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Godzilla hammer from Japan lets you smash nails like a kaiju

• Oona McGee
  Apr 25, 2025
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Modelled on Godzilla’s actual foot, scanned from the suit used in the 2001 film.

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• (awesome • cool • crazy • Godzilla • hammer • hammers • kaiju • movies • tools)

American cookie store Pug opens a pop-up in Tokyo for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Apr 23, 2025

Bringing Boston cookies to Japan…with a twist.

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• (cafes • coffee • COK • cookies • cool • food • Japanese food • Miyashita Park • pug • restaurants • review • Shibuya • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tokyo)

Pageant in Gifu Prefecture allows all races, genders, species, and levels of existence to enter

• Master Blaster
  Apr 22, 2025

You don’t get much more inclusive than that.

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• (cool • diversity • festivals • funny • Gifu • inclusiveness • Nohime • Nohime Festival • Nohime Gran Prix • Oda Nobunaga • pageants)

Huge 301,390-square foot Demon Slayer anime rice paddy art project planned, Tanjiro will be eaten

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 21, 2025

Volunteer recruitment means you could help plant, and then eat, Demon Slayer’s protagonist.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crazy • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Gyoda • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • rice • rice paddy • rice paddy art)

What’s the story behind the running boy mascot in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 21, 2025

“Emotional parking boy that can be used every day” is missing one vital thing.

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• Japan
• (anime characters • art • car park • characters • cool • cute • Japanese mascots • mascot characters • Mascots • parking • parking areas • parking lot • parking lots • regional characters • regional mascots • Shikoku • Tokushima)

Sound that alleviates motion sickness found by Nagoya University team

• Master Blaster
  Apr 19, 2025

He who controls the Spice Sound controls his tummy.

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• Japan
• (cool • health • medicine • motion sickness • Nagoya University • science • sound • Spice Sound • wellness)

Life-size Nier: Automata sword going on sale, includes 2B’s voice if you swing it the right way

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 19, 2025

To buy, or not to buy 2B’s starting sword?

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • Nier • Nier: Automata • Square Enix • swords • video games)

Why is this cafe in Asakusa so popular with foreign tourists?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 14, 2025

Japanese kissaten becomes a hit with international visitors.

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• (Asakusa • breakfast • breakfast set • cafes • cool • drinks • early morning breakfast • food • Japanese breakfast • kissaten • restaurants • Tokyo • tourists)

Child-friendly Starbucks store opens in Osaka offering child-exclusive drinks

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 12, 2025

Kids in tow but still need your coffee fix? Starbucks’ newest branch is the perfect location for families.

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• Japan
• (Aeon Mall Dainichi • cafes • children • COK • cool • drinks • drinks for children • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fun for kids • Japanese Frappuccino • kid-friendly • kids • Kids Frappuccino • Moriguchi • Osaka • shopping mall • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

New cafe in Japan won’t let you leave until you solve a mystery

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 12, 2025

Hatena Coffee lives up to its name.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cool • crazy • escape rooms • mystery • puzzles • restaurants • riddles • weird • Yokohama)

Five Daiso souvenirs you should buy in Japan right now

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2025

Grab these must-buy Japanese items before they go viral on social media.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • cheap souvenirs • COK • cool • Daiso • Japanese souvenirs • shopping • SNJO • souvenirs)

Starbucks customers in Japan create a weird food hack that’s gone viral online

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2025

New food trend might seem crazy, but it actually works.

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • Earl grey • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • teas • Teavana)

Starbucks releases a new Frappuccino in Japan to help us “forget about everyday life”

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2025

A new drink and sweets to ease our sorrows.

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• (cool • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)

Starbucks Japan unveils exclusive new drinkware goods for summer

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2025

Mugs, cups and tumblers make a splash for a limited time.

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• (cool • cups • drinkware • limited edition • mugs • Starbucks • Starbucks drinkware • Starbucks goods • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • tumblers)

The Sushiro of the future to open at the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025

• Master Blaster
  Apr 7, 2025

Great Scott! It’s Sushi to the Future!

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • COK • conveyer belt sushi • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • Expo 2025 • food • future • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • seafood • sushi • Sushiro • sustainability • technology)

Japan’s unofficial but approved Ghibli anime cafe is opening a new branch and looking for staff

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 3, 2025

Kodama is expanding with a new location closer to the Ghibli theme park.

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• (anime • cafes • cool • food • Ghibli Park • manga • Nagoya • restaurants • Studio Ghibli • themed cafes • themed restaurants)

Want to eat ramen and sushi together? New restaurant in Tokyo makes culinary dreams come true

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2025

A two-in-one restaurant that’s yet to be discovered by foreign tourists.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • Japanese food • ramen • ramen restaurant • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurant • sushi restaurants • Tokyo • tourism • travel • weird)

Starbucks Japan adds a new milk tea Frappucino to its lineup for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Mar 28, 2025

New collection champions a special Japanese tea blend at exclusive stores.

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• (cool • drinks • Earl grey • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • teas • Teavana)

Japanese convenience stores get old-school elegance with their own tokonoma alcoves【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 27, 2025

Sakura Mikura branches have an interior feature more commonly found in traditional ryokan inns.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • convenience stores • cool • drinks • food • ryokan • Sakura Mikura • SNJO • tokonoma)

New Okonomiyaki Burger flips up the fast food scene in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 26, 2025

Exclusively available in one area of the country.

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• Japan
• (burgers • cool • fast food • food • local specialties • Lotteria • okonomiyaki • Osaka • weird • weird food)

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  3. Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
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  8. Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
  9. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
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  1. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  2. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
  3. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  4. Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
  5. Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
  6. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  7. Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
  8. Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
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  2. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  3. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  4. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
  5. What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?
  6. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  7. Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
  8. New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
  9. Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
  10. Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
  4. Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
  5. Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
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  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
  8. Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
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  10. Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa

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