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7-Eleven now has Meal Kits to help you cook at home, and they’re awesome!

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2021
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The store stocked with reasons not to cook for yourself is now ready to help your home chef ambitions too.

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• (7-Eleven • clever • COK • convenience stores • cooking • cool • food • SNJO)

Rice cooker cooking: Bacon onion rice is amazingly easy, awesomely delicious

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2021

Japanese Twitter chefs fall in love with a hassle-free way to make an entire meal with only about a minute of work.

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• (awesome • bacon • clever • cooking • cool • food • rice • rice cooker • sausage)

Japan has a new bar just for people who want to drink alone

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2021

If a cold beer is all the company you need, this is the place for you.

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• (alcohol • alone • clever • COK • cool • izakaya • pubs • restaurants)

Takeout ramen broth: A new Tokyo winter noodle trend that’s worth the hype? 【Taste Test】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2021

A whole new way to appreciate ramen. 

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• (clever • COK • cool • food • Nakano • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurants • restaurants • SNJO • takeout • taste test • Tenka Ippin)

Tokyo ramen restaurant’s brilliant idea: takeout cups of just ramen broth!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2021

Ramen’s flavor is all in the broth, and at this Nakano restaurant it’s all broth in your cup.

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• (clever • cool • food • Nakano • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • takeout • Tenka Ippin)

Yokan Slice sweet red beans slices let you make gooey, delicious Japanese dessert in just seconds

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2021

Even after being in business for 200 years, this Kyoto confectioner is still coming up with great ideas.

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• (anko • bread • clever • cool • food • sweet red beans • sweets • toast • Yokan)

Limited-edition vegetable snack cube dreamt up by a Japanese elementary school kid goes on sale

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 16, 2021

Coro Coro Vegetable is by kids and for kids, and it looks deliciously nutritious!

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• (Calbee • clever • cubes • cute • elementary school students • food • healthy • kids • snacks • vegetables)

You can eat bonsai trees? Sure, if they’re made of chocolate like this DIY kit【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 5, 2021

Okashi de Tsukuru Bonsai is beautiful to look at…until you inevitably eat it.

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• (beautiful • bonsai • bonsai trees • chocolate • clever • cooking • cool • food • sweets • video)

Sega creates mini UFO catcher crane game with electric arm for Japanese magazine

• Oona McGee
  Jan 2, 2021

Bring the joy of a Japanese arcade game into your home and win ALL the prizes! 

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• Japan
• (cardboard • claw game • clever • COK • cool • crafts • crane game • crazy • magazines • Sega • SNJO • UFO catcher • video games • Yochien)

Relive an iconic scene from anime Weathering with You with Japan’s rentable Hina umbrellas

• Dale Roll
  Jan 1, 2021

Take Hina with you for all kinds of weather this weekend!

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• (anime • clever • COK • cool • Makoto Shinkai • movies • rain • rental • Tenki no Ko • Tokyo • umbrella • umbrellas • Weathering with You)

Japan’s one-person bento box-sized rice cooker gets double-decker version that cooks side dishes too

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2020

Because if you’ve got fresh-cooked rice right at your desk, you’re going to want something to go with it right?

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• (awesome • bento • bento boxes • clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • rice • rice cookers • Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker • Thanko)

Thermos releases new line of insulated Japanese rice and miso soup bowls【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2020

Stylish creations keep your miso soup hot and your anmitsu cold.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • clever • cool • food • tableware • thermos)

Japanese bathroom has a clever countermeasure for guys who pee on the floor at the urinal【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 28, 2020

It might not be permanent, though.

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• (clever • COK • cool • parking areas • Public restrooms • restrooms • SNJO • urinals)

The secret piece of information hiding in plain sight on Tokyo’s subway signs

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 25, 2020

Turns out there’s a shortcut hint that escapes almost everyone’s notice.

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• (clever • COK • cool • Lifehacks • public transportation • signs • Subway • Tokyo Metro • travel)

Japanese overtime work culture captured in new dice collection

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2020

Roll the dice with employees apologising in the windows of office tower blocks late at night.

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• (clever • cool • design • dice • Japanese jobs • Japanese office • Japanese salaryman • japanese work culture • offices • overtime • overwork • Tokyo • work in Japan)

Can’t put your smartphone down when you’re eating? This clever plate has a solution【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 14, 2020

Because no matter what’s for lunch or dinner, it shouldn’t be served with a side of stress.

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• (clever • cool • food • plate • Smartphones • tableware)

From capsule hotel to capsule office – A visit to Tokyo’s newest pandemic work solution

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 13, 2020

Can you turn bare-minimum hotel rooms into practical professional pods?

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• Japan
• (capsule hotels • clever • COK • coronavirus • rental offices • shinjuku • SNJO • weird • working in Japan • workspaces)

Japanese company creates “business card masks” that put your name and workplace on your face

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 9, 2020

Handy mnemonic helper, or complete sacrifice of privacy?

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• Japan
• (business • business cards • clever • masks • weird • working in Japan)

How to stop thieves using your cash cards when you lose your wallet

• Oona McGee
  Nov 9, 2020

Simple hack from a former bank clerk in Japan.

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• (anti-theft • bank • cash card • clever • COK • cool • lost and found • lost property • money • PIN • theft • wallet)

A capsule toy vending machine pandemic shopping solution The My Gashapon Handle

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 4, 2020

Because who knows how many little kids and giant otaku have put their hands on that machine since the last time it was cleaned?

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• Japan
• (Bandai • capsule toys • clever • COK • coronavirus • gacha toys • gachapon • gashapon • toys • vending machine toys • weird)

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