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Grow your own balcony rice balls with this new how-to book
- Elliot Hale
Jun 6, 2025 - Tweet
With 30 seeds and 180 days of patience, you too can also eat rice from a bucket.
- Japan
- (agriculture • book • books • bucket rice • COK • farming • food • gardening • rice • rice ball • rice farming)
Japanese police find 74 packets of cocaine inside foreign traveler complaining of stomach pains
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2025
Yeah, that’ll cause digestive and legal problems for you.
Musical ekiben adds a tune to your train station bento meal
- Oona McGee
Jun 6, 2025
Japan’s only musical ekiben lets you sing for your supper.
- Japan
- (beef • bento • bullet trains • dining • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • shinkansen • SNJO • trains • travel • Wagyu)
Eel that looks like a banana caught in Shimane Prefecture
- Master Blaster
Jun 6, 2025
Come, Mister tally man, tally me eel.
- Japan
- (bananas • eels • fish • fishing • Izumo City • rare animals • Shimane Prefecture)
One Piece Lego sets both are and aren’t the first-ever Lego anime collaboration【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2025
Five kits take their inspiration from One Piece, but not from the anime or manga.
- Japan
- (anime • LEGO • Live action • manga • Netflix • Netflix One Piece • One Piece • toys)
Yakko Welsh Onion Tossing World Championships held in Kochi Prefecture
- Master Blaster
Jun 6, 2025
Don’t play with your food, unless it’s a competitive sport.
- Japan
- (garlic chives • Guinness World Record • Kami City • kochi • nira • sports • welsh onion • yakko negi • Yakko Welsh Onion Tossing World Championships)
Five tips for hosting a college-age Japanese student in your country
- Krista Rogers
Jun 6, 2025
From planning what to do to supporting their language development, we share some advice for making your student’s stay go as smoothly as possible.
- Japan, USA
- (advice • America • college student • English • hosting • Japanese student • study abroad • tips • U.S. • university)
Krispy Kreme Japan giving away free donuts for National Donut Day
- Master Blaster
Jun 5, 2025
No dollars to donuts.
- Japan
- (donut shops • donuts • free food • holidays • junk food • Krispy Kreme • National Donut Day)
Osaka granny idol group Obachaaan is here to cheer you up in newest song “Overpower”
- Krista Rogers
Jun 5, 2025
When life gives you lemons, these Osaka obachan are here to “give you that power.”
Starbucks Japan releases first-ever spicy Frappuccino for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2025
Exclusive beverage designed to make you breathe fire like a dragon.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • mango • spicy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Burger King Japan adds a Pickleball Burger to the menu… but what’s so pickleball about it?
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2025
A novel way to draw attention to a growing sport.
- Japan
- (Burger King • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • pickleball • review • SNJO • sport • sports • taste test • weird)
Cafe turns Japan’s most beautiful paintings into beautiful shaved ice dessert drinks【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 5, 2025
Refreshing Hokusai woodblock prints you can drink arrive in time for summer.
- Japan
- (Akafuji • art • beautiful • cafes • culture • drinks • Fine Wind Clear Morning • food • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • paintins • restaurants • shaved ice • sweets • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)
Studio Ghibli wind chime adds anime charm to the summer breeze
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2025
The sounds of a Japanese summer, with the help of magical movie characters.
- Japan
- (anime • anime merchandise • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • manga • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro • wind chime)
Perfect instant ramen eggs every time! Cup Noodle’s Nissin creates Shirotama Maker kitchen gadget
- Casey Baseel
Jun 4, 2025
An easy way to make your already easy meal even more delicious.
- Japan
- (chicken ramen • cooking • cool • eggs • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • video)
New Studio Ghibli Uniqlo T-shirt line coming to the U.S., Japan left out once again【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 4, 2025
Eight Ghibli anime movies inspire new collection of tees and sweatshirts.
- Japan
- (anime • fashion • Howl's Moving Castle • Kiki's Delivery Service • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Pom Poko • Princess Mononoke • shirts • spirited away • sweatshirts • t-shirts • The Boy and the Heron • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya • Uniqlo)
Family Mart is giving away free socks for your ice cream in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 4, 2025
Testing the convenience of Convenience Wear.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • food • food review • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Line Socks • papico • SNJO • socks • sweets • taste test)
KFC Japan cooking up new yuzu Japanese citrus katsu sandwiches for summer
- Casey Baseel
Jun 4, 2025
Yuzu and shichimi add distinctive delicious Japanese flavors to the fried chicken house from Kentucky.
- Japan
- (burgers • cutlet • fast food • food • fried chicken • katsu • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan • KFC • KFC Japan • shichimi • yuzu)
“Bumping men” are a uniquely Japanese class of criminals that are hard to deal with
- Master Blaster
Jun 4, 2025
This peculiar Japanese crime leaves its victims wondering what to do.
- Japan
- (assault • bumping men • butsukari otoko • COK • crime • law • society)
Studio Ghibli adds folding fans to its anime specialty store in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 4, 2025
Totoro and No Face whisk you away to enchanted worlds.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fans • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro)
Chiko the one-year-old beagle saves Buddhist priest from bear mauling
- Master Blaster
Jun 4, 2025
Chiko shows it’s good to be noisy.
- Japan
- (bear attacks • bears • dogs • Gosen • Niigata • Shinto priests • Yokoku Temple)
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Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Godzilla becomes a Japanese randoseru backpack, as do two of his greatest rivals [Photos]
First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia- Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan- Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown- Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
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Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
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Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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