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We asked our Japanese team of writers how they deal with seasonal allergies in Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 16, 2026
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When you’re all choked up and there’s nose way out, take a leaf out of our book to get yourself out of the throes of nose blows.

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• Japan
• (allergies • COK • hay fever • kafunsho • pollen • prevention • protection • SNJO • survey)

Train station platform ramen store closes its doors on half a century of history in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 15, 2026

Sayonara to an old-school traveller’s way to eat noodles.

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• Japan
• (Adachi • Adachi Ward • COK • food • Japanese train stations • Nishiarai Ramen • Nishiarai Station • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Tokyo • train platform • train station • train stations)

Japanese convenience store sandwiches get extra protection from new business backpack

• SoraNews24
  Mar 15, 2026

Work clothing brand makes it its job to keep your lunch out of harm’s way.

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• Japan
• (backpacks • bags • clever • convenience stores • fashion • food • sandwiches)

Studio Ghibli adds new Mother’s Day gift sets to its anime collection in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 15, 2026

Say I love you with the magical charm of characters from My Neighbour Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

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• Japan
• (anime • carnations • cute • diorama • Donguri Kyowakoku • flowers • Ghibli • gift • gifts • Hayao Miyazaki • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • Mother's Day • My Neighbor Totoro • presents • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Starbucks Japan opens new Kyoto store in Place of Scenic Beauty

• Oona McGee
  Mar 14, 2026

A new type of teahouse cafe opens in Kyoto’s popular historic tourist area. 

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• Japan
• (Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Kyoto • Maruyama Park • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea • travel • Yasaka Shrine)

Sushi Push Pops aiming to be Japan’s newest sakura season snack sensation

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2026

Restaurant chain creates sushi you can eat with one hand, leaving your other free to toast the cherry blossoms.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • crazy • eel • food • freshwater eel • restaurants • sushi • unagi • weird)

Starbucks Japan’s Cream Puff Frappuccino is here! Did it make Friday the 13th lucky? [Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2026

Our Frappuccino expert brushes aside fears of bad fortune to taste test two new drinks.

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• Japan
• (choux cream • COK • cream puff • cream puffs • dessert drinks • drinks • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • shu cream • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)

Number of foreigners living in Japan has grown 50 percent in four years, hits historic high

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2026

Japan’s foreign resident population surges past four million for the first time in history.

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• Japan
• (COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • society)

Komachi Shokudo: Japanese mum’s-style cooking for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 14, 2026

Shhh…don’t let anyone know we told you about this secret cheap eat destination loved by locals.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • cheap eats • COK • food • home cooking • homecooked meals • Japan travel • Japanese food • kamome shokudou • Komachi Shokudo • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Is this Japan’s most extreme cherry blossom viewing? Leap, cycle and climb through 2,500 sakura

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 13, 2026

Why sit on a tarp when you can zoom through flowers on a 100-meter slide or risk falling into the trees from 370 meters in the air?

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• Japan
• (amusement park • athletic course • attractions • Bubble Works • cherry blossoms • COK • culture • event • flower viewing • flowers • hanami • illumination • illuminations • Kanagawa • Night Bubble Show • Sagamiko • Sagamiko Illumillion • Sagamiko Mori Mori • Sagamiko Onsen Ururi • sakura • spring • tourism • travel)

The top 10 graduation songs in Japan as chosen by current Japanese high school students

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 13, 2026

From covers of classics to altogether newer songs, these are the melodies that Japanese youth associate with graduation in this current Reiwa age.

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• Japan
• (graduation • high school • sakura • Shibuya Trend Research • songs • spring • survey • Top Ten)

Virtual idol Hatsune Miku redesigned with look that adds new elements and brings back old ones

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2026

New version of Vocaloid software is arriving with a new Miku design.

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• Japan
• (anime • Hatsune Miku • Hatsune Miku V6 • idol singers • Idols • manga • music • technology • video • virtual idols • Vocaloid • vocaloids)

As rumors swirl of 7-Eleven shorting customers on rice ball fillings, we check on their sujiko

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2026

Viral tweet claims have shoppers wondering if they’re paying premium-filling prices for almost-plain onigiri.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO)

Giant pipe mysteriously rises up through street in downtown Osaka

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2026

That’s not supposed to be there…

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• Japan
• (Construction • crazy • Osaka • pipe • video • weird)

Every Japanese pro baseball team to play with Mario question block bases once this year

• Master Blaster
  Mar 13, 2026

Players should get power-ups each time they pass one, too.

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• Japan
• (baseball • Mario • nintendo • Nippon Professional Baseball • NPB • sports • Super Mario Bros. • video games)

Man in Japan falls into hole with a bear in it

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2026

Sunday morning hike takes a bizarre and terrifying turn.

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• Japan
• (animals • bear attacks • bears • crazy • hiking • nature • scary • video)

Heinz Japan finds its perfect pitchman: Pokémon’s Pikachu!

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2026

There’s no question that this is a case where the celebrity endorser really is a fan of the product.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • food • Heinz • Heinz Japan • ketchup • manga • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)

Häagen-Dazs Japan releases new ASMR ice cream called “Rocky Crunchy!”

• Oona McGee
  Mar 12, 2026

Meet the new stars of your next viral ASMR video.

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• Japan
• (ASMR • COK • convenience stores • food • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • Rocky Crunchy! • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Real-life Professor Oak? Pokémon Company recruiting PhD holders in science and agriculture

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2026

Doctorate degree, bilingual communication skills, and research regarding plants and animals are only requirement for mysterious position with Pokémon Company.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon Company • the pokemon company • video games)

15 years after Tohoku tsunami, Japan’s free disaster phone message number is important to remember

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2026

Free-to-use system helps disaster victims connect with loved ones in times of crisis, and is worth remembering for anyone traveling or living in Japan.

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• Japan
• (3.11 • disaster preparedness • disasters • earthquakes • Japan travel • Tohoku Earthquake • Tohoku earthquake and tsunami • Tohoku tsunami • tourism • travel • tsunami)

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