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Japanese politicians working to promote plastic model culture as a cultural asset

• Master Blaster
  Mar 27, 2026
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Govpla?

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• Japan
• (culture • Gunpla • hobbies • model kits • modeling • models • politics Cool Japan • Yoko Kamikawa)

Tokyo hotel has a special room just for Gundam Gunpla plastic model builders【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2025

Anime-themed room has everything you need to build a Gundam model, including free kits.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • hotels • manga • mecha • models • robots • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Studio Ghibli unveils My Neighbour Totoro miniature house model

• Oona McGee
  Jul 10, 2024

Tiny replica includes lights, Soot Sprites, Totoros, and the kitchen and bathroom from the movie!

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• Japan
• (anime • anime shop • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • house • Kusakabe • merchandise • miniature model • models • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • shopping • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Neputa Matsuri gacha capsule toys let you enjoy the famous festival in miniature form

• Oona McGee
  Jun 28, 2024

Like holding a Japanese festival in your hand.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • COK • cool • culture • gacha • gacha toys • Hirosaki • Japanese summer festival • Matsuri • models • Nabuta Matsuri • Nebuta • Nebuta Festival • Neputa • Neputa Festival • Neputa Matsuri • SNJO • summer festival • summer festivals • toys • travel)

The amazing independent artist anime figure creations of Wonder Festival【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 19, 2024

Wonderful fan creations that you can’t find anywhere else.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • figures • models • otaku • SNJO • video games • Winter Wonder Festival 2024 • Wonder Festival • Wonder Festival 2024)

A massive photo collection of the coolest anime figures from Winter Wonder Festival

• SoraNews24
  Feb 15, 2024

Photos from the floor of Japan’s biggest convention for anime and video game figures

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • figures • models • otaku • SNJO • video games • Winter Wonder Festival 2024 • Wonder Festival • Wonder Festival 2024)

Insanely detailed 900-plus-piece Japanese model kit is…a 1:1-scale sesame dumpling【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2023

Model maker Syuto continues to push the detail envelope in its food kits.

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• Japan
• (crazy • food • goma dango • Good Smile Company • models • plastic models • sesame dumpling • sweets • Syuto • weird)

Newest Gundam anime robot model kit is made with green tea leaves, smells like green tea

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 21, 2023

Bandai offers the chance to make a mecha that looks cool and smells nice.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • eco-friendly • green tea • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • Ito En • Itoen • models • Oi Ocha • recycling • robots • tea • Zaku)

Jamiroquai doll from Japan lets you control your own Virtual Insanity 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jun 24, 2023

The realism here is off the charts.

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• Japan
• (action figure • Bandai • Bandai Namco • cool • dancing • doll • dolls • figures • Jamiroquai • models • music • music video • musicians • Premium Bandai • S.H. Figuarts • toys • videos • Virtual Insanity)

Who the heck is this dancing foreigner advertising products in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 5, 2022

The mystery deepens once you enter this store.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • foreigner • foreigners in Japan • foreigners living in Japan • haruka takagi • Hokkaido • ice cream • michi no eki • models • mystery • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Last Samurai star Ken Watanabe cooks with daughter Anne in viral YouTube video

• Oona McGee
  Sep 1, 2022

Once-strained relationship looks very different now, as Anne starts a new life overseas. 

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• Japan
• (Anne Watanabe • celebrities • cooking • food • japanese cooking • Japanese food • Japanese models • Japanese YouTubers • Ken Watanabe • models • movie stars • videos • viral videos • YouTube)

What’s it like to pole dance on a rooftop in Tokyo?

• SoraNews24
  Jul 13, 2022

The truth behind these photos is not as glamorous as it seems.

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• (behind-the-scenes • BTS • COK • dancing • modelling • models • Mr. Sato • photography • photos • photoshoot • pole dance • pole dancing • SNJO • Tokyo)

Japan’s plastic model capital installs working plastic model-style payphones【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2022

Plastic Model-ization Plan welcomes its newest public art pieces.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • models • pay phones • phones • plastic models • public phones • Shizuoka • Shizuoka City)

Cosplay costume room tour by Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako is an eye-opener【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2022

A look at the anime and manga character costumes that earn Enako millions of yen.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • videos • YouTube)

Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako shows us her cosplay costume room【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 12, 2022

A room so huge it’s more like a warehouse.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • videos)

Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako makes jaws drop with ‘nude’ bath photo

• SoraNews24
  Dec 24, 2021

Is it still cosplay if you can’t even see the costume anymore?

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • twitter)

Miss Universe 2021 Japan entry slammed for wearing “dead person’s kimono”

• SoraNews24
  Dec 15, 2021

“Cool Japan” take on national costume criticised as an “insult” to Japanese culture. 

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• Japan, USA
• (clothes • controversy • cosplay • culture • design • fashion • Harajuku • Japanese kimono • Juri Watanabe • kimono • Miss Universe • models • news)

Which is the real piece of sushi, and which is Japan’s insane 429-piece plastic model sushi kit?

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2021

Plastic sushi reaches a new level of craziness with the new ikura gunkan model.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • ikura • models • plastic models • salmon roe • SNJO • sushi • Syuto • weird)

When life doesn’t give you expensive tuna, build a tuna fishing vessel plastic model instead

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 5, 2021

We wanted to eat fresh-from-the-boat tuna but couldn’t, so we did the next most logical thing and built a realistic tuna fishing boat instead.

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• Japan
• (boats • COK • cool • fishing • models • plastic models • SNJO • toys • tuna • weird)

Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako strips away the cosplay for new photo book

• SoraNews24
  Sep 14, 2021

Enako’s first “no-cosplay” photo book promises to be her “biggest exposure in history”.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photo books)

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