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Artificial sea of clouds made by luxury hotel in Tokyo during summer

• Master Blaster
  Jun 4, 2023
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Hotel Chinzanso has the foggiest idea!

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• Japan
• (beautiful • clouds • COK • gardens • Hotel Chinzanso • hotels • sea of clouds • Tokyo • travel • unkai)

Soup curry and onigiri for breakfast at a super tasty semi-secret spot in Tokyo’s Shinjuku

• Shannon
  Jun 3, 2023

Get your morning veggies and carbs in with these two Japanese delicacies.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • COK • curry • food • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • soup curry • Tokyo eats)

Studio Ghibli says no to trailers and commercials for Hayao Miyazaki’s new anime movie

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2023

One poster and the title is all you’re getting before How Do You Live? hits theaters, and producer Toshio Suzuki explains why.

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• Japan
• (anime • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • interview • movies • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki)

Pizza Hut Japan’s new Wiener Coffee Pizza tastes as crazy as it sounds

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2023

Pun becomes a pizza, in true Japanese style.

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • fast food • food • Japanese • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • puns • sausages • SNJO • taste test • Vienna • weird • weird food • wieners)

The top 10 manga/anime heroines from Shonen Sunday chosen by fans in general election【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2023

101 candidates, over 275,000 votes, and three characters from one series in the top 4.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Detective Conan • Inuyasha • manga • ranking • Rumiko Takahashi • shonen sunday • survey • Weekly Shonen Sunday)

Talking manga with a Weekly Shonen Magazine editor ahead of the K Manga launch party【Interview】

• Master Blaster
  Jun 2, 2023

And you’re not going to want to miss what’s up for grabs at this party.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • interviews • K Manga • Kodansha • MagaPoke • Magazine Pocket • manga • Weekly Shōnen Magazine • Yuta Hiraoka)

Starbucks Japan’s new cake Frappuccino brings sunshine to our taste buds

• Oona McGee
  Jun 2, 2023

Cheerful new limited-edition beverage parts the clouds on a rainy day.

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • customisation • customization • customized drinks • drinks • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • lemon • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)

Japanese government promises, for real this time, that expressways will be free by the year 2115

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2023

If you can hold off on your Japan road trip until the next century, you could really save some money!

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• Japan
• (cars • COK • crazy • driving • expressway • funny • society • travel • weird)

Best breakfast ramen in southern Japan? Taste-testing Fukuoka’s super-convenient Morning Ramen

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2023

A perfect place for your last, or first, meal in Japan’s southern ramen capital.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • COK • food • Fukuoka • hakata • Hakata ramen • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • stations • tonkotsu • trains • travel)

Japanese city getting Spirited Away buses to celebrate Studio Ghibli anime producer museum event

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 1, 2023

Toshio Suzuki exhibit comes to southern city for the first time, with new merch along for the ride.

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• Japan
• (anime • buses • COK • Fukuoka • Fukuoka City • Hayao Miyazaki • spirited away • Studio Ghinli • Toshio Suzuki • Toshio Suzuki and Ghibli Exhibition • transportation • travel)

New Japanese KitKat captures the flavour of Baskin Robbins’ choc mint ice cream

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2023

This tie-up collaboration swings both ways, with new KitKat items at the ice cream chain for a limited time as well.

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• Japan
• (31 • 31 Ice Cream • Baskin Robbins • choc mint • chocolate • COK • cool • food • ice cream • Japanese chocolate • Japanese KitKats • KitKats • limited edition • marketing • mint • mint chocolate • Nestle • new • promotion • sweets)

“Horse Feces Cafe” opens in Tokyo, looks stylish and delicious【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 1, 2023

Bafun Yasai cafe looks like a fun place to dine and drink with friends.

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• Japan
• (animal welfare • animals • cafes • COK • cool • Harajuku • horses • restaurants • weird)

How to have yumcha like a boss at a new dim sum restaurant perfect for groups or solo diners

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 1, 2023

Our reporter shares how to navigate the different ways of ordering at the growing Yumcha Terrace Tohsai chain of eateries in Japan’s capital region.

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• Japan
• (COK • dim sum • food • restaurants • SNJO • Taiwan • tea • Tokyo • yumcha • Yumcha Terrace Tohsai)

Here’s why you should visit Japan’s best winter-night hot spring town on a summer afternoon【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2023

We went looking for an anime connection, and found a whole bunch of new reasons to love this Yamagata onsen town.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Ginzan Onsen • hot springs • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • onsen • SNJO • travel • Yamagata)

Pikachu afternoon tea at Tokyo hotel gives us a taste of the Pokémon anime world

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2023

This limited-time luxury is an indulgence worth splurging on!

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• Japan
• (afternoon tea • anime • anime food • COK • cute • high tea • hotels • Nagoya • Omotesando • Pikachu • Pokemon • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • The Strings • themed cafe • themed food • Tokyo)

OxiClean officially sends detergent supply to Tokyo card shop struggling with sweaty, smelly otaku

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2023

Even players who don’t go home with a tournament prize will go home with some OxiClean.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • card games • cards • clever • collectible card games • hygiene • otaku • OxiClean • smell • trading cards)

Japanese tabloid puts out Lemon Sour with 13 percent alcohol【Taste test】

• Master Blaster
  May 31, 2023

Extra! Extra! Drink all about it!

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • alcohol • alcopops • canned cocktails • cocktails • COK • crazy • drinks • lemon sour • SNJO • Tospo Kyogaku Lemon Sour)

Japanese convenience store ice cream solves plastic-vs.-wooden-spoon dilemma with edible spoons

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2023

Japan’s favorite convenience store for ice cream may have just invented the best way to eat it.

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• Japan
• (clever • convenience stores • cool • food • ice ceam • Ministop • sweets)

What it’s like to pray for concert tickets, money, and more at Tokyo’s specialty Fukutoku Shrine

• Krista Rogers
  May 30, 2023

Our reporter makes a long journey in the hope that some divine intervention will help her score tickets to her favorite idols’ concert this year.

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• Japan
• (COK • concerts • Fukutoku Shrine • Idols • jinja • kami • lottery • Maro • money • Nihonbashi • pray • shinto • SNJO • Tokyo)

Fans in Japan don’t sound happy with Netflix’s One Piece live-action changes to the Going Merry

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2023

Photo of the Straw Hat Pirates’ ship has some fans wanting to burn it ASAP.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • COK • Going Merry • Live action • manga • Netflix • Netflix One Piece • One Piece)

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