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Studio Ghibli fukubukuro: The lucky bag everyone in Japan wants to get their hands on at New Year

• Oona McGee
  Jan 3, 2022
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Anime merchandise haul comes with a few unusual surprises.

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• Japan
• (anime • Donguri Kyowakoku • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2022 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • Ghibli • goods • Kiki's Delivery Service • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2022 • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Limited time Pokémon Lapras Cafe in Miyagi Prefecture promotes tourism in northern Japan

• Shannon
  Jan 2, 2022

Like Lapras? Like the northern Tohoku region? Then you’re in luck.

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• Japan
• (anime • cafes • Chansey • cool • cute • Geodude • Lapras • Miyagi • Miyagi Prefecture • Pokemon • restaurants • themed restaurants • travel • video games)

The Starbucks fukubukuro: One of the rarest lucky bags in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 2, 2022

Take a look at the special goods only available to special lottery winners. 

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• Japan
• (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • Japanese New Year • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • New Year 2022 • New Year's 2022 • SNJO • Starbucks)

Episode of Gunma-chan anime deemed not suitable for children and shelved

• Master Blaster
  Jan 2, 2022

What has that little horsey gotten itself into?

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• Japan
• (anime • boat racing • controversy • gambling • Gunma • Gunma-chan • Ichita Yamamoto • Mascots • weird • yuru-kyara)

It’s eco-friendly AND delicious! Popular Yamanashi sweet now comes in an edible container

• Dale Roll
  Jan 2, 2022

This tasty sweet is now easier to eat…but the edible package version is harder to find.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • eco-friendly • food • mochi • monaka • omiyage • shingen mochi • sweets • Yamanashi)

Japan’s gorilla poo oranges are now in season, and being given away for free!

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 2, 2022

”Miraculous” fruit is an auspicious way to start the new year, growers say.

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• Japan
• (animals • cool • food • fruit • funny • gorillas • gross • Inuyama • Japan Monkey Center • mikan • monkeys • oranges • weird • zoos)

Happy New Year from SoraNews24!

• SoraNews24
  Jan 1, 2022

Here’s to a tiger-rific 2022!

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• Japan
• (COK • happy new year • New Year 2022 • SNO • year of the tiger)

How much money should you give children for New Year’s otoshidama? Adults weigh in

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 31, 2021

Grown-ups dish on the appropriate amounts of New Year’s money to gift depending on the age of a child.

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• Japan
• (All About • children • gift • money • New Year's • otoshidama • survey • tradition)

2021’s top stories in cosplay and makeover news【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 31, 2021

Tokyo’s other Halloween hot spot, divisively skimpy maid cosplay, ladies who loo stunning in their 60s, and Seiji’s transformation into Leonardo DiCaprio.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • Enako • hairstyles • hairstyling • halloween • Handsome men • Ikebuuro Halloween • Leonardo DiCaprio • makeover • makeup • manga • McDonald's • movies • Titanic • year in review • Year in Review 2021)

Disney’s 2022 New Year goods are too adorable not too buy them all

• Dale Roll
  Dec 31, 2021

Bring good luck in the new year of the Tiger with Tigger and other Disney characters!

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• Japan
• (animal Zodiac • Chinese zodiac • COK • cute • Disney • Mickey Mouse • New Year's • New Year's 2022 • Oshogatsu • Tigger • year of the tiger)

The best cosplayers of Day 1 of Winter Comiket 2021【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 31, 2021

Welcome back, Comiket cosplayers!

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • Comiket • Comiket 99 • cosplay • cosplayers • SNJO • video games • Winter Comiket 2021)

Cup Noodle wipes the floor with the competition…at a competition in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2021

Nissin brand turns 50 but their marketing remains forever young. 

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• Japan
• (50th anniversary • basketball • cool • Cup Noodle • cute • design • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • marketing • mop • Nissin • weird)

What happens when a middle-aged man does pole dancing regularly for five years in a row?

• Dale Roll
  Dec 31, 2021

Mr. Sato shares an important lesson he learned about age and personal resolutions.

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• Japan
• (age • COK • fitness • motivational • moving • Mr. Sato • pole dancing • SNJO • touching)

No need to be lonely at New Year’s with Japan’s new one-person osechi set【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 31, 2021

Conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi single-sizes osechi, creates new desserts to keep us company.

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• Japan
• (COK • conveyer belt sushi • food • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • New Year's • osechi • Oshogatsu • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

More people travelling in Japan for the New Year’s holiday than last year, survey says

• Katie Pask
  Dec 31, 2021

Less people want to spend the New Year’s holiday at home, according to the survey.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • culture • hatsumode • hinode • new year • New Year's Day • survey • travel)

2021’s top stories in video game and Nintendo news【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 31, 2021

How to shut down anti-gaming haters, confusing fan art guidelines, an N64 personality test, and a Zelda arrest.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • funny • Legend of Zelda • Nier: Automata • nintendo • Pokémon GO • retro games • Super Mario • Super Mario Bros. • video games • weird • year in review • Year in Review 2021 • Yoko Taro)

How often do Japanese high school kids watch anime, and do boys and girls watch the same series?

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 31, 2021

Survey compiles lists of top 10 anime male and female high school students are following.

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• Japan
• (anime • high school students • high schools • Japanese high schools • Japanese students • students • Surveys)

2021’s top stories in Japanese food and cooking news【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 31, 2021

The secrets of Japanese supermarket music and life-saving green tea, plus how to make the King of Curries and furoshiki-style sandwiches.

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• Japan
• (cooking • cup noodles • curry • food • hot springs • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • katsudon • McDonald's • onsen • sandwiches • SoraKitchen • sushi • sweets • wasabi • year in review • Year in Review 2021)

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Grand Underground Spheres enter real world, wait for you to eat them

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 31, 2021

You don’t have to go digging into the earth to find them, either.

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• Japan
• (candy • food • nintendo • Parco • Pokemon • Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl • Shibuya Parco • sweets • video games)

The opening morning of Comiket looked very different this year, and so did the night before【Vids】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2021

Running of the Otaku and tetsuyagumi don’t fit with the first pandemic-era Comiket.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Comiket • Comiket 99 • doujinshi • Kokusai-Tenjijo Station • otaku • Running of the Otaku • video • Winter Comiket 2021)

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