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Ramen restaurant in Kyoto offers all-you-can-eat toppings and side dishes for free

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2018
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A great deal for ramen connoisseurs and beginners looking for a way to try all the staples.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • COK • Kyoto • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNOJ • Tenkaippin)

Awesome, free Final Fantasy travel brochures treat series’ locations like real tourism hot spots

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2018

Who wouldn’t want to go on a romantic Midgar Mako Reactor night view tour?

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• Japan
• (ads • COK • cool • Final Fantasy • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNOJ • Square Enix • video games)

Japan’s first kaiten-sweets shop brings the fun of conveyor-belt sushi to Valentine’s chocolate

• Meg Murphy
  Jan 14, 2018

Get your chocolate fix on with a twist for a limited time at SWEETY LOFT in Ginza.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • kaiten sushi • sweets • Valentine's Day)

Japan’s French fry sundaes are here, but which one should you try? We find out【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 13, 2018

”What’s the best flavor for a French fry sundae?” is a question we never had to answer…until now!

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• Japan
• (azuki • COK • crazy • fast food • First Kitchen • food • french fries • ice cream • SNOJ • sweets • taste test)

“The one and only way to make people in Japan take more vacation time”

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 10, 2018

Our veteran salaryman-turned-reporter gives his idea for the one thing that has to change before Japan will stop working itself to death.

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• Japan
• (business • COK • economy • overwork • P.K. Sanjun • salarymen • SNOJ • society • working in Japan)

Tokyo’s Ranma 1/2 cafe is open, and we just stuffed ourselves with awesome anime nostalgia

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 8, 2018

Food, art, and exclusive merch are part of love letter to one of the most popular anime of all time, and totally worth a six-hour wait for a table.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • food • Ikebukuro • manga • Ranma 1/2 • restaurants • Rumiko Takahashi • SNO • sweets • themed restaurants • Tokyo)

Fewer Japanese people got married last year than any time since the end of World War II

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 6, 2018

Bad news for the country’s declining birth rate is accompanied by rosier development about divorce.

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• Japan
• (COK • dating • divroce • marriage • romance • society)

“Scholar” tops list of what Japanese boys want to be when they grow up, “restauranteur” for girls

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 6, 2018

Boy’s sporting ambitions slide in survey as girls stick with the same favorite for the 21st year running.

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• Japan
• (business • COK • education • jobs • kids • society • survey)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Yodobashi Camera offers up a tablet box of techie dreams

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 5, 2018

Popular retail chain Yodobashi Camera sets the bar high with their “Tablet Computer Dreams i” New Year’s gift box. 

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• Japan
• (COK • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • SNOJ • tablet • Yodobashi Camera)

Why right now is one of the best times of the year to shop for dojinshi manga and merch in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 5, 2018

Lucky bags always make January a great time to go shopping in Japan, but it’s the prime dojinshi-buying time for a very different reason.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • COK • Comiket • dojinshi • fukubukuro • Lucky Bags • manga • SNOJ • Tora no Ana)

Japanese Twitter reacts to Logan Paul’s “Japanese Suicide Forest” video

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2018

Video showing body of man who committed suicide in Aokigahara forest was only up for a day, but the backlash is likely to last much longer.

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• Japan
• (Aokigahara • COK • controversy • Logan Paul • suicide • YouTube • YouTubers)

The five best anime of 2017【Seiji’s World of Anime】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2018

The biggest otaku in the SoraNews24 office runs down his picks for the five series you need to see to feel like you “watched anime” in 2017.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Kemono Friends • Seiji Nakazawa • Seiji's world of anime • SNOJ • video)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Animate’s awesome set has over 70 anime goodies for under 30 bucks

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2018

A near-unbeatable equation for anime otaku to start the new year with.

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• Japan
• (Animate • anime • COK • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • otaku • SNOJ)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】McDonald’s Japan brings out exclusive goodies for customers this New Year

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2018

These are some of the cutest McDonald’s items we’ve ever seen!

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • New Year's • SNOJ)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】KFC Japan fukubukuro makes fried chicken dreams come true

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2018

Colonel Sanders has been kind to his finger-lickin’ customers this New Year.

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • fried chicken • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • lucky Bags 2018 • new year • SNOJ)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Meg tries her luck with a fukubukuro from Japan’s top lingerie maker

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 3, 2018

Intiame apparel lucky bag is available only through Amazon Japan.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • COK • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • lingerie • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • Meg • SNOJ • Wacoal)

Researcher claims North Korea’s Kim Jong-un loved manga, got bad grades as a teen

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 3, 2018

Plus, his familial connection to Sailor Moon fandom.

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• Japan, North Korea
• (anime • COK • Dragon Ball • Kim Jong-un • manga • otaku • Sailor Moon • Slam Dunk)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Krispy Kreme ups their game in these trying times for donuts

• Master Blaster
  Jan 3, 2018

With a simple wish to start your year off with some tasty donuts, Krispy Kreme delivers big in this year’s bag.

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• Japan
• (COK • donuts • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Krispy Kreme • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • SNOJ • sweets)

New Japanese takoyaki candy tastes so bad, even the makers doubted it would sell

• Koh Ruide
  Dec 31, 2017

But boy were they wrong.

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• Japan
• (candy • COK • Osaka • takoyaki • weird)

Bad weather ruined your chance to see Mt. Fuji? This Japanese hotel will give you a free room

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2017

Because when your name is the Hotel Mt. Fuji, you want your customers to be sure they’re going to see Japan’s most famous mountain.

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• Japan
• (bauitful • COK • deals • hot springs • hotels • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • travel • Yamanashi)

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