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Forever 21 returns to Japan with limited time pop-up event, online store also open

• Katie Pask
  Feb 22, 2023
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Forever 21 returns to Japan with Tokyo pop-up store showing its latest collection.

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• Japan
• (clothes • COK • fashion • Forever 21 • pop-up store • Shibuya • Tokyo)

Cat paw button vending machine debuts in Japan to celebrate Cat Day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2023

How could anyone resist the urge to press these buttons?

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • COK • cool • cute • drinks • paw pads • Suntory • vending machines)

Tokyo Burlesque traveling event offers costume tip-stuffing experience for fans with deep pockets

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2023

Five dancers from Roppongi burlesque club will appear at photo album launch events across Japan.

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• Japan
• (beautiful women • books • COK)

Stools made from real taiko drum parts sold by 160-year-old workshop and French designer

• Master Blaster
  Feb 22, 2023

Make every day a festival with these pieces.

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• Japan
• (cool • drums • Japanese traditional crafts • Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten • music • musical instruments • Pierre Charrie • taiko • The Curve)

Real-life Rurouni Kenshin katana forged based on sword of series’ most merciless villain【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 21, 2023

Kenshin vs. Shishio museum exhibit displays Sakabato and Mugenjin.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Katana • manga • Mugenjin • museums • Rurouni Kenshin • Saito Hajime • sakabato • Seki • Shishio Makoto • SNJO • swords)

Fans leave flowers at statues of Maetal, Harlock following death of manga creator Leiji Matsumoto【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2023

Memorial offerings left at stations in Tokyo and Fukuoka near homes of Galaxy Express 999, Space Battleship Yamato creator.

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• Japan
• (anime • Captain Harlock • Galaxy Express 999 • Interstella 5555 • Leiji Matsumoto • manga • moving • Space Battleship Yamato • Star Blazers • stations • touching • trains)

You can now buy Japan’s popular Yoku Moku Cigare cookies from a vending machine

• Katie Pask
  Feb 21, 2023

Popular butter cookies can now be found in a vending machine, so we try some!

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• Japan
• (Cigare • COK • cookies • food • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • vending machines • YOKU MOKU)

Great Gundam news! Japan’s life-size moving giant robot statue won’t close down this year after all

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2023

Gundam Factory extends operations for all the fans who couldn’t make it to Yokohama during the pandemic.

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• Japan
• (anime • full-scale Gundam • Gundam • Gundam Factory Yokohama • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • moving Gundam • robots • travel • Yokohama)

Cherry blossom Totoro tableware, interior decoration line arrives for Ghibli-style sakura spring

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2023

Anime’s cutest forest spirit works his magic with Japan’s most beautiful flower.

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• Japan
• (anime • beauitful • cherry blossoms • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • drinkware • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • My Neighbor Totoro • plushies • sakura • Studio Ghibli • tableware • tenugui • Totoro)

New sakura doughnuts resemble different stages of the cherry blossoms in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2023

Taste the progression of the sakura, from early buds to past full bloom.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • new • sakura • sakura 2023 • sweets)

An exquisite work of beef art makes the perfect Kabuki Day gift

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2023

I’d look like that too if my hair were meat.

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• Japan
• (Art Beef Gallery • beef • culture • kabuki • kabuki day • meat • omi beef • Renjishi • ukiyo-e • Wagyu)

Anime/manga legend Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Yamato, Harlock, and 999, has passed away

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2023

The father of space opera anime leaves fans with an inspiring farewell message.

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• Japan
• (anime • Captain Harlock • Galaxy Express 999 • Interstella 5555 • Leiji Matsumoto • manga • Space Battleship Yamato • Star Blazers)

Critically acclaimed A-bomb manga Barefoot Gen excerpts removed from Hiroshima school curriculum

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2023

Elementary school students’ Peace Education lessons have included excerpts from manga by atomic bombing survivor since 2013.

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• Japan
• (anime • atomic bomb • atomic bombing • Barefoot Gen • education • Hiroshima • history • manga • schools • World War II)

Speedy sakura?!? Revised cherry blossom forecast for Japan says flowers will bloom early this year

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2023

Updated prediction has sakura starting to appear in Tokyo almost a week earlier than expected.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom forecast • cherry blossom forecast 2023 • cherry blossoms • hanami • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2023 • travel)

New Studio Ghibli collection includes a US$2,450 wooden Totoro 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2023

When the worlds of traditional Japan and Japanese anime collide.

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• Japan
• (chusen • cool • dyeing • Ghibli • goods • handcraft • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese traditional crafts • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • pottery • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • traditional craft • traditional crafts • traditional culture • traditional handicrafts)

Georgia Coffee releases a brand new banana-flavored version of its Hokkaido-only Milk Coffee

• Dale Roll
  Feb 19, 2023

It’s made with 100-percent Hokkaido milk, so you know it’s good too!

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• Japan
• (banana • banana coffee • Coca-Cola Japan • coffee drinks • Georgia Coffee • milk coffee)

Sailor Moon Jimmy Choo collaboration adds Luna, Tuxedo Mask kiss, and Inner Senshi bags【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 19, 2023

Shoes for fans who love Luna and don’t like high heels also revealed.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • fashion • Jimmy Choo • manga • Sailor Moon • shoes)

Pouches that play the Yobikumi-kun Japanese supermarket jingle on sale now

• Master Blaster
  Feb 18, 2023

A rare chance to get a relatively cheap Yobikumi-kun!

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• Japan
• (Gunma Denki • mook • music • pouches • supermarkets • Takarajimasha • Yobikumi-kun)

The best cosplayers from the Isshoni Tanoshimimashou otaku event in Indonesia【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 18, 2023

College campus turns into a space for cosplayers, anime enthusiasts, and Japanese food fans.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (anime • anime conventions • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Indonesia • manga • otaku • SNJO)

Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo’s Kabukicho is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2023

This underground world is filled with hungry government officials and cheap eats.

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • curry • eating • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • restaurants • secrets • shinjuku • Shinjuku Ward Office • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)

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