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Krispy Kreme’s new sakura donut is available at only one place in all of Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023
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Branch also adds incredibly long-named, immensely delicious-looking matcha donut made with regional green tea to its menu.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • COK • donuts • food • green tea • gyuhi • Krispy Kreme • matcha • mochi • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)

Kura Sushi using AI camera network to prevent gross pranks at its revolving sushi restaurants

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023

The sushi is revolving, and the AI is watching.

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• Japan
• (AI • artificial intelligence • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • pranksters • revolving sushi • sushi)

Students hospitalized after eating teacher’s homemade yogurt in Nagoya

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023

Science lesson leads to lots of vomiting by students and school staff.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • education • food • gross • schools • science • Teachers • weird • yogurt)

Coca Cola releases new Mt Fuji bottles in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2023

Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa gets a new look for this souvenir coke bottle design. 

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• Japan
• (art • bottles • Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola bottles • COK • Coke • cool • design • drinks • Fuji • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • marketing • Mt. Fuji • souvenirs • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e)

Japan’s favorite popsicle is changing the way it tastes and feels for first time in over 20 years

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2023

Garigari-kun apparently believes you can improve on perfection.

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• Japan
• (Akagi Nyugyo • COK • food • Gari-Gari Kun • Garigari-kun • ice cream • popsicles • shaved ice • soda flavor • sweets)

Easter Egg desserts sold in Tokyo’s Joel Robuchon stores are almost too cute to eat

• Katie Pask
  Mar 3, 2023

Celebrate the season with these ‘eggcellent’ Easter treats.

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• Japan
• (cute • Easter • easter eggs • food • Joel Robuchon • sweets • Tokyo)

Turning your car into a Like a Dragon video game itasha can now get you paid and clothed

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2023

Kiryu on board.

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• Japan
• (cars • Cheer Drive • itasha • Like a Dragon • Like a Dragon: Ishin • Sega • video games • yakuza)

Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Tokyo police hold anti-nuisance YouTuber drill【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2023

”It was just a prank, bro!” won’t get intruders off with just a warning.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • funny • Japan Self-Defense Forces • JSDF • pranksters • Self-Defense Forces • video • weird • YouTubers)

Three sisters in Japan skip building a snowman, build awesome snow Totoro Catbus instead【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2023

Siblings make use of their school’s snow day in the best way possible.

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• Japan
• (Catbus • cute • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • snow • snowman • Totoro • video)

Is spending 248,380 yen (US$1,840) on an anime boy doll a wise choice? Our fangirl finds out!

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2023

A big love for Touken Ranbu leads to a big expenditure, but is it money well spent?

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • dolls • figures • Katana • manga • otaku • SNJO • swords • Touken Rambu • Touken Ranbu)

Yep, that’s illegal in Japan – Yakuza boss arrested for making supermarket point card

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2023

If you’re a mobster signing paperwork in Japan, always read the fine print.

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• Japan
• (crime • point cards • supermarkets • weird • yakuza)

Fender to open first-ever flagship store in Harajuku this summer

• Master Blaster
  Mar 2, 2023

A store that encourages everyone to be picky.

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• Japan
• (business • Fender • Fender Flagship Tokyo • guitars • Harajuku • music • shopping • The Ice Cubes • Tokyo)

Street Fighter 6 throws fierce punch of ‘90s nostalgia, brings back anime movie theme song【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2023

New preview video features iconic J-pop song from the climax of the Street Fighter II anime movie.

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• Japan
• (anime • Capcom • Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokorozuyosa • J-Pop • music • Ryoko Shinohara • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 6 • Street Fighter II • Street Fighter II anime movie • Tetsuya Komura)

All-you-can-eat cheeseburgers offered by Burger King Japan for its 1,495-calorie King Yeti burger

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2023

Sometimes one gigantic cheeseburger just isn’t enough, you know?

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • cheeseburgers • COK • fast food • food • King Yeti)

Love in all its shapes and sizes make up MangaPlaza’s biggest hits of 2022

• Master Blaster
  Mar 2, 2023

It makes the manga world go round too.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (Makeup with Mud • manga • MangaPlaza • Misadventures in First Love • Plus-sized Misadventures in Love! • romance • Shall We Exchange Husbands? • The Managing Director's Ingeniously Sweet Plan • Tonight)

Daiso opens massive new 25,392-square foot Tokyo flagship store with its two sub-brands included

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2023

Daiso, Standard Products, and Threeppy, all together in Ikebukuro.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • COK • Daiso • Ikebukuro • SNJO • Standard Products • Threeppy • Tobu Department Store)

Skip the crowds at Tokyo’s most popular cherry blossom spot with Meguro River Hanami Cruise

• Dale Roll
  Mar 1, 2023

This year with more boats and more reservation spots!

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• Japan
• (boat • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • cruise • hanami • hanami parties • Meguro • Meguro River • river cruise • sakura • sightseeing • spring • Tokyo)

Japan’s randoseru school backpacks keep getting more expensive, so now parents can rent them

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 1, 2023

Lower cost isn’t the only benefit of Japan’s first randoseru subscription service, company says.

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• Japan
• (backpacks • COK • education • fashion • kids • Parenting • parents • randoseru • schools)

Less than half of Japanese people OK with bare hand-pressed rice balls, survey says, but why?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 1, 2023

We call them “rice balls” in English, but the real-meaning of “onigiri” is something a lot of Japanese people don’t find appetizing.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • musubi • onigiri • rice balls • society • survey)

We put weird food in curry to make it “un-curry-like”, find a killer secret ingredient instead

• Dale Roll
  Mar 1, 2023

And it’s not something we would ever have thought to try!

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• Japan
• (cooking • curry • experiment • secret ingredient • Seiji Nakazawa • SoraKitchen • weird food)

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