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That time we were either genius or insane to eat natto with Yukimi Daifuku per official advice

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 25, 2025
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Plus, we tried crafting even crazier natto x mochi ice cream variations featuring kimchi, squid, and more. 

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Lotte • Mizkan • natto • SNJO • weird • Yukimi Daifuku)

Traveler at Japan’s Kansai International Airport confirmed infected with measles, caution urged

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 24, 2025

If you were at Osaka’s major international airport earlier this month, you’ll want to keep an eye on your physical condition for the next few weeks.

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• Japan
• (health • Kansai Airport • measles • Osaka • tourism • travel)

Pokémon Slowpoke Powdered Rice Topping tastes like liquid for noodles【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 24, 2025

Honorary Pokémon governor of Udon Prefecture has a treat that might be even tastier than his tail.

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• Japan
• (anime • Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • food • furikake • manga • Noodles • Pokemon • rice • Slowpoke • SNJO • taste test • udon • video game)

7-Eleven Japan teams up with gourmet Mochizuki-san manga for a line of hefty, bingeable foods

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 24, 2025

It’s a collaboration that seemed destined to happen, but will the real deal meet the high expectations–and high calories–of the popular manga? 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • Ahiruneko • bento • binge-eating • campaign • COK • convenience store • dokagui • Dokagui Daisuki • konbini • manga • Mochizuki-san • rice ball • SNJO)

Nana’s Green Tea releases unique sakura treats for cherry blossom season in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2025

Anyone up for a salty sakura lassi?

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• Japan
• (cafes • cake • cherry blossoms • COK • drinks • food • green tea • lassi • matcha • Nana's Green Tea • parfait • parfaits • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets • yoghurt • yogurt)

Pepsi Zero Peach is being released in one area of Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2025

An exclusive limited-edition flavour for a very special event.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • COK • Cola • drinks • japanese drinks • Kansai • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • Osaka • pepsi • soft drinks • World Expo)

Our reporter successfully quits high-stakes capsule machines… but this one feels like a lock!

• Master Blaster
  Feb 23, 2025

He can stop anytime he wants. He just doesn’t want to this time.

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• Japan
• (capsule machines • capsule toy machines • capsule toys • COK • crazy • funny • Furusato Gacha • gacha • games • Masanuki Sunakoma • service areas • SNJO • weird)

Family Mart unleashes sweet cats in Japan for Cat Day, but do they taste as good as they look?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025

New collection brings the cute to this Japanese convenience store chain for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (animals • Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Sleep in a futuristic space pod at this interstellar capsule hotel just outside of Tokyo

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 22, 2025

You don’t need millions of dollars to head to the final frontier.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • capsule hotel • capsule hotels • cheap accommodation • COK • Hotel Galaxy Pod • Koshigaya • Masanuki Sunakoma • Saitama • SNJO)

Family Mart becomes Family Nyart with new range of sweets for Cat Day in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025

Japanese convenience store chain serves up the cutest treats for cat lovers.

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • Coony • cute • drinks • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • marketing • Mofusand • SNJO)

Starbucks Japan reveals new sakura drinkware collection, inspired by evening cherry blossoms

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025

Tumblers, mugs, Stanley cups…and a blanket to keep you warm during night-time hanami picnics.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2025 • cups • drinkware • goods • hanami • mugs • sakura • sakura 2025 • sakura drinkware • Stanley cup • Starbucks • Starbucks drinkware • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Starbucks sakura • tumblers)

Starbucks Japan unveils new matcha cherry blossom Frappuccino for sakura season

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2025

Special release includes a Sakura Roasted Green Tea Latte filled with Japanese ingredients. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2025 • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • hanami • Japanese Frappuccino • latte • matcha • matcha frappuccino • sakura • sakura 2025 • sakura Frappuccino • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea)

Foreigner-friendly maid cafe adds translation panels to Akihabara location

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2025

Technology hopes to help visitors from overseas more thoroughly enjoy a unique aspect of Akiba culture.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • At-Home Cafe • COK • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • technology • tourism • translation • travel)

Our feline reporters test out Japan’s soup for cats to find if it makes for a purrfect treat

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 21, 2025

Would you share a meal with your cat? This soup might make you consider it.

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• Japan
• (animals • cat food • cats • COK • food • K. Masami • pet food • pets • SNJO • soup • Soup For Cat • Soup Stock Tokyo • taste test • weird)

Japanese motor home is like a time machine to a bubble era Tokyo private bar, on sale now【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2025

It’s like someone opened a 1980s Ginza lounge in the back of a motor home.

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• Japan
• (bars • bubble era • camping • camping cars • cars • COK • cool • crazy • motor homes • outdoors • retro • SNJO)

Studio Ghibli gives anime lovers a happy ending with new Whisper of the Heart music box

• SoraNews24
  Feb 21, 2025

Stray cat Moon also visits our world as a cuddly plush toy.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime cats • anime characters • Baron • cats • characters • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Louise • manga • moon • music box • plush toys • plushie • Studio Ghibli • whisper of the heart)

More life-sized Gundams? Plans underway for another Japanese city to get full-scale anime robot

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2025

If your town is getting a new Gunpla factory, it only makes sense that it get a full-size Gundam statue too, right?

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Shizuoka • Shizuoka City)

Sanrio Pompompurin purin custard pudding sweets sound doubly delicious, look like pooch bottoms

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2025

There’s no better Sanrio star for this job than the golden retriever who’s named after custard.

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• Japan
• (custard • custard pudding • cute • food • pastel • Pompompurin • pudding • purin • Sanrio • sweets • weird)

Udon soup-scented bath salts from Kagawa are flying off the shelves and into bathtubs everywhere

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 20, 2025

Be careful that you don’t start drinking your bath water by mistake or you’ll find yourself in even hotter water.

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• Japan
• (bath • bath salts • cool • crazy • food • funny • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • udon • weird)

Dragon Ball Z and Crocs team up to bring super Saiyan style to your feet【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2025

Dragon Ball C(rocs).

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • COK • Crocs • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Z • fashion • manga • sandals • shoes)

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  4. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
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  3. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
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  9. Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods for 2026, with exclusive holiday surprises
  10. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan

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  1. Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia
  2. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  4. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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  6. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  7. Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
  8. New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
  9. Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
  10. Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
  4. Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
  5. Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
  6. Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
  8. Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
  9. Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
  10. Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa

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