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More tip jars appear at Japanese restaurants, but there are important reasons why you shouldn’t tip
- Oona McGee
Oct 1, 2025 - Tweet
Japan is now at a cultural tipping point, where foreign influences threaten to destroy local customs.
- Japan
- (culture • customer service • customs • japanese customs • restaurant tips • restaurants • society • tipping • tipping culture • tips • tourism • tourist industry • tourist manners • tourists • traditions)
Masterpieces of Japanese art brought to you through cake and cookies
- Master Blaster
Sep 29, 2025
Inspiringly delicious.
- Japan
- (art • baumkuchen • culture • food • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • macarons • sweets • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e • veautiful)
Visiting Dejima, the only island where Westerners were allowed in Japan for hundreds of years
- Casey Baseel
Sep 23, 2025
Designed to let foreign goods in while keeping foreign ideas out, this Nagasaki neighborhood is one of the most historically significant places in Japan.
Married couples in Japan must have the same surname, so does Mr. Sato regret taking his wife’s?
- Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2025
10 years after legally giving up his Sato-hood, would he make the same choice again?
- Japan
- (COK • culture • family names • last names • marriage • Mr. Sato • relationships • romance • SNJIO • society • surnames)
Japanese viewers unsure what to make of comedian’s shirtless apology to Turkish people
- Master Blaster
Sep 18, 2025
Be careful when releasing potato chips, or this could happen to you too.
- Japan
- (apology • comedians • culture • Egashira 2:50 • food • kebab • pork • potato chips • religion • turkey • Turkiye • video)
A crash course in Japanese folktales from a trip to the five Taro Parks of Gifu【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2025
Technically there are four Taros, but these are still five legends worth knowing.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • folktales • history • Kintaro • Momotaro • nature • outdoors • parks • SNJO • tourism • travel • Urashima Taro)
Osaka city employee suspended and demoted for verbally abusing boss
- Master Blaster
Sep 13, 2025
Great, just give him more bosses to abuse…
- Japan
- (city employees • culture • Osaka • Osaka dialect • power harassment • Toyonaka • verbal abuse)
This overlooked neighborhood east of Tokyo is awesome in many ways, left us with just one regret
- Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2025
And that regret is entirely on us, not on Shimosa Nakayama Station.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • food • history • Mr. Sato • Shimosa Nakayama • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)
Foreign tourist steals offering and chugs booze in Japanese cemetery, sparking police investigation
- Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2025
People both living and dead in Japan have reason to be very angry at this moron.
- Japan
- (Buddhism • cemeteries • crime • culture • foreign tourists • graves • religion • society)
How to turn a Japanese kei car into a yankee party vehicle with accessories from Don Quijote
- Oona McGee
Aug 24, 2025
Pimp your ride like a hooligan for under 70 bucks.
- Japan
- (car accessories • cars • cool • culture • Dekotora • Don Quijote • Japanese cars • kei car • lights • Masanuki Sunakoma • music • SNJO • vehicles • Yankee)
The number of tourists was declining in this Japanese city, but Ono is now making its comeback
- Elliot Hale
Aug 24, 2025
Bouncing back after a natural disaster, Ono showcases the charm of its floating castle, pristine springs, and soy sauce gelato.
- Japan
- (castles • COK • culture • Fukui • fukui prefecture • history • Japan travel • Ono • Shichiken-dori • SNJO • spring water • Tasuku Egawa • tourism • travel)
New mineral discovered in Japan named after the goddess of the sun
- Master Blaster
Aug 19, 2025
Researchers are far from jaded about this jade.
- Japan
- (Amaterasu • Amaterasuite • culture • jade • jadeite • mineralogy • minerals • rocks • science • shinto)
Rhinoceros beetles falling out of favor with Japanese kids
- Master Blaster
Aug 18, 2025
Hotter summers to blame for insect-adverse kids.
- Japan
- (culture • insects • Kabutomushi • kids • rhinoceros beetle • summer)
World’s oldest manga is now a bra thanks to Japanese lingerie maker’s art history series【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 16, 2025
Peach John’s Master’s Bra design draws inspiration from an official national treasure of Japan.
- Japan
- (anime • art • Choju-Giga • Chojugiga • Chojujinbutsugiga Choju-giga • culture • fashion • history • lingerie • manga • Master’s Bra • Peach John)
Why a sugegasa sedge hat needs to be your Japan summer essential
- Oona McGee
Aug 12, 2025
Prevent heatstroke and beat the heat with a product that’s been around for centuries.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • fashion • hats • Mr. Sato • sandogasa • SNJO • straw hats • sugegasa • summer)
Akihabara maids gather to splash water at Tokyo shrine in annual uchimizu event【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 12, 2025
Traditional and modern Japanese culture mix at Kanda Shrine.
- Japan
- (at home • COK • culture • heat • hot • Kanda • Kanda Myojin • kanda shrine • maid cafes • maids • otaku • shrines • uchimizu)
Immerse yourself in all things Heisei era at the Neo Heisei Retro exhibition now open in Shibuya
- Krista Rogers
Jul 31, 2025
“I didn’t choose the Heisei retro life–the Heisei retro life chose me.”
- Japan
- (Chi⭐︎Q • culture • exhibition • Neo Heisei Retro • nostalgia • pop culture • Seibu Shibuya • Shibuya • Tokyo)
Towering lanterns light up the summer sky at Akita’s famous festival
- Elliot Hale
Jul 25, 2025
Watch performers balance spectacular lantern poles on their chins in an unforgettable summer festival.
- Japan
- (Akita • Akita Prefecture • COK • culture • festivals • Kanto festival • lanterns • Matsuri • summer festivals • Three Great Tohoku Festivals • Tohoku • tourism • travel)
This traditional Japanese castle keep is home to a branch of government
- Oona McGee
Jul 23, 2025
Ruling the land from inside a Japanese fortress.
- Japan
- (castle • castles • cool • culture • Fukui • government • history • japanese castle • Japanese castles • SNJO • travel)
Restaurant payment app starts its second attempt to make tipping a thing in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 11, 2025
Second tip option added to service that also has Oshi Support.
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