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Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024 - Tweet
We head to Kanazawa to visit the birthplace of this “hungry tuna” dish that doesn’t contain tuna.
- Japan
- (COK • food • hanton rice • Kanazawa • omrice • omuraisu • restaurants • rice omelet • SNJO • taste test)
Starbucks adds a matcha and pistachio milk tea latte to the menu in Japan for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Apr 12, 2024
A limited-edition exclusive that’s harder to come by than most.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • green tea • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • matcha • pistachio • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Starbucks Tea & Cafe • Teavana)
A new meaty dawn for Akihabara as neighborhood’s best steak/hamburger steak restaurant reopens
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024
Man oh man it’s good to have Mansei around.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef • COK • food • hamburger steak • Mansei • meat • Niku no Mansei • restaurants • SNJO • steak)
There’s a park inside Japan where you can also see Japan inside the park
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024
Koyaike Park has a surprise when viewed from above.
- Japan
- (cool • Koyaike Park • nature • parks)
We try out “Chan Ramen”, an underground type of ramen popular in the ramen community
- Shannon
Apr 12, 2024
Join one reporter’s quest to define the undefinable.
- Japan
- (chan ramen • chukamen • chuuka soba • delicious • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • simple • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo eats • Tokyo ramen)
Starbucks releases a special sparkly tumbler in Japan to support diversity
- SoraNews24
Apr 11, 2024
A portion of profits goes towards the chain’s Rainbow School Project.
- Japan
- (COK • cups • drinkware • LGBT • LGBTQ • LGBTQI • limited edition • Pride Month • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers)
Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza evolves into a nagashi somen noodle delivery system【Pics】
- SoraNews24
Apr 11, 2024
A super-effective way to get a taste of Japanese summertime food culture.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • food • hiyashi somen • nagashi somen • Noodles • Pokemon • Rayquaza • somen • Takara Tomy Arts • video games)
Is Starbucks Japan’s new Gohobi Melon Frappuccino really the ultimate melon Frappuccino?
- Oona McGee
Apr 11, 2024
New limited-edition drinks have a lot to live up to.
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • melon • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)
Tokyo Banana Curry adds capital’s souvenir sweet’s sweetness to roux, but not in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2024
This new mix of sweets and spices has us ready for a road trip.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • Ebina • Ebina Service Area • food • instant curry • retort curry • sweets • Tokyo Banana • weird)
J-pop megastar Utada Hikaru releases new video and recording of “Traveling”【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2024
Let’s go for a ride down memory lane with a new version of one of the singer’s biggest hits.
- Japan
- (Ayataka • Coca-Cola Japan • drinks • green tea • Hikaru Utada • J-Pop • music • tea • video)
89-year-old Japanese man rides bike 600 kilometers to visit his 61-year-old son
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2024
Just a quick little ride from Kobe to Tokyo.
Nemophila season off to an early, and beautiful, start as baby blue flowers bloom in Maishima
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
Seaside park in Osaka is also one of Japan’s best places to see the sunset.
- Japan
- (baby blue eyes • beautiful • flowers • Maishima Seaside Park • Nemophila • Osaka • outdoors • parks • tourism • travel)
Tokyo restaurant’s chicken katsu mabo curry is hard to pin down, easy to love
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
One plate with two great tastes that somehow create a third.
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • food • mabo tofu • mapo tofu • restaurants • SNJO)
Cup Noodles Everything Bagel surprises ramen lovers around the world
- Oona McGee
Apr 10, 2024
New limited-edition flavour puts a weird spin on breakfast.
- Japan, USA
- (awesome • bagels • breakfast • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • Everything Bagel • Everything Bagel Cup Noodles • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • Walmart • weird)
Tokyo’s adorable Shiba Inu crepe might be the most Harajuku you can wrap in a dessert
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
Takeshita Street continues to be at the forefront of Japan’s kawaii and crepe culture.
- Japan
- (crepes • cute • dogs • food • Harajuku • Shiba dog • Shiba Inu • sweets • Takeshita Dori • Takeshita Street • Takeshitadori)
The day our male reporter used a women’s restroom with other dudes and they learned about otohime
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2024
Ahiruneko went to take an entrance exam, but ended up getting a lesson.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • crazy • entrance exams • funny • Japanese toilets • Otohime • sound princess • Toilets • weird)
Masahiko Ozumi Paris in Osaka makes the comfiest desserts around
- Master Blaster
Apr 10, 2024
Pull up a creamy cushion and take a load off.
- Japan
- (desserts • food • Masahiko Ozumi • Masahiko Ozumi Paris • Mont Blanc • mousse • Osaka • sakura • zabuton)
Studio Ghibli bath mats and towels will help wash your worries away
- Oona McGee
Apr 9, 2024
Totoro, the Catbus, and Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service are now super absorbent…and fully cute.
- Japan
- (anime • bathrooms • Catbus • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • towels)
Uniqlo opens its first Furugi Project secondhand clothing pop-up shop in Tokyo
- Krista Rogers
Apr 9, 2024
We buy clothes at Japan’s only Uniqlo location specializing in reused and remade clothing.
- Japan
- (Chitosedai • COK • fashion • Fukuoka • furugi project • Mr. Sato • pop-up shop • recycle • reuse • Setagaya • SNJO • tenjin • Tokyo • Uniqlo • used clothing)
Japanese black curry “experiment” takes place at an unlikely restaurant branch in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Apr 9, 2024
A unique katsu curry that’s only available at one place in all of Japan right now.
- Japan
- (curry • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • katsu curry • Kokkai • Matsunoya • Mitaka • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)
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Two Tokyo neighborhoods to gather on bridge and shift their recognized border through tug-of-war
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Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
Cinnabon gets into the Japanese spirit with new Wagokorobon treats
Japan’s new matcha vending machines serve freshly prepared matcha in five different strengths
Restaurant opens in Japan with all-dementia waitresses, serves up ramen, awareness, and kindness
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Continuing cyberattacks hit Japanese arcade hard [Photos]
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Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
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- Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups
Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month- Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
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First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia- Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
- Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
- Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
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Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
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Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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Japan’s new matcha vending machines serve freshly prepared matcha in five different strengths
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Get the taste of the U.K. in Tokyo with 99 Flakes, meat pies, and Jaffa Cakes
Continuing cyberattacks hit Japanese arcade hard [Photos]
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Japanese government hires leading comedy agency to explain national defense spending
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Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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