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Street Kart company famous for Super Mario karts ends crowdfunding campaign with dismal support

• Oona McGee
  Jul 1, 2020
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Attempt to keep the go-karts running on Tokyo roads raises embarrassingly low amount of money.

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • crowdfunding • go-karts • MariCar • Mario Kart • nintendo • Street Kart • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Hankering for a vacation? Try these pseudo-vacations offered in Taiwan and Japan

• Dale Roll
  Jul 1, 2020

Whether digital or just a taste of travel, these experiences might help sate a little bit of your wanderlust!

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (Air travel • airport • clever • coronavirus • digital • sightseeing • Taiwan • travel • vacation • weird)

Kyoto’s annual giant mountain bonfire displays drastically reduced in 2020

• Master Blaster
  Jul 1, 2020

Gozan no Okuribi organizers strike a balance between tradition and safety.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • Daimoji • festivals • Gozan no Okuribi • Kyoto • Obon • tradition)

You can now get stick-on salon masks for haircuts in the coronavirus age in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2020

See-through and strapless, the new masks help getting a haircut in the new normal feel a little more like it did in the old normal.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • coronavirus • hair salons • haircuts • hairstyling • masks)

Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea reveal what it’ll be like for visitors when they reopen【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2020

The new normal at Tokyo Disney Resort is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • COK • coronavirus • theme parks • Tokyo Disney Resort • Tokyo Disney Sea • Tokyo Disneyland • travel)

Pandemic hair trend: A haircut to match your mask not your face

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2020

Top stylist at a Japanese salon in Tokyo says there are three important points to looking good while wearing a face mask. 

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• Japan
• (beauty • COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • face masks • hair • hairdressers • hairstyles • Japanese hairstyles • masks • SNJO)

Super Nintendo World’s opening at Universal Studios Japan delayed indefinitely

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2020

How much longer are we going to have to wait for the world’s first Nintendo theme park zone?

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • coronavirus • nintendo • Super Mario • Super Nintendo World • theme parks • travel • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • video games)

Leading Japanese snack maker to continue teleworking, stop transferring people from own families

• Master Blaster
  Jun 29, 2020

Welcome to the present, Calbee!

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• Japan
• (business • Calbee • coronavirus • corporate culture • COVID-19 • potato chips • tanshin funin • telework)

Barricades placed on Mt. Fuji as mountain officially closes because of coronavirus【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 25, 2020

Surveillance camera, alarm installed to discourage the uninformed and unconcerned.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors • travel • Yoshida Trail)

Breaking: Japanese Prime Minister finally takes a day off after 148-day work streak

• Dale Roll
  Jun 24, 2020

“Socio-economic activity has gone up a level,” he said cheerfully on TV, “So I’m pretty free now.”

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• Japan
• (Abe Shinzo • coronavirus • Japanese politics • Japanese Prime Minister • news • Shinzo Abe)

Tokyo Disneyland will require visitors to wear masks indoors when it reopens next month

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 23, 2020

♪M I C-K E Y, please wear your mask.♪

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • COK • coronavirus • Disney • masks • theme parks • Tokyo Disney Resort • Tokyo Disney Sea • Tokyo Disneyland)

Coronavirus leads to the creation of haunted drive-in in Tokyo this summer【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 23, 2020

Pandemic is changing how haunted houses work in Japan, but the terrifying show will go on.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cars • clever • COK • cool • coronavirus • crazy • drive-in • ghosts • haunted houses • scary • zombies)

Japanese kimono maker creates alluring face mask for hostesses

• Oona McGee
  Jun 20, 2020

Hidden design features add extra sex appeal when eating and drinking.

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• Japan
• (beautiful women • coronavirus • COVID-19 • face masks • hostess bars • masks • reopening after coronavirus)

After months of closure, Sanrio Puroland stages for re-opening in mid-July

• Ingrid Tsai
  Jun 20, 2020

For all lovers of pastel, cute things, and cartoon characters (especially Hello Kitty) alike. 

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • COK • coronavirus • Hello Kitty • Sanrio • Sanrio Puroland • theme parks • Tokyo)

Kyoto man arrested after clerk mishears him say “I have SARS.”

• Master Blaster
  Jun 20, 2020

Wrongfully accused man also loses job after being labelled as “the SARS guy.”

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• Japan
• (adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis • coronavirus • COVID-19 • crime • Joyo • Kyoto • obstruction of business • police • SARS)

No screaming allowed on Japanese roller coasters, and new video shows it can be done【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 19, 2020

Top bosses of Japan’s most popular thrill ride park sit down and shut up.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • cool • coronavirus • crazy • fuji-q highland • funny • roller coasters • theme parks • thrill rides • video • weird)

Toyama Prefectural University able to locate potential COVID-19 clusters from raw sewage

• Master Blaster
  Jun 18, 2020

You too might be able to save lives just by staying regular!

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • health • PCR test • pee • poop • science • sewage • Toyama Prefectural University)

Osaka’s iconic giant pufferfish may disappear due to COVID-19

• Master Blaster
  Jun 12, 2020

The city’s once-bustling tourist areas may never look the same.

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• Japan
• (advertisement • business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • fugu • Osaka • pufferfish • restaurants • sightseeing • Zuboraya)

Japanese store stops talking to customers because of coronavirus, some hope change is permanent

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 11, 2020

Is silence golden, or is chitchat a necessary part of running a store?

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • etiquette • manners • shopping • society)

Japanese mascots endangered by effects of coronavirus

• Master Blaster
  Jun 11, 2020

Is there a place for melon bears and ninja yams in post-corona Japan?

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Mascots • Ohsaki Ichibantaro • Togoshi Ginjiro • yuru-kyara)

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