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Game Boy-ify your pictures with this cool web app!

• Andrew Kane
  Oct 3, 2016
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We take a look at a Japanese website that lets you transform your photos into 8-bit, Gameboy-style works of art!

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• (cool • filter • Game Boy • Gameboy • image • internet • web apps)

Japanese resident gets a scary visitor through the air conditioner

• Oona McGee
  Oct 1, 2016

This is something you definitely don’t want to see poking its head out from your air conditioner.

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• Japan
• (Air conditioning • animals • cool • cute • Japanese houses • reptiles • scary • snakes • twitter • video)

Japan’s Kodo taiko group creates awesome new performance with 3D sound technology

• Oona McGee
  Sep 30, 2016

The stunning sound and visuals in this new clip are designed to transport viewers to a Japanese festival as part of a new website for foreign tourists.

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• Japan
• (ANA • awesome • cool • culture • drumming • drums • festivals • Japanese festivals • Kodo • Matsuri • music • performance • sound • stage • taiko • tradition • wow)

Give gifts in Japanese origami-style bird envelope pouches!

• Oona McGee
  Sep 29, 2016

This is the cutest alternative to wrapping paper we’ve ever seen!

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• Japan
• (animals • aviary • bags • birds • cool • cute • cute pets • Felissimo • homewares • pets • stationery • wow)

Why stay in a hotel when you can spend the night in this Tokyo bookstore instead?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 29, 2016

In what’s become an annual event, bookseller Junkudo is letting lucky lovers of literature spend one night slumbering among its shelves.

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• (awesome • books • bookstores • camping • cool • hotels • werid)

Harajuku based clothing chain releases official line of Pokémon skirts and tops

• Oona McGee
  Sep 27, 2016

The range features characters like Eeevee, Ditto, Mew, and Snorlax.

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• Japan
• (cool • cute • fashion • Harajuku • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • skirts • sweatshirts • tops)

Japanese internet browser cookies are higher quality than some of the browsers themselves 【Pics】

• Scott Wilson
  Sep 27, 2016

These handmade cookies are the perfect snack for surfing the web.

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• Internet
• (3D printer • 3D printing • baking • cookies • cool • internet)

Tokyo shopping center celebrates Halloween with so, so many eyeball-shaped sweets 【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 27, 2016

Eyeballs for everybody! Oh, except the teddy bear cake that they clawed one off of.

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• Japan
• (cool • food • gross • halloween • Roppongi Hills • scary • sweets)

Japanese collector buys one of the most expensive and exclusive life-sized figurines ever made

• Oona McGee
  Sep 26, 2016

Priced at $19,600 and with only ten ever produced, this is one special delivery you don’t get to see every day.

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• Japan
• (anime • Aniplex • cool • figures • figurines • life-size • life-sized figure • Megumi Kato • Saekano • toys • wow)

Japanese bookstore cafe wows customers with its unusual spy-like restroom

• Oona McGee
  Sep 24, 2016

Using the amenities at this bookshop cafe means pulling back a shelf of books like a character from a spy movie.

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• (books • bookstore • cafes • cool • design • Japanese toilets • Toilets • Tokyo • weird)

Amazing exhibition of Japan’s legendary “cursed katana” is going on right now【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 23, 2016

Don’t forget to purify your soul before heading to this museum’s display of samurai swords that were designed to do just one thing: kill.

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• (awesome • beautiful • cool • culture • history • Katana • Muramasa • museum • samurai • swords)

Japanese hobbyist makes real tiny pizzas in a fully working, smoking miniature wood-fired oven!

• Oona McGee
  Sep 23, 2016

Take a look at these amazing pictures to see how the tiny brick oven was made to scale.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shop • cool • crafts • cute • hobbyist • ovens • pizza • wood-fired • wood-fired pizza)

Japanese futon for your wallet lets it rest, claims to impart Shinto blessings

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 21, 2016

Luxury and divine assistance, all in one tiny, traditional package.

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• Japan
• (cool • futon • shinto • shrines • wallets • weird)

Your Name, the year’s biggest anime hit, inspires one of history’s greatest Minecraft creations

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 17, 2016

Super hard-working director Makoto Shinkai would definitely be proud of this guy.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Makoto Shinkai • Minecraft • movies • video games • your name.)

Tokyo hotel celebrates Halloween with “bloodstained” cake and chocolate that looks like turds

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2016

But don’t fill up on those, because you’ll want to save room for the Witch Organ Soup.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • food • halloween • Hilton Tokyo • hotels • scary • sweets • Tokyo • travel)

Starbucks Mooncakes: a beautiful and delicious take on a traditional product

• Oona McGee
  Sep 15, 2016

Only available in certain countries for a limited time, these regional cakes come with a number of gorgeous details.

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• (autumn • autumn festival • cakes • cool • cute • food • limited edition • moon • moon cakes • moon festival • mooncakes • souvenirs • Starbucks • sweets • taste test • unusual • weird)

Tour Japan’s former capital dressed as a samurai or noble lady on awesome day trip from Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 15, 2016

History buffs and cosplay fans won’t just look like samurai, but eat like them too on their visit to Kamakura.

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• Japan
• (armor • cool • cosplay • culture • history • Kamakura • Kanagawa • kimono • samurai • travel)

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.

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

Japanese Idolmaster anime girls take over Shinjuku Station in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Sep 12, 2016

Shinjuku Station has been transformed for a limited time with anime girls on pylons and stages and huge animated digital LED displays!

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• Japan
• (anime • anime characters • anime girs • cool • cute • gamers • games • gaming • Idolmaster • mobile games • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • wow)

Japanese craftsman creates legendary tweezers in the shape of shields and swords

• Oona McGee
  Sep 10, 2016

Attack unruly hairs like an RPG character with beautiful battle-worthy equipment!

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • gamers • games • gaming • manga • metalworking • shields • swords • tweezers)

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