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Hello Kitty Crocs take kawaii fashion to new heights in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 15, 2024
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Step out with the world’s hardest working anime cat in this cute collection.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Crocs • fashion • Hello Kitty • japanese design • Sanrio • shoes)

What’s inside the for-adult-men Pokémon fashion lucky bag from Shimamura?【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2024

This New Year’s fukubukuro sort of has us thinking about a different time of year.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Mimikyu • Pokemon • Shimamura • SNJO • video games)

Hunter x Hunter teams up with accessory brand Samantha Vega for colorful character collections

• Dale Roll
  Jan 11, 2024

Cool nods to your favorite characters from a popular anime and manga series!

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• Japan
• (accessories • anime • collaboration • fashion • handbags • Hunter x Hunter • Ikebukuro • manga • purses • Samantha Vega • wallets)

Japanese model’s revealing outfit prompts debate about appropriate Coming of Age Ceremony attire

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2024

Kimono and suits are the standard clothing choice for this annual event, but this model chose something much skimpier.

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• Japan
• (COK • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • culture • fashion • kimono • Seijiin no Hi • seijiinshiki • society)

Kitakyushu’s Seijinshiki Coming-of-Age Ceremony: Where new adults go wild with outlandish kimono

• Oona McGee
  Jan 9, 2024

Japanese style usually errs on the conservative side, but not at this ceremony. 

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• Japan
• (bosozoku • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Can Japan’s yami kawaii fashion still work without the yamu? We find out with this lucky bag【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 8, 2024

Trying on Ank Rouge’s fukubukuro yami-kei starter kit.

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• Japan
• (Ank Rouge • COK • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Ikuna Kamezawa • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • SNJO • yami kawaii)

Citizen celebrates the 140th anniversary of Ueno Station with cool train-themed watch designs

• Dale Roll
  Jan 2, 2024

Three popular limited express train models get a semi-digital, semi-analogue watch makeover!

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• Japan
• (accessories • Citizen • COK • fashion • stations • train otaku • trains • Ueno Station • watches)

We stay out of the cold and sumo wrestle with another man pressed tight against our backs

• Master Blaster
  Dec 27, 2023

Mr. Sato x Yoshio: The New Empire

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • fashion • Go Hatori • Mr. Sato • sports • Sumo • tights • winter • Yoshio)

Two men, one bodysuit, zero things that could go wrong with this experiment to keep warm, right?

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 24, 2023

Mr. Sato has an idea.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • fashion • funny • Mr. Sato • SNJO • warm • weird • Yoshio)

Ringing in the holiday season with a 3-D ugly sweater

• Master Blaster
  Dec 20, 2023

We’re dreaming of a green Christmas.

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• Japan
• (AliExpress • Christmas • clothing • dinosaurs • fashion • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • sweaters • ugly sweaters)

Flying Totoro appears in new Studio Ghibli x Foxfire collection

• Oona McGee
  Dec 18, 2023

Snuggle up in magical moments from the anime film.

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• Japan
• (accessories • anime • clothes • clothing • collaboration • fashion • Foxfire • Ghibli • jackets • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • outdoors • Studio Ghibli • Tonari no Totoro • Totoro)

Japanese sneaker brand Onitsuka Tiger kicks off its 75th anniversary with Astro Boy collaboration

• Dale Roll
  Dec 16, 2023

Stylish shoes, clothes, and accessories in red, silver, and black all pay homage to Japan’s first serialized animation. 

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• Japan
• (anime • anniversary • Astro Boy • collaboration • fashion • Onitsuka Tiger • shoes • sneakers)

Japanese exam-taking jeans: The luckiest jeans in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2023

Drawing on cool traditional details and the mystical power of kotodama to help you pass any test in style.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • culture • Edwin • entrance exams • exams • fashion • japanese design • Japanese jeans • jeans • juken • kotodama • lucky • tests • tradition)

Pokémon gets Year of the Dragon fashionable with collaboration with Fendi and Fragment Design【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2023

It’s Dragonite, Dragonair, and Dratini’s year to shine.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • COK • fashion • fendi • Fragment Design • Pokemon • video games • Year of the Dragon)

Mr. Sato tries his luck with a lucky bag of mystery underwear

• Master Blaster
  Dec 14, 2023

Mama always said life is like a lucky bag of outlet underwear.

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• Japan
• (COK • fashion • Fist of North Star • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Mr. Sato • rakuten • Shalemon • shopping • SNJO • South Africa • underwear)

Japanese tough guy fashion starter pack: Testing the Birth Japan lucky bag【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2023

Oraora-kei orientation.

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• Japan
• (Birth Japan • COK • crazy • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

Shoe brand Clarks Torhill teams up with Pokémon for the nostalgic starter shoes of your choice

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 12, 2023

We humbly suggest that the catchphrase of the line be “I choose you, Pokémon shoe!”

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• Japan
• (90s • Clarks Torhill • collaboration • fashion • Pokemon • shoes • sneakers)

What item would you buy at Uniqlo if you had five minutes and a limitless budget?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2023

Our boss gives us a generous winter bonus, but makes us work for it with a team challenge. 

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• Japan
• (bonus • challenge • COK • fashion • shopping • SNJO • Uniqlo)

Ghibli adds Howl’s Moving Castle Humidifier to new merchandise range in Japan【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 8, 2023

Anime castle heals our hearts and bodies this winter.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • bags • Calcifer • Donguri Kyowakoku • earrings • fashion • Ghibli • Hin • howl • Howl's Moving Castle • humidifiers • hunidifier • jewelry • Markl • merchandise • rings • Studio Ghibli)

Castle in the Sky sukajan jacket combines the old-school art of Ghibli and Yokosuka【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Even the sleeves are filled with little callbacks to the Hayao Miyazaki-directed classic.

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• Japan
• (anime • Castle in the Sky • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • GBL • jackets • Laputa • Studio Ghibli • sukajan • Yokosuka jacket)

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