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Pokémon x Mister Donut fukubukuro lucky bag is a very sweet way to ring in the new year

• Oona McGee
  Dec 30, 2022
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This is one of the best value-for-money bags you can buy in Japan at New Year! 

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • COK • cute • donuts • doughnuts • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • lucky bags 2023 • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNJO • video games)

The top five Starbucks Frappuccinos in Japan in 2022

• Oona McGee
  Dec 30, 2022

It was a year of great flavours, but which ones were the best?

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• Japan
• (COK • cute • dessert drinks • desserts • drinks • Frappuccinos • K. Masami • review • sakura • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

2022’s top stories in anime, manga, and Studio Ghibli news 【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 30, 2022

Butt-wiping struggles, the difference between Nicole Fujita and Nicole Fujita, and how Totoro can help you make it through the winter.

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• Japan
• (anime • Hunter x Hunter • manga • One Piece • Pokemon • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

This year’s Revlon Lucky Bag is not only totally worth buying but easy to get, too

• Dale Roll
  Dec 30, 2022

With four useful cosmetics valued at 6,600 yen, you can’t go wrong with this bag!

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• Japan
• (cosmetics • drugstores • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Ikuna Kamezawa • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • makeup • Revlon)

There’s an Initial D-themed Fujiwara Tofu Cafe, but not in Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2022

We check out the cafe the star of the street racing anime/manga franchise would have to get on a plane or boat in order to visit.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • cafes • cars • COK • cool • food • Fujiwara Tofu Cafe • Initial D • Los Angeles • manga • restaurants • SNO • sweets)

Japanese teacher who asked permission to jerk off at convenience store has been fired

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2022

There are some things you just can’t bounce back from at work.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • gross • Teachers • weird)

First episode trailer for Trigun reboot released, series starts January 17

• Master Blaster
  Dec 29, 2022

Thankfully, they didn’t try to make it live-action. Read More

• Japan
• (anime • orange • television • Tomokazu Sugita • Trigun • Trigun Stampede)

We buy Kentucky Fried Chicken’s box of New Year’s food, but it comes with a surprising extra

• Dale Roll
  Dec 29, 2022

A mysterious development has us scratching our heads. 

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • bento • fast food • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • lunch box • New Year's food • Oju • osechi)

This is the first cafe in Japan to serve Mont Blanc, and it’s closing down after 90 years【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2022

Tokyo cafe introduced the dessert to Japan almost 90 years ago, and the rest is sweets history.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • food • Jiyugaoka • Mont Blanc • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Survey reveals how Japanese people plan to spend the 2023 New Year’s holiday

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 29, 2022

Questions explore the ongoing impact of the pandemic on family traditions and what people plan to spend the most money on for celebrations.

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• Japan
• (Covid • family • food • holiday • New Year's • osechi • oshougatsu • plans • Shokubunka • survey • trends)

Creepy shrine video has Japanese Internet wondering where it is, if it leads to alternate world

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2022

It even feels like it has its own “Don’t come in here” warning alarm.

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• Japan
• (alternate world • creepy • isekai • scary • shrines • video)

“Adult anime” geta new meaning with McDonald’s Japan ad from Fist of the North Star creator【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2022

”Enjoy being an adult!”

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• Japan
• (anime • burgers • cool • fast food • Fist of the North Star • food • hamburgers • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • Tetsuo Hara • video)

You don’t have to go all the way to Haneda to find a vending machine that sells airplane meals

• Dale Roll
  Dec 28, 2022

But we can see why you’d want to!

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• Japan
• (airplane food • Asagaya • bento • food • frozen meal • in-flight meals • Mr. Sato • travel • vending machine)

Thanko’s lucky bag for 2023 brings the heat in more ways than one

• Master Blaster
  Dec 28, 2022

It even brings the cold at times.

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• Japan
• (deep fryer • eye masks • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • mess tins • New Year 2023 • shopping • Thanko)

Can Amazon Japan’s low-rated clothes drying bag save us in a pinch?

• Shannon
  Dec 28, 2022

Don’t mind us, just airing our clean laundry.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • clothes drying • COK • cool gadgets • gadgets • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • travel gadgets • weird)

We try the recommended way to eat Ippudo’s new instant cup rice…which involves twice the Ippudo

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 28, 2022

Ippudo’s new “pollack roe-flavored pickled mustard greens cup rice” recently landed on shelves at 7-Eleven Japan.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience store • food • Ippudo • konbini • mentai • Noodles • ramen • rice • SNJO • soup • takana)

Zelda isn’t the Nintendo anime adaptation Japanese fans want to see most, survey says

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2022

Respondents pick two casts of Nintendo characters they want to see get the anime treatment above Link and Zelda.

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• Japan
• (anime • Legend of Zelda • nintendo • Splatoon • video games • Zelda)

Tokyo train operator begins issuing body cameras, but it’s not employee conduct that worries them

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2022

JR East implements new policy in time for New Year’s.

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• Japan
• (body cameras • COK • crime • East Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • stations • trains)

Will you really catch a cold if you sleep under a Japanese kotatsu table?

• Shannon
  Dec 27, 2022

A Japanese medical expert answers the age-old question for us.

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• Japan
• (COK • folk wisdom • health • Japanese culture • kotatsu • mythbusting)

Putting on a magic show with Amazon Japan’s lowest rated magic props

• Master Blaster
  Dec 27, 2022

At least they’ll make your money disappear.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • COK • funny • magic • magic props • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • SNJO • weird)

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