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Beautiful new Hatsune Miku shoes make you look like the virtual idol, look like her themselves too

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2024
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Mayla captures the essence of the Vocaloid with lever little details.

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• Japan
• (anime • fashion • Hatsune Miku • manga • Mayla • pumps • shoes • virtual idols • vocaloids)

Godiva x Mister Donut’s new chocolate doughnuts threaten to break our hearts this Valentine’s Day

• Oona McGee
  Feb 6, 2024

Two new doughnuts so good we never want them to leave.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Godiva • Mister Donut • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Valentine's Day)

Foreigners arrested in Japan on charges of posting manga images before official on-sale date

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2024

Multiple prefectures’ police forces coordinate for arrest of pair on piracy charges.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • crime • manga • piracy • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Sega successor opens new arcade with a regional craft beer bar inside it

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2024

Multiple regional brewers and amazing taiyaki will keep you from getting too thirsty or hungry while you’re at Japan’s newest arcade.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • Arcades • beer • COK • cool • craft beer • drinks • food • Genda GiGO • GiGO • Sapporo • Sega • sweets • taiyaki • video games)

Studio Ghibli bento box collections released just in time for hanami sakura-viewing picnics

• Oona McGee
  Feb 6, 2024

Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbour Totoro are here to add anime flair to your lunch this cherry blossom season. 

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• Japan
• (anime • bento • bento box • bento boxes • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • lunch box • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Guy next to infamous Japanese fugitive on wanted poster arrested thanks to media coverage

• Master Blaster
  Feb 5, 2024

The suspect’s photo was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • Satoshi Kirishima • Shigeyuki Kin • TV • wanted posters • weird)

Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks building now has a reopening date

• Oona McGee
  Feb 5, 2024

But will the Starbucks overlooking Shibuya Scramble Crossing reopen in the same spot? 

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • Shibuya • Shibuya Scramble • Shibuya Starbucks • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Tsutaya)

Is Japan’s custom of slurping noodles irritating, and why do they do it?【SN24 reader survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2024

Foreign traveler’s comment about soba slurping sparks some slurping soul searching, and the SoraNews24 reader community weighs in.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • food • Noodles • ramen • SNO • soba • society • survey • udon)

American ehomaki? Searching for lucky Setsubun sushi rolls in the U.S.【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2024

Looking for a taste of home-away-from-home while back home.

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• Japan, USA
• (Caliornia • COK • culture • Ehomaki • food • futomaki • setsubun • SNO • sushi)

What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Muji Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 5, 2024

From food to miscellaneous goods, there’s something here for everyone.

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• Japan
• (food • Japan super budget dining • muji • SNJO • Super Budget Dining)

Japan’s hardest rice crackers, snacks of the shinobi, go soft, so do they have a reason to exist?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2024

Taste-testing the “soft cooked hardness” of Iga.

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• Japan
• (anko • COK • cool • crazy • food • Iga • manju • Ninja • rice crackers • senbei • SNJO • sweet red beans • taste test)

10 romantic date spots to fall in love with (and maybe at) in Hokkaido【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2024

Locals sound off for their picks for the best date spots in Japan’s biggest prefecture.

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• Japan
• (date spots • dating • Hokkaido • relationships • romance • survey • tourism • travel)

Ishinomori Manga Museum in Miyagi holding an exhibit for 1970s Miyazaki film Panda! Go Panda!

• Dale Roll
  Feb 3, 2024

If you grew up watching this pre-Ghibli anime film, don’t miss the chance to revel in nostalgia!

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• Japan
• (films • Ghibli films • Hayao Miyazaki • Isao Takahata • Ishinomaki • Ishinomori Manga Museum • Miyagi • movies • Panda! Go Panda!)

This Tokyo hotel has everything you could want–including a great location

• Dale Roll
  Feb 3, 2024

We tested it out so you don’t have to–but you’ll want to!

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• Japan
• (hotels • Shiomi • Tokyo • Tokyo Disneyland • travel)

We try Yoshinoya’s take on Setsubun ehomaki lucky sushi rolls with mixed results

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 3, 2024

The verdict seems to be that you’re either going to roll with them…or not.

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• Japan
• (beef • Ehomaki • food • lucky • Seiji Nakazawa • setsubun • sushi • Yoshinoya)

Sailor Moon manhole covers to be installed in Tokyo at sites linked to the anime/manga series

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2024

Artistic covers will lead you on a walk through Sailor Moon history.

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• Japan
• (agritourism • anime • Azabu-Juban • manga • manhole covers • Minato Ward • Sailor Moon • tourism • travel)

Which Japanese convenience store has the best lucky sushi roll? Unclear results show clear winner

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2024

It’s 7-Eleven versus Family Mart versus Lawson in this ehomaki taste test showdown.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Ehomaki • Family mart • food • Lawson • setsubun • SNJO • sushi • taste test)

Japan’s Setsubun Bean-Throwing Bazooka is so powerful demons won’t dare come near you

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2024

Taking Japanese customs of demon-vanquishing to impressive new levels.

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• Japan
• (beans • COK • cool • culture • funny • gadgets • mame • oni • setsubun • SNJO • weird)

Updated sakura forecast: Cherry blossoms coming to Tokyo first, but later than first expected

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2024

Newly updated forecast maps show shy sakura are going to keep us waiting a little longer.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2024 • tourism • travel)

Can you make a proper ehomaki lucky sushi roll with Daiso equipment?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2024

We hit up Japan’s favorite 100 yen shop to see if we can be lucky on a budget.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • COK • cooking • Daiso • Ehomaki • food • futomaki • setsubun • SNJO • sushi • sushi rolls)

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