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Studio Ghibli adds folding fans to its anime specialty store in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 4, 2025
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Totoro and No Face whisk you away to enchanted worlds.

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (bear attacks • bears • dogs • Gosen • Niigata • Shinto priests • Yokoku Temple)

“Matcha crisis” emerges as the world falls in love with powdered green tea

• Master Blaster
  Jun 3, 2025

A matcha crisis isn’t fun and games like Time Crisis. It’s hard and grueling like Dino Crisis.

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• Japan
• (business • exports • food • food production • green tea • international trade • matcha)

Elon Musk didn’t have a baby with J-pop legend Ayumi Hamasaki, she’d like you to know

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2025

”It’s just not true.”

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• Japan
• (Ayumi Hamasaki • celebrities • COK • Elon Musk • J-Pop • music • Tesla • weird)

Lock that opens when Osaka dialect is spoken unveiled at Expo 2025

• Master Blaster
  Jun 3, 2025

Ore no Osakaben hetakusotte iitain? Hooooooonmaaaaaaniiiiii!

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • Advanced Media • Key Voice • locks • Osaka • Osaka dialect • Osaka Healthcare Pavilion • Osakaben • voice recognition • West Inx)

Starbucks Japan releases exclusive new matcha drinks at select stores this summer

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2025

Limited-edition drinks are like nothing the chain has ever produced before.

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • teas • Teavana)

Japanese people demand that Gackt taste the government’s old old old rice

• Master Blaster
  Jun 3, 2025

That’s where they want Gackt to go-oh-oh… Way down to kokokomai.

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• Japan
• (food • Gackt • kokokomai • komai • old old old rice • rice • shinjiro koizumi • shinmai)

No more using real katana for tourism activities, Japan’s National Police Agency says

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2025

Popular program in birthplace of samurai martial art iado forced to retool.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • culture • iaido • Katana • martial arts • samurai • swords • tourism • travel)

Bicycle gang terrorize Shibuya Scramble with lame and annoying wheelies

• Master Blaster
  Jun 3, 2025

Godspeed you beige emperors.

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• Japan
• (bicycles • bikes • crime • Shibuya Scramble • Tokyo • wheelies)

Studio Ghibli releases new Totoro tenugui anime art for the rainy season in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2025

Traditional techniques bring centuries of craftsmanship to Totoro.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • rainy season • Studio Ghibli • tenugui • Totoro • wall art)

Fukuoka woman arrested for drunk bicycle riding

• Master Blaster
  Jun 2, 2025

It’s a more serious crime than you may think.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • bicycles • COK • crime • cycling • drunk driving • DUI • Fukuoka • law)

Live-action Netflix One Piece Chopper shows face for first time – What do fans in Japan think?

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2025

Tony Tony Chopper moves and speaks in introduction video.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • Live action • manga • Netflix • Netflix One Piece • One Piece • Tony Tony Chppper • vide)

Japan’s best rose gardens to visit in 2025

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 2, 2025

With thousands of bushes to be enjoyed, these floral wonderlands are just waiting for you to stroll around them.

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• Japan
• (Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • flower festivals • flowers • gardens • Ibaraki Flower Park • Kyu-Furukawa Garden • nature • outdoors • parks • rose • roses • tourism • travel)

Plant extract that may grow hair discovered by Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical

• Master Blaster
  Jun 2, 2025

Plants, you gotta love ’em.

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• Japan
• (baldness • baldness cures • chenpi • hair • hair growth • hair loss • PIGF • placental growth factor • Rohto • science)

Beautiful covers make Studio Ghibli vinyl soundtracks and image albums look as good as they sound

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2025

Gorgeous artwork graces the jackets of LP releases of the work of Ghibli’s greatest composer.

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• Japan
• (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • Howl's Moving Castle • Jo Hisaishi • Kiki's Delivery Service • LPs • manga • music • Princess Mononoke • records • soundtracks • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya • The Wind Rises • vinyl)

Donuts beyond mochi mochi: Mister Donut’s new donuts are so soft they’re almost drinkable

• SoraNews24
  Jun 2, 2025

Japan’s favorite donut chain rolls out Mocchurin donuts to celebrate its 55th anniversary.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • donuts • food • Mister Donut • mochi mochi • SNJO • sweets • weird)

What to do if you forget your camera or other belongings on the Shinkansen

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2025

We get an unexpected lesson in bullet train property retrieval procedures.

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• Japan
• (bullet trains • Central Japan Railway Company • COK • customer service • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR Central • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • trains • travel)

Studio Ghibli releases Japanese sake flask and cup set for anime lovers

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2025

Porco Rosso steals the spotlight with a tokkuri and ochoko you won’t find anywhere else.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese sake • manga • ochoko • Porco Rosso • sake • sake set • Studio Ghibli • tokkuri • Totoro)

Pokémon Cafe’s new Mega Charizard curry plate is a work of art in more ways than one

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 1, 2025

Pokémon Cafes in Tokyo and Osaka welcome Mega Evolutions back as main dishes, desserts, and drinks in the buildup to Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

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• Japan
• (anime • Charizard • curry • drinks • food • latte art • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon Cafe • restaurants • themed restaurants • video games)

7-Eleven Japan releases new must-try sweets that are a hit with customers

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2025

Convenience store chain has frozen surprises waiting for you this summer.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • crepes • food • ice cream • imagawayaki • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • pancakes • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

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