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We turn to a shady Amazon Japan gadget to try to stop Tokyo crows from stealing our hangers

• Casey Baseel
  May 7, 2026
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Man and machine versus nature.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon low-rated • animals • COK • crazy • crows • funny • gadgets • SNJO • technology • weird • Yuichiro Wasai)

New cherry blossom party picnic essential: This super-handy folding cardboard table

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2026

This might be the perfect hanami table.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • cherry blossom-viewing • cherry blossoms • clever • COK • convenient • cool • hanami • interior • outdoors • picnic • sakura • SNJO • table)

Don’t judge Amazon Japan’s lowest rated massage sandals until walking a mile in them

• Master Blaster
  Aug 23, 2025

Provided both you and they can last that long.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • COK • crazy • feet • Masanuki Sunakoma • massage • sandals • SNJO • tai chi • weird)

A pepper spray showdown to find the best self-defense tool in Japan

• Elliot Hale
  Jan 24, 2025

We find out which spray is best for protecting ourselves and learn a valuable lesson about wind direction.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon product testing • COK • crime prevention goods • Go Hatori • pepper spray • product testing • self defense • SNJO)

Morinaga releases “hunger management” drink that turns into jelly in your stomach

• Master Blaster
  Jun 17, 2024

Hunger games in a can.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • carbonated drinks • diet products • drinks • in Jelly • In Tansan • Morinaga)

Amazon Japan makes payment policy change that could be a problem for foreigners in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2024

One payment option is disappearing in less than a week.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • COK • credit cards • foreigners in Japan • online shopping)

The disembodied arm on the shoulder prank in the office shows you can be too good at something

• Master Blaster
  Feb 28, 2024

Overly smooth prank nearly costs us an arm and a leg.

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• (Amazon • COK • crazy • funny • Go Hatori • hand on shoulder • Masanuki Sunakoma • pranks • scary • shopping • SNJO • video • weird • Yoshio)

Live-action Oshi no Ko adaptation coming to Amazon, movie to theaters

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2024

Amazon and Toei suddenly reveal an already-cast adaptation of the ongoing mega-hit anime/manga.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Prime Video • anime • Live action • manga • Oshi no Ko)

Amazon Japan’s Ice Cream Lucky Box will make you feel like you’ve won a dessert lottery

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2024

This is one fukubukuro that deserves all its high ratings and rave reviews. 

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • ice cream • Japanese ice cream • lucky bag • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • shopping)

Checking Amazon Japan’s Bath Salts Fukubukuro Lucky Bag for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

How many Japanese bath salts can we get for US$25?

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • bath powder • bath salts • bath time • bathing • bathing customs • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • K. Masami • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • online shopping • SNJO)

Checking Amazon Japan’s most suspiciously high-rated solar panel charger

• Master Blaster
  Jul 20, 2023

We don’t know what to believe anymore.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon ranking • Go Hatori • online shopping • sakura • Sakura Checker • smartphone charger • solar powered charger)

For just 5 yen, Amazon Japan’s cheapest possible outfit will have you looking like 0.04 bucks!

• Casey Baseel
  May 18, 2023

But beware the secret of the extra-extra-extra-large pants.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon cheapest • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • COK • crazy • fashion • funny • Masanuki Sunakoma • shoes • SNJO • weird)

Takeshi’s Castle returns, and we make news with overseas press for our fundoshi

• Oona McGee
  Apr 22, 2023

When everyone else wears sensible clothes to a press event, we wear loincloths.

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• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • funny • mannequin • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

Our Japanese team star in Takeshi’s Castle on Amazon Prime!

• Oona McGee
  Apr 21, 2023

Watch our team of zany reporters run around in loincloths as they attempt to beat Beat Takeshi.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Prime • Beat Takeshi • Challenges • fundoshi • funny • Go Hatori • LOL • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • nostalgia • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • streaming • Takashi Harada • Takeshi Kitano • Takeshi’s Castle • TV shows • weird)

Our Japanese reporter tries a top-rated face mask on Amazon in the U.S.

• Master Blaster
  Apr 4, 2023

Face/Off against pollen and aerosols.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (Amazon • COK • crazy • face masks • funny • Masanuki Sunakoma • Nicolas Cage • shopping • SNJO • weird)

We find, and try, the next step in pillow technology on Amazon Japan

• Master Blaster
  Mar 13, 2023

Steps can go in either direction, you know.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • COK • crazy • funny • pillows • product testing • shopping • sleep • SNJO • weird)

We try Amazon’s lowest rated posing mannequin, but it wasn’t the doll that was one star

• Katie Pask
  Feb 10, 2023

Can Amazon’s lowest rated posable mannequin turn our reporter into a skilled artist?

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • art • funny • mannequin • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

It’s a race against time with Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated hourglass

• Master Blaster
  Nov 16, 2022

The hour is upon us.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon lowest-rated • hourglass • Masanuki Sunakoma • product reviews • shopping • time)

We buy Amazon’s lowest-rated smartphone “Eye-view Camera Hat” for easy, hands-free videography

• Dale Roll
  Oct 23, 2022

And while it is, indeed, hands-free, it has a few other problems…

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• Japan
• (action cameras • Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • smartphone accessories • smartphone cameras • video recording)

We bought the latest in low-rated fitness technology from Amazon: the Nejirunba

• Dale Roll
  Sep 26, 2022

And then we brought it to the office for everyone to test out!

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • COK • crazy • exercise • fitness • funny • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • weird)

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