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We sent two Japanese elementary school kids on a Mother’s Day shopping mission at a 100 yen store
- Casey Baseel
May 6, 2026 - Tweet
With 1,100 yen to buy gifts for Mom, but no other directions, what will they come out with?
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • COK • family • kids • Mother's Day • moving • Natsuno Futon • Parenting • parents • Seria • SNJO • touching)
Parents of 10-year-old in Kyoto who spent 4.6 million yen on TikTok and more seek reimbursement
- Krista Rogers
Sep 3, 2025
Them’s the breaks…even when you’re breaking the bank.
Japanese researchers recreate the newborn baby scent in a bottle of perfume
- Elliot Hale
Aug 10, 2025
For when you want that delightful smell, minus all of the stress it tends to bring.
- Japan
- (aroma • COK • cologne • fragrance • newborn • Parenting • parents • perfume • Poupon pure • Scentfest • science • weird)
Japanese parenting app has demon call your phone and scold your misbehaving kids
- Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2025
When your kids are acting like devils, Oni kara Denwa dispatches a demon to set them straight.
Lots of Japanese parents want their kids to work for Nintendo, but not just for the money, survey says
- Casey Baseel
May 16, 2024
Only one company was a more popular pick among parents and grandparents.
A guide to riding the Shinkansen bullet train with a terrible-twos kid
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2024
Solo dad and his “devil twos” daughter take the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto – is this a recipe for disaster?
- Japan
- (bullet train • COK • family • kids • Parenting • parents • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • train • travel • Yuichiro Wasai)
Osaka governor suggests lowering voting age to 0 to curb population decline
- Master Blaster
Apr 27, 2024
Desperate times…
- Japan
- (declining birthrate • declining population • elections • Hirofumi Yoshimura • Osaka • Parenting • politics • voting • voting age)
Large majority of otaku in Japan want to keep being otaku after having kids, survey says
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2023
Having kids might affect their otaku lifestyles though, they understand.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • dating • kids • otaku • Parenting • parents • romance • society • Tora Con • Tora no Ana)
Which anime child character do you wish was your kid? Survey asks Japanese fans
- Casey Baseel
May 7, 2023
Survey respondents show their love for characters cute, kind, and alchemic.
A daddy/daughter test of the free baby meals at Japan’s biggest soup restaurant chain【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 4, 2023
Soup Stock recently started offering free food for babies, so it’s time for one of the SoraBabies to try it out!
- Japan
- (babies • COK • food • free • kids • Parenting • parents • SNJO • soup • Soup Stock • Soup Stock Tokyo • taste test • Yuichiro Wasai)
Have giant cookies, cakes, drinks, and wearable baby heads at the Kids’ Perspective Exhibition
- Shannon
May 3, 2023
Experience both the pros and cons of being a kid again.
- Japan
- (Aoyama • art exhibits • cool • kids • Kids Perspective Cafe • Parenting • parents • restaurants • sustainability • themed cafes • Tokyo • unique eats • weird)
What’s the rule for where to put strollers on Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains?
- Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2023
Japan’s high-speed trains don’t have designated stroller spots onboard, so where should parents put theirs?
- Japan
- (bullet train • COK • etiquette • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • kids • Parenting • parents • shinkansen • SNJO • strollers • trains • travel)
When bullying happens in Japan, should parents go to the police? We ask an educator
- SoraNews24
Apr 26, 2023
As our reporter’s daughter enters elementary school, he talks with an education veteran about how to deal with bullying.
- Japan
- (bullies • bullying • education • P.K. Sanjun • Parenting • parents • police • schools • SNJO • society)
Tokyo train operator installs baby care rooms to make rail travel easier for parents and infants
- SoraNews24
Mar 16, 2023
Mamaro provides a place to attend to kids’ needs in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Japan’s rail network.
- Japan
- (babies • COK • kids • nursing • Odakyu • Parenting • parents • trains • transportation • travel)
Japan’s randoseru school backpacks keep getting more expensive, so now parents can rent them
- Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2023
Lower cost isn’t the only benefit of Japan’s first randoseru subscription service, company says.
Former otaku regrets wasting so much money as a kid, Dad tells him why it was money well spent
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2023
Spending money and wasting it are two different things.
- Japan
- (anime • card games • COK • collectible cards games • manga • moving • otaku • Parenting • parents • touching • video games)
More than one in three Japanese working women in survey would rather be housewives
- Casey Baseel
Nov 21, 2022
Survey also finds a surprising gap in housewife-life appeal depending on whether or not women have kids.
- Japan
- (COK • housewives • kids • Parenting • parents • society • survey • working in Japan)
Giant wearable baby head, huge randoseru backpack part of empathy-boosting art exhibit in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2022
Would you appreciate being told “Go outside and play!” after carrying an 18.9-kilogram (41,7-pound) backpack on your commute?
- Japan
- (art • COK • cool • crazy • exhibitions • kids • Parenting • parents • randoseru • society • VR • weird)
Tokyo government announces new name for maternity/paternity leave, hopes to change attitudes
- Casey Baseel
Jul 1, 2022
Governor of Tokyo wants people to stop saying the old term because paternal leave is not a vacation.
- Japan
- (babies • COK • Japanese language • kids • linguistics • maternity leave • Parenting • parents • paternity leave • society • Tokyo • working in Japan • Yuriko Koike)
Receipt from Japanese kid’s first shopping trip is a heart-melting symbol of his love for his mom
- Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2022
Seven-year-old boy proves he’s not just old enough, but kind enough too.
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