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When her much-younger, knife-wielding assailant asked her for the money, she decided that the time for talk was done, and the time for action was now.

Japan
(7-Eleven • awesome • convenience stores • crime • elderly • funny • robbery • seniors)

One taste of toasted egg mushipan bread and you’ll never go back to eating it the normal way!

Master Blaster
Dec 20, 2016

We take Japan’s simple pleasure of a steamed cake and push it to a whole new level of deliciousness.

Japan
(7-Eleven • bread • cake • egg mushipan • food • mushipan • recipe • sweets • toast)

Tokyo 7-Eleven employee dresses up as oden with hilarious results

Shannon McNaught
Sep 12, 2016

One 7-Eleven in Tokyo is advertising their seasonal products in a clever and hilarious way!

Japan
(7-Eleven • autumn and winter • convenience store food • creative advertising • oden • uniform)

Self-freezing bottled Coca-Cola now available at convenience store vending machines in Japan

Oona McGee
Jul 1, 2016

Stored at temperatures below freezing, the drink magically turns to ice inside the bottle after opening.

Japan
(7-Eleven • Coca-Cola • Coke • drinks • frozen Coke • self-freezing • slushies • vending machines)

How to make your own postcards using photos from your phone at 7-Eleven

Oona McGee
May 27, 2016

Create your own personalised postcards for as little as 18 cents each at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan.

Japan
(7-Eleven • convenience stores • photography • photos • postcards • travel)

Japan’s newest elegant and delicious green tea cheesecake is only available at…7-Eleven?

Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2016

Japanese convenience stores continue to be awesome with this new matcha dessert.

Food & Drink, Japan
(7-Eleven • cakes • Cheesecake • convenience stores • green tea • matcha • sweets)

Japanese pantyhose commercial quiz asks viewers to pick out the sole woman in stockings 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Apr 6, 2016

Five models, but only one pair of hosiery.

Japan
(7-Eleven • pantyhose • quiz • video)

In Japan, skip the makeup counter and head to the convenience store for these 5 great cosmetics

Jamie Koide
Mar 9, 2016

Here are five of the best, high quality cosmetics that line the shelves at Japanese convenience stores, according to one of our Japanese reporters.

Japan
(7-Eleven • beauty • combini • Familymart • Japanese cosmetics • Kanebo • Kose • make-up • tips)

7-Eleven Japan’s chocolate hearts turn into pooping butts with just a quick trip to the microwave

Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2016

It’s amazing how one gooey brown liquid can be so mouth-watering, and another not at all.

Japan
(7-Eleven • chocolate • conveneinece stores • food • funny • gross • steamed buns • sweets • Valentine's Day)

Awaken your need for random Star Wars stuff from 7-Eleven and Ichiban-Kuji

KK Miller
Dec 3, 2015

Forget Christmas, tis the season for all things Star Wars! In Japan, convenience store chain 7-Eleven is leading you on a quest for new Star Wars merchandise.

Japan
(7-Eleven • hot pot • R2-D2 • Star Wars • The Force Awakens • toys)

This gorgeous, mouth-watering traditional Japanese breakfast…is all from 7-Eleven?!?

Casey Baseel
Nov 19, 2015

Does that beautiful breakfast look like it came from the kitchen of a high-class ryokan inn or loving Japanese family? Guess again – it’s all from 7-Eleven!

Japan
(7-Eleven • awesome • breakfast • convenience stores • food • Japanese food)

Evangelion SIM-free smartphones and life-sized figures on sale at 7-Eleven

Oona McGee
Oct 21, 2015

Convenience stores around the world are known for stocking everyday items like toiletries, magazines, snacks and soft drinks.

But in Japan, the konbini is also a place to send and receive deliveries, buy movie and theatre tickets, and pick up a life-sized Eva doll and Evangelion SIM-free smartphone.

Japan
(7-Eleven • anime • EVA • Evangelion • figurines • lifesize figure • Neon Genesis Evangelion • smartphone)

New Japanese-style Häagen-Dazs brings us chestnut and azuki red bean ice cream this fall

Oona McGee
Oct 10, 2015

Zeitaku is one of those lovely Japanese words that sounds as elegant as its meaning. As the word for luxury, it conjures up images of high-class ryokan accommodations with private outdoor rotenburo baths, multi-course kaiseki meals served by elegant ladies dressed in kimonos and extravagant purchases at department stores on the Ginza shopping strip.

While most of those luxuries are, sadly, out of reach for many of us, there’s one affordable item that comes to mind when Japanese people are looking for a bit of zeitaku when a friend decides to visit or as a treat after a long day. That small symbol of luxury is the rich, creamy ice cream of Häagen-Dazs, and now they’re releasing an amazing new chestnut and azuki red bean Japonais flavour to add a bit of class to the upcoming fall season.

Japan
(7-Eleven • azuki • chestnuts • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • japonais • red bean • Seven Eleven)

7-Eleven sells grapes with skins you can actually eat! We kid you not

Master Blaster
Sep 8, 2015

Back where I come from, it wasn’t uncommon to pick a grape off its stem and pop it right into your mouth without a second’s thought. The very idea of peeling a grape was something along the lines of a diva demanding a bottled-milk bath while dining on a bowl of only red-colored Skittles.

However, in Japan, where many varieties of grape have thick or rubbery skins, peeling them is pretty much standard. In fact, whenever I eat a grape with its skin intact, I’m stared at as if I had just plucked a live spider off the wall and ate it.

That’s probably why 7-Eleven can get away with marketing their frozen bags of grapes as having “edible skins” here.

Japan
(7-Eleven • food • grapes • peel • snacks)

7-Eleven issues statement over the discontinued Olympic emblem, and their oden

Master Blaster
Sep 2, 2015

With the Tokyo Olympic Committee (TOC) officially cutting ties with Kenjiro Sano’s much maligned emblem, one obvious question is on everyone’s lips: What does this mean for that oden poster made by the 7-Eleven in Musashikoganei, Tokyo?

Some of you may recall that this particular franchise had made a poster promoting their oden sale which bore a striking resemblance to the former Olympic emblem. After a request was made to the TOC, they had denied the poster’s commercial use and likeness to their intellectual property. However, now that the emblem will no longer be used, is the poster back in play?

Internet, Japan
(7-Eleven • advertising • emblem • Musashikoganei • oden • Olympics)

7-Eleven ups its coffee game, introduces new iced cafe latte with the help of magic white beads

KK Miller
Jun 4, 2015

Up until fairly recently, convenience stores may have not been your first thought when it came to procuring a cup of hot coffee. But in the past year or so in Japan, the likes of 7-Eleven and Lawson have begun offering some really great tasting and affordable fresh coffee options with the help of nifty self-service machines positioned near the register. Sure, there are plenty of bottled and canned coffee options in the back, but there’s something about holding a steaming cup of joe in your hands and being able to smell that coffee aroma that makes it hard to resist.

Now, a mysterious new black cup has made an appearance alongside the regular clear iced coffee cups sold in 7-Eleven stores. Get ready for a classic coffee flavor with 7-Eleven’s new iced cafe latte.

Japan
(7-Eleven • cafe latte • coffee • iced • new)

7-Eleven store manager writes the most sincere, desperate job ad we’ve ever seen

Audrey Akcasu
May 28, 2015

If you are unemployed and living in Japan, we may have found a perfect job for you. No experience is necessary, it’s a pretty safe gig and you won’t have to do anything too difficult. You will, however, be a savior, a hero, and a knight in shining armor for one overworked, stressed-out, and understaffed, 7-Eleven store manager in Tokyo.