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Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated toy train is the perfect gift for kids who like to be confused

• Master Blaster
  Nov 17, 2025
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What is a train really?

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• Japan
• (Amazon lowest-rated • Christmas shopping • educational toys • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • toys • Transparent Gear Train)

Yamanashi student jumps from building after eating “legal mood-enhancing” cookies sold online

• Master Blaster
  Jun 20, 2025

Don’t take cookies from strangers.

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• Japan
• (accidents • cookies • Drugs • falls • narcotics • online shopping • Yamanashi Prefecture)

Trying to keep our cool with Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated fan and lucky amulet set

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2025

The lucky amulet will ensure luck in online shopping, starting after this purchase.

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• Japan
• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • fans • lucky charms • Masanuki Sunakoma • misting fans • Omamori • online shopping • summer)

Amazon Japan makes payment policy change that could be a problem for foreigners in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 3, 2024

One payment option is disappearing in less than a week.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • COK • credit cards • foreigners in Japan • online shopping)

Celebrate another year of life by putting it in jeopardy with this birthday candle flower

• Master Blaster
  Apr 25, 2024

We try to set the night on FI-RE-AH! Read More

• Japan
• (Birthday • candles • cheap products • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • Temu)

Super-cheap Online Shopping – Can you make a capsule hotel look cool with a 365-yen aurora light?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2024

Masanuki wants to recapture the sci-fi excitement of capsule hotels, but he doesn’t want to spend much money doing it.

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• Japan
• (capsule hotels • cheap • COK • cool • crazy • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • SNJO • super cheap online shopping)

Checking Amazon Japan’s Bath Salts Fukubukuro Lucky Bag for 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2023

How many Japanese bath salts can we get for US$25?

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • bath powder • bath salts • bath time • bathing • bathing customs • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • K. Masami • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • online shopping • SNJO)

Checking Amazon Japan’s most suspiciously high-rated solar panel charger

• Master Blaster
  Jul 20, 2023

We don’t know what to believe anymore.

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• Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon ranking • Go Hatori • online shopping • sakura • Sakura Checker • smartphone charger • solar powered charger)

Studio Ghibli’s truck from My Neighbour Totoro now available as die-cast Takara Tomy car

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2023

Jiji the cat from Kiki’s Delivery Service also gets its own moving vehicle.

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• Japan
• (anime • cars • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • online shopping • shopping • Studio Ghibli • Takara Tomy • tomica • Totoro • toys)

Our writer gets enticed by AliExpress’s reading-in-the-dark glasses…but do they really work?

• Master Blaster
  May 24, 2023

Masanuki is drawn to high-beam eyes like a moth to a flame.

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• Japan
• (AliExpress • glasses • LED lights • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • reading glasses • shopping)

Looking to gift some food? Here are some of Japan’s most popular snacks with online sales

• Dale Roll
  Dec 26, 2022

These snacks, both salty and sweet, will be sure to satisfy anyone. 

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fujin Gaho • gifts • Japanese sweets • omiyage • online shopping • ranking • snacks • souvenirs • sweets • temiyage)

We buy Amazon’s lowest-rated smartphone “Eye-view Camera Hat” for easy, hands-free videography

• Dale Roll
  Oct 23, 2022

And while it is, indeed, hands-free, it has a few other problems…

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• Japan
• (action cameras • Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • smartphone accessories • smartphone cameras • video recording)

Our reporter’s faith in the Google gods is shaken by a dubious online purchase of a luxury watch

• Dale Roll
  Apr 7, 2021

Is Google a god, or is it just as fallible as man?

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• Japan
• (ads • COK • counterfeit goods • Go Hatori • Google • Google Ads • knockoffs • online shopping • Rolex • scam • scams • SNJO • wristwatch • wristwatches)

We try blue beer made with drift ice from Hokkaido

• Oona McGee
  Mar 25, 2021

Drift Ice Draft even looks like sea ice from the north when it’s poured.

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• Japan
• (Abashiri Brewery • beer • blue beer • COK • drift ice • drinks • Hokkaido • online shopping • review • SNJO • taste test)

Asahi opens online store to sell their edible cups, aims to reduce plastic waste

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 13, 2021

The brand will launch a brand new nutty flavor to round out the line.

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• Japan
• (Asahi Breweries • cool • cups • drinks • drinkware • environmentally friendly • food • Marushige Confectionery • online shopping • weird)

AliExpress sets new standard for “creepy cute” with Pikacentipede plushie

• Ingrid Tsai
  Jan 4, 2021

Human Centipede, watch out. There’s a new challenger in town.

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• Japan
• (AliExpress • funny • online shopping • Pikachu • plushie • Pokemon • stuffed animal • stuffed toy)

Japanese online fashion retailer Zozotown develops foot-scanning tech for perfect-fitting shoes

• Master Blaster
  Jun 28, 2019

But can they get it right this time?

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • fashion • online shopping • shoes • shopping • smartphone • technology • yusaku maezawa • Zozomat • Zozosuit • ZOZOTOWN)

Customer receives special treat with his package: edible packing!

• Master Blaster
  Dec 22, 2018

When “DO NOT EAT” becomes just “EAT,” life is good.

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• Japan
• (business • customer service • edible packing • online shopping • popcorn • shipping)

The epic tale of Mr. Sato’s new Zozosuit

• Master Blaster
  May 22, 2018

Join us in a mail order adventure half a year in the making.

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• Japan
• (clothing • Gantz • Mr. Sato • online shopping • Tokyo • Zozosuit • ZOZOTOWN)

Korean shopping site’s commercial series is brain-washing in more ways than one【Videos】

• Joan Coello
  Jul 14, 2017

If you need a zen moment to reset your brain, this might do the trick.

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• Internet, Korea
• (commercial • Gmarket • online shopping)

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