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Hello Kitty/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover Happy Meal toys appear, but far, far away from Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2024
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Sanrio characters cosplay as Yu-Gi-Oh creatures for fans in one country only.

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • collectible card games • fast food • food • Happy Meal • Hello Kitty • manga • McDonald's • Sanrio • trading card games • video games • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Where’d those amazing Godzilla shoes seen at the Academy Awards come from, and can you buy them?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2024

Small Japanese fashion brand gets a big boost in interest following Godzilla’s historic Oscar win.

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• Japan
• (Academy Awards • cool • crazy • fashion • Godzilla • Godzilla Minus One • kaiju • movies • Oscars • shoes)

Pizza Hut Taiwan serves up a slam dunk with…an edible basketball and hoop

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2024

You don’t get to taste pizzas like this every day.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (basketball • cool • fast food • food • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Taiwan • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Is the all-you-can-eat KFC buffet in Tokyo really as good as they say it is?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2024

KFC buffet includes dishes you won’t find anywhere else.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • buffet • COK • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • KFC buffet • KFC Japan • review • SNJO • taste test)

We notice a small but important change in Saizeriya’s updated Grand Menu

• Shannon
  Mar 13, 2024

Our budget wine lover isn’t sure what to do now.

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• Japan
• (budget • family restaurant • menu • Saizeriya • update • wine)

Lindt releases a limited-edition sakura and matcha drink in Japan for cherry blossom season

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2024

Rare type of matcha creates a drink with “the ultimate Japanese taste”. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossoms • chocolate • dessert drinks • drinks • green tea • hanami • Lindt • matcha • okumidori • sakura • sakura sweets • Tenku no matcha)

Dr. Pepper fans create online map of Japan cataloging everywhere you can buy the divisive drink

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2024

DP Lovers wants to help you fill your soda craving prescription.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • Dr. Pepper • drinks • soft drinks)

Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at beef bowl chain Sukiya?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2024

The dark horse of Japan’s big three beef bowl chains is full of ways to make your taste buds happy and belly full.

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• Japan
• (1000 yen • beef bowls • COK • food • gyudon • Japan super budget dining • restaurants • SNJO • Sukiya • Super Budget Dining)

The most popular places in Japan for viewing sakura in 2024, according to local travel agency

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 12, 2024

Here are the most popular picks for cherry blossom-viewing in both eastern and western Japan, based on bookings.

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• Japan
• (best • cherry blossom • Club Tourism • flower viewing • ohanami • ranking • sakura • spring • tour • travel)

Japanese convenience store’s Spicy Tuna rice balls might not be what foreigners or locals expect

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2024

But they might like them anyway.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese language • linguistics • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • spicy • spicy tuna • taste test)

Let’s light up some Disney-authorized Mickey Mouse incense

• Master Blaster
  Mar 12, 2024

So that’s what Mickey smells like?

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• Japan
• (Disney • incense • Kyoto • Kyukyodo • Mickey Mouse • rakuten • shopping)

Want to enjoy sakura season but have allergies? Tokyo indoor park offers the perfect solution

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 12, 2024

The Tenbou-Park Sakura Festival in Ikebukuro’s popular Sunshine City shopping complex promises a sneeze and itchy eyes-free flower-viewing experience.

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• Japan
• (allergies • cherry blossoms • COK • hanami • hay fever • Ikebukuro • sakura • Sakura Matsuri • Sunshine 60 • Sunshine City • Tenbou-Park • Tokyo)

Ghibli’s Boy and the Heron wins Academy Award, studio COO apologizes for Hayao Miyazaki’s absence

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 11, 2024

No hard feelings as anime movie wins award for only the second time ever, but does this mean more anime Oscars are on the way?

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

We get our hands on a model of a popular Japanese bus, complete with moving doors

• Shannon
  Mar 11, 2024

Adults and kids alike will love it.

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• Japan
• (3D figure • bus • cool • fun • Hato Bus • Japanese figure)

If you want chashu without noodles, this Tokyo restaurant chain is the place for you【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Mar 11, 2024

Successor to Akihabara eatery serves up a great chashu teishoku.

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• Japan
• (chashu • COK • food • meat • Nikumeshi Okamoto • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

Do gohan no otomo, Japan’s traditional easy white rice toppings, work with toast?【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Mar 11, 2024

Exploring the culinary boundaries of bread. 

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• Japan
• (bread • COK • food • gohan no otomo • rice • rice toppings • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • toast)

Stay in a special Tokyo Metro train room at a hotel with a front seat to the railways

• Oona McGee
  Mar 11, 2024

You don’t have to be a train otaku to enjoy all the unusual perks included in this accommodation plan.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Japanese trains • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Metro • trains • travel)

Dragon’s Maze: Japan’s built-by-hand giant labyrinth that gets bigger and harder every year

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 11, 2024

81-year-old owner/designer builds what he sees in his dream, want visitors from overseas to experience his maze.

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • cool • crazy • Dragon Maze • maze • Mr. Sato • Shimane • SNJO • tourism • travel)

We channel our inner Osakan auntie with a lucky bag full of animal-print clothes

• Dale Roll
  Mar 10, 2024

Nothing exudes confidence like being covered in leopard print. 

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• Japan
• (animal print • clothes • COK • crazy • fashion • fukubukuro • funny • leopard print • lucky bag • Masanuki Sunakoma • Osaka Oba-chan • SNJO)

Japanese convenience store chain now sells Sakura Lattes!

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2024

A konbini way to hanami.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • combini • convenience stores • drinks • hanami • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson • Machi Cafe • review • sakura • sakura drinks • SNJO • taste test)

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