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Rice cooker recipe: 7-Eleven Japan’s Miso Mackerel Butter Rice is as tasty as it is easy

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  Dec 10, 2023
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Minimum effort doesn’t mean minimum flavor.

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• (canned food • canned mackerel • COK • cooking • food • mackerel • recipe • rice cooker • rice cooker recipe • saba • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

It’s time to take a trip to pancake paradise with Japan’s new Warmer Plate kitchen gadget

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2023

Nitori puts the hot in hotcakes.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • kitchen gadgets • Nitori • pancakes • SNJO)

This tiny Tokyo gelato shop serves good cheer as well as delicious homemade desserts

• Dale Roll
  Dec 9, 2023

Though the 50-plus original flavors of gelato are definitely a major draw, too!

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• Japan
• (dessert • gelato • ice cream • Mr. Sato • Musashi-Koyama • sweets • Tokyo)

Which Japanese tube chip brand is the least disappointing upon opening? We measure to find out

• Dale Roll
  Dec 9, 2023

Here at SoraNews24, we cover only the most important of topics!

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • chips • disappointment • potato chips • Pringles • snacks • SNJO)

Checking Amazon Japan’s Bath Salts Fukubukuro Lucky Bag for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

How many Japanese bath salts can we get for US$25?

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • bath powder • bath salts • bath time • bathing • bathing customs • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • K. Masami • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • online shopping • SNJO)

Our writers take on the world’s smallest four-player Othello game

• Master Blaster
  Dec 9, 2023

The real Othello battle rages within.

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• Japan
• (Board games • capsule toys • Megahouse • Miniature Othello Collection • Mr. Sato • Othello • P.K. Sanjun • Reversi • Seiji Nakazawa • Yoshio)

Enjoy a Japanese tea ceremony in a traditional storehouse

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

A unique setting for a unique tea ceremony.

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• Japan
• (architecture • cafes • COK • cool • food • green tea • Gunma • Gunma restaurants • Japanese food • Japanese tea • Japanese tea ceremony • kura • ocha • old buildings • restaurants • review • SNJO • tea • traditional architecture • traditional Japan)

Rub shoulders with the locals at a Japanese snack bar run by a famous singer’s family

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

A place where Rimi Natsukawa knows your name.

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• Japan
• (bars • COK • Ishigaki • Ishigakijima • Kouhey • Okinawa • Rimi Natsukawa • shared accomodation • singers • Snack • snack bar • SNJO • travel)

JR East announces awesomely cheap one-day all-you can ride pass, Shinkansen included

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2023

Get ready to feel your travel-loving heart go “Kyun!” with the Kyun Pass.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railway • JR • JR East • shinkansen • trains • travel • travel deals)

Cute posture-correcting desk plushies can now warm you up with built-in heating pad

• Shannon
  Dec 8, 2023

Now these desk friends can literally warm your heart.

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• Japan
• (cute • desk toys • Funbaruzu • heating pad • plushies • posture • stuffed animal • warmer)

We embrace Chigyu, the most controversial beef bowl in Japan

• SoraNews24
  Dec 8, 2023

A reminder to eat whatever you love, even if it brands you a dork. 

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• Japan
• (beef bowl • beef bowls • cheap food • cheese gyudon • Chigyu • COK • fast food • food • gyudon • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Sukiya • taste test)

“The streets belong to the humans” asserts Tokyo taxi driver after arrest for running over pigeon

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2023

And yes, you can get arrested for that.

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• Japan
• (animals • birds • cabs • crazy • crime • pigeons • taxis • weird)

Ghibli releases a Howl’s Moving Castle that walks and lights up【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 8, 2023

Yes, this moving castle actually moves, and it’s cuter than we could’ve imagined.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Howl's Moving Castle • Studio Ghibli • toys • video)

30-ish Japanese idol group breaking up because of members’ old age, declining physical strength

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2023

Setsuna Meteor is getting too old for this idol singer stuff.

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• Japan
• (idol singers • Idols • J-Pop • music)

Ghibli adds Howl’s Moving Castle Humidifier to new merchandise range in Japan【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 8, 2023

Anime castle heals our hearts and bodies this winter.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • bags • Calcifer • Donguri Kyowakoku • earrings • fashion • Ghibli • Hin • howl • Howl's Moving Castle • humidifiers • hunidifier • jewelry • Markl • merchandise • rings • Studio Ghibli)

Tokyo’s Shibuya district bans public drinking on New Year’s Eve, cancels countdown celebration

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Just like Halloween, the New Year’s party is over in Shibuya.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • New Year's • New Year's Eve • Shibuya • Shibuya Scramble • Shibuya Station • society)

Death penalty formally requested for Kyoto Animation arsonist by prosecutors as trial closes

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

After killing 36 people, defendant still says he thinks that what Kyoto Animation did was wrong.

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack)

The bizarre anime hair of Detective Conan can now be yours with Ran and Conan hairbands【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Unique hair accessories are part of 30th anniversary art exhibit for the hit anime/manga mystery series.

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• Japan
• (anime • Case Closed • Detective Conan • events • exhibitions • funny • hair • hairbands • manga • Ran Mori • weird)

Introducing Nomen: Ramen without the noodles【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 7, 2023

Is this guilt-free way to “eat” noodles a trend that’s going to catch on?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • Instant Ramen • Mr. Sato • Nomen • Noodles • ramen • review • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Year of the Dragon Pooh! Disney Japan’s plushies gets early Chinese zodiac changeover【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Eto Pooh drops early.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cute • daruma • Disney • Disney Store • eto • Lunar New Year • plushies • tsum tsum • Winnie the Pooh • Year of the Dragon)

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