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Pokémon Poké Peace Happy Meals at McDonald’s Japan fill us with happiness【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2025
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New Happy Meals give us a taste of what it would be like to share your home with a bunch of extra-cute Pokémon.

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• (anime • COK • cute • fast food • food • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Poké Peace • Pokemon • SNJO • video games)

New Sanrio Little Twin Stars Kiki and Lala McDonald’s Happy Meal items are adorable and practical

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 18, 2025

We get our hands on all six items as the Sanrio twins celebrate their 50th birthday.

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• Japan
• (COK • cute • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meal • Happy Meals • Happy Set • Kiki & Lala • kiki and lala • Little Twin Stars • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Sanrio • SNJO • toys)

McDonald’s Japan has a fukubukuro lucky bag that everyone wants to get their hands on

• Oona McGee
  Jan 3, 2025

There’s good reason why this is one of the most sought-after bags of 2025. Read More

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• (COK • fast food • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • news • SNJO)

McDonald’s Japan announces Evangelion burger line, releases crazy anime video for them【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 27, 2024

Dig in to the damn burgers, Shinji.

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• (anime • burgers • crazy • Evangelion • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • video • weird)

Evangelion and McDonald’s Japan launch first-ever collaboration with transforming figures【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 20, 2024

Get in the damn Golden Arches, Shinji!

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • fast food • figures • food • hamburgers • Happy Meal • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan)

Sukiyaki Torotama burgers stampede back to Japan’s Lotteria for New Year’s luxury

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2024

Beefy, melty, potentially spicy burgers to end and begin the year with.

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• Japan
• (beef • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • Lotteria • restaurants • sukiyaki)

Is Burger King Japan sending subliminal messages in its packaging for the new “Top” One Pounder?

• SoraNews24
  Dec 12, 2024

Lucky New Year burger comes with a questionable “Big Inside” bag that looks like something is being inserted…

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• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • Japanese New Year • marketing • new year • New Year 2025 • one-pounder • The One Pounder • whopper)

McDonald’s Japan’s Gurakoro burger faces a giant rival in Komeda’s Gurakuro

• Oona McGee
  Nov 29, 2024

Gurakoro vs Gurakuro proves the McDonald’s registered trademark can only go so far.
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• (COK • croquette • fast food • food • gratin • Gurakoro • Gurakuro • Komeda • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • news • SNJO • taste test)

Is the Grimace shake worth the hype?

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2024

We find out if this limited-edition beverage is as good as everyone says it is.

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• (burgers • COK • commercials • drinks • fast food • food • Grimace • Grimace Shake • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McShake • milkshake • review • shake • shakes • SNJO • taste test)

Kyoto Whopper divides customers at Burger King Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2024

Japanese rice specialist turns the Whopper on its head, but was it worth it?

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• (Burger King • burgers • COK • cool • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • Kyoto Whopper • limited edition • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • weird • whopper)

Japanese burger chain no longer serves onion rings, but offers intriguing replacement【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 21, 2024

So long fried onion rings…and hello fried renkon slices?

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• (burgers • fast food • food • freshness burger • hamburgers • lotus root • onion rings • renkon • SNJO • taste test)

Domino’s Japan has all-you-can-eat pizza isn’t an Internet rumor, but it is hard to find

• Master Blaster
  Nov 16, 2024

It takes a lot of luck and a little hunger to partake in this delicious deal.

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• (all-you-can-eat • COK • Domino's Japan • Domino's Pizza Japan • dominos pizza • fast food • food • haruka takagi • pizza • restaurants • SNJO)

Cheeseburger rice bowls arrive at Japanese beef bowl chain Matsuya, and in our stomach【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2024

Can the Cheese Burger Don join Japan’s beefy meal royalty?

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• (beef • beef bowls • burgers • cheeseburger • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • Matsuya • SNJO • taste test • weird)

McDonald’s Japan now sells pies in…Dalmatian dog boxes

• Oona McGee
  Nov 5, 2024

Cookies and cream sankaku pie is served up in some scary cute packaging.

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• (animals • art • cute • Dalmatians • design • desserts • dogs • fast food • food • Kawaii • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pets • pies • Sankaku Choco Pies • Shiba Inu • sweets)

Sweet potato burgers appear in Japan, but do they create spud synergy?【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 4, 2024

Once again, Dom Dom thinks outside the box when choosing what’s inside their burgers.

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• (burgers • COK • Dom Dom • Dom Dom Hamburger • DomDom • fast food • food • hamburgers • sandwiches • SNJO • sweet potatoes • taste test • weird)

Burger King Japan creates Kyoto Whopper, its most Japanese burger ever, with Kyoto rice merchant

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

237-year-old Kyoto rice merchant helps make a new kind of rice burger.

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• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • rice • rice burger • whopper)

Subway Japan purchased by Japanese izakaya pub company with penchant for organic farming

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2024

Watami wanted sandwiches, so it went out and bought Subway.

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• (bars • COK • fast food • food • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • sandwiches • Subway • Subway Japan • Watami)

Grimace frightens schoolgirls, rides a Japanese train as the cult shake arrives at McDonald’s Japan

• Oona McGee
  Oct 24, 2024

Will the viral #grimaceshake trend catch on in Japan?

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• Japan
• (burgers • commercials • drinks • fast food • food • Grimace • Grimace Shake • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McShake • milkshake • shake • shakes)

What 1,000 yen can get you at McDonald’s in Japan right now

• Oona McGee
  Oct 23, 2024

Puppy pies are waiting to take you on a taste adventure.

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• Japan
• (animals • art • COK • cute • design • desserts • dogs • fast food • food • haruka takagi • Kawaii • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pets • pies • Sankaku Choco Pies • Shiba Inu • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Why was the Lithuanian ambassador to Japan working in a fast food beef bowl joint in Tokyo?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 23, 2024

Aurelijus Zykas joins the Matsuya crew.

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• Japan
• (Aurelijus Zykas • COK • crazy • fast food • food • funny • Lithuania • Lithuanian ambassador • Matsuya • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

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