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The world’s best invention is now even better in the form of a specially built gaming kotatsu

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 12, 2021
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Game enthusiasts and kotatsu enthusiasts now have something to be doubly enthusiastic about together.

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• Japan
• (Board games • card games • clever • cool • furniture • game kotatsu • interior • kotatsu • table • warm)

Introducing the nyabudai and nyabon: Matching dining tables sized for you and your cat【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 12, 2021

And yes, there’s a Japanese pun involved.

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• Japan
• (cats • COK • cute • furniture • interior • Neco Rebuclic • tables)

Official Pokémon furniture line launches with Pikachu Sofa and Poké Ball table【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 9, 2021

Cute enough for any fan, and stylish enough for any home.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • cute • Detective Pikachu • furniture • Pikachu • Pokemon • sofa • video games)

100-yen shop furniture: we made a balloon bed you can actually sleep on for less than four bucks

• Scott Wilson
  Aug 22, 2021

Surprisingly simple and surprisingly durable.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shops • 100 yen store • balloons • beds • DIY • fun • furniture • Puniko Inoude)

New interior necessity: Japanese dining table with a hole for your cat right in the middle【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2021

If your cat is already the master of the house, it may as well have its own place at the table, right?

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • clever • cool • furniture • interior • pets)

Japanese sports company Mizuno releases stylish furniture which doubles as training equipment

• Ingrid Tsai
  Apr 20, 2021

Another perfect way to get some exercise while working at the desk or watching TV.

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• Japan
• (exercise • fitness • furniture • Mizuno • weightlifting • workout)

Nitori opens its first-ever restaurant in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 15, 2021

Japanese homewares giant follows in the footsteps of Ikea…but there are no Swedish meatballs here. 

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• Japan
• (ASMR videos • food • furniture • homewares • interior • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • new openings • Nitori • restaurants • SNJO • steak)

Official Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba gaming chair come with a katana strapped to it【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2021

It’s what the Water Hashira would sit in if he were an online gamer.

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• Japan
• (anime • chairs • Demon Slayer • furniture • gaming chair • interior • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Lenovo • manga)

Turn any table into a kotatsu with new adhesive heater from Japan

• Oona McGee
  Oct 28, 2020

Stay warm all winter with this heated furniture hack.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • furniture • heater • heaters • heating • interior • kotatsu • Nitori • telecommuting • warm • work from home)

You and your family can kiss productivity goodbye with this ginormous kotatsu futon

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 10, 2020

Working from home was great while it lasted but we’re about to become full-time nappers at home. 

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• Japan
• (furniture • futon • interior • kotatsu • warm)

A winter work-from-home essential from Japan: The kotatsu desk【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 1, 2020

A traditional piece of Japanese furniture gets a modern update to make telecommuting extra cozy in the cold part of the year.

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• (clever • cool • furniture • interior • kotatsu • telecommuting • warm • work from home)

This insane motorized scorpion computer chair is perfect for work-from-home supervillains【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 15, 2020

This is what happens when megalomania meets ergonomics.

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• (awesome • chairs • cool • crazy • furniture • gaming chairs • gaming PCs • interior • scary • scorpions • video)

78-year-old dad in Japan handmakes amazing anime figure furniture for his otaku child

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2020

A story to warm the heart…and fill it with desire for a set of your very own.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crafts • dads • figures • furniture • otaku • parents)

Smash Bros. director Sakurai’s couch appears in video, has Internet searching for where to buy it

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 23, 2020

Sakurai’s sofa joins the fight, and we join the hunt!

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• Internet, Japan
• (couch • furniture • interior • Masahiro Sakurai • nintendo • Nitori • sofa • Super Smash Bros. • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate • video games)

Make no mistake, that’s officially NOT a Snorlax Pokémon bed

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2019

It’s the perfect interior addition for the dedicated Sleemon fans!

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• Internet, USA
• (anime • beds • furniture • interior • Pokemon • Snorlax • video games)

Cat kotatsu let your feline friends relax through winter the Japanese way【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2019

Kitty-sized furniture comes bundled with a huge supply of winter snacks for their human caretakers.

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • cool • cute • food • furniture • interior • kotatsu • mikan • pets)

Snorlax Bead Sofa is the awesomely cozy living room furniture every Pokémon fan needs【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2019

Paired with a Poké Ball Ottoman, Japanese furniture maker’s newest item looks so amazingly cozy we may imitate Snorlax and never get up again.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • cute • furniture • interior • Kabigon • Poké Ball • Pokemon • Snorlax • video games)

Decorate your whole house like Sailor Moon’s Moon Castle with the new Isetan collaboration

• Dale Roll
  Mar 9, 2019

Now the little moon princesses in all of us can live like true Silver Millennium royalty!

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• Japan
• (accessories • Anna Sui • fashion • furniture • home goods • Isetan • Jewelry series • LeSportsac • Sailor Moon • Swarovski)

This giant Final Fantasy Moogle bed could be yours, and doesn’t cost a single yen

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 25, 2019

Fantastic fluffy Final Fantasy fan furniture.

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• Japan
• (awesome • beds • convenience stores • cool • crazy • cute • Final Fantasy • furniture • interior • Lawson • Moogle • Square Enix • video games)

Ikea fukubukuro lucky bag gives us 10,000 yen worth of goods for 3,000 yen

• Oona McGee
  Jan 6, 2019

One of the best bargains of the year. 

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• Japan
• (fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2019 • furniture • ikea • Lucky Bag Roundup 2019 • Lucky Bags • lucky Bags 2019 • new year • shopping)

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