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Adorable cat-shaped slices of delicious Japanese bread now become Disney cats for a limited time
Cat-shaped bread and Disney characters? Shut up and take my money!
Is Starbucks Japan’s new Valentine’s Day Frappuccino worth the calories?
- Oona McGee
Feb 4, 2023
This decadent affair inspired by a French cake is difficult to resist.
- Japan
- (cakes • chocolate • COK • desserts • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test • valentine's chocolate • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)
The sushi has stopped revolving at Japan’s biggest revolving sushi restaurant chain
- Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2023
Sushiro hits the stop button on its up-for-grabs sushi plates.
- Japan
- (Conveyor belt sushi • food • Kaitenzushi • pranks • pranksters • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • Sushiro)
Totoro and No-Face red envelopes are here to help celebrate Lunar New Year in Ghibli style【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2023
Anime icons from Hayao Miyazaki films sure to be welcome at any Lunar New Year’s party.
- Japan
- (anime • Chinese New Year • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • hongbao • Lunar New Year • makkurokurosuke • My Neighbor Totoro • No Face • red envelope • Soot Sprite • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)
Suntory’s prized Hakushu whisky is going into a can for the Premium Highball Hakushu
- Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2023
Canned cocktail celebrates Suntory’s 100 years in the whisky-making business.
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned cocktails • cocktails • drinks • Hakushu • Japanese whisky • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky)
Nagasaki Lantern Festival is like Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in real life
- Oona McGee
Feb 4, 2023
Local resident reveals the secret spots you won’t want to miss during this breathtaking festival.
- China, Japan
- (beautiful • China • Chinese New Year • COK • events • festival • festivals • gorgeous • lanterns • Mariko Ohanabatake • Nagasaki • Nagasaki Lantern Festival • SNJO • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • travel)
Full cast of live-action Final Fantasy X play appears in costume for the first time【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2023
More than a dozen different characters from the hit video game will take the stage this spring.
- Japan
- (Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy X • Final Fantasy X kabuki • kabuki • Live action • Square Enix • stage plays • video games)
Burger King Japan’s Cheeseburger Gelände — exceptional in taste, size and… paper napkins?
- Katie Pask
Feb 3, 2023
Burger King’s latest offering leaves Mr. Sato stunned not once, not twice but three times!
- Japan
- (big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
Haneda Airport getting rid of large flight information monitors at security lines in Terminal 2
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2023
ANA wants travelers to look for the information elsewhere.
- Japan
- (airports • All Nippon Airways • ANA • COK • Haneda • Haneda Airport • signage • travel)
Live-action Evangelion play ditches Shinji, Rei, and entire anime cast for new story, characters
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2023
Turns out Shinji will not be getting on the damn stage after all.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Evangelion Beyond • Evangelion Kabukicho Impact • Kabukicho • Live action • manga • stage plays)
Never oversleep again under the stern supervision of Japan’s Threatening Red Panda Nap Cushion
- Dale Roll
Feb 3, 2023
We’d sign up to be terrorized by something so cute anytime.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • cushion • cute • Felissimo • funny • interior • pillow • plushies • red panda • sleep • stuffed animal • weird • YOU+MORE!)
“Android” arrested for rice ball theft in Japan, Android Woman denies involvement
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2023
Android Woman says she wasn’t that android woman.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • onigiri • rice balls • shoplifting • weird)
Is it the end of Japan’s conveyor belt sushi as we know it?
- Master Blaster
Feb 2, 2023
And I don’t feel all that fine.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • gross • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • prank • revolving sushi • saliva terrorism • Shushiro • sushi)
Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako cosplays as Spy x Family’s Yor, recommends brutal revenge manga
- Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2023
Enako slips on the dress of the Thorn Princess.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • manga • Spy x Family • Yor Forger)
Beautiful live-action Final Fantasy X kabuki preview shows Yuna performing Sending【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2023
Kabuki adaptation of the hit video game opens in Tokyo this spring.
- Japan
- (Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy X • Final Fantasy X kabuki • kabuki • Live action • Square Enix • stage plays • video • video games)
Synthetic fossil fuels made from light, water, and CO2 in the air tested in Osaka
- Master Blaster
Feb 2, 2023
A fuel that consumes the CO2 it produces to make more of itself.
- Japan
- (carbon dioxide • CO2 • cool • eco-friendly • ecology • environment • Osaka • science • Sustainable Energy • synthetic fuel • water)
Manga artist wants Japanese teachers to feel, for two seconds, how dumb their girls’ dress code is
- Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2023
Masayuki Ishikawa is fed up with a rule that keeps schoolgirls cold all winter long.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • dress code • education • manga • Masayuki Ishikawa • Moyashimon • Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture • school rules • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms • youth)
Panasonic says to stop wearing socks while you sleep
- Master Blaster
Feb 2, 2023
I’m going to call Sony for a second opinion.
Japanese TV network makes multiple apologies for reporter chewing gum on air【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2023
Station president vows to “restore viewers’ trust.”
Lawson convenience stores up-sizing several items by 47 percent, but for the same price, for February
- Master Blaster
Feb 1, 2023
The move is intended to provide relief from rising prices.
- Japan
- (business • food • large portions • Lawson • onigiri • Premium Roll Cake • price increase • roll cake • shopping • yakisoba bread)
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Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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