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Tokyo trains set to become less convenient with new last train schedule

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2020
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The biggest pain in the butt about trains in Tokyo is going to get more painful.

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• Japan
• (COK • East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • society • Tokyo • trains • travel • Yamanote line)

Gourmet Japanese hamburger steak in three-year-shelf-life can: Genius or madness? Let’s find out!

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2020

Because we’ll try anything before actually doing any real cooking ourselves.

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• Japan
• (canned food • COK • cool • food • hamburger • hamburger steak • meat • SNJO • taste test • weird)

TikTok food trend: How to make soft, pillowy Cloud Bread 【SoraKitchen】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2020

This easy recipe will change the way you look at bread, and turn you into a viral TikTok star in the process.

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• Japan
• (bread • Cloud Bread • food • recipes • SNJO • SoraKitchen • TikTok • videos)

Learn about the anatomy of your favorite Sanrio characters with new kimokawaii skeleton toys

• Dale Roll
  Sep 4, 2020

Did you ever expect Pompompurin to actually have bones?

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• Japan
• (cinamoroll • collectible • cute • figure • kimokawaii • Kuromi • Mega House • My Melody • Pompompurin • Sanrio • skeleton • toy)

What would J-rock legend Yoshiki look like as an Attack on Titan giant? Like this【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2020

Yoshiki Titan does what the X-Japan founder does best.

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• Japan
• (anime • Attack on Titan • canned coffee • coffee • cool • drinks • music • video • Wanda • X Japan • Yoshiki)

Book Off running low on books: Japanese used book chain begs customers to sell them books

• Dale Roll
  Sep 4, 2020

If you bring in your unwanted books, you could enter to win some great prizes!

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• Japan
• (ad campaign • Book Off • books • commercial • funny • interesting • secondhand shop • used books)

Chef at top Tokyo sushi restaurant wins lawsuit after being fired for maybe having a tattoo

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2020

High-end sushi restaurant ordered to pay thousands of dollars in damages.

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• Japan
• (court • Hotel New Otani • Japanese jobs • jobs • Kyubey • lawsuits • news • sushi • sushi restaurants • Tokyo District Court • working in Japan)

Osaka loses a beloved icon as giant pufferfish disappears in the middle of the night 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2020

A sad day for fugu blowfish everywhere. 

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• Japan
• (blowfish • business • cool • fugu • landmark • news • Osaka • pufferfish • Shinsekai • Spa World • travel • Zuboraya)

Awesome Japanese wife “kidnaps” her husband as he leaves work…for his own good

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2020

Doesn’t tell him where they’re going or why, but has a very good reason.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • crazy • hot springs • marriage • moving • onsen • relationships • romance • spouses • touching)

New Cup Noodle Rolling Stock automatically resupplies you with ramen for disaster preparedness

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2020

Because you never know when disaster will strike, and if it does, you know you’ll want to eat ramen.

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• Japan
• (cup noodles • disaster preparedness • disasters • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • ramen)

SoraNews24 founder develops effective yet inexpensive COVID-19 guards for restaurants

• Master Blaster
  Sep 3, 2020

It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’m not just saying that because he signs my cheques.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shop • AS Field • coronavirus • COVID-19 • inventions • public health • restaurants • safety • umbrella • Yoshio)

You can raise your own Pikachu from a furball with this adorable new plushie line from Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2020

Sega offers us a can’t-lose roll of the dice by asking “Who are You?” when we all know the answer.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • Pikachu • plushies • Pokemon • Sega • video games)

Tokyo tourist sites look eerily quiet without tourists 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2020

Empty streets at Sensoji and Shinjuku have us seeing the capital in a very different light. 

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • beautiful • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Golden Gai • Kabukicho • Sensoji • shinjuku • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel • videos • YouTube)

Woman arrested in mountains of Japan for attempted murder with bow and arrow

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2020

Talk with senior male acquaintance apparently went south/arrow-y.

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• Japan
• (arrow • bow • COK • crazy • crime • weird)

Our reporters visit an amusement park on its final day of operation, give it a proper SoraNews24 send-off

• Katie Pask
  Sep 2, 2020

Complete with pink suits and pig noses, of course.

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• Japan
• (amusement park • Costume • funny • Mr. Sato • Nerima • photos • pig • theme park • Tokyo • Toshimaen • Yoshio)

Akihabara store praised for “God-like” customer service

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2020

A store that trusts customers so much they literally leave money out for them.

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• Japan
• (act of kindness • Akihabara • Card Shop Spiral • drinks • heartwarming • kindness • money • otaku • safe • society • Tokyo • trust)

We try the new Chocolate Marron Frappuccino and Latte from Starbucks Japan 【Taste Test】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2020

Like drinking a Japanese autumn. 

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• Japan
• (autumn • chestnut • chestnuts • chocolate drinks • COK • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • review • seasonal drinks • SNJO • Starbucks Japan • sweet drinks • taste test)

World record set for most crane games in one arcade with new game center in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2020

Guinness World Records representative awards honor at grand opening of new Taito Station.

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• Japan
• (Arcades • awesome • cool • crane games • game centers • Guiness World Record • Taito • Taito Station • UFO catchers • video games • world record)

Visiting the hotel half-destroyed by the 3-11 tsunami is a powerful reminder of what was lost

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2020

This preserved Tohoku building goes from completely devastated to practically unharmed in just a few floors.

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• Japan
• (3-11 earthquake and tsunami • COK • disasters • hotels • Iwate • moving • SNJO • Tohoku • travel • tsunami)

McDonald’s and KFC Japan release new Tsukimi “moon-viewing” burgers for 2020

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2020

Gazing at the moon this year through burgers, pies and even a never-before-seen McFlurry.

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• Japan
• (bunny • Burger • burgers • fast food • food • full moon • KFC • KFC Japan • limited edition • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McFlurry • otsukimi • tsukimi)

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