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Japan’s favorite gyoza restaurant changes its gyoza recipe – Will gyoza life ever be the same?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2024
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Taste-testing the new and old gyoza at Ohsho.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • gyoza • gyoza no osho • Osho • pot stickers • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

It’s time to throw beans and banish demons! A look at family Setsubun traditions in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2024

From ogre teachers to desserts in the dark, the SoraNews24 team shares their Setsubun styles.

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

We asked a Japanese hairdresser to turn five of us into David Beckham: Part One

• Shannon
  Feb 2, 2024

Five Japanese guys, five cool hairstyles: can they pull it off?

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• Japan
• (before and after • David Beckham • haircut • hairstyling • Japanese hair salon • Japanese hairstyles)

Junior high principal in Hyogo fired for stealing seven half cups of coffee

• Master Blaster
  Feb 2, 2024

One sip over the line, sweet Jesus. One sip over the line…

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• Japan
• (coffee machine • convenience stores • crime • Hyogo • junior high school • principals • theft)

Entrance fee and gate closing at sundown may be coming to Mt. Fuji’s most popular hiking route

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2024

Local government plan would aim to prevent crowding and “bullet climbing.”

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• Japan
• (hiking • Mt. Fuji • nature • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)

The best Osaka souvenir is Okonomiyaki Senbei, and here’s why

• SoraNews24
  Feb 1, 2024

No need to waste time shopping for souvenirs — this is the one thing you need to buy when in Osaka. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cute • food • okonomiyaki • okonomiyaki senbei • Osaka • Osaka souvenirs • rice crackers • senbei • SNJO • souvenir • souvenirs • taste test • travel)

Lipton releases Pancake Tea Latte in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 1, 2024

Japan’s famous hotcake mix, now available in drinkable form.

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• Japan
• (drinks • food • hotcakes • Japanese pancakes • latte • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Lipton • Morinaga • new • pancakes • tea • tea latte • weird)

Tokyo to be treated with too many tantalizing ehomaki sushi rolls this Setsubun

• Master Blaster
  Feb 1, 2024

You name it, they got it rolled up in rice.

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• Japan
• (Ecute • Ehomaki • food • holidays • JR East • seafood • setsubun • sushi • Tokyo)

500-year-old national treasure Matsumoto Castle is also a modern projection-mapped beauty【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2024

Digital art display in Nagano moves into its final form.

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• Japan
• (art • awesome • castles • COK • cool • digital art • Matsumoto • Matsumoto Castle • Nagano • projection mapping • travel)

Japan’s Homo Sausage now comes with cheese

• SoraNews24
  Feb 1, 2024

What a way to celebrate a birthday.

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• Japan
• (cheese • food • homo sausage • Japanese food • marketing • Maruzen • news • sausage • sausages)

Japan has a set phrase for the crazy busy feeling we all get at the start of the year

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2024

If you’re shocked that January is almost over, Japanese has a phrase for that.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • SNO • society)

Starbucks Japan unveils first sakura drink for cherry blossom season 2024

• Oona McGee
  Jan 31, 2024

This year’s special limited-edition release is a very traditional Japanese affair. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossom treats • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2024 • hanami • sakura • sakura drinks • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)

Starbucks’ newest Japanese Frappuccinos start selling out before going on sale

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2024

Lack of key ingredient means sweets fans may be left singing the blues as roughly 100 branches will get no Operas.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • drinks • Frappuccinos • gold • Japanese Frappuccinos • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)

Tokyo’s newest hot spring bathhouse and foodie spot opening next to Japan’s biggest fish market

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2024

Onsen and Edo appeal added right next to to Toyosu’s biggest travel destination.

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• Japan
• (food • hot springs • hotels • Manyo Club • onsen • sushi • Tokyo • Toyosu • Toyosu fish market • Toyosu Market • travel)

Weekly Shonen Champion manga magazine offers several issues for free in light of Noto Earthquake

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 31, 2024

Longstanding manga magazine shares an act of kindness on behalf of those affected by the devastating New Year’s Day earthquake.

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• Japan
• (Akita Shoten • free • Go Nagai • Ishikawa • manga • Noto earthquake • read for free • relief • Weekly Shonen Champion)

The price of newly built apartments in central Tokyo skyrocketed over 100 million yen last year

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 31, 2024

Prices for those who want to live in new housing in one of the 23 special wards hit an all-time high.

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• Japan
• (23 special wards • Apartment • constructions • mansion • new • Real Estate Economic Unit • rising costs • Tokyo)

My Neighbour Totoro kimono coat sells out as soon as it’s released by Studio Ghibli in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2024

There is one item in this indigo collection that’s still available, though.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • haori • Hayao Miyazaki • indigo • Japanese fashion • kimono • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • traditional Japanese clothing)

Tokyo’s busiest commuter line slowing things down with special one-lap Yamanote sightseeing train

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2024

Conductors share special views from the downtown loop line.

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• Japan
• (cool • East Japan Railway Company • JR East • sightseeing • Tokyo • tourism • tours • trains • travel • Yamanote line)

Fortune-telling ramen: Nissin creates clever use for instant noodle drain holes

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2024

The most delicious omikuji you’ve ever seen!

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• Japan
• (cool • cup noodles • food • fortune • fortune-telling • Nissin • Noodles • omikuji • soba • twitter)

Weird Japanese gacha lucky dip vending machine gives us more than we bargained for

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2024

You never know what might happen when you play with the gacha gods. 

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• Japan
• (cool • gacha • Japanese vending machines • Osaka • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

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