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Japan has otaku/fan event insurance to cover oshikatsu expenses when events are cancelled

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 15, 2026
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If you don’t want to travel if you can’t see your oshi, JCB understands.

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• (Insurance • Japan travel • oshi • oshikatsu • otaku • tourism • travel)

Japanese hotel chain’s new service: A bed and pajamas for otaku travelers’ plushies

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 11, 2025

This oshi travel extra isn’t free, but that might be part of the point.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • hotels • Idols • manga • oshi • oshi katsu • otaku • plushies • tourism • Toyoko Inn • travel • weird)

Japanese underground idol group GE’LMINATii react to meeting our reporter, their secret songwriter

• Oona McGee
  Sep 1, 2024

Sometimes the tables are turned and the idoliser becomes the idolised.

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• Japan
• (COK • concert • coo • Ge'lminatii • idol group • idol singers • Idols • Japanese idols • live • live house • music • oshi • parents • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • touching • visual kei)

Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 17, 2024

Thanks to the experience and a new oshi, 25 years of mother-daughter conflict began to evaporate in seconds.

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• Japan
• (0.1g No Gosan • COK • family • Ikuna Kamezawa • mother • moving • music • oshi • parents • SNJO • touching • visual kei)

How do young Japanese women spend their hard-earned money to treat themselves?

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 25, 2023

The millennial generation of women dishes on how they’ve spent the largest amount of money on themselves as a reward.

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• Japan
• (female • gravity • leisure • money • oshi • paycheck • splurge • survey • treat • women)

Do Japanese superfans really want to marry their favorite idol?【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 19, 2022

Responses show fans have some complicated feelings about their oshi.

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• Japan
• (COK • idol singers • Idols • marriage • oshi • oshikatsu • relationships • romance • society • survey)

Tokyo police create public service warning about kids obsessing over their favorite male idols

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2022

Police want kids and parents to be aware of the dangers of obsessive oshikatsu.

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• Japan
• (chika idol • Idols • kids • oshi • oshikatsu • parents • public service announcement • society • Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department • underground idols • youth)

Japanese company gives paid vacation to attend idol concerts, e-sport tournaments, other fan events

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 24, 2022

Oshi kyuka will be good for employees and the customers they serve, boss says.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • oshi • society • work-life balance)

Our reporter illustrates their first experience attending a fan photo event with an oshi

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 12, 2022

Taking a photo with a big celebrity crush results in high anxiety but also boosts something else unexpectedly for our writer. 

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• Japan
• (cheki • drawings • event • fan event • idol • instant camera • oshi • otaku • photo)

Celebrate your oshi’s birthday in style with this fully customisable cake

• Katie Pask
  Aug 27, 2022

The cake comes in 24 different colours and a whole load of possibilities!

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • cute • food • idol • Idols • oshi • oshikatsu • otaku • SNJO • sweets)

Let’s eat our favorite anime characters’ hair, says Tokyo cafe

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 19, 2022

Who’s got a hankering for hair?

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• (Akihabara • anime • cafes • crazy • food • funny • hair • Noodles • oshi • restaurants • somen • weird)

Oshi stick for taking photos of photos of your favorite celebs and characters, selling at Daiso

• Master Blaster
  Aug 3, 2022

Works great for dolls, figures, and models too.

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• Japan
• (acrylic figures • Akachanman • Daiso • Idols • oshi • Oshitori Stick • photography • plush toys • Rika Shimakura)

Dedicate your savings to your oshi of choice with this new buildable offertory box

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 23, 2022

Pay homage to your favorite character or idol (“oshi”) while building your bank.

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• Japan
• (anime character • favorite • fun • idol • money • oshi • oshi offertory box)

Support your faves and avoid oshikatsu burnout — advice from our resident otaku

• Katie Pask
  Apr 15, 2022

Being a super fan isn’t as easy as it might seem, but you can avoid burnout with these tips!

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• Japan
• (advice • burnout • Ninoude Punico • oshi • oshikatsu • punico • SNJO • tips)

For the working otaku – Convertible bags you can take to work and anime/idol events【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 27, 2022

Clever design lets you transform from serious professional to hardcore fan in seconds flat.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • clever • cool • fashion • idol singers • Idols • oshi • otaku)

Japanese karaoke rooms become live concert venues for otaku and oshikatsu

• Oona McGee
  Jan 20, 2022

A place where you can dance with your idol like no one is watching.

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• Japan
• (anime • English • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • oshi • otaku • teaching English)

English for otaku – New book provides fans with skills to internationalize their oshikatsu

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2022

Because the Japanese school system isn’t going to teach them how to say “The set list is lit!”

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• Japan
• (anime • English • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • oshi • otaku • teaching English)

Nearly half of Japanese women in survey have an idol singer or anime crush

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 11, 2021

And the vast majority want to look good when they go to see them.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • fujoshi • idol singers • Idols • oshi • oshikatsu • otaku • society • survey)

Tokyo cafe serves special drinks and desserts for your anime crush, welcomes otaku/fujoshi diners

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2021

If your definition of the perfect table for two is one for you and your 2-D oshi, you’ll want to stop by this kominka cafe.
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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cream soda • fujoshi • kominka • kominka cafes • oshi • otaku • restaurants • SNJO • sweets)

Supporting anime/idol crush tops Japanese teen girls’ New Year’s cash spending targets【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2020

For those who aren’t planning to hang on to their monetary presents from grandma and grandpa, advancing their oshi is the top plan.

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• Japan
• (COK • idol singers • Idols • money • New Year's • oshi • otaku • otoshidama)

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