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Hidden smartphone feature reveals a strange Japanese emoticon

• Oona McGee
  Mar 19, 2022
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Typing this Japanese word into your iPhone or Android device will introduce you to some very unusual characters.

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• Japan
• (Android • cool • cute • emoji • emoticons • hack • iPhone • kaomoji • Simeji • Smartphones • technology • trends • twitter • viral • wow)

Family hands in lost wallet, gets surprise Pokémon anime cels in return

• Oona McGee
  Mar 18, 2022

Twitter user’s search for the mystery person behind the gift leads them to the original background artist 20 years later.

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• Japan
• (animation • animation cels • anime • art • ash • cels • cool • heartwarming • lost property • Misty • omotenashi • Pikachu • Pokemon • twitter)

Pokémon skeletons and fossils now on display at Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022

Excavator Pikachu and a few of his extinct pals want to teach us about real-world fossils.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • exhibitions • fossils • museums • National Museum of Nature and Science • Pikachu • Pokemon • science • video games • weird)

Demon Slayer pulls off feat no other series has done with Japan’s biggest anime magazines【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022

“This is the first, and probably the last, time for us to try something like this.”

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• Japan
• (Animage • anime • art • clever • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • illustration • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • newtype • SNJO)

Japan’s plastic model capital installs working plastic model-style payphones【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2022

Plastic Model-ization Plan welcomes its newest public art pieces.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • models • pay phones • phones • plastic models • public phones • Shizuoka • Shizuoka City)

We underestimated the special curry spoon from Japan’s favorite curry chain【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2022

CoCo Ichibanya makes some great curry, and it turns out they make a great spoon too.

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• Japan
• (coco ichi • coco ichibanya • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • SNJO • spoon • weird)

VR metaverse of Akihabara Station being made by JR East, netizens scoff at early quality

• Katie Pask
  Mar 12, 2022

“This looks like something from a PlayStation 2 game,” one netizen commented.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Akihabara Station • cool • Hikki • Japan Railways • JR • metaverse • technology • Tokyo • trains • Virtual Market • virtual reality • VR)

New president of Chile receives Pokémon from Japanese diplomat【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 11, 2022

And no, it wasn’t Pikachu on the goodwill mission.

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• (anime • Chile • cool • funny • Gabriel Boric • Pokemon • politicians • politics • squirtle • video • video games)

Giant Gundams occupy Yokohama as part of Gundam Port Yokohama art project【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 11, 2022

Full-scale reproduction of anime’s Last Shooting finale and more draws fans to the bayside city.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • COK • cool • Gundam • Minato Mirai • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • SNO • Yokohama)

Anime franchise Uma Musume takes over trains in Tokyo with horse girl artwork【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 11, 2022

Fans of the series that turned real race horses into cute anime girls will definitely want to ride this.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • SNJO • trains • Uma Musume • video games • Yamanote line)

3-D printing a house in less than 24 hours — Japanese company meets its goal

• SoraNews24
  Mar 10, 2022

Sphere micro-houses will cost about as much as a compact car, designers say.

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• Japan
• (3-D Printing • COK • cool • houses • micro-houses • technology)

A self-driving car that delivers ramen is Nissan’s newest automotive innovation【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2022

Speeds up and down the counter without spilling a drop.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cars • cool • food • gadgets • nissan • Noodles • ramen • technology • video)

Freakishly muscular life-size statues of Grappler Baki anime/manga cast intimidate and amaze【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2022

Special exhibition recreates Underground Arena to celebrate the martial arts series’ 30th anniversary.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • Baki • COK • cool • crazy • events • exhibition • figures • Grappler Baki • manga • SNJO)

Unusual guardians appear at Kyoto’s Kiyomizudera temple

• Oona McGee
  Mar 7, 2022

A surprise twist on traditional Japan that includes a giant kokeshi doll. 

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• Japan
• (art • art installation • artists • Artists' Fair Kyoto 2022 • contemporary art • cool • guardian dogs • Kenji Yanobe • Kiyomizudera • kokeshi • koma inu • Kyoto • Lion Dogs • mystery spot • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • wtf)

Not ready to go full tatami? This clever item adds a dash of Japanese reed flooring to your home

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 5, 2022

Part stool, part flooring, and entirely cool.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • interior • reed flooring • tatami)

This is chalk?!? Yep, and it’s a touching Pokémon goodbye from a Japanese teacher to his students

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2022

Teacher bookends three years with his class with two stunning pieces of chalkboard art.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • chalkboard art • cool • Dragon Quest • education • illustrtion • moving • Pokemon • Pokémon Arceus • Pokemon Legends Arceus • schools • Teachers • touching • video games)

In search of Japan’s biggest tanuki, we stumble across something equally big

• Oona McGee
  Mar 3, 2022

Japanese raccoon dogs are known for their large…ahem, appendages. But which one is the largest of them all?

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• Japan
• (animals • ceramics • COK • cool • culture • folklore • Japanese folklore • pottery • raccoon dogs • Shiga • Shigaraki • Shigaraki ware • Shigarakiyaki • SNJO • Tanuki • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • trains • travel • unusual • weird)

Kids magazine comes with functioning ticket gate machine, makes beeping sounds when gates open

• Katie Pask
  Feb 28, 2022

New edition of children’s magazine Youchien even has adults reaching for their wallets.

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• Japan
• (cool • craft • crafts • densha otaku • JR • JR East • jr ticket machine • kids • kids craft • kindergarten • magazine • papercraft • train)

Japanese KitKats get Japanese anime video from Kyoto Animation director【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2022

Nestle wants to turn fans’ sweet stories into future installments.

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• Japan
• (anime • chocolate • cool • food • Japanese KitKats • KitKats • Kyoto Animation • Nestle • sweets • video)

Japanese full armor cosplayers head to their local Adventurer’s Guild for a fantasy feast【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2022

Thankfully there were no random monster encounters along the way.

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• Japan
• (armor • awesome • cool • cosplay • crazy • Dark Souls • Fantasy • knights • restaurants • themed restaurants)

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