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KFC Japan’s giant Colonel Sanders mobile battery ready to “receive everyone’s love in both hands”

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022
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Show the Colonel some love, and he’ll give your mobile devices some juice as part of creative writing contest.

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• Japan
• (COK • Colonel Sanders • crazy • fast food • fried chicken • funny • gadgets • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • technology • weird)

Demon Slayer pulls off feat no other series has done with Japan’s biggest anime magazines【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022

“This is the first, and probably the last, time for us to try something like this.”

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• Japan
• (Animage • anime • art • clever • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • illustration • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • newtype • SNJO)

Studio Ghibli releases card holders that look like the Ghibli Museum

• Oona McGee
  Mar 16, 2022

New handmade products come with gorgeous details. 

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• Japan
• (anime • business cards • card holder • Ghibli • Ghibli Museum • leather • leather goods • Mamma Aiuto • merchandise • Studio Ghibli)

Disney villain-themed eyeglasses in four styles up for presale in Japan

• Shannon
  Mar 15, 2022

Because why should only heroes hog the spotlight?

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• Japan
• (101 Dalmatians • collaboration goods • Disney • Disney villains • glasses • Sleeping Beauty • Snow White • The Little Mermaid • Zoff)

When one wiener just won’t do — Mr. Sato has a sausage party with this huge wiener bento box

• Katie Pask
  Mar 15, 2022

Mr. Sato tucks into an “overly sausage-y” lunch box with sixteen wieners crammed inside.

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• Japan
• (bento • bento box • food • lunch • lunch box • Mr. Sato • sausage • sausage bento • SNJO • stamina • stamina taro • wiener • wiener bento)

The best place in Tokyo to get “London boots” will make you a one-of-a-kind pair【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2022

Mr. Sato adds some footwear flair to his flared pants from Tokyo’s bell-bottom paradise.

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• Japan
• (bell bottoms • boots • COK • fashion • Mr. Sato • shoes • SNJO)

Chichibu Railway now offers the chance to host your wedding reception in a retro steam locomotive

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 15, 2022

The new SL Paleo Express Wedding packages are a dream come true for railway enthusiast couples.

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• Japan
• (Chichibu Railway • reception • Saitama • SL Paleo Express • steam locomotive • wedding train)

Japanese Youth Conference petitions government to end compulsory after-school club activities

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 15, 2022

Students take action to raise awareness of violations in the current law and seek further information through student surveys.

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• Japan
• (after-school clubs • bukatsu • Japan Sports Agency • Japanese Youth Conference • mandatory • sports • voluntary • Youth Parliament Japan)

Pokémon baked goods booming in South Korea, boosted further by BTS

• Master Blaster
  Mar 15, 2022

Those BTS guys have impeccable taste.

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• Japan, Korea
• (baked goods • BTS • business • food • Pokemon • South Korea • SPC Samlip • stickers)

Japan’s plastic model capital installs working plastic model-style payphones【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2022

Plastic Model-ization Plan welcomes its newest public art pieces.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • models • pay phones • phones • plastic models • public phones • Shizuoka • Shizuoka City)

Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki receives lifetime achievement honor at Annie awards

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2022

Completes hat trick for the group that created Studio Ghibli.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Annie Awards • Hayao Miyazaki • Isao Takahata • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki)

We get ready for camping season with Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated wooden mug

• Shannon
  Mar 14, 2022

It’s hard to imagine anyone finding this cup en-deer-ing.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • camping • Masanuki Sunakoma • outdoors • shopping • SNJO)

Japan considering relaxing guest number caps for large events, provided guests don’t shout

• Katie Pask
  Mar 14, 2022

Government considering ending previous limitations on guests for large events like concerts.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • event • events • government • Japanese Government • rules • society)

Sip on Starbucks at this secret lounge high above Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 14, 2022

Escape the urban jungle in this new green oasis. 

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• Japan
• (accommodation • coffee • COK • drinks • glamping • hammock • hotels • Keio Plaza • keio plaza hotel • Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo • night views • SNJO • solo dining • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • views)

Can we win a PS5 from this premium 2,000-yen gacha machine in Japan?

• Dale Roll
  Mar 14, 2022

We try our hand at winning elusive grand prizes from a capsule machine again!

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• Japan
• (capsule machine • capsule toy • gatcha • Nintendo DS • nintendo switch • PS5 • video games)

We underestimated the special curry spoon from Japan’s favorite curry chain【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2022

CoCo Ichibanya makes some great curry, and it turns out they make a great spoon too.

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• Japan
• (coco ichi • coco ichibanya • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • SNJO • spoon • weird)

New ‘floating’ 3-D signs at this Japanese train station make you feel like you’re in a video game

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2022

Blurring the lines between reality and augmented reality.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • Fuchu • Fuchuhommachi Station • Japanese train stations • JR East • signs • SNJO • Tokyo • train stations • trick art • weird • wow • wtf)

Visiting Japan’s trendiest cafeteria, inconveniently located in the heart of Osaka

• Master Blaster
  Mar 13, 2022

It’s going to take more than this creepy door to keep us from the cheap food inside.

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cheap food • eating • food • Namba Kyushokuba • Namba Station • Nankai Line • Osaka)

All Tokyo public high schools abolish rules forcing students to dye non-black hair, underwear color regs

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2022

Popular boys’ hairstyle also removed from banned list.

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• Japan
• (COK • dress codes • education • hair • hair color • school rules • society • students • Tokyo • youth)

VR metaverse of Akihabara Station being made by JR East, netizens scoff at early quality

• Katie Pask
  Mar 12, 2022

“This looks like something from a PlayStation 2 game,” one netizen commented.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Akihabara Station • cool • Hikki • Japan Railways • JR • metaverse • technology • Tokyo • trains • Virtual Market • virtual reality • VR)

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