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New form of luxurious poverty arrives at Japanese convenience stores with Tenkasu Gohan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2025
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Lawson tempts us with rice topped not with tempura shrimp, but tempura nothing.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crazy • food • Lawson • SNJO • taste test • tempura • tenkasu • weird)

Thousands of convenience stores in Japan to end sale of print magazines this spring

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2025

Move comes as one in four municipalities in Japan has no bookstore.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • Lawson • magazines • physical media • society)

Lawson convenience stores now sell see-through pudding in Japan 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2025

New “Can You See It? Purin” sends a clear message to the taste buds.

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• Japan
• (caramel • clear • clear sweets • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • creme caramel • Japanese convenience stores • jelly • konbini • Lawson • pudding • purin • see-through • snacks • SNJO • sweets • transparent)

Japan’s new no-topping cup ramen is super simple, sort of cheap, and kind of depressing

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 27, 2025

Lawson skips a key ramen elements to keep prices down, but are they low enough to justify this tradeoff?

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Lawson • Noodles • ramen)

Travel to a Japanese convenience store at an active volcano

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2024

It’s a Lawson, but not as we know it…

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience stores • Family mart • island • Japanese convenience stores • Kagoshima • konbini • Lawson • Sakurajima • SNJO • travel • volcano)

Drinkable Mayo on sale at Japanese convenience stores for mayonnaise fanatics

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2024

Lawson makes a bold move in the always competitive combini drink scene.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crazy • drinks • foods • Lawson • mayo • mayonnaise • weird)

Mt Fuji convenience store becomes “lawless zone” as tourists hurl abuse at security guards

• SoraNews24
  Nov 27, 2024

Tensions run high as town grapples to avoid a major accident.

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• Japan
• (blackout screen • cars • convenience stores • Fuji Lawson • Fujikawaguchiko • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • news • overtourism • roads • tourism • traffic • travel • Yamanashi)

Japanese convenience store releases a new bento sandwich, but is it better than a bento rice ball?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 10, 2024

“Built-in” bentos are currently transforming the konbini food scene.

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• Japan
• (bento • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • Lawson • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)

Potato chip-flavor fried chicken now on sale at convenience stores in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2024

And potato chip-flavored potato croquettes too!

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• Japan
• (Calbee • Consomme Double Punch • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • karaage • karaage kun • Lawson • potato chips)

Japanese convenience store plans to increase shoppers’ phone data capacity just for visiting

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 23, 2024

Lawson looks to kick-start convenience store of the future with a new phone service.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • cool • KDDI • Lawson • mobile data • povo • Smartphones • technology)

Kyoto’s famous Chinese dish karashi soba can now be found in Lawson

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 12, 2024

Restaurant quality food from a convenience store.

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• (Cantonese food • chinese food • Chinese noodles • COK • convenience store food • food • karashi • karashi soba • Kyoto • Lawson • Lawson Japan • mustard soba • Noodles • SNJO • taste test)

Japan’s indie craft cola canned cocktails just might upend the sour/chu-hi world【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2024

We crack open the brand-new Iyoshi Sour.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • canned cocktails • chu-his • COK • Cola • drinks • Iyoshi Cola • Iyoshi Sour • Lawson • Natural Lawson • SNJO • soft drinks • sours • taste test)

Japan’s Mt. Fuji convenience store view-blocking screen has finally been taken down, on one condition

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2024

Screen was put in place as response to tourists, many from overseas, littering and blocking traffic.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • overtourism • tourism • travel)

Japan’s little soda that can, Iyoshi Cola, gets into the canned cocktail game

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2024

Tokyo craft cola creator gets a sweet deal with one of Japan’s major convenience stores to sell sours.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • canned cocktails • COK • Cola • drinks • Iyoshi Cola • Lawson • Natural Lawson • soft drinks • sours)

Does Japan’s new low-calorie convenience store fried chicken have any reason to exist?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2024

Off Kara and Off Chiki arrive at Laweson, and on our plate.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • karaage • L Chiki • Lawson • SNJO • taste test)

Which of Japan’s Big 3 convenience stores has the best keema curry? 【Taste test】

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 30, 2024

We put our taste buds to the test to determine our favorite konbini version of one of Japan’s most popular curries.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • Anji Tabata • COK • convenience store • Family mart • food • keema curry • konbini • Lawson • SNJO • spicy • taste test)

Lawson adds UFO Catcher crane games to convenience stores in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2024

New machines are proving to be popular with foreign tourists.

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• Japan
• (combini • conbini • convenience stores • cool • crane game • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • Lawson • news • UFO catcher)

Chiki taste test! Japan’s big three convenience stores challenged by fried chicken field newcomer

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2024

Here comes a new chiki challenger!

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • chiki • COK • convenience stores • Fami Chiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken • fried food • L Chiki • Lawson • Lopia • Nana Chiki • SNJO • taste test)

Japan’s new convenience store calorie-bomb sandwiches have even more calories outside Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 24, 2024

Kanto gets lower-calorie version of The Calorie sandwich, while other parts of Japan get an even more filling, ultra-cheap meal.

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• Japan
• (big food • COK • convenience stores • crazy • croquettes • donuts • egg salad • egg sandwiches • food • Lawson • Lawson Store 100 • sandwiches • sweets • The Calorie)

Lawson Store 100 starts their own free upsize campaign to match its parent convenience store

• Master Blaster
  Jun 11, 2024

More for even less!

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• Japan
• (bento • big food • COK • convenience stores • Dekamori Challenge • food • Lawson • Lawson Store 100 • Morisugi Challenge • onigiri • pudding • rice balls)

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