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Osaka “restaurant” run by owner who doesn’t want to work may or may not let you in

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 26, 2023
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Nothing is certain at Umeda Yang Rou Chuan.

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How to go buy condoms without spoiling the mood with the help of Schrödinger’s toilet and robots

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2023

Our newly single reporter Seiji devises and tests three methods that could only come from a mind like his.

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• (COK • crazy • funny • health • Ikuna Kamezawa • relationships • romance • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • weird)

Japanese vending machine sells…retro toothbrushes?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 25, 2023

This is one weird machine you won’t find anywhere else!

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• (COK • cool • crazy • funny • Greeeen • haruka takagi • Japanese vending machines • Kyoto • SNJO • toothbrush • vending machines • weird)

New intentionally ugly anime sweaters from Japan will keep you warm and un-cool this winter【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 23, 2023

YuYu Hakucho apparel line blends ‘90s anime and Christmas sweater aesthetics for a unique otaku look.

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• (anime • COK • fashion • funny • manga • sweaters • Village Vanguard • weird • YuYu Hakusho)

This crazy car gadget totally blows, but does it do it in a good way?【Product test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2023

Battling the summer heat in a head-on way.

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• (cars • COK • crazy • funny • gadgets • hot • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping tests • product tests • SNJO • weird)

We try the viral screaming rubber chicken car park hack in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 4, 2023

Who needs fancy parking sensors when you’ve got chickens to help you out?

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• (cars • chickens • cool • Don Quijote • funny • hacks • life hacks • LOL • Masanuki Sunakoma • parking • parking lot • product reviews • rubber chicken • shopping • SNJO)

Japanese masturbatory aid Tenga’s president reveals how crazy HARD he works

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2023

Top man in the company is intimately involved in product testing.

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• (crazy • funny • Tenga • weird)

42 thoughts that crossed our mind when visiting the forest that inspired Princess Mononoke

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 25, 2023

Our reporter Seiji hopes that first-time visitors to Yakushima’s Shiratani Unsuikyo will avoid some of the same pitfalls that he ran into.

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• (anime • beautiful • funny • Hayao Miyazaki • Kagoshima • nature • Princess Mononoke • Seiji Nakazawa • Shiratani Unsuikyo • Studio Ghibli • tourism • travel • Yakushima)

Japan’s cat robot waiter now available to build at home with blocks

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2023

Eat your heart out, Lego!

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• (Bellabot • cats • COK • cute • funny • Gusto • restaurants • robot waiter • robots • Seiji Nakazawa • shopping • Skylark • SNJO • toys)

Japanese vending machine at Haneda Airport serves up cute cotton candy for tourists

• Oona McGee
  Jul 19, 2023

Tokyo Cotton Candy Shop is waiting to greet you upon arrival and bid you sayonara in a very kawaii way. 

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• (COK • cool • cotton candy • crazy • fairy floss • funny • Haneda Airport • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test • Tokyo Cotton Candy Shop • vending machines • weird)

Our reporter gives up on 1,000-yen capsule machines, except for these ones… They feel different

• Master Blaster
  Jul 17, 2023

They seem very sincere.

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• (1000 yen • capsule machines • cars • COK • funny • gacha machines • gachapon • key chains • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)

Japan’s favorite budget lifestyle goods chain now has classy, cool, and cheap squirt guns

• SoraNews24
  Jul 17, 2023

Three Coins helps us build a stylish water arsenal just as a heat wave hits Japan.

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• (COK • cool • funny • Go Hatori • heat • hot • SNJO • squirt guns • summer • Three Coins • water guns)

Yakuza Oishi Sushi in Laos is criminally sweet

• Master Blaster
  Jul 16, 2023

Just look for Big Tom standing out front.

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• (COK • food • funny • Ikuna Kamezawa • laos • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • weird • yakuza)

Japan’s new energy drink feels like getting slapped in the face by an anime girl

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 15, 2023

A slap in the face to Steins;Gate otaku, but in the best possible way.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • drinks • energy drinks • funny • otaku • Steins Gate • Steins;Gate • video games • weird)

Japanese police face criticism for improper handling of stolen Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 14, 2023

That’s not how you’re supposed to store collectible cards.

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• Japan
• (anime • card games • collectable card games • collectable cards • crime • evidence • evidence display • funny • Pokemon • police evidence • theft • video • video games • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

We deeply, wetly regret underestimating this crazy obstacle course in the mountains of Japan【Vid】

• SoraNews24
  Jul 10, 2023

A humbling experience awaits at Tochigi’s Yomogiyama Log Village.

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• (COK • crazy • funny • Masanuki Sunakoma • obstacle course • SNJO • Tochigi • travel • video • weird)

Tokyo juice vending machine also gives you…a hammer?!?

• SoraNews24
  Jul 9, 2023

Stop, hammer and juice time!

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• Japan
• (ammer • banana • COK • cool • crazy • funny • juice • SNJO • weird)

Japanese life insurance company develops dating sim where you’re not supposed to get insurance

• Shannon
  Jul 7, 2023

Trust us, it will make sense in the end.

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• Japan
• (dating sims • dating simulator • funny • interesting • life insurance • Mitsui Sumitomo)

Japanese convenience store denies use of Nintendo alien labor in new dessert sandwich

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 6, 2023

Family Mart says the name of its new Pikmin-themed fruit sandwich is just a name.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • funny • nintendo • Pikmin • sweets • video games • weird)

Anime isn’t like reality – Wannabe drifter crashes car, says he was trying to copy Initial D【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2023

Cousins fail at imitating street racing series, have charges filed against them.

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• Japan
• (anime • cars • COK • crime • driting • driving • funny • Initial D • manga • video • weird)

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