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All Lotteria fast food restaurants in Japan to close by the end of March
- Master Blaster
Jan 23, 2026 - Tweet
Lotteria is dead. Long live Zetteria.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Lotte • Lotteria • restaurants • Zensho • Zetteria)
Dragon Quest Burgers and Slime drinks are coming to McDonald’s Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 26, 2025
Heroic sword slash inspires trio of burgers.
- Japan
- (burgers • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • slime • Square Enix • video • video games)
Dragon Quest Slime toys appear at McDonald’s Japan in crossover with Grimace and pals【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 19, 2025
We did not expect a Slime to appear here.
- Japan
- (burgers • crazy • Dragon Quest • fast food • figures • food • Grimace • hamburgers • Happy Meals • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • slime • Square Enix • toys • video • video games • weird)
Burger King Japan’s newest all-you-can-eat burger deal is its smelliest yet
- Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2025
The Ninniku Garlic the One-Pounder is a burger so pungent they garlic-named it twice.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • Burger King Japan • burgers • food • hamburgers • One Pounder Challenge • one-pounder)
Sanrio lucky bag gives you cute My Melody and Kumori merch, all your money back in burgers coupons
- Casey Baseel
Nov 24, 2025
If you like Sanrio and hamburgers, there’s really no reason not to snag this fukubukuro.
- Japan
- (burgers • cute • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2026 • fukubukuro roundup 2026 • hamburgers • Kuromi • lucky bag roundup 2026 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2026 • Mos Burger • My Melody • Sanrio)
Burger King Japan to be bought by America’s Goldman-Sachs
- Casey Baseel
Nov 19, 2025
Burger King’s rapid expansion in Japan has caught the eye of the Wall Street giant.
- Japan, USA
- (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • food • Goldman Sachs • hamburgers)
Believe it or not, this isn’t a Tokyo vending machine – It’s a secret door to deliciousness
- Casey Baseel
Nov 4, 2025
Hundreds of people must walk right past this “vending machine” every day without ever suspecting what it really is.
- Japan
- (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • burgers.SNJO • COK • cool • crazy • food • hamburgers • restaurants • Ueno • weird)
We predict that new gourmet burger shop Neo Nice Burger is going to be bun in a million
- Krista Rogers
Oct 29, 2025
We check out the new hamburger specialty shop with nice buns that has joined its sister shop I’m Donut? in Shibuya.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • food • hamburgers • I'm donut • Neo Nice Burger • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
McDonald’s Japan reveals Street Fighter-themed Street Burgers and crossover videos【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 17, 2025
Ryu takes on Gouki Nalds and Chun-Li battles Smile Guile.
- Japan
- (Capcom • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 2 • Street Fighter II • video games)
Street Fighter is coming to McDonald’s Japan
- Casey Baseel
Oct 15, 2025
Guile, as usual, is waiting.
- Japan
- (Capcom • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 2 • Street Fighter II • video games)
Burger King Japan’s crazy patty-only menu item: Depressing, delicious, or both?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 3, 2025
On the Beef plays with our mind, but does it satisfy our stomach?
- Japan
- (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • meat • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Burger King Japan now sells straight-up beef patties on their own
- Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2025
Would you like rice with that?
- Japan
- (beef • beef patties • Burger King • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • On the Beef • rice)
How to make a Big Mac in Tokyo at a fraction of the price with minimal effort【SoraKitchen】
- Master Blaster
Sep 22, 2025
The Big Easy Mac.
- Japan
- (Big Mac • Big Mac Tacos • COK • cooking • fast food • food • hamburgers • recipes • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • SoraKitchen • supermarkets)
Japan’s super colorful Super Sentai Burger is here, but can this crazy thing actually taste good?
- Casey Baseel
Sep 16, 2025
Celebration of 50 years of tokusatsu action catches the eye but also worried our mind.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • hamburgers • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger • power rangers • SNJO • Super Sentai • taste test • tokusatsu)
Dom Dom Burger releasing Power-Ranger-themed Super Sentai Burger
- Master Blaster
Sep 6, 2025
Try not to get any sauce on your spandex or rubber monster suits.
- Japan
- (Dom Dom Burger • Domzou • fast food • food • hamburgers • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger • power rangers • Super Sentai • tokusatsu)
Wendy’s Japan’s mochi moon-viewing burger don’t just have mochi, they are mocchi too
- Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2025
Another part of tsukimi traditions gets drawn into the gravtional pull of moon-viewing burgers.
- Japan
- (burgers • fast food • First Kitchen • food • hamburgers • mochi • moon-viewing burgers • tsukimi • tsukimi bugers • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)
McDonald’s Japan unveils moon-viewing sukiyaki burgers and sweets for tsukimi season
- Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2025
This year brings new twists on the autumn culinary tradition.
- Japan
- (COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McDonald's pies • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • sweets • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers)
A visual kei J-rock classic gets a new cover and video thanks to…McDonalds?!?【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2025
Luna Chee gives a cheesy salute to Luna Sea.
- Japan
- (burgers • cheeseburgers • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • J-Pop • J-rock • LUNA SEA • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • music • video • visual kei • weird)
McDonald’s Japan vs. Pokémon Happy Meal Resellers – New purchase restrictions announced
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2025
With new Pokémon toys on the way, McDonald’s is trying to get ahead of the problems being caused by speculative scalpers.
- Japan
- (anime • card games • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • pokemon trading card game • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)
McDonald’s Japan issues official apology over Pokémon Happy Meal reseller problems
- Casey Baseel
Aug 13, 2025
Refusal of sales and mobile app account bans to be implemented, following latest case of speculators spoiling fun for fans and upsetting regular customers.
- Japan
- (anime • card games • fast food • food • hamburgers • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • pokemon trading card game • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)
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