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Is Burger King Japan sending subliminal messages in its packaging for the new “Top” One Pounder?

• SoraNews24
  Dec 12, 2024
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Lucky New Year burger comes with a questionable “Big Inside” bag that looks like something is being inserted…

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Studio Ghibli releases traditional New Year decorations with My Neighbour Totoro characters

• Oona McGee
  Dec 3, 2024

Putting an anime twist on Japanese holiday traditions.

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Starbucks Japan’s Lucky Bag #3: A fukubukuro to end all fukubukuro

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2024

You might be a Starbucks fan, but are you this much of a Starbucks fan?

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Happy New Year from SoraNews24!

• SoraNews24
  Jan 1, 2024

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

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The 5 best Frappuccinos we tried at Starbucks in Japan this year

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2023

Looking back on the year that was with some of Japan’s best limited-edition beverages.

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• (COK • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • new year • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)

Does Starbucks Japan’s new rice cake Frappuccino live up to the hype?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 30, 2023

The green mermaid wants us to relax with a cup of tea and a traditional sweet in every mouthful. 

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• (COK • daifuku • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • green tea • hojicha • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • new year • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test • tea)

Starbucks adds new chewy matcha cake to its menu in Japan for New Year

• Oona McGee
  Dec 23, 2023

Plus, there’s a matcha sandwich coming our way, but it won’t be that easy to find.

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• (cakes • COK • desserts • donuts • doughnnuts • green tea • limited edition • matcha • new year • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)

Starbucks Japan unveils New Year’s collection for 2024, with daruma, dragons and Mt Fuji for luck

• Oona McGee
  Dec 22, 2023

Start the year right with lucky mugs and tumblers from Starbucks.

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• (Bearista • dragon • drinks • drinkware • limited edition • new year • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Starbucks New Year's goods • Year of the Dragon • Zodiac)

Starbucks releases a dragon latte containing Japanese pepper in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2023

New zodiac drink is fiery in many ways.

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• (chai • chilled cup • convenience stores • dragon • drinks • limited edition • new year • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Year of the Dragon • Zodiac)

Starbucks Japan releases a sticky rice and roasted green tea Frappuccino for New Year

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2023

Three new drinks pay homage to sweet Japanese traditions. 

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Daruma Man: The Japanese gacha capsule toy series we never knew we needed

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2023

Here to help you with the heavy work of making all your wishes come true.  

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• (capsule machines • capsule toy • capsule toy machines • capsule toys • cool • cute • daruma • gacha • gacha machines • gachapon • Kitan Club • new year • SNJO)

We attempt to buy Starbucks Japan’s 60,000 yen lucky beckoning cat

• Oona McGee
  Dec 14, 2023

Manekineko designed to generate prosperity threatens to do the opposite, leaving us with nothing but zekku.

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Ghibli New Year’s Totoro decoration sells out online, but there’s still a way you can get one

• Oona McGee
  Nov 30, 2023

Studio Ghibli’s ode to New Year becomes a sell-out hit online.

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Celebrate Japanese New Year traditions with Studio Ghibli decorations

• Oona McGee
  Nov 29, 2023

Totoro, Jiji and No Face bring anime charm to some traditional customs.

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• (anime • anime merchandise • beautiful • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • new year • New Year 2024 • New Year's 2024 • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • tradition)

Usher good luck into your home this New Year with Totoro tenugui from Studio Ghibli

• Oona McGee
  Oct 27, 2023

My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away characters reimagined as New Year’s decorations.

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Yamagata cherries fetch record-breaking price at wholesale market’s first auction of the year

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 9, 2023

Here are some other food dishes that you could purchase with the same amount of yen.

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• (auction • cherries • fruit • highest bid • new year • Ota Market • Sato Nishiki • Tokyo • wholesale • Yamagata)

Happy New Year from SoraNews24!

• Oona McGee
  Jan 1, 2023

It’s time to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit!

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• (COK • happy holidays • happy new year • Japanese New Year • new year • New Year 2023 • new year's 2023 • SNO • traditions)

The meaning of the mandarin and 6 other Japanese New Year traditions explained

• Oona McGee
  Jan 1, 2023

Join us as we take a look at some of the most popular Japanese New Year traditions and reveal the spiritual symbolism and superstitions behind them.

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• (culture • ganjitsu • gantan • iwaibashi • Japanese New Year • kadomatsu • kagami mochi • new year • New Year's Day • New Year's Eve • New Year's food • osechi • osechi ryori • otoso • tradition)

Studio Ghibli releases a Totoro daruma and beckoning Catbus in Japan for New Year

• Oona McGee
  Dec 26, 2022

The sold-out collection every Ghibli fan wants to get their hands on.

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• (anime • Catbus • cute • daruma • Ebisu • Ghibli • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • Japanese New Year • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • new year • Oshogatsu • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Starbucks Japan releases cute new zodiac goods for Year of the Rabbit

• Oona McGee
  Dec 23, 2022

“We Are Starbucks Coffee Rabbits — Living Somewhere in Coffee Tree Forests” is the theme for this new collection.

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• (animal Zodiac • cups • drinkware • Holiday Season • Japanese New Year • limited edition • mugs • new year • New Year 2023 • New Year's • Oshogatsu • rabbits • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers cute • Year of the Rabbit)

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