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Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Cloud (dress version) is getting the high-end figure treatment【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2022
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Relive your memories of Cloud’s tactical makeover.

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• Japan
• (Cloud Strife • figures • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • Final Fantasy VII remake • Square Enix • video games)

The immense, and immensely Instagramable, shaved ice of…Coco’s Japan!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2022

Japan’s heat wave is the perfect excuse to eat double desserts.

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• Japan
• (Coco's • family restaurants • food • restaurants • shaved ice • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Where will you go this summer? Here are the top 10 Japanese swimming spots with the nicest water

• Dale Roll
  Jul 24, 2022

One lake and nine beaches to add to your summer swimming bucket list!

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• Japan
• (beaches • Japan travel • lakes • Ministry of the Environment • Numazu • Ocean • Shizuoka • summer • swimming • travel • water quality)

Crowdfunding success for handmade formalwear masks in samurai’s favorite color

• Master Blaster
  Jul 24, 2022

Look like victory with Kacciro.

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• Japan
• (art • craftsmanship • crowdfunding • face masks • fashion • indigo • Kacciro • kachi-iro • katazome • Mylike • Tokushima)

Number-one cosplayer Enako previews four outfits from her Rumiko Takahashi cosplay album【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2022

Japan’s top cosplayer dresses as sub-characters from Inuyasha, Maison Ikkoku.

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• Japan
• (anime • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • Inuyasha • Lum • Maison Ikkoku • manga • Ranma 1/2 • Rumiko Takahashi • Urusei Yatsura)

Zelda’s Master Cycle comes into the real world as amazing ridable cardboard art【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2022

Crazy talented cardboard artist adds to his fleet of game/anime vehicles.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Breath of the Wild • cardboard • cool • crafts • crazy • Master Cycle • Master Cycle Zero • nintendo • the legend of Zelda • video • video games)

City of Sapporo to subsidize the price of city water to help offset rising consumer costs

• Dale Roll
  Jul 23, 2022

All Sapporo residents qualify!

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• Japan
• (benefits • bills • city water • inflation • public assistance • rising costs • Sapporo • waterworks)

Survey finds obesity rates fell, but eyesight worsened among Japanese schoolchildren

• Shannon
  Jul 23, 2022

Don’t take P.E. for granted ever again, kids.

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• Japan
• (elementary school • eyesight • high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • junior high school • obesity • obesity in Japan • obesity rates • Smartphones • Surveys • trends)

Dedicate your savings to your oshi of choice with this new buildable offertory box

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 23, 2022

Pay homage to your favorite character or idol (“oshi”) while building your bank.

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• Japan
• (anime character • favorite • fun • idol • money • oshi • oshi offertory box)

New Princess Mononoke accessory line has Kodama for your ears, wolves for your fingers【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2022

Symbol of devotion between Studio Ghibli anime’s main characters recreated as a subtly stylish pendant.

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• Japan
• (accessories • anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli)

How to make an ice cream sandwich…the Japanese way

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2022

Grandma always knows best. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking hacks • desserts • food • food hacks • ice cream • ice cream sandwich • Obaachan no Potapotayaki • recipe • senbei • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • weird food)

We roll the die on Japan’s new random-destination train tickets

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2022

How to buy a cheap ticket to…somewhere. 

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• Japan
• (COK • Fukuoka • Japan Railway • JR • JR West • Kurashiki • Onomichi • Osaka • random • shinkansen • SNJO • trains • travel • West Japan Railway)

Crotch Cup 2022 eSports festival held to raise awareness for groin itch treatment

• Master Blaster
  Jul 22, 2022

Together, we can fight crotch itch.

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• Japan
• (anime • Crotch Cup • Crotch Warrior M-Zune • Delicare M's • esports • Ikeda Mohando • itchy • Kokan Cup • Muhi • streamers • video games)

Host your very own Japanese summer festival with these DIY carnival game stands

• Katie Pask
  Jul 22, 2022

Cool new kits let you enjoy the atmosphere of a Japanese summer festival without leaving your home.

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• Japan
• (ball scooping • festival games • festivals • Japanese festival • summer • summer festival)

Japanese idol creates kawaii Gunpla, the world’s cutest Gundam models【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 22, 2022

Half-mecha, half-magical girl, and entirely awesome.

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• Japan
• (anime • aweomse • cool • crazy • cute • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • Idols • Kawaii • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans • plastic models)

Katsudon for breakfast? Japan’s new bacon egg cutlet bowl may be the only meal we need all day

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 22, 2022

Katsudon for breakfast…katsudon…FOR BREAKFAST!

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• Japan
• (breakfast • COK • crazy • cutlets • food • katsu • katsudon • Katsuya • restaurants • weird)

Ninja & Geisha capsule hotel: A very Japanese place to stay in Osaka

• Oona McGee
  Jul 22, 2022

Sleep amongst lanterns, gods, and traditional motifs at the “very Japanese new sensation capsule hotel”.

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• Japan
• (Budget Hotels • capsule hotel • capsule hotels • cheap accommodation • cheap stays • COK • hotels • Japanese art • Osaka • travel)

Miyagi senior’s joke bombs so hard it delays a flight for 50 minutes

• Master Blaster
  Jul 22, 2022

I’ve had it with these mother%*&#ing jokes on these mothermother%*&#ing planes.

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• Japan
• (bomb scare • crime • jokes • Minor Crimes Act • Miyagi • Naha • Okinawa • Sendai • travel)

No longer able to draw breasts due to family circumstances, manga artist retires

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2022

Rui Takato thanks fans, says retirement has been in the works for months.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • manga • Rui Takato)

Studio Ghibli theme park announces VERY low daily attendance caps, start date for ticket sales

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2022

A whole lot of people are going to be going home from Ghibli Park without seeing the whole thing, but maybe that’s by design.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • theme park • Totoro • whisper of the heart)

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