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Tokyo family serves totally non-traditional super old-school katsudon at century-old restaurant

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2023
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The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • history • katsu • katsudon • Ningyocho • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

Lotteria teams up with Demon Slayer for epic hunger-slaying “Oni-on” combos

• Dale Roll
  Mar 31, 2023

Plus, free Demon Slayer stickers with every “Oni-on” combo order!

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• Japan
• (anime • collaboration • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • fast food • hamburgers • Lotteria • rice burgers • sandwiches)

World’s most elegant kickball game held at Kyoto’s Imperial Palace【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2023

Kickball the Heian way.

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• Japan
• (culture • Heian Period • history • kemari • kickball • Kyoto • Kyoto Imperial Palace • sports • video)

Kyoto will abolish one-day bus passes to combat tourism overcrowding

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Sale of popular travel pass to end as residents find themselves competing with out-of-towners for space on public transportation.

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• Japan
• (bus pass • buses • COK • Kyoto • society • Subway • tourism • travel)

Cup Noodles Breakfast brings American morning meal taste of pancakes and sausage to instant ramen

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Even the distribution strategy is super-American.

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• Japan, USA
• (awesome • breakfast • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • pancakes • weird)

Live-action Evangelion stage play’s new poster stays the Eva course by being baffling

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

It wouldn’t be Evangelion if we could guess where it’s going, after all.

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • Evangelion Beyond • Live action • plays • stage plays)

Sailor Moon SuperS and Sailor Stars go free to watch on YouTube ahead of Cosmos release

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Fourth and fifth arcs of the ‘90s Sailor Moon TV anime are here to jog your memory before the newest theatrical features.

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• Japan
• (anime • movies • Sailor Moon • Sailor Moon Cosmos • Sailor Moon Crystal • Sailor Moon Sailor Stars • Sailor Moon SuperS)

Starbucks Japan’s first-ever Snoopy Frappuccino is here!【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Taste-testing Starbucks’ Snoopy Frappuccino and Snoopy Waffle.

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• Japan
• (charlie brown • COK • cool • drinks • food • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • Peanuts • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • waffles)

Did Burger King just troll McDonald’s Japan with its new Big Bet burger?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2023

Move aside, Big Mac — the Big Bet is in town!

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cool • daifuku • fast food • food • ichigo daifuku • Japanese sweets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mochi • pies • review • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

The beautiful booth models of the Tokyo Motorcycle Show【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Mar 30, 2023

A look at the fashion trends of motorcycle model costume design.

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• Japan
• (beautiful women • cars • COK • motorcycles • SNJO • Tokyo Motorcycle Show)

KFC releases the Zinger Triple Down in Korea 【Taste Test】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 29, 2023

This fried-chicken-on-fried-chicken-on-fried-chicken extravaganza isn’t exactly a burger, but we’re certainly not complaining.

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• Korea
• (burgers • chicken • fast food • fried chicken • KFC • KFC Korea • Korea • review • SNJO • Soon Pyon's • taste test • Triple Down)

Sparkling sake in a can seeks to solve a problem that sometimes keeps sake off the dinner table

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Nihonsakari Japan Soda wants to give sake more opportunities to shine.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • canned drinks • drinks • nihonshu • sake • sparkling sake)

Starbucks Taiwan has a…melon pan burger?!?

• SoraNews24
  Mar 29, 2023

Famous sweet makes a surprise appearance at Starbucks.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (bread • buns • burgers • char siu • COK • cool • food • limited edition • Melon Pan • pineapple bun • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks limited edition • Taiwan • taste test • Yui Imai)

Locust crepes crunch on your teeth, melt in your mouth in east Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more startling at Yachiyo’s most unique sweets shop, this happened.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • dagashiya • eating bugs • food • gross • locust • SNJO • sweets • weird)

Super budget dining in Japan – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at restaurant Saizeriya?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Five ways to eat and drink at one of Japan’s favorite cheap restaurants with the smallest yen bill.

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• Japan
• (000 yen • 1 • cheap food • COK • food • restaurants • Saizeriya • SNJO)

Gundam metaverse’s Gunpla scan/share system plans to connect fans from all countries and angles

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

System allows you to show off your customized anime robot models as 3-D versions in online community.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bandai Namco • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • metaverse • plastic models • robots)

Heading to Hiroshima? Here’s a plan to enjoy three local activities on Miyajima in one day

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 28, 2023

Our reporter shares her day of soaking up a little bit of the local marine farming, global cuisine, and a walk through the past. 

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• Japan
• (boat tour • experience • fun • Heian Period • Hiroshima • Italian • itinerary • Itsukushima • Mari Morimoto • Miyajima • oysters • travel)

We stroll down memory lane while actually strolling down Sazae-san-dori in Fukuoka City

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 28, 2023

The city’s street dedicated to Japan’s beloved Sazae-san characters evokes a feeling of warm nostalgia.

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• C Asia, Japan
• (anime • COK • comic • Fukuoka • K. Masami • Machiko Hasegawa • manga • newspaper • Sazae-san • SNJO)

What better way to fly to Japan than on the brand-new Pikachu Jet?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 28, 2023

ANA’s Pokémon plane will be ready for international flights in time for the summer travel season.

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• Japan
• (Air travel • airplanes • All Nippon Airways • ANA • anime • awesome • cute • Pikachu • Pikachu Jet • Pokemon • travel • video games)

Satoshi/Ash’s voice actress almost couldn’t make it through final Pokémon anime recording session

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 28, 2023

”My chest tightened, and I couldn’t speak.”

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• Japan
• (anime • Ash Ketchum • moving • Pokemon • Rika Matsumoto • Satoshi • touching • voice actors • voice actresses)

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