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Lawson now sells old rice as “vintage” onigiri in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 5, 2025
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Emergency stockpiles are jazzed up as “vintage”, but are they more of a miss than a hit? 

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• (convenience stores • food • Lawson • onigiri • rice • rice balls • rice crisis • SNJO • stockpile rice)

Japanese politician offers official apology for saying town’s rice tastes bad, had to be in-person

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2025

Over-the-phone sorry rejected, prompting face-to-face apology to farmers.

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• (food • politicians • rice • society • weird)

Visiting Hokkaido’s adorable and awesome Asahikawa rice paddy art【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2025

Mascot characters, a hometown hero, and creative ice cream make this a great place to pull over in Japan’s northernmost prefecture.

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• Japan
• (Asahikawa • awesome • COK • cool • cute • food • Hokkaido • rice • rice paddy art • SNJO • tambo art • travel.tourism.narture)

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown creates rice paddy art and manhole cover in his honour

• Oona McGee
  Jul 27, 2025

World-famous baseball player gets a big accolade in Japan… with his beloved dog.

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• (agriculture • art • baseball • cool • farming • Iwate • manga • rice • rice field art • rice paddy art • Shohei Ohtani • SNJO • travel)

Bento bankruptcies increasing as Japan’s boxed lunch shops struggle in the new dining landscape

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2025

Walls are closing in for boxed lunch shops, especially small and independent ones.

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• (bento • boxed lunches • food • restaurants • rice • rice prices • society)

Grow your own balcony rice balls with this new how-to book

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 6, 2025

With 30 seeds and 180 days of patience, you too can also eat rice from a bucket.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • book • books • bucket rice • COK • farming • food • gardening • rice • rice ball • rice farming)

Japanese people demand that Gackt taste the government’s old old old rice

• Master Blaster
  Jun 3, 2025

That’s where they want Gackt to go-oh-oh… Way down to kokokomai.

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• Japan
• (food • Gackt • kokokomai • komai • old old old rice • rice • shinjiro koizumi • shinmai)

Japan’s top agriculture politician resigns after backlash to saying he’s never paid for rice

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2025

Bizarre remark and confusing backtracking lose politician his job in less than a week.

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• (COK • crazy • food • inflation • politicians • rice • rice prices • society • weird)

“I have never purchased rice” – Japan’s agriculture head says he gets it for free, flip-flops

• Casey Baseel
  May 21, 2025

Public dealing with rampant price increases for rice unhappy with minster’s claim he gets more than he can eat from political supporters.

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• (COK • crazy • food • inflation • politicians • rice • rice prices • society • weird)

Pocky maker Glico talk about their cellular regeneration breakthrough and new candy at Expo 2025

• Master Blaster
  May 3, 2025

Keep your cells healthy and young so you can eat more candy.

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• Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • candy • cell health • Earth Mart • events • Ezaki Glico • health • Osaka • Osaka Healthcare Pavilion • Persian silk tree • rice • science • senescent cells)

Huge 301,390-square foot Demon Slayer anime rice paddy art project planned, Tanjiro will be eaten

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 21, 2025

Volunteer recruitment means you could help plant, and then eat, Demon Slayer’s protagonist.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crazy • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Gyoda • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • rice • rice paddy • rice paddy art)

Japan has coin-operated public rice-polishing machines, and they’re super easy to use

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2025

A quick, easy, and cool way to turn genmai into white rice…or shichibuzuki.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • genmai • rice • rice polishing • SNJO • weird)

Pokémon Slowpoke Powdered Rice Topping tastes like liquid for noodles【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 24, 2025

Honorary Pokémon governor of Udon Prefecture has a treat that might be even tastier than his tail.

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• (anime • Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • food • furikake • manga • Noodles • Pokemon • rice • Slowpoke • SNJO • taste test • udon • video game)

With Japanese rice prices going crazy, can California rice win over our Japanese taste-testers?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 17, 2025

It’s a ‘90s flashback as Calrose rice once again steps into the spotlight in Japan.

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• (Calrose • Calrose rice • COK • food • rice • SNJO • taste test)

Krispy Kreme releases a very Japanese rice doughnut for Matcha Day

• Oona McGee
  Jan 13, 2025

You won’t find a doughnut like this anywhere else.

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• (COK • donuts • food • green tea • Japanese sweets • Krispy Kreme • Krispy Kreme Japan • matcha • rice • rice flour • sweets)

This Christmas you can celebrate by putting a powdered Christmas cake on your rice in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 24, 2024

Funky furikake spread seeks to spread holiday cheer.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • furikake • rice • sweets • weird)

Chicken McNugget rice cooker rice — Can it beat KFC rice cooker rice?【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2024

With McNuggets on sale, we’re diving back into the rich world of crazy rice cooker cooking.

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• Japan
• (chicken • Chicken McNuggets • COK • cooking • food • McDonald's • rice • rice cooker • rice cooker cooking • rice cooker recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

Furikake rice seasoning sales are soaring, which is bad news for Japan as a whole

• Master Blaster
  Dec 2, 2024

Bad news for everyone over 10 in Japan at least.

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• Japan
• (business • economy • food • furikake • Japanese meals • okazu • rice)

What are Japan’s best, and most unique, regional rice balls?

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 25, 2024

Onigiri survey gives us even more reasons to travel to every part of Japan.

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• Japan
• (food • Jalan • onigiri • ranking • rice • rice balls • tourism • travel)

Japanese mochi tasting flight has roots in samurai dining culture

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2024

A new take on honzen ryori in the holy land of mochi.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Genbikei • Ichinoseki • iwate prefecture • Japanese food • michi no eki • mochi • restaurants • rice • rice cake • SNJO • travel • unique)

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