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Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution remakes the Pokémon franchise’s first film in full CG, and the trailer shows Ash and pals like we’ve never seen them before.

Japan
(anime • Mewtwo Strikes Back • Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution • movies • Pikachu • Pokemon • video)

SoraNews24 is looking for a new writer, and it could be you!

SoraNews24
Mar 1, 2019

Here’s your chance to go from reading SoraNews24 to writing it.

Global, Internet, Japan
(help wanted • jobs • work for SoraNews24)

We drank crab-juice infused Crab Cola from Niigata Prefecture, because why not

Evie Nyan
Mar 1, 2019

We glugged a bottle of Crab Cola, infused with genuine crab essence, produced by a fishpacking company in Niigata prefecture.

Japan
(COK • Cola • crab • crazy • drinks • food • SNOJ • soda • taste test • weird)

Kyoto train station thanks commuters for saving life of passenger who fell on the train tracks

Dale Roll
Mar 1, 2019

Japanese commuters stepped up to help when a fellow passenger faced considerable danger.

Japan
(accident • COK • commuters • emergency stop button • moving • scary • touching • trains)

Japanese schoolgirl points out an especially dumb part of her school’s “no tights” dress code

Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2019

The rule is supposed to be for everybody, but it’s really only the girls who have to follow it.

Japan
(COK • dress code • schholgirls • school rules • schools • society • tights • uniforms)

Starbucks brand-new Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo breaks SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato’s heart

Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2019

He was supposed to be drinking the coffee of his dreams, but instead…

Japan
(cafes • coffee • COK • crazy • funny • Mr. Sato • Naka Meguro • restaurants • SNOJ • Starbucks • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • Tokyo)

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo: A visitor’s guide to the biggest Starbucks in the world

Oona McGee
Mar 1, 2019

Step inside with us as we try all the exclusive treats and drinks only available at this stunning Japan location.

Japan
(cafes • coffee • Nakameguro • SNO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • Tokyo)

Sonic the Hedgehog creator gets one last blow to his pride on final visit to Sega office in Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2019

Yuji Naka stopped by his old workplace with his kids, but the other people he ran into weren’t necessarily Sega fans.

Japan
(funny • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • video games • Yuji Naka)

Crazy Tokyo restaurant offers a 7.3-pound tempura rice bowl, so of course we had to eat it!

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2019

Can’t decide between tempura and pork cutlet? This restaurant lets you have both in ridiculously large quantities.

Japan
(big food • COK • crazy • donburi • food • katsu • Mr. Sato • pork cutlet • restaurants • rice bowls • SNOJ • tempura • Tokyo)

This beautiful video displays two very different sides of Japan【Video】

Shannon McNaught
Feb 28, 2019

Japan’s diversity of culture and landscape is encapsulated in just three minutes.

Japan
(beauitful • Kyoto • Mount fuji • Osaka • shrines • tourism • travel • video • Wakayama)

Women’s high school soccer team wins Mie Prefecture championship with only 70 percent of a team

Master Blaster
Feb 28, 2019

You’d probably have expected their 8-on-11 matches to be bloodbaths, and they were…

Japan
(awesome • championship • cool • high school • high schools • Kagoshima • Kamimura Gakuen • Mie • moving • soccer • sports)

Shiba Inu marshmallows from Japan may be too cute to eat, are definitely too soft to not squeeze

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2019

Smiling Shiba are the latest offering from Japan’s number-one cat merch maker.

Japan
(animals • cute • dogs • Felissimo • food • marshmallows • Shiba Inu • sweets)

The worst-quality anime of last year’s Blu-ray has this year’s saddest improvement so far

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2019

Anime that told fans “We’re in serious trouble” has a troublingly tiny art revision for home video release.

Japan
(anime • Blu-ray • crazy • funny • My Sister • My Writer • Ore ga Suki na no ha Imoto Dakedo Imoto ja nai)

Brand-new Pokémon games, Sword and Shield, announced for Nintendo Switch【Video】

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2019

The wait is over, as the new setting and starter Pokémon for the first all-new Pokémon game for a top-of-the-line Nintendo system are revealed!