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Iga City says reports that they are running out of ninja is “fake news”

• Koh Ruide
  Jul 25, 2018
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Mayor baffled by sudden surge of foreigners calling in and wanting to become the next Naruto.

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• Japan
• (fake news • Iga • mayor • Ninja • professional ninja)

Japan to stop brewing Budweiser beer this year…Wait, Japan makes Budweiser?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 25, 2018

Here’s your last chance to taste made-in-Japan Budweiser.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • beer • Budweiser • drinks • Kirin)

Hanao Shoes: Dress like a modern-day geisha with new line of geta sneakers from Kyoto

• Oona McGee
  Jul 25, 2018

A more comfortable way to enjoy the festival season while out and about in your yukata summer kimono.

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• Japan
• (fashion • geisha • geta • kimono • Kyoto • shoes • sneakers • summer • yukata)

Japanese summer is worse than summer in Death Valley, says our correspondent, a seasoned traveler

• Dale Roll
  Jul 25, 2018

What makes Japanese summer more unbearable than the harsh heat of the desert?

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• Japan
• (Death Valley • heat • heat wave • high temperatures • hot summer • Japanese summer • summer)

Japanese travellers give their answers to the Hotel vs. Ryokan Japanese inn debate

• Richard Simmonds
  Jul 25, 2018

Q&A website explains the good and the bad of hotels and traditional Japanese inns. 

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• Japan
• (accommodation • hotels • ryokan • travel)

New hair pins let you look like you’ve been stabbed in the head with a classic Japanese icon

• Richard Simmonds
  Jul 25, 2018

If your body is a temple, your head is a shrine? Provide easy access to your bonce for roaming Shinto gods with a torii gate hair accessory.

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• Japan
• (fashion • gifts • hair • shrines • torii • Village Vanguard • weird)

Butt without body – Strange new anime figure line is all about the backside【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 25, 2018

Design allows owners to mix and match upper body art, and also has a practical purpose.

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• Japan
• (anime • figures • Smartphones • weird • Wonder Festival)

Tokyo police arrest teen for having knife 2mm too long, released because type of knife mistaken

• Master Blaster
  Jul 25, 2018

You call that a kiridashi knife? Seriously, I can’t tell.

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• Japan
• (crime • kiridashi knife • knives • Kodaira • Tokyo)

Japan’s record-setting heat wave is hot enough to melt anime figure ankles

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2018

Summer’s fury has no mercy for this fan’s Evangelion figure.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • Evangelion • figures • funny • heat • hot)

Japanese hair stylist chops and snips a tiny doll’s hair to a chic new ‘do【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 24, 2018

This salon worker is renowned for trimming hair into stylish bobs and short styles, but his miniature doll makeover is something special!

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• Japan
• (cute • hair cut • hair salon • hairstyling • Licca-chan)

Shibuya 109 building unveils new winning logo design set to appear over scramble crossing in 2019

• Oona McGee
  Jul 24, 2018

Owners say sayonara to their iconic red sign with a new logo that captures the spirit of all the youth fashion stores inside the building.

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• Japan
• (art • competitions • design • fashion • logo • Shibuya • shibuya 109 • Shibuya scramble crossing • Tokyo)

This Love Liver’s anime armor may be the most extreme otaku outfit ever conceived

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2018

Hardcore Love Live! fan celebrates birthday of his pick for best girl by wearing a merchandise mountain that’s big enough for eleven people.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crazy • funny • Idols • love live • Love Livers • Nico Yazawa • otaku • otaku armor)

Kyoto Ninja Run tour can add over 100 ninja missions to your itinerary if you’re tired of temples

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2018

English-language programs don’t let you just dress like ninja, but act like one too.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • Fushimi • Kyoto • Ninja • tours • travel)

Famous anime voice actor offers to perform at fan’s house for one day for an eye-popping price

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2018

Fan of actor from Fate, Bleach, and Detective Conan franchises wanted to hire an imitator, but got a response from the actor himself.
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• Japan
• (anime • cool.funny • Ryotaro Okiayu • twitter • voice actors • weird)

Japanese high school student makes gross yet cool action figure out of bugs

• Dale Roll
  Jul 24, 2018

“He invaded the earth and survives as the fittest of the bug world.”

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• Japan
• (action figures • art • cicada shell art • cicada shells • cicadas • Japanese Twitter • super heroes)

Man’s lottery success disintegrates in the wash, Japanese netizens commiserate

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 24, 2018

“Your one chance to win the jackpot slid down the drain?!” What would you do in this nightmare scenario?
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• China, Japan
• (bad luck • China • laundry • lottery • money • schadenfreude)

X Japan’s Yoshiki, L’Arc-en-Ciel’s Hyde preview co-op theme for Attack on Titan Season 3【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2018

Monolithic mononymous musicians’ titanic team-up trumpets anticipated anime’s arrival.

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• Japan
• (anime • Attack on Titan • Hyde • J-Pop • L'Arc-en-Ciel • music • X Japan • Yoshiki)

Mom shares life-changing tip to stop her kids from fooling around on her smartphone

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 24, 2018

Here’s one way to keep your kids’ hands off your phone…and possibly give them some nightmares to boot. 

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• Internet, Japan
• (advice • kids • mask • Noh • scary • smartphone • twitter)

Monday was the hottest day ever in Japan’s recorded history

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2018

Japan’s national and Tokyo temperature records fall on the same day as intense heat wave continues.

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• Japan
• (crazy • heat • hot • Kumagaya • Saitama • Tokyo • weather)

Japan once had a sightseeing cable car at Shibuya Station 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2018

People used to travel on a ropeway between department store rooftops overlooking today’s scramble crossing.

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• Japan
• (cable car • history • Japanese history • old photos • ropeway • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • sightseeing • Tokyo)

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