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On-site coverage of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo from our reporter’s mother

• Master Blaster
  Apr 22, 2025
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Seiji’s mom gives us her firsthand account.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • COK • events • Mr. Sato • Osaka • Seiji Nakazawa • Seiji's mom • SNJO)

Japanese comedy giant Yoshimoto holds surprisingly existential pavilion at 2025 Expo

• Master Blaster
  Apr 11, 2025

To laugh or not to laugh. That is the question.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • art • comedy • entertainment • events • Osaka • pavilions • Yoshimoto Kogyo)

The Great Capcom Exhibition is coming to Osaka this spring

• Master Blaster
  Mar 8, 2025

All the Capcom characters are here, from Ryu to the other Ryu!

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Devil May Cry • events • exhibitions • Great Capcom Exhibition • Monster Hunter • Nakanoshima Museum of Art • Osaka • Resident Evil • Street Fighter • video games)

Store where you pay to shoplift returns to Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Mar 3, 2025

It’s a store where crime does pay.

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• Japan
• (Akasaka • events • games • shoplifting • shopping • TBS Radio • TOH • Tokyo)

One Piece Day to be held outside Japan for the first time this March, admission is FREE!

• Master Blaster
  Mar 1, 2025

A huge event in a huge state is in the cards.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Dallas • events • manga • One Piece • One Piece Day • One Piece Trading Card Game • Texas)

Potential-measuring techno crystals, mist that doesn’t get you wet to be part of Osaka Expo 2025

• Master Blaster
  Feb 19, 2025

Wait no m0re for The Land of Nomo.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • COK • cool • events • Osaka • Panasonic • pavilion • technology • The Land of Nomo)

Black Thunder grab event in Tokyo gets you a fistful of chocolate bars for less than 30 cents

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2025

How many of these iconic Japanese chocolates can we grab for 40 yen?

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • chocolates • cool • events • food • Harajuku • marketing • Shibuya • snacks • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • Yuraku Confectionery)

Drink hot sake at Tokyo train station’s “phantom platform”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2024

A special winter drinking event you won’t want to miss.

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• Japan
• (atsukan • COK • cool • events • food • hot sake • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese sake • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • oden • restaurants • Ryogoku • Ryogoku Station • sake • Tokyo • train stations • trains • unique • unusual • winter)

Legendary artist EYE to hold his largest mass-percussion event ever in Tokyo with crowdfunding underway

• Master Blaster
  Oct 10, 2024

Floodway in Tokyo to be flooded with soundwaves.

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• Japan
• (Arakawa River • art • Arv100 • Boredoms • cymbals • drums • events • Eye Yamataka • music • percussion • Tokyo)

Ado and GRe4N to perform at One Piece Day 2024, live and streaming

• Master Blaster
  Jul 9, 2024

This year’s event includes full concert lineups.

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• Japan
• (Ado • anime • events • GRe4N Boyz • Greeeen • Hiroshi Kitadani • J-Pop • Makuhari Messe • manga • Mori Calliope • music • One Piece • One Piece Day • Tokyo)

Unko Museum Tokyo holds a Japanese poo festival in Odaiba

• Oona McGee
  Jul 5, 2024

A scat twist on a Japanese festival. 

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• Japan
• (cool • events • festivals • fun • funny • hanami • Japanese festivals • Japanese summer festival • Matsuri • natsu matsuri • news • poo • summer • summer events • summer festival • Tokyo • unko • Unko Museum)

We take part in a T-Rex race at Nara, Japan, turns out to be a wet and wild event

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2024

Extinct theropods take over Unesco World Heritage Site for a race like no other.

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• Japan
• (activities • COK • cool • costumes • cute • dinosaurs • events • funny • Heijo Palace • K. Masami • Nara • SNJO • sport • T-Rex • T-Rex race • travel • World Heritage site)

Toyota built a life-sized Miraidon Pokémon and are letting people test drive it this weekend

• Master Blaster
  Mar 15, 2024

The Miraidon is now.

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• Japan
• (events • Miraidon • Pokemon • Pokémon Company • Tokyo • TOYOTA • Toyota Engineering Society • video games)

Poo sakura are in full bloom at Unko Museum’s cherry blossom festival in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2024

The only place in the world where you can view weeping poop cherry blossoms, but you have to sing and dance to make them bloom.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2024 • events • fun • funny • hanami • news • sakura • sakura 2024 • sakura sites • Tokyo • unko • Unko Museum)

TeamLab Borderless moves from Odaiba to Azabudai with new exhibits for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 28, 2023

Japan’s most incredible interactive light museum gets a new home in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (art • Azabudai Hills • beautiful • COK • cool • events • exhibits • museums • Team Lab • TeamLab • TeamLab Borderless • tourist site • videos)

Catch trendy Pokémon at Harajuku’s Takeshita Street for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2023

Happy Winter event gives us Pokémon like we’ve never seen them before.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • events • Harajuku • P.K. Sanjun • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • SNJO • Takeshita Dori • Takeshita Street • Tokyo • travel • video games)

Our Tokyo reporter sees how Osaka is getting ready for the 2025 Expo

• Master Blaster
  Dec 11, 2023

“It’s the Expo alright.”

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • events • Kansai • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka • Osaka Station • shopping • travel)

The bizarre anime hair of Detective Conan can now be yours with Ran and Conan hairbands【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Unique hair accessories are part of 30th anniversary art exhibit for the hit anime/manga mystery series.

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• Japan
• (anime • Case Closed • Detective Conan • events • exhibitions • funny • hair • hairbands • manga • Ran Mori • weird)

Shibuya locks down Hachiko statue for Halloween 2023 while Burger King Center Gai shuts its doors

• Oona McGee
  Oct 28, 2023

Shibuya City is serious about stopping the Halloween street party this year.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • COK • events • Hachiko • halloween • Hallowen 2023 • news • scramble crossing • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • Shibuya scramble crossing • Tokyo • tourism • tourists • travel)

Shibuya City cracks down on Halloween 2023 with massive “Stay Away!” campaign

• SoraNews24
  Oct 19, 2023

The vibe around Shibuya is tense right now, as the city attempts to abolish “the craziest Halloween in the world”.

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• Japan
• (COK • events • halloween • Hallowen 2023 • news • scramble crossing • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • Shibuya scramble crossing • Tokyo • tourism • tourists • travel)

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