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How to go buy condoms without spoiling the mood with the help of Schrödinger’s toilet and robots

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023
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Our newly single reporter Seiji devises and tests three methods that could only come from a mind like his.

This article is sponsored by SKYN Premium.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • health • Ikuna Kamezawa • relationships • romance • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • weird)

Japanese vending machine sells…retro toothbrushes?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

This is one weird machine you won’t find anywhere else!

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • funny • Greeeen • haruka takagi • Japanese vending machines • Kyoto • SNJO • toothbrush • vending machines • weird)

Round 2 of the Pokémon Happy Meal toys at McDonald’s is here! Will you collect ’em all?

• Dale Roll
  Aug 25, 2023

This round is just as fun as the last!

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • fans • fast food • food • goldfish scooping • Happy Meal • McDonald's • Pikachu • Pokemon • squirt guns • toys • video games)

At Kichi Kichi in Kyoto the rice omelets are both dinner and a show【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Aug 25, 2023

Kichi Kichi ya ya da da…

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • cool • entertainment • food • Kichi Kichi • Kyoto • Motokichi • omurice • restaurants • rice omelet • SNO • video)

Studio Ghibli mini heroine dress sachets will have your home looking, and smelling, great【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023

Costumes of three iconic Ghibli anime protagonists have been shrunk down to sachet size.

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• Japan
• (anime • aroma • Arrietty • cool • cute • Donguri Closet • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • sachet • Secret World of Arrietty • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese prison mascot appears in children’s colouring book made by prison inmates

• SoraNews24
  Aug 25, 2023

Can an anthropomorphised prison wall really capture the heart of a child? 

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• Japan
• (Akarenga-kun • characters • Chiba Prison • children's book • children's books • COK • coloring book • coloring books • correctional facility • crime • jail • kyoseiten • mascot characters • Mascots • prison • review • SNJO)

How do young Japanese women spend their hard-earned money to treat themselves?

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 25, 2023

The millennial generation of women dishes on how they’ve spent the largest amount of money on themselves as a reward.

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• Japan
• (female • gravity • leisure • money • oshi • paycheck • splurge • survey • treat • women)

Humongous Charizard card, created with help from Pokémon fans, appears in Yokohama

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023

Charizard arrives late to the Pokémon art party, but still makes a big entrance.

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• Japan
• (anime • Minato Mirai • Pokemon • Pokémon Card Art Walk • pokemon cards • video games • Yokohama)

We take a giraffe nap in a standing sleep pod at a cafe in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

Testing the benefits of vertical sleep and coffee in Harajuku.

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• Japan
• (cafes • coffee • coffee nap • COK • cool • crazy • Egawa Tasuku • giraffe • giraffenap • Harajuku • interior • nap • Nescafe • pods • sleep • SNJO • standing nap • standing sleep • Tokyo • weird)

Japanese boss’ kind reaction to employee ditching work, playing pachinko, losing company car in fire

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

Gambler is offered chance to avoid being fired after losing car in parking lot fire.

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• Japan
• (crazy • fire • moving • pachinko • touching • weird)

Is Burger King Japan’s new Crown The One Pounder really that hard to eat?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 24, 2023

One person’s cheesy nightmare is another person’s divine dream.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • cheeseburgers • COK • crazy • crown • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kouhey • one-pounder • SNJO • taste test • weird • whopper)

Japan’s Ninja Bear shot and killed in Hokkaido, eaten as yakiniku in Tokyo, to become stew next

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

After four year of attacking dairy cows in Japan’s northernmost prefecture, the Ninja Bear ends up on the grill.

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• Japan
• (animals • bears • crazy • food • Hokkaido • hunting • Ninja Bear • wild game • yakiniku)

Five things you can do to make hotel staff happy in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 24, 2023

TikTok video shows us how to be a good guest.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • etiquette • hotel • hotels • Japanese accommodation • manners • Osaka • TikTok • tourists • travel • videos)

Studio Ghibli and Uniqlo team up for line of beautiful T-shirts and bags, but not in Japan【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

Neither Japan nor the U.S. are the first countries to get the first collaboration between the anime studio and fashion brand.

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• (anime • bags • Catbus • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • Makkuro Kurosuke • My Neighbor Totoro • No Face • Princess Mononoke • shirts • Singapore • soot sprites • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • susuwatari • sweatshirts • t-shirts • Thailand • Totoro • Uniqlo)

One of Tokyo’s low-key best rooftop views is about to disappear, so see it while you can【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

Mr. Sato visit the beautiful skies of a Tokyo rooftop most travelers have never heard of.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • cool • Mr. Sato • SNJO • TOC Building • Tokyo • travel)

Japanese pizza chain opens stand at Tokyo station platform

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2023

Never-before-seen branch makes it easier than ever to eat pizza, but is it any good?

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• Japan
• (COK • Japanese pizza • Japanese train stations • Mr. Sato • Ogikubo • pizza • Pizza-la • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo Metro • train platform • train stations • trains • weird)

Spend some time off the grid at the self-sufficient hotel Corrugated House

• Master Blaster
  Aug 23, 2023

A one-of-a-kind stay at a one-of-a-kind house.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • architecture • Corrugated House • corrugated pipe • hotels • nature • self sufficiency • Toyohashi • travel)

Cinnabon releases Japanese flavour series in Japan, including Uji matcha

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2023

Traditional Japanese flavours like we’ve never seen them before.

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• Japan
• (Cinnabon • cinnamon buns • cinnamon roll • COK • food • green tea • kinako • kuromitsu • matcha • soybean powder • sweets • Uji Matcha)

New intentionally ugly anime sweaters from Japan will keep you warm and un-cool this winter【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 23, 2023

YuYu Hakucho apparel line blends ‘90s anime and Christmas sweater aesthetics for a unique otaku look.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • fashion • funny • manga • sweaters • Village Vanguard • weird • YuYu Hakusho)

The reasons why Japanese highway rest stops have angled parking

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2023

Clever design is a literal lifesaver. 

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• Japan
• (cars • clever • COK • cool • design • driving • Driving in Japan • expressways • highway rest stops • highways • parking area • parking areas • rest stops • service area • SNJO • travel • UX design)

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