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Ghibli anime art greeting cards are a canvas to tell friends and family how and why you care【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 22, 2025
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Studio Ghibli supplies the watercolor art, leaves the message up to you.

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• (anime • art • Donguri Kyowakoku • greeting cards • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Princess Mononoke • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Riot of Demons actually a great reason to visit one of Tokyo’s most beautiful hotels this summer

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 20, 2025

Historical section of Tokyo’s “museum hotel” to be overrun, beautifully, by oni.

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• (art • exhibitions • Hotel Gajoen Tokyo • meguro gajoen • oni • tourism • travel)

Japan’s beautiful TeamLab art group opening its first permanent immersive museum in Kyoto【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2025

Installations are high-concept enough for deep-thinkers, beautiful enough for anyone to enjoy.

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• (art • beautiful • Kyoto • museums • TeamLab • TeamLab Biovortex Kyoto • tourism • travel)

There’s a new museum in Japan, but almost all of its location is a secret

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 16, 2025

Historic Edo-period buildings, modern art, and secret doors all feature in a unique adventure.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • cool • culture • history • museums • mystery • Secret Museum Yanai Yamaguchi • tourism • Town of White Walls • travel • Yamaguchi • Yamaguchi Prefecture • Yanai)

Japanese yokai spirits enter the modern era in Nagoya’s new digital art experience

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 10, 2025

Enter a world of eerie beauty full of ancient demons.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • art • art exhibition • beautiful • COK • cool • culture • digital art • digital art exhibition • exhibiton • history • Hitohata • Nagoya • yokai)

Cafe turns Japan’s most beautiful paintings into beautiful shaved ice dessert drinks【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 5, 2025

Refreshing Hokusai woodblock prints you can drink arrive in time for summer.

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• Japan
• (Akafuji • art • beautiful • cafes • culture • drinks • Fine Wind Clear Morning • food • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • paintins • restaurants • shaved ice • sweets • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

Studio Ghibli releases new Totoro tenugui anime art for the rainy season in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2025

Traditional techniques bring centuries of craftsmanship to Totoro.

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• (anime • art • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • rainy season • Studio Ghibli • tenugui • Totoro • wall art)

Trying out Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated wall decoration

• Master Blaster
  May 14, 2025

Amazon makes our writer an offer he can’t refuse.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • animals • art • giraffes • interior decoration • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • wall hanging)

What’s the story behind the running boy mascot in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 21, 2025

“Emotional parking boy that can be used every day” is missing one vital thing.

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• Japan
• (anime characters • art • car park • characters • cool • cute • Japanese mascots • mascot characters • Mascots • parking • parking areas • parking lot • parking lots • regional characters • regional mascots • Shikoku • Tokushima)

Japanese comedy giant Yoshimoto holds surprisingly existential pavilion at 2025 Expo

• Master Blaster
  Apr 11, 2025

To laugh or not to laugh. That is the question.

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• (2025 Osaka World Expo • art • comedy • entertainment • events • Osaka • pavilions • Yoshimoto Kogyo)

Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 3, 2025

For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen.

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• (art • COK • crazy • food • interview • modern art • Modern Art Flavor • snacks • SNJO • Tomokazu Matsuyama • umaibo • weird • werid)

Uniqlo combines art of Doraemon and Leonardo da Vinci in new Louvre crossover T-shirt line【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 26, 2025

Doraemon Meets the Louvre in a Uniqlo T-shirt collaboration over 2,200 years in the making.

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• (anime • art • Doraemon • Leonardo da Vinci • manga • Mona Lisa • t-shirts • Uniqlo • UT)

Studio Ghibli anime art up for auction, alongside Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Akira and Dragon Ball Z

• Oona McGee
  Mar 21, 2025

Landmark event contains over 1,200 lots that you can own.

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• Japan
• (animation cels • anime • anime art • anime auction • anime cels • art • auctions • Catbus • cels • Dragon Ball Z • Ghibli • Heritage Auctions • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are on permanent display in Tokyo, and here’s where you can find them

• SoraNews24
  Mar 19, 2025

A work of art hiding in plain sight in Tokyo.

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• (art • COK • fine art • shinjuku • SNJO • Sompo Japan • Sompo Museum of Art • Sunflowers • Van Gogh • Vincent van Gogh)

Japanese puffed corn snack to be sold for 110,000 yen as work of art

• Master Blaster
  Mar 10, 2025

Nearly identical Umaibo snacks cost 15 yen each.

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• Japan
• (art • Azabudai Hills Gallery • COK • crazy • food • modern art • Modern Art Flavor • snacks • Tomokazu Matsuyama • umaibo • weird)

Japanese manga serves up a McDonald’s hack for making epic pancakes

• SoraNews24
  Feb 16, 2025

Making hotcakes even more delicious.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • desserts • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hotcakes • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pancakes • recipes • SNJO • sweets)

Tokyo’s breathtaking “museum hotel” miniature art exhibit will make you feel tiny too【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 14, 2025

Meguro Gajoen’s Hundred Steps staircase hosts works both huge and small.

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• (art • COK • Gajeon • Hinamatsuri • Hotel Gajoen Tokyo • hotels • Hyakudan Kaidan • meguro gajoen)

Book of over 200 Hayao Miyazaki Totoro pre-production illustrations, some never published, now on sale

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2025

Studio Ghibli co-founder was sketching Totoro a decade before the forest spirit appeared on movie screens.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • books • Hayao Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Totoro)

Uniqlo celebrates sumo with new line of historical sumo art T-shirts【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2025

100-year milestone brings you a way to incorporate sumo style into your wardrobe without wearing a loincloth.

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• Japan
• (art • fashion • history • hokusai • Japan Sumo Association • Katsushika Hokusai • shirts • Sumo • t-shirts • ukiyo-e • Uniqlo • UT • Utagawa Hiroshige)

New Era combines with old eras for amazing hat collection based on Japanese painting masterpieces

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 21, 2025

Legendary ukiyo-e and mythological icons part of the collaboration between New Era and the Tokyo National Museum.

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• Japan
• (art • baseball caps • baseball hats • caps • culture • fashion • hats • history • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • new era • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Tokyo National Museum • ukiyo-e)

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