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We try roasted sweet potatoes from a Japanese vending machine

• Oona McGee
  Dec 17, 2021
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This unusual machine sells hot potatoes and cold potatoes, but are they any good?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese vending machines • potatoes • SNJO • Sogo • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test • unusual • vending machines • weird • yaki imo)

Final Fantasy XIV suspends sales because too many people want to play it

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2021

The game not enough people wanted to play when it launched now has the exact opposite problem.

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• Internet, Japan
• (customer service • Endwalker • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy XIV • Square Enix • video games)

How a bar in Kabukicho scammed one diner out of their money, and how it can happen to you too

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2021

Receipt shows the sneaky extra charges you need to watch out for. 

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• Japan
• (bars • drinking • drinks • food • izakaya • Kabukicho • restaurants • scams • shinjuku • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Okinawan soul fool Pork Tamago Onigiri sold not at a five-star restaurant, but at an airport

• Katie Pask
  Dec 16, 2021

So good, it might be worth travelling to an airport for!

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• Japan
• (airport • airports • COK • food • Naha • Okinawa • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • spam • taste test • travel)

Roasted nori seaweed cake might be a dessert even more Japanese than matcha sweets【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2021

Tea company that’s been in business for more than 300 years takes Japanese sweets to a pitch-black frontier.

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • food • nori • seaweed • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea • weird • Yamamotoyama)

Nara deer stampede into marathon, hit runner in their path

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2021

It’s like they’d been training all year for this moment.

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• Japan
• (animals • deer • marathon • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Marathon • Nara Park • news • shika • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • videos • weird)

Starbucks has…a hamburger option on the menu in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2021

Surprise find leads to even more surprises.

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• Japan
• (COK • exclusive • food • hamburg • limited edition • muffins • SNJO • soy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test • vegetarian)

Senkoji: The Japanese temple that’s more like a theme park to heaven and hell

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2021

The chief priest at this temple says there’s more to this experience than just entertainment.

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• Japan
• (Buddha • Buddhism • COK • cool • crazy • culture • heaven • hell • history • Osaka • religion • SNJO • temples • tourism • tourist sites • weird)

Japan’s new Pie Maker kitchen gadget uses instant soup, curry packs to take you to pie paradise

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2021

And two slots mean you can make a dessert pie at the same time.

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• Japan
• (clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • curry • gadgets • pie • sweets • Thanko)

Makoto Shinkai announces new anime movie Suzume no Tojimari

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2021

Director of Your Name, Weathering with You’s latest project is a supernatural road movie action adventure.

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Suzume no Tojimari • Weathering with You • your name.)

We try the new Cup Noodle Humidifier from Nissin

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2021

Cheap gimmick or awesome ramen accessory?

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• Japan
• (50th anniversary • COK • cool • Cup Noodle • cute • homewares • humidifier • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • marketing • Nissin • SNJO • weird)

Which Japanese convenience store sells the best butter chicken?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2021

Lawson, Family Mart and 7-Eleven go head-to-head in this curry showdown!

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • butter chicken • cheap • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • crazy • curry • Family mart • food • indian curry • konbini • Lawson • SNJO • taste test)

42-year-old police sergeant disciplined for stealing about 200 yen from shrine donation box

• Dale Roll
  Dec 15, 2021

“I just wanted some money to buy cigarettes and coffee,” he said.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • marriage • Mie Prefecture • shrines • theft • weird)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best takoyaki in Osaka!”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2021

How much luck can you have when asking a cab driver for recommendations in Japan?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • local specialties • octopus • octopus balls • Osaka • restaurants • SNJO • takoyaki • taxis)

Starbucks Japan’s first whole Christmas Cakes: Not available in stores, should be in your stomach

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2021

It’s like Santa came early as we taste test the cake made by Starbucks and its Hiroshima partner.

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• Japan
• (cakes • Cheesecake • Christmas cake • COK • food • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)

Miss Universe 2021 Japan entry slammed for wearing “dead person’s kimono”

• SoraNews24
  Dec 15, 2021

“Cool Japan” take on national costume criticised as an “insult” to Japanese culture. 

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• Japan, USA
• (clothes • controversy • cosplay • culture • design • fashion • Harajuku • Japanese kimono • Juri Watanabe • kimono • Miss Universe • models • news)

School Days haunted house event lets you live the life of anime’s most brutally murdered playboy

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2021

You’re invited to ”Experience Makoto’s bittersweet youth and its bloody conclusion.”

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • dating simulators • haunted houses • Kowagarasetai • romance games • scary • school days)

Starbucks adds a Matcha & Coffee Cream Pop to the menu in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2021

We try an elusive green tea cake made with marshmallows.

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• Japan
• (cake pop • cakes • coffee • COK • cute • exclusive • limited edition • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

Man with no visible injuries found dead on train in Japan

• SoraNews24
  Dec 14, 2021

Other passengers likely thought he was sleeping.

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• Japan
• (COK • scary • trains • weird)

Hideaki Anno’s Shin Ultraman gets May 2022 release date, new preview video

• Master Blaster
  Dec 14, 2021

That’s only 72,086 Ultraman fights away!

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• Japan
• (Hideaki Anno • movies • release date • Shin Ultraman • Shinji Higuchi • tokusatsu • Ultraman • video)

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