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Starbucks Japan releases custom tumblers…that wear aprons

• Oona McGee
  Sep 17, 2024
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With 343 possible combinations, it’s like the Crocs craze, only with tumblers instead of shoes.

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• (bottles • coffee • COK • cool • custom bottle • custom tumbler • customisation • drinks • drinkware • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers)

Japanese pizza chain starts nationwide delivery of for-dogs pizzas

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2024

Pizza-La is going to the dogs…the dogs’ homes, that is.

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• Japan
• (animals • cool • crazy • food • pet food • pets • pizza • Pizza-la • weird)

Studio Ghibli lets you cosplay as Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle with cosy anime fashion range

• Oona McGee
  Sep 14, 2024

Sparkle with Ghibli magic from head to toe.

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• (anime • cardigan • cool • cosplay • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • howl • Howl's cloak • Howl's Moving Castle • stole • Studio Ghibli)

Awesome Transformers 40th anniversary anime short created in famous studio team-up【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2024

Trigger teams up with top-talent studios and Bump of Chicken for a 40-year love letter to the entire Transformers franchise.

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• (anime • awesome • Bump of Chicken • cool • J-Pop • manga • music • Optimus Prime • Production IG • Studio Trigger • Takara Tomy • Transformers • video)

Studio Ghibli releases free-download board game — Here’s how to play it without reading Japanese

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2024

The sugoroku trip around Ghibli Park is also an Easter egg hunt.

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• (anime • board game • Catbus • cool • cute • free • Ghibli Park • Goro Miyazaki • manga • Studio Ghibli • sugoroku • Totoro)

Pikachu/Game Boy manhole cover installed at Nintendo Museum, not viewable by general public

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2024

The newest Pokémon manhole cover is also the first to feature the classic Nintendo hardware, but not everyone will get to see it.

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• (anime • cool • cute • Game Boy • Kyoto • manga • manhole covers • museums • nintendo • Nintendo Museum • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Pokémon manhole covers • video games)

Tiny chocolate croissants cause a big stir at popular bakery cafe in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Sep 11, 2024

You won’t find a chocolate drink like this at any other cafe chain.

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• (cafes • chocolate • COK • cool • croissants • drinks • limited edition • new • Saint Marc • smoothies • SNJO • St. Marc Cafe • sweets • tiny croissant)

“I will continuously compliment you” – Buying praise from Tokyo’s street complimenter【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2024

Can a person we’ve just met really make us feel better about ourselves?

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • funny • moving • SNJO • touching • video • weird • Yuichiro Wasai)

“Please watch until the end.” McDonald’s Japan’s beautiful moon-viewing anime video has cozy twist

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2024

McDonald’s Japan continues to be a reliable source for tasty burgers and heartwarming anime art.

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• (anime • burgers • commercials • cool • fast food • food • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • moving • touching • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers • video)

Kyoto becomes City of Yokai, with Night Parade of One Hundred Demons festival this autumn

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2024

Japan’s supernatural world springs to life in a special Hyakki Yagyo event you won’t want to miss. 

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• (cool • crazy • culture • demons • ghosts • Hyakki Yagyo • Kyoto • monsters • parade • scary • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel • video • yokai)

Japan now has teriyaki pear burgers – Are they crazy good, or just crazy?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2024

While everyone else is rolling out tsukimi burgers, Dom Dom slips in a nashi burger.

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• (burgers • COK • cool • crazy • Dom Dom • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • fruit • hamburgers • Nashi • pears • SNJO • taste test • teriyaki • teriyaki burger • weird)

Japanese public toilet in Tokyo has windows that change colour when you use it

• Oona McGee
  Sep 1, 2024

Join us as we use one of Japan’s most unusual restrooms.

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• (architecture • art • COK • cool • Japanese restrooms • Japanese toilets • Perfect Days • public restroom • public toilets • restroom • Shibuya • SNJO • The Tokyo Toilet • Toilets • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • tourists • transparent toilet • travel • Yoyogi)

Japan’s UFO village, where the magnetic field is said to attract visitors from outer space

• Oona McGee
  Sep 1, 2024

UFO stories abound in this area, and there’s plenty to make you think in this under-the-radar town.

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• (aliens • COK • cool • Fukushima • Masanuki Sunakoma • mysteries • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • UFO • UFO sighting • UFO Village • UFOs)

Virtual idol Hatsune Miku to act in kabuki play with human co-star【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2024

Cho-Kabuki announces new version of Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura.

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• (COK • cool • crazy • culture • Expo 2025 • Hatsune Miku • kabuki • virtual idols • Vocaloid)

Japanese police are not messing around, with Patlabor robot mecha out on display 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2024

Giant Ingram steps out of the anime world to fight crime in Japan on behalf of the police force. 

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• (anime • cool • crazy • giant robot • Ingram • manga • mecha • news • only in Japan • Patlabor • police • robots • twitter • videos • weird)

The heartwarming story of Japan’s “Weakling Gundam” and the fans who supported it in its hour of need

• Oona McGee
  Aug 27, 2024

A roadside mecha with a touching backstory.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • COK • cool • cute • Fukushima • Gundam • Gundam statue • heartwarming • Hetare Gundam • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • SNJO • touching • tourist sites • travel • Weak Gundam • Weakling Gundam)

Pizza Hut releases Tsukimi Moon-Viewing pizzas for 2025, with industry-first “shadow picture box”

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2024

Japan’s newest pizzas come with…rabbit? 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • fast food • festivals • food • marketing • moon viewing • news • otsukimi • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • rabbit • shadow art • tsukimi • weird • weird food)

Fans of Japanese convenience store Seicomart go crazy for new drinkable choc-mint ice cream

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2024

There are many reasons to love this cult beverage.

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• Japan
• (choc mint • COK • conbini • conbini food • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • drinks • hakka • Hokkaido • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • Masanuki Sunakoma • mint • Seicomart • SNJO • sweets)

This Japanese pub with one-yen bottles of sake broke our brain and made our day

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2024

We have no idea how this is possible, but we’re oh so happy it is.

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• (alcohol • awesome • bars • cheap • COK • cool • crazy • izakaya • nihonshu • pubs • restaurants • sake • SNJO)

Bruno Mars creates commercial for Japan’s Don Quijote discount retail chain【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 24, 2024

The “Kawaii King” releases a catchy new bop for Japan’s craziest souvenir store. 

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• Japan
• (ads • Bruno Mars • COK • commercials • cool • dance • dancers • dancing • Don Quijote • Donki • Japanese commercial • marketing • music • music video • Shibuya • shops • SNJO • videos)

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