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Mrs. Green Apple’s recent concert gets noise complaints from next city over, 15 kilometers away

• Master Blaster
  Jul 30, 2025
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Those darn kids with their rock music and inverted incidence!

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• Japan
• (acoustics • concerts • kawasaki • Mrs. Green Apple • music • noise • physics • science • weather • Yokohama)

Here are all of the reasons why you should go to Kumano, Mie Prefecture, for summer sightseeing

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 30, 2025

Spectacular fireworks, ancient pilgrimage routes, water excursions, and local cuisine are all definitive reasons to visit Kumano this summer season.

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• Japan
• (Kihoku Lantern Festival • Kumano Fireworks Festival • kumano kodo • Mie Prefecture • pilgrimage • sightseeing • summer • UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Japanese politician offers official apology for saying town’s rice tastes bad, had to be in-person

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2025

Over-the-phone sorry rejected, prompting face-to-face apology to farmers.

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• Japan
• (food • politicians • rice • society • weird)

Lawson debuts new fried chicken so let’s see how it compares to other stores

• Master Blaster
  Jul 30, 2025

Is the biggest bird best?

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • convenience stores • Fami Chiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken • L Chiki • Lawson • Manmaru Chicken • Nana Chiki)

Mario Paint arrives for Nintendo Switch Online, finally can reach its potential after 34 years

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2025

Ahead-of-its-time game’s time has finally come.

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• Japan
• (art • Mario Paint • nintendo • Nintendo Classics • Nintendo Switch Online • Super Mario • switch • Switch 2 • video games)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba comes to Dodger Stadium for fan night, first pitch, and drone show

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2025

Crossover caps to be given away in latest team-up between Los Angeles baseball club and hit anime.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Dodger Stadium • Dodgers • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Los Anageles • Major League Baseball • manga • MLB • sports)

Visiting Shohei Ohtani’s official manhole lid in his hometown and more

• Master Blaster
  Jul 29, 2025

Always judge a manhole by its cover.

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• Japan
• (baseball • iwate prefecture • Kirika Kosuzu • manhole covers • MLB • Mori Masaru • Morioka • Oshu • Shohei Ohtani • sports • Yusei Kikuchi)

Is katsudon a dish best served cold? Trying out the new Hiyashi Dashi Katsudon in Tokyo【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2025

West Japan pork cutlet chain has arrived in Tokyo, and it’s brought something unusual for the summer.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Frappuccino perfume from Starbucks is now available in Japan… but you can’t buy it

• Oona McGee
  Jul 29, 2025

Select customers will be able to wear the peachy scent of this heavenly limited-edition beverage.

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• Japan
• (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • muscat • Peach • peaches • perfume • review • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)

What is Japan’s new “summer matcha” ice cream flavor from confectioner Morinaga?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2025

More matcha from Mow Matcha.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • green tea • ice cream • matcha • matcha sweets • Morinaga • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea)

Crazy expensive Evangelion statue, pre-production idols, and more from Japan’s Wonder Festival

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2025

Japan’s biggest figure and garage kit show returns for its summer iteration.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Evangelion • figures • garage kits • Goddess of Victory: Nikke • Idolmaster • manga • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • SNJO • video games • Wonder Festival • Wonder Festival 2025 • Wonder Festival Summer • Wonder Festival Summer 2025)

Japanese airline now has an onboard gacha capsule toy machine

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2025

You may have said goodbye to Japan, but you don’t have to say goodbye to capsule toys just yet.

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• Japan
• (AirJapan • airlines • Airplane Gacha • airplanes • ANA • capsule toys • cool • crazy • gacha • tourism • travel • weird)

Honda’s real-life Koraidon to run for the first time at Suzuka 8 Hours final

• Master Blaster
  Jul 28, 2025

The past is now.

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• Japan
• (Honda • Koraidon • Mie • motorcycles • Pokemon • Pokémon Scarlet • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet • Suzuka 8 Hours • suzuka circuit)

Bar event for sitting and spacing out opening in Tokyo, offers the luxury of doing nothing

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2025

Boutto Suru Bar is committed to boutto suru ideal.

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• Japan
• (bars • cafes • COK • cool • crazy • drinks • relaxing • weird)

What’s inside a Japanese taco?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 28, 2025

Taco restaurant serves up some surprises in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (COK • El Rey Amigo • food • fusion food • Japanese food • Mexican food • restaurants • SNJO • taco • tacos • taste test • Tokyo)

Visiting Hokkaido’s adorable and awesome Asahikawa rice paddy art【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2025

Mascot characters, a hometown hero, and creative ice cream make this a great place to pull over in Japan’s northernmost prefecture.

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• Japan
• (Asahikawa • awesome • COK • cool • cute • food • Hokkaido • rice • rice paddy art • SNJO • tambo art • travel.tourism.narture)

Aichi senior and former fraud victim arrested for fraud

• Master Blaster
  Jul 28, 2025

If you can’t beat ’em…

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fraud • seniors • special fraud • weird)

This Japanese cafe for stuffed animals is a sweet day out for nuikatsu fans

• Elliot Hale
  Jul 28, 2025

Plushies are the VIP guests at this cafe, complete with tiny menus and mini desserts.

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• Japan
• (cafe • COK • cute • dessert • food • food and drinks • Mariko Ohanabatake • nuigurumi • nuikatsu • pop-up cafe • SNJO • stuffed animals • stuffed toys • sweets • Tokyo)

Elegant ghostly Ghibli curtain captures the ungraspable form of No Face【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 27, 2025

Clever design trick brings the Spirited Away star’s otherworldly appearance into your real-world home.

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• Japan
• (anime • clever • Donguri Kyowakoku • interior • moviers • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown creates rice paddy art and manhole cover in his honour

• Oona McGee
  Jul 27, 2025

World-famous baseball player gets a big accolade in Japan… with his beloved dog.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • art • baseball • cool • farming • Iwate • manga • rice • rice field art • rice paddy art • Shohei Ohtani • SNJO • travel)

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