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Flour products sell online for outrageous prices in Japan as demand for them skyrockets

• Dale Roll
  May 6, 2020
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As the Ministry of Agriculture urges everyone to stay calm and rest assured that there is no shortage of flour. 

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• (cooking • coronavirus • flour • hoarding • manufacturing • mercari • Ministry of Agriculture • price gouging • reselling • shortage)

Turn a self-isolation birthday into a tasty party celebration with this smart hack from Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 6, 2020

All you’ll need is one slice of cake and the mind of a ninja. 

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• Japan
• (Birthday • birthday cake • birthday party • clever • hack • life hacks • lifehack • self-isolating • self-isolation)

Anime pro’s awesome video shows how to beat stay-at-home boredom: Imagine you’re fighting a ninja

• Casey Baseel
  May 6, 2020

Dragon Ball and Fullmetal Alchemist veteran mixes real-world environment with amazing hand-drawn animation.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • clever • cool • illustration • Ninja • video)

New GU Pokémon collaboration: Worth the risk of catching coronavirus?

• Oona McGee
  May 5, 2020

Japan might be under a state of emergency, but the only emergency these customers are worried about is not catching limited-edition Pokémon fashion.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • coronavirus • fashion • GU • Pikachu • Pokemon • shopping • social distancing • video games)

Secretive Ghibli Museum starts video diary to give glimpse inside anime attraction【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 5, 2020

The shrine to Hayao Miyazaki’s anime studio famously doesn’t allow guests to take photos or videos, but now it’s sharing its own!

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• Japan
• (anime • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • museums • Studio Ghibli)

Living doll model Matt transforms into a mosquito for surreal new insect repellent commercials

• SoraNews24
  May 5, 2020

“Bizarre” only begins to describe the strange imagery seen in this new series of commercials as we begin prep for bug season.

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• Japan
• (commercial • Earth Nomat • Matt • Matt Kuwata • model • mosquito • weird)

Almost certainly the best fermented Japanese soybean pencil case ever made is here

• Master Blaster
  May 5, 2020

If you can find a better natto pencil case, we’d love to see it.

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• Japan
• (art • Felissimo • Kumiko Abe • natto • pencil case • stationery • YOU+MORE!)

The 13-year-old video game contest winner who became one of Japan’s greatest manga artists

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2020

Once he was just a junior high kid who drew a Mega Man robot, but now he’s one of the most beloved comic artists in the world.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • Capcom • cool • Eyeshield 21 • illustration • manga • Mega Man • One-Punch Man • Yusuke Murata)

Gluttony has no limits with Costco fried chicken larger than our face【SoraKitchen】

• Eli Pang
  May 4, 2020

Just because you’re sheltering in place doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself to the good food.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Ayaka Idate • crazy • food • fried chicken • SoraKitchen • Taiwanese chicken steak • taste test)

A message from the future: Doraemon tells us what will happen if we stay home and wash our hands

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2020

The fun-loving anime robot cat gets serious as he delivers a message from the post-coronavirus pandemic world.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • coronavirus • Doraemon • manga • moving • touching)

Studio Ghibli Recipe: How to make anime food from Howl’s Moving Castle

• Oona McGee
  May 4, 2020

Experience the same taste and aroma as the magical characters from the fantasy film.  

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• Japan
• (anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Howl's Moving Castle • movies • Studio Ghibli)

Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2020

A forgotten piece of video game history is back in the spotlight, so is it time for Nintendo to produce a modern update?

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• Japan
• (cool • crafts • crazy • gadgets • nintendo • sewing • sewing machines • technology • video games • weird)

Masks appear on statues of Japan’s loyal dog Hachiko, but only one gets to keep it【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2020

Symbol of loyalty turned into a sign of the times, but Tokyo authorities ask people to stop.

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• Japan
• (Akita dogs • COK • dogs • face masks • Hachiko • masks • Shibuya • Shibuya Station)

Crazy, heartless wife stars in Japanese textbook’s shocking conversation for English learners

• Casey Baseel
  May 3, 2020

Sure, maybe she loves her husband, but not as much as a certain side dish.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • language • linguistis • teaching Engish • Textbooks • weird)

Limited edition Evangelion Asuka Telecasters on sale this June

• Master Blaster
  May 3, 2020

Get in the damn groove, Shinji!

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• Japan
• (anime • Asuka • Evangelion • Fender • guitars • music • Telecaster)

No school lunches? Tokyo boxed lunch stand says kids have to pay, but doesn’t care when, to whom

• Casey Baseel
  May 3, 2020

Open-ended IOU is a tear-jerkingly literal application of paying it forward.

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• Japan
• (bento • boxed lunches • COK • food • kids • moving • school lunches • schools • society • touching)

Now you can order insect ramen to eat at home

• Katie Pask
  May 3, 2020

If you’re bored with the regular tonkotsu or miso ramen, why not give this a try?

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• Food & Drink, Japan
• (crickets • edible insects • food • insects • photos • ramen • Tokyo • unusual food)

Horror manga artist Junji Ito shares terrifying drawing of Amabie, the epidemic-protector yokai

• Scott Wilson
  May 2, 2020

The perfect thing to raise spirits… literally.

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• Japan
• (Amabie • Junji Ito • manga • scary • scary pictures • terrifying • twitter)

Japanese genius invents a machine just to help you get out of unwanted video chats【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2020

Loading Circle Machine for Escape from Zoom is a communications solution for our weird new normal.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • funny • inventions • telecommuting • video • video conferences • weird • working from home)

Breakfast made beautiful by designer who creates stunning zen garden toast art and more【Pics】

• Eli Pang
  May 2, 2020

Find inspiration to play with your food from this designer’s collection.

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• Japan
• (awesome • beautiful • bread • design • food • food art • Instagram • Manami Sasaki • modernism • zen garden)

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