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Family Mart releases huge range of cute sweets for Cat Day in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2026
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Convenience store chain wants us to bite into paw pads and cat tails in this limited-edition 17-piece collection. 

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience store sweets • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • Mofusand • sweets)

Downloads of 39-year-old Guns N’ Roses song increase 12,166 percent thanks to Gundam

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2026

Gundam and Roses.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • Gundam • Guns N’ Roses • Hathaway’s Flash • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway • Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe • movies • music • Sweet Child o’ Mine)

Japan’s first all-matcha ramen restaurant is now open in Kyoto【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2026

Ramen Nishiki Sui has a very fitting name.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Gion • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • Noodles • ramen • restaurants)

A spotlight on Japanese singles figure skating: Jumping into the 2026 Olympics【Pt. II】

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 7, 2026

In this two-part series just in time for the 2026 Winter Olympics, we’re taking a look at Japanese skaters who have shaped the sport past and present.

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• Japan
• (Ami Nakai • athletes • celebrities • COK • famous • figure skating • ice skating • Kao Miura • Kaori Sakamoto • Mone Chiba • Shun Sato • SNJO • spotlights • winter olympics • winter sport • Yuma Kagiyama)

A robot joins the team at a fast-food restaurant, but in an unlikely city in northern Japan

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 6, 2026

OriHime arrives at a local Mos Burger to test the future of inclusive work.

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• Japan
• (accessibility • Avatar Robot Cafe • cafes • clever • COK • cool • disabilities • fast food • food • Iwate • Morioka • Mos Burger • OriHime • OryLab • restaurants • robots • society • technology)

Ramen shop manager arrested for punching self in the face and pretending he was robbed

• Master Blaster
  Feb 6, 2026

He should have punched harder and knocked some sense into himself.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • obstruction of business • ramen • robbery • Saitama • scam artists • scams • weird)

Huge Evangelion Unit-01 head appearing in lights in Japan to celebrate anime’s 30th anniversary

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2026

The Minato Mirai neighborhood is looking extra futuristic with Eva light-up and fireworks.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Cosmo Clock • Evangelion • Ferris wheel • light up • manga • Minato Mirai • Yokohama)

Chocolate Totoro cream puffs and cakes coming to Japan’s Ghibli bakery for Valentine’s Day【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2026

Totoro is looking sweeter than ever.

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• Japan
• (anime • Catbus • chocolate • cookies • cream puffs • cute • food • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Shirohige's Cream Puff Factory • Studio Ghibli • sweets • Totoro • Valentine's Day)

McDonald’s Japan partners with anime English teacher, but did they commit a cultural error?[Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2026

Ellen-sensei is the latest otaku spokesperson for McDonald’s, but there’s one organization she’d never endorse.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • Ellen Baker • Ellen-sensei • fast food • food • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • otaku • sports • video)

Japan’s most famous Mt. Fuji view park cancels cherry blossom festival because of overtourism

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2026

In-home trespassing, public urination, and other bad manners bring an end to a local tradition.

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• Japan
• (Arakurayama Sengen • cherry blossoms • festival • Fujiyoshida • Mt. Fuji • nature • overtourism • parks • sakura)

Act of Japanese kindness touches one man’s heart, provides hope for elevator etiquette

• Oona McGee
  Feb 5, 2026

The fate of the first to board has long been a problem in Japan, but this could be the solution. 

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• Japan
• (culture • elevator etiquette • elevators • etiquette • heartwarming • hospitality • Japanese etiquette • kindness • lift etiquette • lifts • manners • SNJO • society • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

Naruto jerseys coming to Major Leage Baseball theme nights, Hello Kitty to take over a field

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2026

The Brewers believe it!

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • awesome • baseball • cool • cute • Hello Kitty • Major League Baseball • manga • Miami Marlines • Milwaukee Brewers • MLB • Naruto • Ninja • Sanrio • sports)

Three beautiful places to see Japan’s plum blossoms after starting your day in downtown Tokyo

• SoraNews24
  Feb 5, 2026

It’s time to go out and see the ume.

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• Japan
• (Atami • beautiful • COK • flowers • gardens • Japan trabel • outdoors • plum blossoms • plums • tourism • travel • ume)

Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting the lines at a popular Tokyo gyukatsu restaurant?

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 4, 2026

We investigate whether now is a good time to grab some beef cutlets in a popular tourist area of Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • beef cutlets • China travel advisory • China travel warning • COK • food • Gyukatsu 123 • Japan travel • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • society • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Here comes a new katsudon: ice cream katsudon?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2026

Casual Japanese restaurant chain creates a new genre of pork cutlet bowls.

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• Japan
• (Coolish • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • ice cream • katsudon • Lotte • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • sweets • weird)

Starbucks Japan releases new Chocolate Milk for Valentine’s Day

• Oona McGee
  Feb 4, 2026

The green mermaid shakes up the menu with a limited-edition twist on a classic drink.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • Chocolate milk • cool • drinks • Frappuccino • limited edition • limited edition flavors • milk • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Valentine's Day)

Japan’s job-quitting service claims bosses contact it to try to make their employees quit

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2026

Some employers want to flip the script to indirectly get rid of workers they don’t want, company says.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • job-quitting service • Momuri • society • weird • working in Japan)

Cherry blossoms already blooming at Gap Japan with Sakura Collection lineup【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2026

If you’re looking to get a head-start sorting your sakura looks, Gap Japan is ready too.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cute • fashion • GAP • Gap Japan • sakura • shirts • t-shirts)

This gigantic judo dojo-sized hotel room will make you feel like royalty, but it’s disappearing soon

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2026

There’s plenty of space to stretch out, but not much time to spare if you want to have this unique Japan travel experience.

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • crazy • hotels • inns • Japan travel • Japanese inns • judo • ryokan • Saitama • Saitama City • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Cherry blossom forecasts map shows Japan’s OTHER sakura season is starting right now

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2026

You don’t have to wait for spring to see this special kind of sakura.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cherry blossoms • flowers • Kawazu • Kawazu Sakura • kawazuzakura • outdoors • sakura • Shizuoka)

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