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Hello Kitty shows up at Baskin-Robins Japan for 50th birthday party with special sweets and merch

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 2, 2024
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Because what’s a birthday party without a special dessert?

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• Japan
• (31 • Baskin Robbins • Baskin-Robbins Japan • COK • cute • food • Hello Kitty • ice cream • Sanrio • sweets)

Should DJs be the next big thing in Japanese preschools? This principal seems to think so

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 2, 2024

Traditional education is getting a remix, and preschoolers are ready to rave.

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• Japan
• (childcare • COK • DJ • education • kids • kindergarten • music • preschool • society)

Overwhelmed by modern social media? Japanese company is bringing back pagers with an emoji-twist

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 2, 2024

Sega’s emojam wants to keep messages short and sweet, plus within your circle of close friends.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • emojam • gadgets • pagers • Sega • social media • society • technology)

Pokémon doughnuts appear at Mister Donut, with Diglett as the star!

• Oona McGee
  Nov 2, 2024

We’re totally digging this new lineup.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cute • diglett • donuts • doughnuts • dugtrio • food • marketing • Mister Donut • news • Pikachu • Pokemon • sweets • video games)

Shibuya Halloween had a very different feel this year

• Oona McGee
  Nov 1, 2024

Tokyo’s biggest party hotspot looks nothing like it used to. 

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• Japan
• (drinking ban • halloween • Halloween 2024 • news • police • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society)

Professional basketball player cosplays as Studio Ghibli’s No-Face for Halloween in the U.S.【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2024

NBA rookie of the year salutes the Hayao Miyazaki anime classic.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • basketball • cosplay • cosplayers • No Face • spirited away • sports • Studio Ghibli • video)

Totoro stamp collection lets you add adorable Ghibli touches to cards and letters【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2024

Totoro shows up in time for Japan’s nengajo season.

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• Japan
• (anime • crafts • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • nengajo • New Year's cards • stationery • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Japanese communities giving their skylines a spring clean and saying goodbye to power lines

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 1, 2024

The quest to let Japan’s historical sites shine bright continues on.

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• Japan
• (culture • history • Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings • Kawaramachi • overhead power cables • power cables • power lines • Sasayama • society • Tamba-Sasayama)

We try carving a Halloween pumpkin… to eat【SoraKitchen】

• Master Blaster
  Nov 1, 2024

It’s the great pumpkin, P.K. Sanjun!

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • food • funny • halloween • Jack-o-lantern • kabocha • P.K. Sanjun • pumpkin • SNJO • Yoshio)

The Vatican now has an official anime-style mascot character【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

Luce is an attempt to form connections via “the pop culture so beloved by our young people.”

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • Christianity • Luce • manga • mascot characters • religion • Tokidoki • Vatican • weird)

What’s it like in Shibuya on Halloween this year?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2024

A vibe check of the neighbourhood reveals countermeasures might be necessary.

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• Japan
• (drinking ban • Hachiko • halloween • Halloween 2024 • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society)

Nintendo launches new Nintendo Music service with decades’ worth of iconic game tunes【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

And it’s available right now.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Legend of Zelda • music • nintendo • Nintendo Music • Pokemon • Super Mario • video • video games)

Starbucks Japan unveils new Holiday goods for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2024

Huge collection gives us a lot of ways to raise a glass to the holiday season. 

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• Japan
• (Bearista • Christmas • Christmas 2024 • cups • cute • drinkware • limited edition • mugs • plush toys • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Japan tumbler • Starbucks limited edition • tumblers)

Burger King Japan creates Kyoto Whopper, its most Japanese burger ever, with Kyoto rice merchant

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

237-year-old Kyoto rice merchant helps make a new kind of rice burger.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • rice • rice burger • whopper)

All-female musical stage adaptation of Castlevania video game series on the way in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2024

What a wonderful series to have a Takarazuka adaptation.

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• Japan
• (Castlevania • Konami • Live action • musicals • stage plays • Symphony of the Night • takarazuka • Takarazuka Revue • video games)

New Akita Inu and Hachiko marshmallows are the best and squishiest souvenirs from Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 30, 2024

Shibuya is going to the dogs in the cutest way possible–and you can now take them home to share with family and friends.

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• Japan
• (Akita Inu • Akita Prefecture • collaboration • cute • Felissimo • Hachifull Shibuya meets Akita • marshmallow • One for Akita • Shibuya • Shibuya Scramble Square • souvenir • Tokyo • YOU+MORE!)

Beautiful Naked digital art event comes to Kyoto’s Nijo Castle after dark (contains no nudity)【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2024

As the sun goes down, the lights go on for an amazing illumination of Kyoto’s 345-year-old castle and its fall-color gardens.

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• Japan
• (art • beautful • castles • digital art • fall colors • gardens • Kyoto • light up • Nijo Castle • projection mapping • tourism • travel)

American gun owner opens our eyes to a different way of life in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Oct 30, 2024

“Bad guys have guns, so good girls have to have guns too.”

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• Japan, USA
• (Asakusa • bars • COK • culture • gun owners • guns • Ikuna Kamezawa • pubs • SNJO)

Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for “photos showing who you are as a person”

• Master Blaster
  Oct 30, 2024

Anything’s OK, just nothing too natural, or unnatural, or unflattering, or revealing, or stodgy… but, you know, anything is OK.

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• Japan
• (anatarashii shashin • business • job hunting • photographs • resumes • society • weird)

Nintendo’s controller capsule toys are so cool, even the machine you buy them from is awesome【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2024

Holding a GameCube controller again for the first time in years brings back a rush of memories.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • COK • cool • Gamecube • nintendo • Nintendo 64 • Nintendo Kyoto • Nintendo Osaka • Nintendo Tokyo • retro games • SNJO • Super Famicom • Super NES • video game controllers • video games)

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