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Gigantic super-affordable Sailor Moon lifestyle line comes to Japan’s favorite 300 yen shop【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 26, 2023
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Three Coins collaboration offers dozens of items for the Sailor Moon fan on a budget.

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• Japan
• (300 yen shop • 300 yen store • anime • cool • interior • lifestyle products • manga • Sailor Moon • Three Coins)

More than a capsule hotel, downtown Tokyo capsule ryokan is awesome, budget-friendly spot to stay

• Casey Baseel
  May 26, 2023

We’ve got a new champion when it comes to Tokyo capsule hotels in this price range.

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• Japan
• (capsule hotels • COK • cool • hotels • ryokan • SNJO • Tokyo • travel)

Kyoto Animation announces it will build two memorials to victims of anime studio arson attack

• Casey Baseel
  May 25, 2023

Balance struck between giving fans and family a place of remembrance and letting life return to normal in Kyoto neighborhood.

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • Kyoto • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack • memorial • society)

McDonald’s brings back the Japanese ‘90s with Heisei comeback menu, videos with J-pop hit【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 25, 2023

Any Boys and Girls hungry for some ‘90s nostalgia?

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• Japan
• (1990s • 90s • Ayumi Hamasaki • burgers • fashion • fast food • food • hamburgers • Heisei • Heisei era • J-Pop • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • music • Namie Amuro • videos)

Starbucks Japan’s newest Frappuccino is a summer cake delight

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2023

New limited-edition beverage helps to kickstart a new campaign to reduce waste in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • cool • cups • drinks • drinkware • environment • environmentally friendly • food • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • recycling • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Japan tumbler • Starbucks limited edition • tumblers)

New Fist of the North Star soda will make your head tingle, but probably not explode

• Casey Baseel
  May 25, 2023

”You are already popping.”

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• Japan
• (anime • convenience stores • cool • drinks • Family mart • Fist of the North Star • funny • manga • popping candy • sweets • weird)

Nintendo announces moratorium on Wii U repairs, which ends hardware support for two gens of games

• Casey Baseel
  May 25, 2023

End of repair service leaves hardware necessary to play not just Wii U games, but Wii ones too without first-party support.

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• Japan
• (nintendo • video games • Wii • Wii U)

Studio Ghibli’s truck from My Neighbour Totoro now available as die-cast Takara Tomy car

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2023

Jiji the cat from Kiki’s Delivery Service also gets its own moving vehicle.

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• Japan
• (anime • cars • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • online shopping • shopping • Studio Ghibli • Takara Tomy • tomica • Totoro • toys)

Our writer gets enticed by AliExpress’s reading-in-the-dark glasses…but do they really work?

• Master Blaster
  May 24, 2023

Masanuki is drawn to high-beam eyes like a moth to a flame.

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• Japan
• (AliExpress • glasses • LED lights • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • reading glasses • shopping)

New English textbook for Japanese learners is completely full of crap, looks pretty useful

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2023

Unko Drill series wants to help English learners in Japan get ready for their college entrance exams.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • gross • linguistics • poop • Studying English • Teaching English in Japan • Unko Drill • weird)

Eel vendor in Asakusa becomes a hot topic with foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  May 24, 2023

We find out if this is a foreign tourist trap or a truly great place to eat eel in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • Asakusa Unana • COK • eel • hole in the wall • Japanese restaurants • onigiri • reddit • restaurants • review • rice balls • SNJO • standing restaurants • taste test • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • tourist traps • travel)

Five things you should eat at Muji Japan, according to staff who work there

• Shannon
  May 24, 2023

At least one of these is guaranteed to make your mouth water.

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• Japan
• (Clerk's Own-Pocket Recommendation • japanese snacks • muji • Mujirushi Ryohin • recommendations • snacks)

What the heck is this huge sumo wrestler doing at Ryogoku Station in Tokyo?

• Oona McGee
  May 24, 2023

We all know Ryogoku is sacred ground for sumo wrestlers, but this is bordering on ridiculous!

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• Japan
• (advertising • COK • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Kokugikan • marketing • Netflix • rikishi • Ryogoku • sanctuary • SNJO • Sumo • sumo tournaments • sumo wrestler • Tokyo • train stations • trains • TV series)

Ramen and girls bar: Where you can talk to women who aren’t dressed like hosts or maids

• SoraNews24
  May 24, 2023

Filling a niche we never knew existed.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • bars • COK • crazy • dating • Japanese women • Nagoya • Noodles • omiai • ramen • relationships • restaurants • romance • SNJO • weird)

Japan super budget dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at 7-Eleven?

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2023

11 surprising cheap meals you can make at this famous Japanese convenience store chain.

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• Japan
• (1000 yen • 7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • cheap food • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • senbero • SNJO • taste test)

Ishikawa latest prefecture to join those with Pokémon manhole lids across Japan

• Master Blaster
  May 23, 2023

When it comes to Japanese prefectures, Pokémon’s gotta cap ’em all.

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• Japan
• (Ishikawa • Kanazawa • Milotic • Pokemon)

Hollywood star Michael B. Jordan visits Naruto anime studio, gets personalized autograph art

• Casey Baseel
  May 23, 2023

Actor/director visits Japan as part of promotion for Creed III’s Japanese release and its special anime short.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • celebrities • cool • Creed • Creed III • manga • Michael B. Jordan • movies • Naruto)

Stop and smell the flowers during the Spring Rose Festival at Tokyo’s best rose garden

• Krista Rogers
  May 23, 2023

The Former Furukawa Gardens make for an extremely economical escape from the big city with special seasonal events happening right now.

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• Japan
• (bara • beautiful • flowers • Former Furukawa Gardens • gifts • rose • rose garden • Spring Rose Festival • Tokyo • travel)

Traditional silverwork pairs with the power of the moon in this stunning Silver Crystal pendant

• Krista Rogers
  May 23, 2023

We can neither confirm nor deny whether wearing this necklace will transform you into Eternal Sailor Moon.

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• Japan
• (collaboration • craft • Eternal Moon Article • Eternal Sailor Moon • film • Hirado Zaiku • jewelry • movie • necklace • pendant • Premico • Sailor Moon • Sailor Moon Cosmos • Silver Crystal)

We got our paws on the real-kitty-litter snow globe, and here’s how it looks

• Shannon
  May 23, 2023

Spoiler: it’s worth it.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • cat lovers • cat toys • cats • gacha gacha • Japanese toys • Kitan Club • kitty litter)

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