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Japan’s Kirby Choco Eggs hide figures that are too cute to resist

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 29, 2025
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Mystery toy chocolate eggs leave us with a surprisingly delicious dessert.

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• Japan
• (anime • Choco Egg • chocolate • COK • cute • dessert • figures • Kirby • nintendo • shokugan • snacks • SNJO • sweets • Takuya Inaba • tart • toys • Waddle Dee • Waddle Doo)

Japanese toilet maker Toto launches new service that guides you to empty restrooms via your phone

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 29, 2025

When you gotta go, you gotta go, and this smartphone service will tell you where to go.

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• Japan
• (COK • Public restrooms • Toilets • Toto)

Life imitates Osaka’s unique brand of comedic art in daylight theft arrest

• Master Blaster
  Aug 29, 2025

Never accept offers to race from strangers.

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• Japan
• (comedy • crime • Manzai • Osaka • shinkigeki • theft)

A Drop of Zen: New matcha drink stand opens in Kyoto

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2025

Green tea beverages topped with a Zen garden.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cute • drinks • food • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • matcha latte • Nishiki Market • parfaits • sweets • Zen)

Tokyo’s Vampire Cafe serving up blood-sauce burgers and sweets with fire and dark magic spells

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2025

Guilty Pleasure menu remorselessly targets meat lovers and dessert fans.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cool • food • Horror • restaurants • scary • themed cafes • themed restaurants • Vampire Cafe • vampires)

What’s so “Japan mind” about Häagen-Dazs’ new “Japan Mind” ice cream?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2025

Yuzu White Chocolate scratches the surface of what lies beneath Japanese society.

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• Japan
• (COK • green tea • gyokuro • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream.food • matcha • matcha sweets • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea)

Starbucks Japan releases a new hojicha mousse latte for autumn

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2025

Move aside, Frappuccinos, this autumn is all about the roasted green tea latte.

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• Japan
• (autumn • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • green tea • hojicha • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • latte • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea)

Airport in Japan still reporting loss of tourists after manga’s disaster prediction

• Master Blaster
  Aug 28, 2025

The prediction came and went, but the effects are still there.

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• Japan
• (disasters • Hong Kong • manga • prediction • Ryo Tatsuki • Takamatsu Airport • Takamatsu City • The Future I Saw • tourism)

Is KFC Japan’s new Triple Tsukimi Moon Viewing Burger really as big as it looks?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2025

Putting a new burger to the test, in the Mr Sato way. 

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• Japan
• (burgers • chicken • chicken burgers • fast food • food • fried chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • Mr. Sato • otsukimi • SNJO • tsukimi • tsukimi burger)

Tokyo hotel has a special room just for Gundam Gunpla plastic model builders【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2025

Anime-themed room has everything you need to build a Gundam model, including free kits.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • hotels • manga • mecha • models • robots • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Beautiful unofficial Ghibli village in a Japanese forest is a magical place to spend an afternoon

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2025

Nukumori no Mori feels like a fantasy world and predates Ghibli Park by decades.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cute • nature • Nukumori no Mori • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan’s post office refuses to ship certain packages and gifts to America due to tariffs

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2025

U.S. president Donald Trump’s unclear tariff policies prompt indefinite suspension of services.

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• Japan
• (Donald Trump • Japan Post • politics • society • tariffs)

Japanese online flea market app bans the sale of ultrasound photos

• Master Blaster
  Aug 27, 2025

But what am I supposed to do with all these prenatal photos of my kids cluttering up the house?

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• Japan
• (flea market apps • fraud • mercari • pregnancy fraud • resale • ultrasound)

Train photographers caught shoplifting scores of items from Osaka Expo gift shops

• Master Blaster
  Aug 27, 2025

Suspects also ironically ripped off train companies to do it.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • crime • Osaka • otaku • photography • shoplifting • toritetsu • trains)

As shorts are increasingly allowed in the Japanese workplace, could hairy legs be harassment?

• Master Blaster
  Aug 26, 2025

It’s a hairy situation to say the least.

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• Japan
• (business • employment • harassment • law • leg hair • power harassment • shorts • society • summer • working in Japan)

With sushi breakfasts and hot spring baths, this Tokyo hotel could really use a different name

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 26, 2025

“Dormitory” doesn’t do this place justice.

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• Japan
• (COK • Dormy Inn • hot springs • Hotel Dormy Inn • hotels • onsen • ramen • SNJO • sushi • travel.tourism)

Japan’s pretty lifestyle brand made an ultra-cheap Switch controller, but is it any good?

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 26, 2025

3 Coins’ Switch controller is less than half the price of Nintendo’s Pro Controller, but is it worth even that much?

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• Japan
• (3 Coins • 3COINS • gadgets • nintendo • nintendo switch • SNJO • switch • video games)

Super-tiny manga that you can actually read are our new capsule toy obsession【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 26, 2025

Immensely cool miniature manga.

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• Japan
• (anime • capsule toys • COK • cool • gachapon • manga • miniature • Shonen Jump • SNJO • vending machine toys • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Japanese metal group Babymetal lands historic No. 9 ranking on U.S. Billboard 200 music chart

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 26, 2025

The kawaii overlords are officially taking over the world.

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• Japan, USA
• (Babymetal • Billboard • heavy metal • idol • Kawaii • music • music chart)

Classic shojo manga magazine Ribon partners with 3 Coins for nostalgic lifestyle goods series

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 26, 2025

Set your heart aflutter with an impressive 92 goods from six nostalgic and beloved stories that first ran in Ribon.

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• Japan
• (3 Coins • collaboration • goods • merchandise • Ribon • shojo manga)

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