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Skip Starbucks? A super-cheap, semi-secret alternative to a coffeehouse break in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2020
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A private room all to yourself for hours on end, free Wi-Fi, unlimited drinks, and enough space to take a nap, all for less than five bucks.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • drinks • food • karaoke • Karaoke no Tetsujin • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO)

Kumamoto Castle reconstruction well under way as the complex slowly reopens to visitors【Video】

• Dale Roll
  Feb 22, 2020

Take a look at how one of Japan’s most popular castles is making its comeback. 

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• Japan
• (castles • Japan travel • Japanese castles • Kumamoto • Kumamoto Castle • Kumamoto earthquakes • natural disaster • reconstruction)

Eye reflection stalker who assaulted idol says he “would like to do everything he can” for her

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2020

Not home-invasion groping her in the first place seems like it would have been the nicer thing to do.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • eyes • home invasion • idol singers • Idols • social media • stalkers)

Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available on Spotify, Apple Music, and more

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

693-track selection includes many of anime’s most memorable pieces of music.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • Apple Music • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • music • Studio Ghibli)

Soba restaurant in Japan struggles to find new employee, rewords job ad and offers flood in

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2020

There’s one surprising aspect of working at a 120-year-old Japanese restaurant that has everyone wanting to work there.

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• Japan
• (employment • food • jobs • marketing • Noodles • Recruitment • restaurants • soba • work • work in Japan • working in Japan)

New Japanese KitKats feature sakura sake and a traditional cherry blossom dessert

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2020

Hanami flavours are accompanied by a special limited-edition Easter treat this year. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • chocolates • Easter • hanami • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • nihonshu • sake • sakura • sakura mochi • souvenirs)

Sliced mayonnaise and white chocolate now exist in Japan, bringing sandwiches to glorious new era

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

Four different options to make your toast savory or sweet.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • cooking • cool • crazy • food • mayonnaise • toast • weird)

Batman stage show coming to Tokyo with Batman Ninja battling Joker daimyo

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

Live-action adaptation of Japanese-produced animated movie has an extremely ambitious performance schedule.

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• Japan
• (anime • Batman • Batman Ninja • plays • stage shows • Superheroes • Tokyo)

A vending machine where you don’t know what you’re buying until it comes out – we give it a try!

• Katie Pask
  Feb 21, 2020

This vending machine has ‘mystery’ written all over it – literally.
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• Food & Drink, Japan
• (cheap food • crazy • drink • japanese snacks • snacks • vending machine)

Confessions of a 46-year-old Japanese male pole dancer

• Master Blaster
  Feb 21, 2020

Mr. Sato shares how pole dancing changed his life and could change yours.

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• Japan
• (art • beauty • communication • dancing • exercise • health • Mr. Sato • pole dancing)

The real-life Ash/Satoshi just gave away a Pikachu to brighten a child’s day in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

The only thing better than catching ‘em all is giving one away to put a smile on a stranger’s face.

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• Japan
• (anime • kids • moving • Pikachu • Rika Matsumoto • touching • trains • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)

Anime dating simulator girl gets turned into horrifying monster by “image improvement” AI【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

Anime characters are known for their big eyes, but this time it’s some tiny ones that are causing terror.

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• Japan
• (AI • anime • crazy • dating simulators • deep learning • funny • illustration • romance games • scary • tokimeki memorial • video • video games • weird)

Train brought to emergency stop because someone coughed in it

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2020

Commuters starting to turn on their unmasked peers.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • emergency stop button • face masks • Fukuoka • novel coronavirus • surgical masks • trains)

Japanese maid delivery service brings omurice to your door 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2020

Now you can apply to have omurice delivered to your door with a side of “moe moe chin”.

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• Japan
• (advertising • cosplay • cosplayers • maid cafe • maid cafes • maids • marketing • Nippon Ham • omelette rice • omurice)

The mystery of the phantom “sake pass card” at Japanese alcohol vending machines

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2020

Remnants of a bygone era reveal the quirks of a previous payment system.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • drinks • history • sake • vending machines • weird)

Cruise Tokyo in comfort for free with Suumo’s cozy taxis, hang out with their fluffy mascot

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 20, 2020

There are only three of these adorable verdant vehicles out on the streets — flag one down if you get the chance!

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• Japan
• (cute • Green • kotatsu • marimo • Suumo • taxi • taxi service • Tokyo • travel)

We visit Shibuya Station’s limited-time unmanned ramen eatery for a dose of the future! 【Photos】

• Shannon
  Feb 20, 2020

This is a combination of delicious and contemporary technology that was definitely worth the visit.

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• Japan
• (cup noodles • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • technology)

Starbucks Japan reveals second sakura cherry blossom drinkware range for 2020

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2020

New collection inspired by pink petals in the misty spring rain.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2020 • COK • drinks • drinkware • mugs • sakura • sakura 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • travel mugs)

Osaka cancels one of Japan’s biggest anime cosplay events over coronavirus fears

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2020

Nipppombashi Street Festa regularly draws over 200,000 people to city’s Denden Town neighborhood, but not this year.

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• Japan
• (anime • Anime Japan • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • cosplay • Nippombashi Street Festa • Nipponbashi Street Festa • Osaka • otaku)

Kobe hospital robbed of 6,000 surgical masks

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2020

Mask bandits may or may not have been masked bandits.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • crime • Kobe • Kobe Red Cross Hospital • resale • resellers • surgical masks • theft)

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