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Digital manga distributer releases its top ten ranking of shonen and seinen series for April

• Krista Rogers
  May 17, 2022
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Need a little more action, adventure, and spying in your life? Try checking out free sample chapters from one of these current hit series in Japan.

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• (anime • COK • free • manga • Mecha Comic • ranking • seinen • shonen • Top Ten)

Survey picks Japan’s top three (actually four) open-air museums【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  May 2, 2022

A day at the museum doesn’t have to mean a day inside.

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• Japan
• (archetecture • culture • gasshozukuri • history • museums • ranking • shirakawa • travel)

Japan’s Top 7 alternative “Regional Burgers”

• Master Blaster
  Apr 11, 2022

Taste your next travel destination with one of these bold and beautiful burgers.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • cool • crazy • food • gotochi burgers • hamburgers • ramen • ranking • regional burgers • travel • weird)

We eat 13 of the most highly recommended sushi items at Sushiro and pick the best of the best

• Dale Roll
  Apr 8, 2022

This is some of the finest sushi currently available at Sushiro…but some are limited-time-only!

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • fish • Kaitenzushi • ranking • restaurants • revolving sushi • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)

Japan’s most popular beers, according to 70 million customers

• Oona McGee
  Apr 5, 2022

Is your favourite Japanese beer on the list?

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• Japan
• (Asahi Super Dry • beer • beers • COK • drinking • drinks • happoshu • Japanese beer • Kirin • ranking • Sapporo Beer • shinjanru • Suntory • survey)

The 10 best isekai anime, as picked by Japanese fans【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022

10 out-of-this-world alternate worlds fans are happy to have visited.

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• Japan
• (anime • Digimon • Fushigi Yugi • isekai • ranking • spirited away)

Tasting the Top 5 Lunch Packs in Japan at Yamazaki Plaza in Chiba Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Mar 7, 2022

Join us on a pilgrimage to the mecca of Lunch Packs.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • food • Fujiya Peko • Ichikawa • Lunch Pack • ranking • snacks • Yamazaki Baking Company • Yamazaki Plaza Ichikawa)

Meow’s that? 2022’s ranking of the top cat names in Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 22, 2022

For the third year in a row, this particular name takes the top spot for all felines, male or female.

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • Japanese language • linguistics • names • pets • ranking • Top Ten)

The top 10 poses trending with Japanese teens, as demonstrated by a couple of ossan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 19, 2022

Two middle-aged guys look to teen culture to reignite their inner kawaii.

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• Japan
• (COK • cute • funny • Generation Z • high school girls • high school students • Japanese high school girls • Japanese high schools • JK • Kawaii • LOL • Mr. Sato • photo poses • photos • purikura • ranking • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • social media • weird)

Keeping up with the kids: Japanese high schoolers’ most popular slang of Spring 2022

• Dale Roll
  Feb 9, 2022

Would you be surprised if most of these trendy words came from social media?

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• Japan
• (buzzwords • Generation Z • Japanese language • language • ranking • slang • social media)

Japan picks the 100 greatest games of all time in Video Game General Election

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2021

Decades-spanning list goes all the way back to classics from the 8-bit era.

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• Japan
• (COK • Dragon Quest • Final Fantasy • Legend of Zelda • nintendo • Pokemon • ranking • Super Mario • survey • Video Game General Election • video games)

Who made the tastiest gyoza in 2021? We decide on our favourite pot stickers

• Katie Pask
  Dec 26, 2021

Check out our definitive guide to the best gyoza 2021 had to offer — just make sure you’re not hungry first!

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Osaka Osho • pot stickers • ranking • taste test)

Japanese baby name app releases 2021 ranking of top ten most intriguing boy and girl baby names

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 2, 2021

App publishes a ranking of the names that got the most hits during expectant parents’ searches.

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• (baby names • COK • Japanese language • Japanese names • kids • linguistics • name • Parenting • parents • ranking • society)

Tokyo University students rank the top 12 video games for cultivating smart kids

• Dale Roll
  Oct 28, 2021

These video games are educational as well as fun!

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• Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Minecraft • Pokemon • ranking • survey • Tokyo University • video games)

Survey finds top 10 instant noodle brands and flavors, and Cup Noodle isn’t number one?!

• Master Blaster
  Oct 28, 2021

The best noodles ready in about three minutes.

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• Japan
• (Cup Noodle • food • instant noodles • Ippei-chan • Maru-chan • Peyoung • ramen • ranking • survey • udon • UFO • yakisoba)

The top 30 foods that go best with white rice, according to Japanese netizens

• Dale Roll
  Oct 20, 2021

As toppings or as a side…these are the best things to complement rice!

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • japanese rice • ranking • rice • survey • white rice)

Survey picks Japan’s most attractive prefectures – Familiar spots at top and bottom of rankings

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2021

Prefectures at the bottom might not be as bad as the numbers make them seem, though.

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• Japan
• (COK • Hokkaido • Ibaraki • ranking • society • survey • travel)

Kansai area people more genetically predisposed to liking coffee than elsewhere in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Oct 11, 2021

Wake up and smell the genomes.

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • DNA • drinks • euglena • genetics • Kansai • prefectures • ranking • science • society)

To celebrate Hashtag Day, Twitter shares top ten most used hashtags in Japan

• Katie Pask
  Aug 25, 2021

The #TopTen hashtags in #Japan for #2021 so far are #revealed!

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• Japan
• (fate/grand order • FGO • Genshin Impact • horse girl • JO1 • Jujutsu Kaisen • Lawson • Monster Strike • ranking • sixTONES • snowman • twitter • video games)

The 10 best spicy foods for 2021 as chosen by our Tokyo writer

• Master Blaster
  Aug 19, 2021

Start pouring the milk, because it’s heating up in Japan.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • cup noodles • curry • food • instant noodles • ramen • ranking • restaurants • spicy food)

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