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Japanese omamori good-luck charm pouches are here to protect your lips as stylish balm holders

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2019
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Over 40 handcrafted designs to choose from, many made with thousand-year-old Fujiyama-ori tradition.

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• Japan
• (beauty • cool • culture • cute • good luck charms • lip balm • Omamori)

Controversial busty manga girl Red Cross poster’s artist donates blood

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2019

And it wasn’t the Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out creator’s first time, either.

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• Japan
• (anime • blood • blood donation • blood drive • controversy • health • Japanese Red Cross Society • manga • moving • society • touching • Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out)

Japanese man expects woman to serve him at drinking party, gets helping of delicious sass instead

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2019

“This is the first time I’ve met a woman who doesn’t dish up for other people.”

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• Japan
• (COK • etiquette • food • funny • manners • society)

The reason why otaku don’t like Studio Ghibli anime heroines

• SoraNews24
  Oct 30, 2019

Japanese VTuber throws shade at the otaku community.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime heroine • characters • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • otaku • Studio Ghibli • twitter)

Creepy peeping video from Japanese arcade shows why men aren’t allowed in sticker booth section

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

Guy helps himself to a view under the privacy curtain.

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• Japan
• (Arcades • chikan • peeping • purikura • scary • sticker pictures • video)

Search for live-streamer who fell from Mt. Fuji finds badly damaged corpse half-mile below peak

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

Live-streamer had climbed Mt. Fuji multiple times, including just one month ago.

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• Japan
• (accident • hiking • Mt. Fuji • scary • video)

Japanese man finds abandoned kittens being attacked by crows, becomes a hero to protect them

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

Finds a way to permanently protect them from birds of prey.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • COK • crows • moving • touching • video)

Jamaican-style ramen in Kyoto: A cross-cultural hit, or just jerking your taste buds around?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

Ramen and jerk chicken are delicious on their own, but do they play nice together?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Gion • Jamaica • jerk chicken • Kyoto • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Japanese Filet-O-Fish to get first upgrade in 25 years

• Master Blaster
  Oct 30, 2019

We have the technology. We can make it better, crispier, fresher.

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• Japan
• (business • fast food • Filet-O-Fish • food • McDonald's • restaurants)

Skynet sends a Terminator to Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station to future-freak-out commuters【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

Cyberdyne adapts to local marketing trends.

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• Japan
• (ads • awesome • COK • cool • Metro Promenade • movies • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • stations • Terminator • trains)

Kyoto admits to paying celebrities 500,000 yen per tweet to talk about how great the city is

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

”We expected a strong, positive reaction from young people” says city government spokesperson.

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• Japan
• (COK • controversy • government • Kyoto • social media • society • travel • twitter)

Kyoto Animation arson attack leads Japanese government to develop stricter gas sale regulations

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

New law would require documentation of the sort of purchase arsonist made prior to attack.

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• (anime • arson • COK • crime • gasoline • Kyoto Animation)

Hiker falls off Mt. Fuji while live-streaming steps from summit, rescuers yet to find him【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2019

Last words before slipping are “This part is dangerous.”

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• (accident • hiking • Mt. Fuji • scary • video)

Bubble tea helps herbivore men meet women during Shibuya Halloween

• Oona McGee
  Oct 29, 2019

Unexpected outcome of alcohol ban has boba bonding partygoers in the best way possible.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • ban • boba • bubble tea • dating • halloween • Japanese women • love • milk tea • nanpa • romance • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society • tapioca • Tokyo • women)

American English teacher fired from Japanese high school after exposing genitals

• SoraNews24
  Oct 29, 2019

ALT acted inappropriately with students on at least three different occasions.

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• (ALT • high school students • high schools • Japanese high schools • Japanese schools • Japanese students • news • Saitama • schools • teacher • teaching)

Soon you can drink your ice cream at Lawson convenience stores throughout Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 29, 2019

It’s up to you whether you want to count this new beverage product as a drink or as a dessert. 

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• (beverage • convenience store • drink • konbini • Lawson • new product • soft serve ice cream)

New sakura cherry blossom viewing sheets bring old-school beauty to hanami picnics

• Oona McGee
  Oct 29, 2019

Waterproof foldable tatami mats are set to revolutionise the way we view cherry blossoms.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • Felissimo • hanami • picnics • sakura • shopping • tatami)

Silky golden ramen recommended by Michelin Guide is so good, we felt like royalty eating it

• Koh Ruide
  Oct 29, 2019

Only $9 for some of the best noodles in the country.

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• (delicious • K. Nagahashi • Michelin Guide • Noodles • ramen • Sapporo • SNJO • soup • yummy)

The best Japanese cosplayers from Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Fest 2019【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 29, 2019

Find out why Ikebukuro slays Shibuya when it comes to Halloween. 

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • halloween • Halloween 2019 • Ikebukuro • Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Fest • Ikehalo • manga • SNJO)

Five reasons not to live in Japan (as chosen by Switzerland’s perviest otaku)

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2019

Overseas otaku says he learned some things while traveling in Japan, but many say they shouldn’t have been surprises.

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• Japan
• (COK • Living in Japan • otaku • society)

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