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Akihabara’s awesome pako ramen restaurant is closing, but there’s still time for one last bowl

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2024
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We head to Akiba for one last ramen supper at the Meat Building.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • COK • food • Mansei • meat • Meat Building • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO)

Beautiful new line of Cardcaptor Sakura shoes are here to capture your fashion-loving heart【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2024

Three designs based on three iconic anime magical girl costumes.

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• Japan
• (anime • Cardcaptor Sakura • Clamp • fashion • manga • Mayla • shoes)

Complaints against foreign go-kart drivers increase in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2024

Police want to crack down on traffic incidents caused by visitors on go-karts.

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• Japan
• (driving • Driving in Japan • foreigners • foreigners in Japan • go-kart • go-karting • go-karts • news • police • Tokyo • tourism • tourists • travel)

We found a giant slab of konnyaku jelly and tried turning it into a giant slab of steak

• Dale Roll
  Mar 24, 2024

When we see big food, we just can’t help but see it as a challenge. 

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• Japan
• (big food • cooking • diet • food • Gyomu Super • Konjac • konnyaku • low-calorie • recipe • SoraKitchen • tasty)

Tokyo police arrest two men for theft of 4.98 million-yen Yu-Gi-Oh! card

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2024

The Heart of the Cards had the law on its side.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • card games • COK • collectible cards • collectible trading card games • crime • robbery • theft • trading cards • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Transforming some instant noodles to pizza with Shin Ramyun [SoraKitchen]

• Master Blaster
  Mar 23, 2024

Instant noodles instantly become pizza.

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• Japan, Korea
• (cooking • food • instant noodles • Nongshim • Noodles • pizza • recipes • Shin Ramyun • SoraKitchen • spicy • yakisoba)

One of Shohei Ohtani’s endorsement deals looks pretty awkward right now【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2024

MUFG downplays part of its partnership with the baseball star following his interpreter’s gambling scandal.

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• Japan
• (baseball • crime • MUFG Bank • scandal • Shohei Ohtani • sports • video • weird)

Pizza Hut’s new coriander pizza contains more cilantro than ever before!

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2024

Pakuchi pizza is now a forest, but it’s only in leaf for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (cilantro • COK • coriander • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • weird • weird food)

One of Tokyo’s most famous meeting-spot landmarks is closing for good

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2024

Goodbye. Shinjuku Alta.

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• Japan
• (Alta • Alta Vision • giant video screen • meeting spots • shinjuku • Shinjuku Alta)

Dragon Ball theme park, bigger than Tokyo Disneyland, announced, but not for Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2024

Dragon Ball Theme Park will be built in a different part of the world from where the global anime/manga hit was born.

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• Japan, W Asia
• (Akira Toriyama • Amusement Parks • anime • Arabia • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Theme Park • manga • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • theme parks • video)

Mister Donut releases most intense matcha doughnut ever, in conjunction with Kyoto tea specialist

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2024

Death by green tea is a good way to go. 

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• Japan
• (COK • donuts • food • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • Misdo Meets Gion Tsujiri • Misdo Meets Tsujiri • Mister Donut • mochi • Pon De Ring • sweets • tea • Tsujiri • warabimochi)

What’s it like living with an unusual name in Japan? We talk with a super-rare Mr. Heianzan

• Dale Roll
  Mar 22, 2024

This Okinawan singer has a last name so rare, only 1 every 90,000 people in Japan have it! 

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• Japan
• (family names • interview • Ishigaki Island • Japanese musician • linguistics • names • Okinawa • rare names • society • unusual names)

Japan’s bone-breaking and record-breaking roller coaster is permanently shutting down

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2024

Sayonara, Do-Dodonpa.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • COK • crazy • Do-Dodonpa • fuji-q highland • roller coasters • theme parks)

Studio Ghibli releases The Boy and the Heron doll that never, ever gives up

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2024

Anime character delivers a lesson in resilience with a dash of Ghibli magic.

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• Japan
• (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • merchandise • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron)

Kyoto creates new for-tourist buses to address overtourism with higher prices, faster rides

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

A win-win idea that’s long overdue.

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• Japan
• (buses • Kiyomizu Temple • Kyoto • overtourism • tourism • travel)

Hit Japanese candy Hi-Chew, famous for fruity taste, releases new flavor: Flavorless

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

Lose the flavor, keep the chew.

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• Japan
• (crazy • food • Hi-Chew • Morinaga • sweets • weird)

Studio Ghibli displays The Boy and the Heron Academy Award Oscar in Japan for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Mar 21, 2024

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki share the accolade with a heartwarming gesture for fans.

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• Japan, USA
• (Academy Awards • anime • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • movies • Oscars • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron • Toshio Suzuki)

Collaboration brings Baskin Robbins macarons to Family Marts across Japan

• Shannon
  Mar 21, 2024

Did your favorite flavor make the cut?

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• Japan
• (Baskin Robbins • Baskin-Robbins Japan • COK • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • macarons • sweets)

Shohei Ohtani’s personal interpreter fired, accused of “massive theft” to pay off gambling debts

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

It’s a wild ending for one of the highest-profile pairings in the translation/interpretation world.

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• Japan, USA
• (baseball • crazy • crime • fraud • interpreter • Ippei Mizuhara • Shohei Ohtani • sports)

Uniqlo built a giant, playable arcade game to celebrate its new line of Capcom T-shirts

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

Gamers can play the massive machine later this month in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • crazy • fashion • Monster Hunter • Resident Evil • shirts • Street Fighter • t-shirts • Uniqlo • video games)

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