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Japan now has video gamer chiropractic treatments to reduce discomfort and improve performance

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 6, 2020
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Stiff and sore? A Headshot Course will have you feeling better.

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• Japan
• (Bauhutte • chiropractic • cool • crazy • gamers • health • massage • video games • weird)

TGIFWPAV: Thank God it’s Friday with the Pikachu ASMR video【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 4, 2020

Put in your earphones and get ready for the warm fuzzies that only the Pokémon stars “pika” can provide.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • ASRM • cool • cute • Pikachu • Pokemon • relaxing • video • video games)

Mr. Sato has time-travelled to the year 3030 with impressive sushi technology

• Katie Pask
  Dec 4, 2020

The future is already here in this branch of Kura Sushi!

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• Japan
• (COK • contactless • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • coronavirus • food • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Mr. Sato • restaurants • Smartphones • SNJO • sushi • technology)

Now you can be one step closer to the very best with your very own life-size, realistic Poké Ball

• Dale Roll
  Dec 4, 2020

Preorder now to start your journey to collect ’em all!

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• Japan
• (collectibles • cool • gift • original • pokeball • Pokemon • Pokémon Day • tehcnology • unique)

Evangelion taking over Tokyo Skytree just in time for Christmas

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2020

Eva Unit-01 head, stabbed Angel core await fans 450 meters above the streets of Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Evangelion • Skytree • Tokyo • Tokyo Skytree • travel)

Starbucks Japan releases beautiful sign-language mug at its first sign-language branch in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2020

Exclusive drinkware is stylish and touching, and its companion journal is even more moving.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cool • deaf • disabilities • drinkware • hearing impaired • moving • sign language • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • touching)

Train otaku say this is the narrowest train station platform in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 2, 2020

Where commuters have less than 40 centimetres (16 inches) of foot-space between safety lines.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Hankyu • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Osaka • SNJO • stations • train stations • trains • travel • unusual • weird)

Full-size moving Gundam statue in Japan shows off more moves in new videos【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 1, 2020

Anime mobile suit in Yokohama looks to be fully operational.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam Base Yokohama • life-size Gundam • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Yokohama)

Three new Evangelion Tamagotchi arrive so you can raise your own Angel after the franchise ends

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2020

It’s the Evatchi Second Impact!

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Evangelion • Evatchi • Rei Ayanami • Tamagotchi • toys • weird)

What happens when a cosplayer takes anniversary bridal photos? Hadokens and Force chokes【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2020

”I do…and also Round One, fight!”

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• Japan
• (awesome • bridal • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • funny • Good Spouse Day • Good Spouses Day • marriage • weddings)

Pathetically weak Magikarp shown love with Pokémon manhole covers in birthplace of koi culture

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 29, 2020

Central Japan gets its very first Pokéfuta.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Koiking • Magikarp • manhole covers • Niigata • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • travel • video games)

The strange seasonal surprise hanging from the ceiling of this station in rural Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 29, 2020

Nakanojo welcomes you to Gunma with a beautiful local tradition you won’t find at any other station in Japan.

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• Japan
• (autumn • beautiful • cool • culture • Gunma • hoshigaki • persimmons • stations • trains • travel • weird)

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

Yakiniku sneakers from Japan let you wear your love for meat on your feet

• Oona McGee
  Nov 28, 2020

With clever design details and only 50 available, these kicks are a hot commodity.

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• Japan
• (beef • collaboration • cool • design • fashion • food • Japanese food • meat • product • shoes • sneakers • yakiniku)

Newest weird Japanese vending machine beverage: Dashi fish soup from…Coca-Cola?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 25, 2020

The piscatorial pause that refreshes?

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• Japan
• (Coca-Cola • COK • cool • dashi • drinks • SNJO • spup • taste test • vending machines • weird)

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

Cosplay as a flying squirrel with new wearable blanket from Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2020

Stay as warm as a momonga with winter loungewear designed to make you look cute and cosy at the same time.

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• Japan
• (animals • beautiful • blankets • clothes • COK • cool • cute • cute animals • fashion • flying squirrel • loungewear • momonga • roomwear • shopping • Village Vanguard • wearable blanket)

Why buy your cat a cat house when you can buy a cat shrine from Japan instead?

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 24, 2020

The Neko Jinja House lets you worship your cat in the comfort of your own home.

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• Japan
• (animals • cardboard • cats • cool • cute • pets • shinto • shrines)

Kyoto’s Fire Ramen restaurant expands overseas with first location outside Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2020

Menbaka Ichidai serves up its fiery ramen abroad for the first time ever.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (awesome • COK • cool • crazy • fire • Fire Ramen • food • Kyoto • Menbaka Ichidai • Noodles • restaurants • scary)

Botched art restorations become Japanese gacha capsule toys

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2020

Restoration fails remind us to keep our own mistakes in perspective.

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• Japan
• (art • botched restorations • capsule toy • COK • cool • funny • gacha • gacha toys • gachapon • Monkey Christ • paintings • SNJO • Spain • vending machines • weird)

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