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New Slam Dunk anime movie shows off CGI trailer, Japan react differently than overseas fans【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2022
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Some fans are slamming Slam Dunk’s new look.

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• Japan
• (anime • manga • movies • Slam Dunk • Takehiko Inoue • The First Slam Dunk • video)

Japanese company uses video game-style hit point badges to help employees know who needs a hand

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2022

Tokyo-based firm understands it can be hard for some people to speak up when they’re feeling run down.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • society • video games • working in Japan)

Yakiniku Simulator coming to Nintendo Switch and smartphones

• Master Blaster
  Jul 8, 2022

It’s the hottest game of the year!

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (Android • food • iOS • nintendo switch • Secret Character • Steam • Thailand • video games • yakiniku • Yakiniku Simulator)

AirTag planted on Aichi Prefectural Police car, by someone who doesn’t understand cars well

• Master Blaster
  Jul 7, 2022

Probably doesn’t understand police too well either.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • AirTag • Apple • crime • police cars • technology • Toyota City)

Yu-Gi-Oh! creator’s dead body found floating in ocean off coast of Okinawa

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2022

Manga artist had been vacationing alone in coastal town.

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• Japan
• (anime • card games • collectable card games • Kazuki Takahashi • Kazuo Takahashi • manga • video games • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Often-forgotten Totoro character is the star of these awesome two-in-one Ghibli capsule toys【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2022

Line of figure/ring combos is here to make your shelves and your fingers look cute.

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• Japan
• (anime • capsule toys • Catbus • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • gachapon • gashapon • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • rings • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Summer in Japan doesn’t feel like a Japanese summer this year, many are saying

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2022

Traditional natural signs of the season are missing.

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• Japan
• (cicadas • flowrs • heat • hot • hydrangeas • mosquitos • summer • weather)

Elegant Spy x Family character hats come to the real world for in-disguise-level cosplay【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2022

Eden Academy beret comes in both adults’ and kids’ sizes for anime fan families.

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• Japan
• (anime • CA4LA • COK • cool • fashion • hats • manga • Spy x Family)

Gifu man arrested for entering other person’s home and hanging women’s underwear to dry

• Master Blaster
  Jul 7, 2022

It seems to be the opposite of underwear theft, and yet it’s still very creepy.

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• Japan
• (crime • Gifu • laundry • mystery • trespassing • underwear • Yaotsu)

Soak your feet at the Spirited Away foot bath, in Tokyo for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Jul 7, 2022

Immerse yourself in the world of Studio Ghibli, literally and figuratively.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • COK • cool • exhibition • movies • No Face • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Studio Ghibli Exhibition • Tokyo • Toshio Suzuki)

Why is Osaka “the most livable city in Japan” according to a recent survey?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 6, 2022

It’s a great place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.

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• Japan
• (city living • Global Livability Index • Japanese cities • Living in Japan • Osaka • ranking • society)

Akihabara landmark Toranoana is permanently closing, chain downsizes to just one branch in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 6, 2022

Dojinshi specialty shop will live on in other capacities, but its 28-year-run in Akihabara is coming to an end.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • closing • closure • dojinshi • doujinshi • manga • otaku • Tora no Ana • Toranoana)

Mr. Sato goes to a Korean-style shaved ice cafe, makes several mistakes, still has a great time

• Dale Roll
  Jul 6, 2022

This shaved ice was different from what he was used to, but it was delicious nonetheless!

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• Japan
• (dessert • korean food • shaved ice • Shin-Okubo • shinjuku • summer)

Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best prawn sushi?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 6, 2022

Ebi sushi enters the ring for this latest seafood showdown.

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• Japan
• (best conveyor belt sushi • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • ebi • food • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • P.K. Sanjun • prawns • revolving sushi • Shrimp • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)

Japanese banana importer teaches us how to enjoy bananas and fight heatstroke at the same time

• Shannon
  Jul 6, 2022

The reasons to love this tropical fruit keep piling up.

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• Japan
• (bananas • heat exhaustion • heat wave • heatstroke • Japanese summer • summer treats)

Survey reveals the average monthly allowance of Japanese high school students

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 6, 2022

Students are also asked if they’re satisfied with the amount that they have to spend. 

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• Japan
• (allowance • high school students • money • Recruit • survey)

Japan’s first-ever wanko soba conveyor belt restaurant opens in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Jul 6, 2022

Amusement Wanko Soba Kurukuru Wanko wants you to eat over a hundred bowls of noodles in one sitting.

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• Japan
• (COK • conveyor belt restaurants • food • gourmet • Kabukicho • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test • wanko soba)

World’s blackest Porsche painted with Japan’s Musou Black 【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Jul 5, 2022

Cars don’t get any blacker than this.

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• Japan
• (automobiles • black • cars • Gifu • Musou Black • paint • Pit One • Porsche)

“I couldn’t…wipe my own butt” – Hunter x Hunter manga creator discusses medical issues

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2022

The “Yoshihiro Togashi is too lazy to draw new manga” narrative was missing some key facts.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • events • exhibitions • Hunter x Hunter • manga • Yoshihiro Togashi • YuYu Hakusho)

What frozen snack won Seventeen Ice’s “1st Flavor General Election”?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 5, 2022

More importantly, Mr. Sato finds out if it deserved to win.

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• Japan
• (Flavor General Election • food • ice cream • ice milk • Mr. Sato • Raisin Butter Crunch • Seventeen Ice • snacks • vending machines)

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