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Love fireworks and ice cream? Häagen-Dazs lets you enjoy both at this Hanabi Bar in Tokyo

• Koh Ruide
  Jun 2, 2018
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Launch gorgeous digital fireworks into the night sky for each ice cream you finish. And try out the new summer flavor while you’re at it.

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• Japan
• (bar • COK • cool • fireworks • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • projection mapping • Roppongi Hills)

Japan has awesome trains that transform into trucks for best-of-both-worlds mobility【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2018

Video shot in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station shows the elusive kirikusha in the wild.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cars • cool • technology • trains • trucks • video)

Ramen ice cream on sale at 7-Eleven in Japan to help us multitask our comfort food consumption

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2018

Oh Baby (Star), we need to pick up a couple cartons of this.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • Baby Star • COK • convenience stores • cool • crazy • food • ice cream • ramen • sweets • weird)

Feel like a sexy samurai with old-school underwear and the viral fundoshi dancer 【Video】

• Richard Simmonds
  May 28, 2018

Loincloths make a comeback with the popularity of fundoshi dance videos and the oppressive heat of Japanese summer rearing its ugly head.

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• Japan
• (clothing • cool • fashion • fundoshi • fundoshi dancer • funny • rainy season • summer • twitter • underwear • videos • weird • YouPouch)

World’s largest toilet manufacturer lets you assemble your very own miniature paper toilet

• Koh Ruide
  May 19, 2018

Got some time to kill? Why not craft a cute little paper loo?

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• Japan
• (cool • miniature • model • papercraft • toilet • Toto)

Spider-Man’s black costume goes back to the past in this awesome samurai/ninja figure【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 18, 2018

Just your friendly Sengoku period fuedal fief Spider-Man.

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• Japan
• (cool • figures • Marvel • Meisho Manga Realization • Ninja • samurai • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Tamashi Nations • toys)

Shohei Ohtani amazes Major League Baseball with his impeccable Japanese manners

• Casey Baseel
  May 17, 2018

After making jaws drop both on the mound and at the plate, the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way star is winning fans with his performance in the dugout.

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• Japan, USA
• (baseball • COK • cool • culture • Los Angeles Angels • Major League Baseball • manners • Shohei Ohtani • sports)

Mother’s Day challenge: Can you name every anime mom in this awesome group illustration?

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2018

Decades’ worth of anime moms assemble for amazing group shot that even features an Undertale shout-out.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • illustration • manga • mom • Mother's Day • mothers)

Beautiful woman stuns Japanese Internet, no one will ever know her name because she’s a painting

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2018

Breathtaking artwork form Hiroshima artist looks more like photography than oil paintings.

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• Japan
• (art • awesome • COK • cool • painting • portraits)

Snoopy-themed hotel coming to Japan in August, comes with rooms in 18 different designs

• Koh Ruide
  May 14, 2018

Cuddle up in a cozy room full of beloved Peanuts characters and the world’s most adorable beagle.

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• Japan
• (cafe • cool • hotel • Kobe • Peanuts • Restaurant • Snoopy)

Niantic employee creates awesome augmented-reality 3D Tokyo subway system for his son【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  May 14, 2018

Understanding Japan’s complex train lines just got a lot easier.

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• Japan
• (augmented reality • cool • Japanese subway • Niantic • Software • train)

Woman makes Fate/Grand Order fan husband a beautiful present; boosts debuff resistance by 5%

• Katy Kelly
  May 11, 2018

The loving wife of a diehard mobile game fan recreated the gorgeous Rune Stones from the game, and shows us how to make our own too.
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• Japan
• (anime • arts and crafts • cool • crafts • Fate • fate grand order • FGO • video games)

This may look like an ordinary vending machine from afar, but it’s a different picture up close

• Dale Roll
  May 10, 2018

What’s unique about this vending machine may draw your eye if you look carefully enough.

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• Japan
• (art • cool • drinks • illustrations • vending machines • weird)

Beautiful “sandy beach” near Nagasaki Airport is not made of sand…it’s made of glass!

• Dale Roll
  May 6, 2018

And it doesn’t hurt to walk on it with your bare feet!

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• Japan
• (beaches • beautiful • cool • Nagasaki • ravel • weird)

Strong winds at Niconico Chokaigi turned out to be a blessing in disguise for one cosplayer

• Koh Ruide
  May 5, 2018

Bending nature’s elements to your advantage is perhaps the ultimate level of cosplay.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • niconico chokaigi • The Idolmaster • video games • wind)

Dragon Ball’s Frieza discovered conducting train in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  May 5, 2018

Maybe someone told him to “go train,” and he misunderstood.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Dragon Ball • Frieza • Ryusei Nakao • Tokushima • train conductor • trains • video • voice actors)

Dragon Quest virtual reality attraction opens in Tokyo, and we join the adventure

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2018

VR Zone Shinjuku dedicates a huge room to bringing the classic RPG to virtual life.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • Dragon Quest • video games • virtual reality • VR • VR Zone Shinjuku)

Japanese company is so kind it mails out condolence gifts if it can’t give applicants a job

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 30, 2018

Getting turned down for a job hurts, but one company wants to do what it can to help job-hunters bounce back from a rejection.

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• Japan
• (business • cool • job hunting • jobs • kagome • moving • society • touching • working in Japan)

Lucky winner of Coca-Cola Japan’s transparent cola campaign stunned by what he received in mail

• Koh Ruide
  Apr 30, 2018

Or rather, by what he did not receive.

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• Japan
• (April fool • Coca-Cola • cool • Japanese Twitter • joke)

Family Mart’s Instagramable Galactica Grape and Fantasy Peach frappes warp into stores

• Katy Kelly
  Apr 28, 2018

Family Mart’s newest drink campaign shoots for the moon and promises a rainbow of dreamy starshine flavors.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • cool • drinks • Family mart • frappes • Peach • weird)

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