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Moving, burping No Face coin bank figure is back to receive your Ghibli fan generosity【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 20, 2024
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No Face is always hungry, and he’s craving your coins.

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• Japan
• (anime • coin bank • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • interior • manga • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

The best Christmas Market in Japan? Yokohama event is top choice for travellers

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2024

All you need to know about the most popular Christmas Market near Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • Christmas Market • COK • cool • food • Red Brick Warehouse • SNJO • things to do • travel • Yokohama)

Starbucks Japan releases a new Frappuccino that looks and tastes like a floral bouquet

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2024

Reward yourself for a year of hard work…with drinkable flowers.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • coffee • COK • drinks • Earl grey • flowers • holiday • latte • limited edition • new year • New Year 2025 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • tea • winter)

Shakey’s is back! All-you-can-eat pizza chain returns to downtown Tokyo’s Shinjuku

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 19, 2024

Shinjuku once again has a Shakey’s, and it’s got an amazing all-you-can-drink deal too!

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• Japan
• (alcohol • all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • food • pizza • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO)

World’s first real ramen in a can now available at Japanese vending machines

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2024

No more konjac-made imitations — finally, authentic ramen!

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• Japan
• (canned ramen • COK • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Noodles • ramen • ramen in a can • restaurants • soy sauce ramen • vending machines)

Japanese baseball star takes on world record with a paper plane

• Elliot Hale
  Dec 19, 2024

The “Bazooka” of the Hanshin Tigers swaps baseballs for paper aircrafts in a record-challenge attempt.

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• Japan
• (baseball • COK • Guinness Word Record • Hanshin Tigers • Nobuaki Fujiwara • P.K. Sanjun • paper airplane • paper plane • Ryutaro Umeno • SNJO • Umeno Bazooka)

Japanese politician threatens to send bears to people, wants Loony Tunes-style anti-bear bombs

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 19, 2024

Governor doesn’t specify whether his desired bear-fighting drones would drop anvils or some other, less cartoony payload.

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• Japan
• (Akita • Akita Prefecture • animal attacks • animals • bear attacks • bears • crazy • nature • politicians)

Major Japanese city is abolishing extracurricular activities at all of its middle schools

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 19, 2024

No more school-run sports teams or cultural clubs in Kobe.

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• Japan
• (education • extracurricular activities • Kobe • schools • society • youth)

Clever design trick means beautiful Ghibli Artboard Jigsaw Puzzles won’t have bittersweet ending

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2024

No need to worry about breaking these lovely pieces of Ghibli art apart or gluing them so they can’t be puzzles again.

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• Japan
• (anime • Castle in the Sky • Donguri Kyowakoku • interior • jigsaw puzzles • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Nausica of the Valley of the Wind • puzzles • Studio Ghibli)

Does Japan’s T.M. Revolution J-rock cake really look like the song it’s named after?

• SoraNews24
  Dec 18, 2024

Takanori Nishikawa’s home prefecture supermarket has a whole line of Christmas cakes named after his songs, but do they look the part?

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• Japan
• (cake • Christmas cake • COK • food • funny • music • Shiga Prefecture • SNJO • sweets • T.M. Revolution • Takanori Nishikawa • taste test)

Japan now has fish-shaped soy sauce bottle hand cream

• Oona McGee
  Dec 18, 2024

Still serves up soy, but in a different way.

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• Japan
• (beauty • bento • COK • cool • crazy • cute • food • hand cream • Heso • Heso Productions • Japanese food • LOL • Osaka • sashimi • shopping • souvenir • soy • soy sauce • soy sauce bottle • sushi • weird)

Chiikawa lucky bag required a four-month wait, but was it worth it?【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2024

We had to wait a third of the year for this New Year’s fukubukuro, and now it’s time to find out if our patience was rewarded.

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• Japan
• (Chiikawa • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • luck bags • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025)

Totoro Christmas tree cookie sets are here, are extra-special for Ghibli fans with a little luck

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2024

Ghibli sweets bakery’s Tree Totoro cookies arrive just in time for Christmas.

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• Japan
• (anime • Christmas • cookies • food • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Shirohige's Cream Puff Factory • sweets • Totoro)

Skirt that will make cat cafe cats love you supposedly found at Uniqlo’s sister brand

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2024

“They act like they just inhaled catnip.”

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • denim • GU • jeans • pets • skirts • Uniqlo)

Starbucks Japan releases a special tea latte to celebrate the Year of the Snake

• Oona McGee
  Dec 17, 2024

A delicious homage to the 2025 zodiac animal. 

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • drinks • Japanese New Year • latte • limited edition • new year • New Year 2025 • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea • tea latte)

Ghibli Park puts up Christmas trees and decorations, invites fans to “come search for Christmas”

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 17, 2024

Three sections of the Ghibli theme park get extra Christmas cheer as the park also gets extra Christmas sweets to munch on.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • anime • Christmas • Ghibli Park • maga • Studio Ghibli • theme parks)

Take a toothbrush with you to Butakin for this daring mixed noodles with chives dish

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 17, 2024

It’s just as we’ve always said–with great pungency comes great deliciousness.

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• Japan
• (Butakin • chives • Eating Out • food • garlic chives • Kanda • mazesoba • nira • Noodles • Ochanomizu • ramen • Restaurant • Tokyo)

Miniature keychain versions of Japan’s Death Spray are coming to capsule toy machines soon

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 17, 2024

Take home one of five little versions of the popular salt purification spray to cleanse your life of anything bad.

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• Japan
• (capsule toy • Crescent Lake • cute • gacha • miniature • mist • Oisesan • purification • salt • spray • toy)

Our Japanese writers dress up as Winter Shogun

• Master Blaster
  Dec 17, 2024

What better way to wait out the cold than with some interpretive cosplay?

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• Japan
• (cosplay • fashion • Fuyu Shogun • General Winter • Hiroyuki Sanada • winter • Winter Shogun)

Studio Ghibli showcases traditional craftsmanship with new wallet range

• Oona McGee
  Dec 17, 2024

Totoro and No Face bring anime star power to a craft coveted by samurai.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bunko • Bunkoya • coin case • crafts • craftsmanship • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • good luck • Himeji leather • Japanese traditional crafts • leather • leather goods • lucky • My Neighbor Totoro • No Face • shop • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • tradition • wallets)

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