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The Ring’s Sadako haunts one of Japan’s favorite hot springs for Halloween

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2022
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Sadako outbreak included free admission for cosplayers.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • hot springs • movies • onsen • Sadako • scary • The Ring • Yunessun)

Studio Ghibli gave out Pokémon sweets and other candy to Tokyo Halloween trick-or-treaters【Photo】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2022

And it looks like Hayao Miyazaki himself might have been the one handing them out.

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• Japan
• (anime • halloween • moving • Piplup • Pokemon • Studio Ghibli • touching • trick or treat)

The best cosplayers from Day One of the Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2022

Japanese anime characters rub shoulders with some surprising faces in Tokyo’s famous otaku neighbourhood.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • cool • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • costumes • cute • halloween • Ikebukuro • Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival • Sailor Moon • SNJO • video games)

How to dispose of pizza boxes: Life hack from Japanese garbage man goes viral online 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2022

This unusual tip will shrink your boxes, making them much easier to handle.

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• Japan
• (advice • COK • cool • food • garbage • hack • life hack • pizza • pizza boxes • recycling • rubbish • SNJO • trash • weird)

Secret staff cafeteria at this Japanese train station is still open…for those in the know

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2022

Eat where the rail employees eat, at super cheap prices. 

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Japanese train stations • Namba Station • Osaka • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • train stations • trains)

The Ghibli theme park’s food looks good enough to be a reason to visit all by itself【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2022

Ghibli Park’s restaurant has a mouthwatering menu with food culture both from around the world and right from its local community in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • food • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • restaurants • Studio Ghibli • theme parks • travel)

Tokyo real estate agency sends beautiful women with you on apartment visits for date-like mood

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2022

Girls Chintai wants to help customers make the right chintai choice.

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• Japan
• (apartments • beautiful women • COK • real estate • weird)

The Japanese convenience store with a secret DJ booth in the basement

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2022

“Record Conveni” is the coolest combini in town!

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience stores • cool • interview • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • music • old records • record shop • records • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo • weird • Yamazaki • Yamazaki Baking Company • Yamazaki Y Shop)

We try Kaldi’s microwavable Omelet Rice to find out if it really cooks that easily【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Oct 30, 2022

Omurice in just five minutes? We had to try it.

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• Japan
• (cooking • KALDI • microwave cooking • omelet • omelette rice • omurice • rice omelet • SoraKitchen)

McDonald’s Japan’s new kalbi koshihikari rice burger and its friends only come out after sundown

• SoraNews24
  Oct 30, 2022

Eating these new rice burgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the same day is sadly not an option.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • food • gohan burgers • hamburgers • kalbi • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • rice burgers)

Tokyo police create public service warning about kids obsessing over their favorite male idols

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2022

Police want kids and parents to be aware of the dangers of obsessive oshikatsu.

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• Japan
• (chika idol • Idols • kids • oshi • oshikatsu • parents • public service announcement • society • Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department • underground idols • youth)

Why are there so many reincarnation and villainess anime and manga? Manga editor explains

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2022

We sit down for an interview with an industry pro and learn about “zamaa-style” manga too.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • interview • isekai • manga • SNJO • tensei)

We get to be (probably) the first ever to try Nissin Cup Noodle’s latest creation: Gyoza ramen!

• Dale Roll
  Oct 29, 2022

Gyoza-flavored ramen?! Count us in!!

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• Japan
• (Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Big • Cup Noodle Gyoza • gyoza • Instant Ramen • Nissin • ramen • taste test)

Trying on Amazon Japan’s low-rated tattoo shirt to feel like a Showa-era punk

• Shannon
  Oct 29, 2022

It’s like body paint, only with lower ratings.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • ochimusha • tattoo • tattoo shirt • tattoos in Japan • yakuza)

We find a vending machine selling ‘Great Buddha flavoured’ drinkable whipped cream

• Katie Pask
  Oct 29, 2022

The latest in a long line of Japanese vending machines that’ll make you think, “… they’re selling what?!”

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• Japan
• (can • canned drinks • cream • lacto ice cream • Mr. Sato • namanomi • SNJO • sweets • taste test • whipped cream)

Japan created bedsheets that feel like petting a cat, and they sold out immediately

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2022

Cat lovers without a cat of their own to pet are really feeling Neko Feel.

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• Japan
• (bedding • bedsheets • blankets • cats • clever • interior • Nissen • pets)

Teacher in Japan politely asks to use convenience store bathroom to jerk off, gets arrested

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2022

Sure, when you gotta go, you gotta go, but that doesn’t mean you gotta come.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • gross • restrooms • weird)

Gundam anime offers official explanation for what’s going on with Chuchu’s hair

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2022

How does the Witch from Mercury scene stealer fit those pink poofs in a mecha pilot’s helmet?

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• Japan
• (anime • Chuatury Panlunch • funny • Gundam • hairstyle • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury • Witch from Mercury)

Domino’s serves up Pokémon Halloween pizza for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Oct 29, 2022

Plus a free set of special Pokémon cards with every order.

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• Japan, Korea
• (COK • cool • cute • Domino • Domino's • fast food • food • halloween • pizza • Poké Ball • Pokemon • pokemon cards • SNJO • Soon Pyon's • taste test • weird)

Kyoto police issue arrest warrant in nine-year-old murder of Japan’s gyoza king

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 28, 2022

Cigarette butt DNA helps investigators crack case.

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• Japan
• (crime • DNA • gyoza • gyoza no osho • Kyoto • murder • Osho)

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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