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7-Eleven Japan rethinks convenience store drinks with new Grilled Corn Chilled Soup Smoothie

• Oona McGee
  Aug 7, 2026
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Exclusive to only two wards in Tokyo, this is a must-try drink that’s very hard to get.

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7-Eleven Japan adds new cold soup smoothies to its convenience store drinks range

• Oona McGee
  Jul 31, 2026

Cold soup smoothies are good for the gut and good for the ‘Gram.

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Godiva melts minds by releasing a new corn chocolate drink in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 9, 2026

We find out if this new limited-edition Chocolixir really tastes like corn potage soup.

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Studio Ghibli adds new My Neighbour Totoro 2026 Corn Gift to its anime store for Mother’s Day

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2026

New release contains exclusive My Neighbour Totoro products that can’t be purchased anywhere else. 

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Studio Ghibli unveils Mother’s Day gift set that captures the love in My Neighbour Totoro

• Oona McGee
  Mar 28, 2024

Because the gift of corn is a special one for lovers of Ghibli.

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• (anime • corn • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • gift • Hayao Miyazaki • merchandise • Mother's Day • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Drinkable Choco Flakes in a can contains…pieces of actual corn?!

• Oona McGee
  Oct 30, 2023

When you want to remind people what cornflakes are made of, in an unforgettable way. 

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• (canned drinks • cereal • choco flakes • COK • corn • cornflakes • drinks • food • Japanese food • K. Masami • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird drinks)

Studio Ghibli’s Mother’s Day corn set is a heartwarming gift for Totoro fans

• Oona McGee
  Apr 19, 2023

Fans of Kiki’s Delivery Service are also in for a pleasant surprise.

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• (cool • corn • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • gifts • goods • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • Mother's Day • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Japanese monaka ice cream looks very different in Hokkaido

• Oona McGee
  Oct 25, 2022

Does the corniest ice cream on the market really capture the taste of the region?

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• (COK • corn • desserts • Hokkaido • ice creams • local specialties • Masanuki Sunakoma • monaka • review • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • unusual • weird)

Ghibli now lets you give your mom a Totoro-style Mother’s Day present with the Corn Gift Set【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 6, 2022

You can give gifts like Mei this May.

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Japanese pork cutlet chain unveils its latest fusion food: cornflake chicken katsu bowls!

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 9, 2020

Katsuya has a crunchy cereal chicken coating for when breadcrumbs just won’t cut it.

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• (chicken katsu • corn • corn flakes • cornflakes • food • fried food • Japanese food • Katsuya • limited time)

“Grilled corn” and “gyoza” flavored shaved ice sold at Saitama cafe

• Master Blaster
  Jul 21, 2017

This certainly doesn’t help the stereotype that Japan will put corn on top of anything.

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• (corn • crazy • food • gyoza • kakigori • restaurants • Saitama • shaved ice • sweets • weird)

We asked Pizza Hut to add 75 bucks’ worth of corn to our pizza in true Japanese style

• Evie Nyan
  Nov 3, 2016

Do you like a lot of corn on your pizza? Then you might be Japanese.

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Handy little Japanese invention removes kernels from your corn cob in seconds

• Aleisha Riboldi
  Oct 11, 2015

Are you looking for the perfect novelty gift for that special someone who already has everything? Do you hate getting corn stuck in your teeth? Then you’ll be glad to know that the Corn Peeler might just be the item you’ve been looking for, and it just might revolutionise the way you eat corn.

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Perfect Mother’s Day gift: My Neighbor Totoro-inspired “corn gift set”

• Meg Murphy
  Apr 16, 2015

Moms are awesome, there’s no denying it. Not only did they bring us into this world, for most of us, they made sure we were clothed and fed, bought us all sorts of unnecessary junk that we wanted just to make us happy, put up with all of our whining, cleaned up after us when we got sick, and lost countless amounts of money, hair, sleep, and probably even their sanity to make sure we led a happy life. That’s why there’s Mother’s Day (May 10 in Japan and the US), to celebrate all the great mums out there – be they birth mothers, adoptive mothers, or any other mother-figure in your life.

Hoping to find something a little different this year than the usual bouquet of flowers or fancy chocolates? We’ve found just the thing- a “toumorokoshi (corn)” gift set inspired by the Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. It’s too cute to pass up!

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• (corn • cute • gifts • Mother's Day • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli)

Cornman Continues to Patrol Tokyo’s Yamanote Line, but Why?

• Master Blaster
  Oct 13, 2012

Recent reports of an unidentified passenger of the Yamanote subway line in Tokyo including this recent picture has every one asking: “Who is Cornman?” and more importantly, “What the hell is he doing?”

The first known photo (below) was tweeted back in May and showed a seemingly normal fellow towing what appeared to be a single unhusked ear of corn attached by a bright red dog leash heading towards the station exit.

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