” ever again.

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• (genius • Japanese school uniforms • Japanese students • lifehack • Parenting • school • School Uniforms • students)

Mr Sato tries the gorgeous new bonsai parfait that everyone’s talking about in Harajuku

• Oona McGee
  Apr 19, 2018

The delicious bonsai dessert comes in three different varieties.

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• (bonsai • bonsai parfait • cafes • dessert • Harajuku • Mr. Sato • parfait • sweets • Tokyo • Urahara)

Buying a house in Tokyo? This town is giving away brand new homes to applicants in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2018

People are scrambling to get in on the exciting new housing scheme.

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• Japan
• (affordable housing • free homes • homes • Housing • Japanese homes • Okutama • Tokyo)

Bruno Mars throws towel at model for using phone at Japanese concert, she mistakes it as a gift

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2018

The lost-in-translation moment went straight to #1 trending on Japanese YouTube.

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• Japan
• (Bruno Mars • concerts • fandom • fans • Japanese model • LOL • models • music • selfies)

Japanese Sushi Kit Kats available again for a limited time!

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2018

Customers can enjoy tuna, sea urchin, and egg creations at Japan’s newest Kit Kat Chocolatory.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • Chocolatory • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat Chocolatory • Kit Kats • Osaka • Osaka Airport • sushi)

Camp like a samurai with the new Outdoor Kimono from Japanese apparel brand Snow Peak

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2018

Now you can enjoy the great outdoors with the comfort and style of an outdoor warrior.

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• Japan
• (apparel • camping • cool • fashion • kimono • outdoors • samurai • Snow Peak)

Studio Ghibli fans surprised to find hidden images in Grave of the Fireflies anime poster

• Oona McGee
  Apr 16, 2018

The new meanings revealed in this image, thirty years after the film’s release, have anime fans reaching for the tissues.

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• (anime • art • Ghibli • Grave of the Fireflies • Isao Takahata • posters • Studio Ghibli)

New ad for Pepsi J-Cola is like a badass Mad Max Japanese festival 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 14, 2018

The crazy big-budget commercial stars some of Japan’s most well-known musicians on flame-spewing monster floats.

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• (Cola • commercials • DJ Rena • drinks • festivals • J-Cola • Japanese commercials • music • Nyango Star • pepsi)

Coca-Cola releases world’s first frozen Coke slushie packs in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2018

Eight years in development, the new resealable pouch packaging is said to be a world-first for frozen beverages. 

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• Japan
• (Coca-Cola • Coke • drinks • Fanta • frozen Coke • slushies)

Japanese knife craftsman transforms an everyday roll of aluminium foil into a super sharp blade

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2018

Samurai-style swordsmithing techniques can be used to create a professional knife from just about anything.

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• Japan
• (Attoteki Fushinsha no Kiwami • blades • cooking • cool • crazy • Japanese knife • knives • video)

We try the Lawson chicken nuggets that Katy Perry went nuts for on Japanese television

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2018

What makes a fried nugget so good that it causes a songstress to cram her mouth full with them and create international headlines?

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• (chicken nuggets • COK • combini • convenience stores • Japanese convenience stores • karaage • karaage kun • Katy Perry • Lawson • SNO • taste test)

Rivalry between mushrooms and bamboo shoots in Japan as people vote for their favourite chocolate

• Oona McGee
  Apr 6, 2018

Jun Matsumoto from boy band group Arashi is leading the new campaign.

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• (arashi • chocolates • Jun Matsumoto • kinoko no yama • Meiji • takenoko no sato)

Japan’s top sakura cherry blossom viewing spots littered with trash after hanami picnics

• Oona McGee
  Apr 5, 2018

People in Japan are appalled at the piles of rubbish left behind by visitors this year.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • garbage • hanami • littering • parks • picnics • sakura • trash)

Japan turns the confectionery world on its head with stretchy mochi-covered chocolates

• Oona McGee
  Apr 5, 2018

Japanese company reinvents chocolate by adding sakura and sticky rice to the mix.

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• Japan
• (bourbon • cherry blossom • chocolates • daifuku • mochi • sakura • sticky rice • sweets • Yukimi Daifuku)

Nissin Cup Noodles heats up with handsome host boys and famous Japanese voice actors 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 4, 2018

Welcome to Nissin’s new fictional host club, where sexual innuendo rules.

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• Japan
• (BL • commercials • Cup Noodle • hosts • Japanese commercials • marketing • Nissin • ramen • voice actors)

Cast your vote for a brand new Japanese Kit Kat flavour to be released worldwide later this year

• Oona McGee
  Apr 3, 2018

Nestlé Japan is calling on Kit Kat fans around the world to nominate and vote for their next flavour on a special English-language website.

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• Japan
• (election • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • limited edition flavors • Limited edition flavours • Nestle Japan • voting)

Top April Fools’ Day prank news stories from Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 2, 2018

Our roundup of the country’s craziest April Fool’s Day products and services we actually wish were real.

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• Japan
• (April • April Fools' Day • Coca-Cola • internet • Japanese Kit Kats • McDonald's • Nestle Japan • Pizza Hut • pranks • Seiko)

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