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Rising Japan MusicFest coming to LA this weekend, may have best yakitori in the world

• Master Blaster
  Jun 10, 2022
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New day in music festivals is rising.

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• Japan, Music
• (California • Japanese music • Johnnys’ Jr. • Los Angeles • music festivals • Nulbarich • Rising Japan MusicFest • Tiffany • Travis Japan • yakitori • Zeebra)

Tokyo prison restaurant The Lockup closes its doors for good

• Oona McGee
  Jun 10, 2022

Throwing away the key after 23 years of terrifying tourists. 

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• Japan
• (closure • COK • cool • dining • food • Horror • hotels • jail • jailbreak • Kabukicho • news • prison • Prison Restaurant: The Lockup • prisons • restaurants • shinjuku • The Lockup • themed restaurants • tourist sites • travel)

Cool bullet train phone charging stand plays train jingles when you put your phone on it

• Dale Roll
  Jun 10, 2022

It’s the perfect gift for a bullet train otaku!

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• Japan
• (bullet trains • collectible • Japanese trains • Nozomi • smartphone accessories • train jingles • train otaku • trains)

We eat “pork floss sweets” that confuse our senses, stimulate our minds【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Jun 10, 2022

We’ve never tried sweets with meat on them before…

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• Japan
• (chinese food • meaty sweets • Mr. Sato • Nanatea & Tsutsumi • pork • pork floss • sweets • unusual food)

Dead body found in car in parking lot in Japan, police say it may have been there over two years

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2022

Partially skeletonized remains could be seen though rear windows.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • scary • weird)

We made hanamaru monaka, a traditional Japanese sweet loved by legendary-swords-turned-hot-guys

• Katie Pask
  Jun 10, 2022

Even those of us who weren’t legendary swords in a previous life will fall in love with these easy-to-make sweet treats!

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• Japan
• (food • Japanese sweets • monaka • recipe • SNJO • sweets • Touken Ranbu • traditional Japanese sweets • traditional sweets • Udonko)

We create the Ultimate Giga Big Mac, and it’s the best Big Mac we’ve ever tasted

• Oona McGee
  Jun 10, 2022

Behold the Big Mac in its ultimate form.

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• Japan
• (Big Mac • burgers • COK • fast food • food • Giga Mac • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • taste test)

Top cosplayer Enako to dress as Inuyasha’s Kagome, Urusei Yatsura’s Lum in Takahashi cosplay book

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2022

Manga legend Rumiko Takahashi is even designing a brand-new character just for Japan’s top cosplayer to pose as.

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

Pepsi releases a new cola in Japan specifically for karaage fried chicken

• Oona McGee
  Jun 9, 2022

Colourless beverage contains special ingredients to enhance the flavour of Japan’s “national dish”.

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• Japan
• (ads • COK • Cola • drinks • fried chicken • japanese drinks • Japanese food • Joyman • karaage • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • pepsi • soft drinks)

Japan’s first three-title unified boxing champion’s house burglarized during title match

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2022

Champion dealt a sucker punch by crime.

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• Japan
• (boxing • burglary • crime • Naoya Inoue • sports • unified champion)

We try super spicy lip plumping gloss to see if it works…and “we” means everyone in the office

• Dale Roll
  Jun 9, 2022

Whose lips plumped up the most with this K-beauty brand lip gloss? We find out!

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• Japan
• (beauty • cosmetics • K-beauty • Keybo • lip gloss • lip plumper • makeup • Mariko Ohanabatake)

The unstaffed vegetable stand in Japan where you pick your produce yourself

• Oona McGee
  Jun 9, 2022

Mr Sato teaches us how to make a purchase at this unusual roadside stall.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • cooking • countryside • farm life • farmers • farms • Japanese farm • Japanese farmers • SNJO • travel • unmanned • unmanned shops • unmanned store • unstaffed store • vegetable stand • vegetables • weird)

What kind of magic happens when you put Japanese combini pastries into a hot sandwich maker?

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 9, 2022

Melon bread and more goes into the hot sandwich maker for our kashipan taste-test experiment.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • bread • COK • conveneince stores • food • kashipan • melon bread • Melon Pan • sandwich maker • sandwich press • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Life after the band — how a former guitarist in a punk band became a fair trade barista

• Katie Pask
  Jun 9, 2022

The story of how one guy decided to stick it to the man with coffee beans rather than punk music.

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• Japan
• (cafe • coffee • counterculture • fair trade • music • musician • punk • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sol's coffee)

Real-world forest that inspired Hayao Miyazaki to create Totoro will become a nature preserve

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 9, 2022

2.6-billion yen project will protect some 7,000 trees.

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• Japan
• (anime • conservation • environment • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • nature • Tokorozawa • Totoro)

Weak yen should have Japan fast-tracking reopening to foreign tourists, prominent politician says

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2022

Former prime minister thinks the exchange rate is creating an unprecedented opportunity.

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• Japan
• (border controls • exchange rate • foreigners in Japan • travel • yen • Yoshihide Suga)

Japan’s “rent a middle-aged man service” marks its 10th year in business

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 8, 2022

The service’s founder shares reasons for its decade of success and typical examples of why people, mainly women, might rent an ossan.

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• Japan
• (10 years • anniversary • business • middle-aged men • ossan • Ossan Rental • rent • rental • Takanobu Nishimoto)

We found the “world’s best breakfast” at this Japanese hotel, and it was not cheap【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2022

This premium-priced Kobe breakfast broke our brain, but did it make our heart sing or just our wallet cry?

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• Japan
• (breakfast • COK • cool • expensive • food • hotels • Kobe • SNJO • taste test • travel)

Japanese public divided on new law that requires microchipping of pets

• Shannon
  Jun 8, 2022

The effort is to reduce abandonment and missing pets, but some aren’t on board.

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• Japan
• (Japanese Government • Japanese law • microchip • microchip law • pets • pets in Japan)

Yakuza bosses struggling to upgrade phones from 3G

• Master Blaster
  Jun 8, 2022

Crime lords getting shaken down by telecom giants.

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• Japan
• (3G • contracts • crime • fraud • mobile phones • Organized crime • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • Smartphones • yakuza)

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