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567 cartons of cigarettes bought with 120 smartphones at once leads to arrest in Chiba

• Master Blaster
  Oct 15, 2020
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He could have stopped at 500, but he just got greedy.

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• Japan
• (cashless payment • Chiba • cigarettes • convenience stores • crime • d-Harai • fraud • Funabashi)

Savoring Japan’s new sweet potato sandwich!【Pics, taste test】

• Ingrid Tsai
  Sep 26, 2020

Pumpkin spice, move aside. It’s tuber season!

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience stores • food • Lawson • sandwiches • SNJO • sweet potato • sweets • taste test • Yuko Sawano)

Can you tell if a Japanese neighborhood is dangerous by looking at its convenience store?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 11, 2020

Do the magazine rack, trash cans, and restroom rules act as a preemptive crime report?

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • life hacks • society)

Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Aug 29, 2020

Don’t be alarmed if you see a pair of optic sensors peeking from behind the beverage rack.

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• Japan
• (business • convenience stores • Family mart • Model-T • robots • technology • Telexistence • video • VR)

How to turn konbini food into a luxury Japanese meal

• Oona McGee
  Aug 13, 2020

It looks like a breakfast at a fancy ryokan inn, but all this food came from a humble 7-Eleven and cost about 10 bucks. 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • convenience stores • food • Japanese breakfast • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • kombini • konbini • ryokan)

Pokémon saving the planet with free Poké Ball-case eco bags from 7-Eleven Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 11, 2020

Because P is for Pikachu, not plastic.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • convenience stores • cool • cute • eco bags • Pikachu • Poké Ball • Pokemon • reusable shopping bags • video games)

Remote-control VR robots to start working in Japanese convenience stores this summer

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 3, 2020

Family Mart’s robots will still be controlled by human employees.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • robots • technology • virtual reality • VR)

How to make a spicy chicken katsudon in just three minutes【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 2, 2020

Three minutes to paradise.

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• Japan
• (chicken katsudon • COK • convenience stores • cooking • Famichiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken • katsudon • recipe • rice bowls • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

In celebration of Onigiri Day, we compare rice balls from three different convenience stores

• Dale Roll
  Jun 21, 2020

Which conbini makes the best salmon rice ball: 7-Eleven, Family Mart, or Lawson?

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese food • Lawson • onigiri • rice balls • Seven Eleven)

In Japan, Uber Eats will deliver the latest manga to your door

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2020

When you’re craving the latest issue of Shonen Jump, Uber is ready to roll and bring you your comic fix.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • convenience stores • cool • Lawson • manga • Shonen Jump • SNJO • Uber Eats • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Starbucks Japan serves up drinkable banana crepes【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  May 18, 2020

There’s a lot going on beneath this bright yellow lid. 

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• Japan
• (bananas • convenience stores • crepes • drinks • limited edition • new • pancakes • Starbucks • sweets)

Japanese convenience store praised for low-tech anti-coronavirus system

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2020

Unusual idea to protect staff and customers during a state of emergency might just work.

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience stores • coronavirus • COVID-19 • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)

The customers Japanese convenience store clerks hate the most

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2020

How to avoid being that customer staff can’t stand. 

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience stores • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)

Japanese convenience store overtaken by nature and vending machines, looks like a Ghibli movie

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2020

Street-corner shambles holds a magical allure. 

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• Japan
• (architecture • buildings • convenience stores • cool • Daily Yamazaki • haikyo • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • Saitama • weird)

Vegan hamburger steak rice bowls added to over 1,900 convenience stores in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 18, 2020

Family Mart wants people who don’t want to eat animal products to have something to eat too.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • hamburger steak • soy meat • vegan • vegetarian)

7-Eleven in Japan sells masks for ridiculously high price, gets slammed by customers

• Oona McGee
  Mar 6, 2020

Japanese konbini criticised for being just as bad as notorious online resellers. 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • crime • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • mask shortage • masks • reselling)

Japanese police officers increasingly forgetting their guns in public restrooms

• Master Blaster
  Jan 28, 2020

At least they didn’t forget to flush… we hope.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • convenience stores • guns • Hyogo • Narita Airport • Osaka • police • restrooms • safety • Tokyo)

Fake eggs are being used in Japanese convenience store bentos

• Oona McGee
  Jan 15, 2020

Customer’s investigation leads to a discovery that’s shocked people around Japan.

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• Japan
• (bento • convenience store food • convenience stores • eggs • food • Japanese convenience stores • obento)

Studio Ghibli produces commercial for Japanese convenience store chain Lawson 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 13, 2020

Academy award winning animator and a Ghibli artist who works at Lawson part-time join forces to pay homage to the konbini.

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • art • commercials • convenience stores • cute • Ghibli • Japanese commercials • Japanese convenience stores • Kawaii • konbini • Lawson • Studio Ghibli)

We eat at Tokyo’s first vegan Japanese-style convenience store in Asakusa

• Oona McGee
  Dec 21, 2019

Come with us as we browse the shelves and eat at the restaurant inside this vegan wonderland.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • convenience stores • food • SNJO • vegan • vegetarian)

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