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Naomi Osaka appears inside fukubukuro lucky bag from famous Japanese candy retail chain
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020 - Tweet
Tennis star makes a surprise appearance in a bag filled with snacks and sweets.
- Japan
- (candy • chocolate • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Naomi Osaka • SNJO • sweets)
Kick off the Year of the Rat with hanky resembling a hamster sleeping in sawdust
- Eli Pang
Jan 6, 2020
Another addition to your list of “things I want, but I’m broke from the holidays.”
Ippudo ramen gives noodle lovers a fantastic fukubukuro lucky bag for 2020
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Start the New Year right with this once-in-a-year gift from the world-famous ramen chain.
- Japan
- (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Ippudo • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Noodles • ramen • SNJO)
Yoshinoya fukubukuro lucky bag comes with sought-after beef bowl, sold at only one place in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
We go on a journey to find the Holy Grail of beef bowls.
- Japan
- (beef bowl • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Japanese food • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO • Yoshinoya)
Japanese netizens vote on which of nation’s prefectures would make the best weapons in battle
- Scott Wilson
Jan 6, 2020
Which prefectures have the deadliest curves? Time to find out!
- Japan
- (funny • prefectures • ranking • weapons)
Japan’s Yodobashi Camera store celebrates New Year 2020 by rolling out a huge cardboard Gundam
- Katy Kelly
Jan 6, 2020
Start 2020 out right, by picking up your Gundam Gunpla sets from a gigantic RX-75 Guntank.
- Japan
- (anime • funny • Gundam • Gunpla • Guntank • Mobile Suit Gundam • New Year's 2020 • Yodobashi Camera)
Love hotel search engine hacked, user info possibly stolen in attack against romancers
- Dale Roll
Jan 6, 2020
If you’ve used Happy Hotel to book a love hotel recently, you may want to change your password!
- Japan
- (data breach • hacker • hacking • love hotel • love hotels • personal information leak • privacy)
Inside the rogue 7-Eleven, a convenience store completely cut off by its company
- Master Blaster
Jan 5, 2020
Is this 7-Eleven just being run by a loose cannon, or is it a sign of bigger problems ahead?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • business • convenience store • Higashiosaka • Mitoshi Matsumoto • Osaka • SNO)
Ikea hot dog lucky bag is one of the most unusual fukubukuro available in Japan this year
- Oona McGee
Jan 5, 2020
Ikea Japan gives locals a lesson on how to make a good hot dog for the New Year.
- Japan
- (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • hot dogs • ikea • ikea japan • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • SNJO)
Japanese man turns his house into a stage from Donkey Kong
- Katie Pask
Jan 5, 2020
His room design is absolutely bananas!
- Japan
- (crazy • dk • Donkey Kong • funny • nintendo • video games)
Happy New Year from NERV! We crack open the 2020 Evangelion fukubukuro lucky bag【Pics】
- Katy Kelly
Jan 4, 2020
Plenty of fanservice awaits in this end-of-year Evangelion package, and we didn’t even have to queue for one.
- Japan
- (anime merchandise • Evangelion Store Shinjuku • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Neon Genesis Evangelion • SNJO • Takashi Harada)
6 predictions: Which brand new Japanese anime will be the dark-horse hit of 2020?【Videos】
- Katy Kelly
Jan 4, 2020
Here are our Japanese-language reporter Seiji’s top picks for the hottest new stars of the upcoming anime season!
- Japan
- (2020 • animation • anime • dark horse • dorohedoro • ID: Invaded • Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! • Koisuru Asteroid • Murenase! Seton Gakuen • Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumeishitemita. • Seiji Nakazawa • SNOJ)
Krispy Kreme fukubukuro lucky bag comes with cute limited-edition doughnuts for New Year in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2020
Gifts so good the diet will just have to wait until another day.
- Japan
- (donuts • doughnuts • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Krispy Kreme • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • sweets)
“Ugly” mascot Sento-kun finds new popularity 12 years after debut
- Master Blaster
Jan 4, 2020
Savvy business practices helped the once-unsettling chimera win over hearts in the end.
Wholesome reporter seeks nostalgic fukubukuro experience, gets huge haul of anime goods instead
- Eli Pang
Jan 4, 2020
Despite kicking off the new year with a plethora of anime merch, something felt amiss for our Japanese-language reporter’s fukubukuro experience.
- Japan
- (Animate • anime goods • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Kichijoji • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • new year 2020)
Buy at least one of these Vladimir Putin calendars from Russia to start your year off right
- Dale Roll
Jan 3, 2020
Putin’s steely gaze will motivate you to work hard all year long!
- Japan, Russia
- (2020 • calendar • funny • Mr. Sato • Putin • vladimir putin • Vladmir Putin)
Starbucks Japan lucky bag is the most hard-to-get fukubukuro of the New Year
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2020
A lucky bag so popular it can only be purchased by lottery winners.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bags • new year 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Studio Ghibli celebrates New Year with a fukubukuro lucky bag packed with anime merchandise
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2020
Donguri Kyowakoku delivers one of the best lucky bags of the New Year, with a very unusual Totoro.
- Japan
- (anime • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • merchandise • My Neighbour Totoro • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)
We bought the Mister Donut Pokémon lucky bag, and here’s what we got! 【Photos】
- Shannon McNaught
Jan 3, 2020
This was probably the best purchase we made at the end of 2019.
- Japan
- (collaboration • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Japanese New Year • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Pokemon)
Mr. Sato hunts for New Year’s lucky tablets in the wilderness of Akihabara
- Master Blaster
Jan 3, 2020
No one puts the “fuku” in “fukubukuro” like Akihabara.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Mr. Sato • new year 2020 • tablet • Tokyo)
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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