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Studio Ghibli releases new Spirited Away earrings featuring mysterious anime bathhouse character

Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2026
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Cleverly designed jewellery sways while you wear it, just like Kasuga-sama does in the animated film.

Japan
(anime • anime merchandise • culture • Donguri Kyowakoku • earrings • fashion • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • jewellery • jewelry • Kasuga sama • Kasuga Shrine • Kasuga Taisha • merchandise • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Katana of one of Japan’s most famous swordsmen goes on display to help Kumamoto earthquake victims

Casey Baseel
Jul 30, 2026

The sword of the vice-captain of the Shinsengumi is being called into action once again in a touching story of repaying kindness.

Japan
(culture • disaster • Hijikata Toshizo • history • Katana • Kumamoto • kumamoto earthquake • moving • museums • shinsengumi • swords • touching)

Pachinko industry rebounds on convenience and innovation, but smaller parlors struggle to keep up

Elliot Hale
Jul 29, 2026

No more heavy ball baskets or stacks of cash, but the same ol’ sensory rush with a modern flair.

Japan
(business • COK • culture • entertainment • gambling • pachinko • pachinko machines • pachinko parlors • society • technology)

Dance with demons in Kyoto at this Edo-period Japanese Halloween festival

Elliot Hale
Jul 25, 2026

Turning a samurai film set into a monster dance party with J-pop choreography.

Japan
(COK • cool • crazy • culture • dance • demons • Eigamura • Kaikai Yokai Festival • Kyoto • parade • scary • Terupop • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel • Uzumasa Kyoto Village • yokai)

Evangelion beautifully reimagined as iconic classical Japanese folding screen art series [Photos]

Casey Baseel
Jul 16, 2026

Fujin and Raijin take a break and leave divine duties up to the Eva units.

Japan
(anime • culture • Evangelion • Fujin • Fujin Raijin • history • manga • Raijin • ukiyo-eart • Wind God and Thunder God)

Enoshima’s magical night lantern festival is back this summer with spectacular views

Elliot Hale
Jul 12, 2026

An island transforms into a wonderland of digital art, musical sea shells, and 1,000 glowing lanterns.

Japan
(art • beautiful • culture • day-trips • digital art • digital art exhibition • Enoshima • Enoshima Tourou • festival • Fujisawa • illumination • Japanese lanterns • Kanagawa • lantern festival • shrine • summer festival • tourism • travel)

Studio Ghibli mini towels add anime flair to a Japanese cultural tradition

Oona McGee
Jul 1, 2026

Beloved Ghibli characters want to hold your hand and welcome you into the Japanese world of mini towels.

Japan
(anime • cool • culture • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese culture • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • summer • Totoro • towels)

“Alcohol is the best medicine” removed from Japanese government website

Master Blaster
Jun 24, 2026

A few beers a day keeps the doctor away, because you forgot your appointment.

Japan
(alcohol • COK • crazy • culture • funny • government • health • history • National Tax Agency • sake • weird • wellness)

Japan opens shrine for plush toys in Kyoto, offering memorial rites and a resting place for remains

Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2026

A heartwarming way to say thank you to the plush toys you have loved, and who have loved you in return.

Japan
(culture • Kyoto • news • nuigurumi • plush toys • plushies • religion • shinto • shrines • soft toys • toys)

Japanese soccer fans show excellent manners as World Cup opens[Pics, video]

Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2026

Chants and headbands aren’t the only tradition supporters of Japan’s sports teams bring with them when attending events overseas.

Japan
(2026 World Cup • COK • culture • etiquette • manners • moving • soccer • society • sports • touching • World Cup)

What’s up with the Ghibli Park photo and video ban?

Oona McGee
May 31, 2026

Theme park prohibition strangely opens the door to a new kind of creative freedom.

Japan
(Aichi • Amusement Parks • anime • culture • Ghibli Park • Goro Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki • manga • Mei and Satsuki's House • photography • social media • society • theme parks • travel)

Gundam teams up with 300-year-old daruma maker for wood-carved anime mecha figures[Photos]

Casey Baseel
May 24, 2026

It’s a Gun-daruma!

Japan
(anime • art • cool • culture • daruma • Freedom Gundam • Fukushima • Fukushima prefecture • Gundam • Gundam SEED • Justice Gundam • mecha • robots • shirakawa)

Japanese temple burns to the ground, fire burning inside for 1,200 years unharmed

Casey Baseel
May 22, 2026

Sacred fire saved from non-sacred fire on Miyajima.

Japan
(crazy • culture • Daishoin • fire • history • Miyajima • temples • video • weird)

Now you can carry the unnerving terror and beauty of Noh masks with you with new pouches from Japan

Casey Baseel
May 14, 2026

Practical and horrifying!

Japan
(accessories • art • culture • Felissimo • masks • Noh • pouches • scary • scrazy • weird)

Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp

Master Blaster
May 2, 2026

Pray to get ahead or to keep your head.

Japan
(bicycle helmets • bicycles • bicycling • COK • culture • cycling • Mie Prefecture • religion • safety • shinto • shrines)

Temple with 600-year-old tree near busy Tokyo station is like a tranquil pocket dimension

Casey Baseel
Apr 21, 2026

Who’d have guessed there was a centuries-old snack shop too just a quick stroll away from one of downtown’s busiest rail hubs?

Japan
(beautiful • COK • cool • culture • gingko • gingko trees • history • icho • Ikebukuro • SNJO • temples.shrines • Tokyo • urban exploring • walking courses • Zoshigaya)

Japanese-style afternoon tea in this Japanese manor house outside downtown Tokyo is something special

Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2026

The atmosphere is as elegant as the cuisine at this amazing restaurant.

Japan
(afternoon tea • architecture • awesome • beautiful • COK • cool • culture • food • history • oyashiki • restaurants • SNJO • yashiki)

Japanese manhole lid raises eyebrows with fertility god symbol that looks like… well, you know

SoraNews24
Apr 9, 2026

Festival of the Steel Phallus deity gets a steel lid in a rural city.

Japan
(culture • fertility • fertility god • Iwate • Kanamara • Kanamara Daimyojin • Kanamara Festival • manhole covers • manhole lids • Ninohe • shrines • temples • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Famous koi ponds overwhelmed with tourists throwing thousands of coins in them

Master Blaster
Apr 8, 2026

Koi and coins don’t mix.

Japan
(coins • culture • Japanese etiquette • koi • luck • Oshino Hakkai • ponds • superstition)

Japanese politicians working to promote plastic model culture as a cultural asset

Master Blaster
Mar 27, 2026

Govpla?

Japan
(culture • Gunpla • hobbies • model kits • modeling • models • politics Cool Japan • Yoko Kamikawa)

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