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The Japanese train station where staff bow to departing passengers

• Oona McGee
  Feb 10, 2022
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The heartwarming beauty of country life captured in a charming new video.

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• Japan
• (country • countryside • heartwarming • Japan Rail • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Kagoshima • Kyushu • train stations • trains • transportation • videos)

Starbucks Japan’s substitute Frappuccino aims to please disappointed customers on Valentine’s Day

• Oona McGee
  Feb 10, 2022

An elusive player brings in the chips when the chips are down.   

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

Ramen chain Menya Musashi teams up with Lotte chocolate for unique Valentine’s Day dish

• Dale Roll
  Feb 10, 2022

A mazesoba-inspired menu item full of hints of chocolate and pungent spices!

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • chocolate • COK • food • Kanda • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • sweets • tasty • Valentine's Day)

Why are these people ceremonially taking scissors to a bag of Japanese sausages?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2022

Schau Essen gets surreal in its latest ad that’s triggering laughter and tears.

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• Japan
• (ads • crazy • food • funny • sausages • Sumo • video • weird)

Sunrise anime studio, home to Gundam, is being renamed

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2022

New name references parent companies, but “Sunrise” will still get its moments in the spotlight.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Namco • Bandai Namco Filmworks • Gundam • sunrise)

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

• SoraNews24
  Feb 9, 2022

We go kaitenzushi hopping for a back-to-back-to-back-to-back maguro comparison.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • maguro • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test • tuna)

Starbucks Japan releases a Japanese Chai Tea Latte…at only two locations

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2022

Unusual local ingredients make this one of the best drinks we’ve ever had at Starbucks.

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• Japan
• (chai • chai latte • COK • drinks • green tea • Japanese ingredients • limited edition • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test • Teavana)

Soak in a sand bath in Beppu, Japan’s famous onsen region

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2022

How to enjoy the healing powers of hot sand at this popular seaside location. 

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• Japan
• (baths • beach • Beppu • COK • Go Hatori • hot springs • Oita • Oita Prefecture • onsen • sand • sand bath • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • video)

Cosplay costume room tour by Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako is an eye-opener【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2022

A look at the anime and manga character costumes that earn Enako millions of yen.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • videos • YouTube)

Keeping up with the kids: Japanese high schoolers’ most popular slang of Spring 2022

• Dale Roll
  Feb 9, 2022

Would you be surprised if most of these trendy words came from social media?

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• Japan
• (buzzwords • Generation Z • Japanese language • language • ranking • slang • social media)

Did this ’90s Japanese horror manga predict the coronavirus pandemic?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2022

Manga artist draws amazing parallels between fiction and reality.

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• Japan
• (anime • books • COK • coronavirus • Horror • Japanese horror • manga • pandemic • predictions • SNJO • virus • Yoshimi Seki)

Japanese company designs fashionable pouch to keep scraps of trash in

• Shannon
  Feb 9, 2022

Gum wrappers swimming at the bottom of your purse or pocket? No longer.

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Tochigi Prefecture’s three new Pokéfuta are the first in the north of Japan’s Kanto region

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 8, 2022

These new Pokéfuta also mean that half of all Japanese prefectures are now equipped with their own unique Pokémon manhole covers.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • manhole covers • Poké Lids • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Tochigi • travel • utsunomiya • video games)

Starbucks Japan’s new sakura drinkware collection captures “beauty and fragility” of the blooms

• Oona McGee
  Feb 8, 2022

Limited-edition cherry blossom goods look set to disappear faster than the flowers.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cups • drinkware • hanami • mugs • sakura • sakura 2022 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers)

Starbucks Japan unveils new sakura drinkware and menu items at the Tokyo Roastery

• Oona McGee
  Feb 8, 2022

Cherry blossoms bloom across sweets, drinks, mugs, and leather accessories this hanami season.

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• (accessories • cakes • cherry blossoms • drinks • drinkware • hanami • limited edition • pink • Reserve Roastery Tokyo • sakura • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • sweets)

Tokyo’s Ikebukuro is looking very different, and also pretty sad, these days【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2022

Our resident otaku reporter’s Ikebukuro homecoming is bittersweet.

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• Japan
• (COK • Ikebukuro • pandemic • photos • SNJO)

Kagawa Prefecture is transformed into Slowpoke Paradise in a brand-new travel campaign

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 8, 2022

Slowpoke buses, Slowpoke hotel rooms, and even a Slowpoke ferry pop up in Kagawa’s cities (but don’t worry because the service isn’t slow).

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• Japan
• (hotel • hotels • Kagawa Prefecture • Pokemon • Slowpoke • takamatsu • themed • transportation • travel • udon • Yadon)

Starbucks Japan reveals new Sakura Frappuccino for 2022

• Oona McGee
  Feb 8, 2022

Hanami drinks pair cherry blossoms with some very special traditional ingredients.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2022 • chocolate • doughnuts • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • hanami • Japanese Frappuccinos • sakura • shiratama • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • yatsuhashi)

Massive blizzard creates crazy snow scenes in Sapporo【Photos, videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2022

Heaviest snows in nearly a decade completely stop all train service going into or out of Sapporo Station.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • crazy • Hokkaido • Sapporo • snow • trains • video)

Violence IS the answer – Japanese farmers using hammers to grow more mushrooms

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2022

Swinging hammers now part of cultivating shiitake.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • crazy • farming • food • mushrooms • science • shiitake • weird)

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