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Yoshinoya serves gyudon beef bowls from a tiny truck in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2025
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Moving Yoshinoya is an Orange Dream on the food truck scene…for those who know where they’re hiding.

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• Japan
• (beef • cars • chain • COK • food • food trucks • gyudon • kitchen cars • lunch • Moving Yoshinoya • Orange Dream • Restaurant • SNJO • Tokyo • Yoshinoya)

Virtual idol Hatsune Miku’s new stage costume inspires gorgeous shoes in the real world【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2025

Anime footwear designers create new model to celebrate Miku Symphony 2025 tour.

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• Japan
• (anime • fashion • Hatsune Miku • manga • Mayla • Miku Symphony 2025 • shoes • virtual idols • vocaloids)

Japanese puffed corn snack to be sold for 110,000 yen as work of art

• Master Blaster
  Mar 10, 2025

Nearly identical Umaibo snacks cost 15 yen each.

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• Japan
• (art • Azabudai Hills Gallery • COK • crazy • food • modern art • Modern Art Flavor • snacks • Tomokazu Matsuyama • umaibo • weird)

Classy and cute Totoro china teacups will have you feeling as cozy as the Ghibli anime【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2025

Totoro and soot sprites will keep you company as you sip your tea or coffee.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • drinks • drinkware • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Noritake • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Minnaka: New unstaffed convenience store opens in Tokyo with cheap bentos and Costco food

• Oona McGee
  Mar 9, 2025

Japanese entrepreneur reimagines the convenience store with unique features for customers.

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• Japan
• (bento • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • Costco • curry • drinks • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Minnaka • SNJO)

7-Eleven Japan planning to become even more awesome by baking its own bread in-store

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2025

Convenience store chain planning major in-store cooking upgrades to thousands of branches in Japan.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • bread • COK • conveneince stores • Japanese convenience stores)

Japanese parenting app has demon call your phone and scold your misbehaving kids

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2025

When your kids are acting like devils, Oni kara Denwa dispatches a demon to set them straight.

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• (COK • crazy • demons • funny • kids • oni • Parenting • parents • scary • weird)

Shovel shamisen is a quirky and fun addition to the Japanese music scene【Video】

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 8, 2025

What started as a garden tool is now a bona fide musical instrument.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • culture • Japanese music • Japanese traditional music • music • shamisen • shovel • shovel shamisen • video • weird)

Catbus plushie jumps out of the anime world and into your arms for Ghibli cuddles

• Oona McGee
  Mar 8, 2025

Cute character wants to be your fur baby.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • Catbus • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • goods • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • plush toys • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

The Great Capcom Exhibition is coming to Osaka this spring

• Master Blaster
  Mar 8, 2025

All the Capcom characters are here, from Ryu to the other Ryu!

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Devil May Cry • events • exhibitions • Great Capcom Exhibition • Monster Hunter • Nakanoshima Museum of Art • Osaka • Resident Evil • Street Fighter • video games)

Japan’s train travel soundscape faces sad change as JR East axes special station departure melodies

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2025

Operational shift means no more unique station melodies on one Tokyo line, and more could follow.

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• Japan
• (East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • music • Nambu Line • tourism • trains • travel)

Monster Hunter Wilds leads to explosion in popularity of one dish at Tokyo restaurant

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2025

“Thank you so much, Monster Hunter!” says Nepalese restaurant in west Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • food • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Wilds • naan • restaurants • video games)

Final Fantasy Fat Chocobo and Moogle chairs — perfect for when you need to recover real-world HP

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2025

Japan’s anime/video game furniture maker turns its eyes to Final Fantasy XIV.

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• Japan
• (Cellutane • chair • Chocobo • crazy • cute • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy XIV • interior • Isetan • Moogle • sofa • Square Enix • video games)

Hokkaido man arrested after asking convenience store to lend him money

• Master Blaster
  Mar 7, 2025

It does hurt to ask sometimes.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crime • Hokkaido • kenzobutsu shinyu • kenzobutsushinyu • trespassing • weird)

Burger King Japan is recruiting secret agents for a mystery shopping mission

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 7, 2025

Free burgers and a chance to live out dreams of being a spy? Yes, please!

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • mystery shopping • weird)

Starbucks releases a colour-changing Frappuccino in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 7, 2025

New secret ball makes the magic happen in this limited-edition beverage.

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

Demon Slayer anime studio creates crossover video with Major League Baseball【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2025

Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts granted Hashira-like powers by Ufotable.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • cool • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Los Angeles Dodgers • Major League Baseball • manga • Shohei Ohtani • sports • Ufotable)

Japanese celebrity (sort of) apologizes for swapping seats with foreign traveler on Shinkansen

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2025

Promises to hold on to her kindhearted sentiment while fine-tuning how she acts on it.

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• Japan
• (COK • etiquette • manners • moving • Satoko Ito • shinkansen • touching • tourism • trains • travel)

Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building serves up an exclusive ramen

• Oona McGee
  Mar 6, 2025

Is the Tocho ramen worth the elevator ride up to the 32nd floor?

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • curry • eating • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • ramen • restaurants • secrets • shinjuku • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias • Tocho • Tocho Ramen • Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building)

Major Japanese restaurant chain gives its OK to dip sushi toppings in miso soup【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2025

Pulling the fish off your sushi and swirling it around in your miso soup would get you some harsh looks in a lot of restaurants, but apparently not at this conveyor belt sushi chain.

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• Japan
• (crazy • food • Kura Sushi • Kurazauhi • miso soup • restaurants • sushi • video • weird)

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