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We investigate a Japanese military base convenience store – no need to enlist!

Richard Simmonds
Jul 26, 2017
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Courageously protecting Japan with the aid of garrison-exclusive convenience store meals and socks.

Japan
(bento • convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese Self-Defence Force • Japanese Self-Defense Force • JSDF • Mr. Sato)

Seven awesome mint chocolate Japanese convenience store sweets, and a chart to find your favorite

Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2017

Here’s your convenience store snack survival guide, for when “all of the above” isn’t an option.

Japan
(chart • chocolate • convenience stores • food • ice cream • mint chocolate • sweets)

Japanese convenience store registers now playing Dragon Quest level-up music for shoppers【Video】

Casey Baseel
May 9, 2017

Iconic video game fanfare rewards purchasers of Dragon Quest Critical Hit-Flavor fried chicken.

Japan
(convenience stores • Dragon Quest • food • fried chicken • karaage • karaage kun • Lawson • video • video games)

Quite possibly the greatest food bargain in Japan: tasty convenience store pasta for less than a buck

Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2017

This chain’s 100-yen pasta and noodle dishes are just the thing when you’re looking to stretch your budget.

Japan
(cheap eats • convenience stores • food • Hokkaido • pasta • Seico Mart • yakisoba)

Sinisterly stocked Japanese convenience store’s magazine rack is shockingly dark

Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2017

Those ropes don’t seem so innocent when you read what’s on either side of them.

Japan
(convenience stores • crazy • funny • scary • suicide • working in Japan)

Japanese convenience stores starting new anti-smoking measures in preparation for 2020 Olympics

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2017

The ashtrays in front of Japanese convenience stores aren’t there for people to smoke around.

Japan
(2020 Olympics • convenience stores • health • smoking • Tokyo Olympics)

Foreign shop clerk and Japanese customer fail to communicate because of Japanese language quirk

Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2017

The Japanese language’s lack of a definite article was definitely the cause of this cross-cultural convenience store misunderstanding.

Japan
(convenience stores • foreigners in Japan • funny • Japanese language • linguistics • working in Japan)

Japanese convenience store serves up steamed buns…with a whole custard pudding inside

Oona McGee
Jan 20, 2017

Steamed pork buns get a sweet companion that’s grabbing everyone’s attention in Japan.

Japan
(convenience stores • creme caramel • food • nikuman • pudding • purin • steamed buns • sweets)

Foreigner accused of shoplifting tea in Japan, label to blame 【Why Does Engrish Happen in Japan?】

Casey Baseel
Nov 1, 2016

It’s often said that freedom isn’t free. In Japan, Free Tea isn’t either.

Japan
(convenience stores • drinks • Engrish • funny • Japanese language • linguistics • tea • Why Does Engrish Happen?)

To ask or not to ask: The etiquette and law of using convenience store restrooms in Japan

Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2016

While the widespread presence of public toilets in convenience stores is great, it is also fraught with ambiguous customs and could, technically, even lead to criminal charges.

Japan
(convenience stores • crime • customs • law • manners • restrooms • society • Toilets)

Japan’s latest must-try ice cream is available from … the local convenience store!

Oona McGee
Oct 25, 2016

This premium ice cream is designed to look like the vegetable from which it’s made, but that’s just one of its many attractive qualities.

Japan
(convenience stores • food • ice cream • Ministop • sweet potato • sweets)

Japanese noodle lovers go crazy for tank-shaped pork ramen served up at … a convenience store!

Oona McGee
Sep 14, 2016

There’s so much to love about this surprising ramen dish.

Japan
(combini • conbini • convenience stores • cool • food • Girls und Panzer • meat • meat lovers • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • tank • Tank ramen • tanks)

How to make your own postcards using photos from your phone at 7-Eleven

Oona McGee
May 27, 2016

Create your own personalised postcards for as little as 18 cents each at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan.

Japan
(7-Eleven • convenience stores • photography • photos • postcards • travel)

World’s only Michelin-starred ramen is getting an instant noodle convenience store version

Casey Baseel
May 19, 2016

Famous Tokyo restaurant teams up with Circle K and Sunkus chains.

Food & Drink, Japan
(convenience stores • food • Instant Ramen • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Noodles • ramen • Tsuta)

Always-adorable Rilakkuma is now tasty too as new Japanese mochi sweets 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Apr 22, 2016

Lawson convenience store shelves are about to get an extra dose of laid-back cuteness.

Cute, Food & Drink, Japan
(anko • convenience stores • cute • mochi • Rilakkuma • sweets • taste test)

97 percent of Kumamoto convenience stores open for business just three days after major quakes

Master Blaster
Apr 21, 2016

Kumamoto Prefecture is still reeling after back-to-back large scale earthquakes struck the region late last week. Yet somehow Japan’s major convenience store chains have managed to get 97 percent of their shops up and running in a matter of days.