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We find one simple ingredient that makes bland carbonara totally delicious 【SoraKitchen】

• Shannon
  Apr 13, 2022
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The best part is that it’s not hard to find, and you only need a dash of it!

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• Japan
• (carbonara • conbini food • convenience store food • pasta • Seiji Nakazawa • SoraKitchen)

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)

Do Tokyo natives get lost in Shinjuku and Shibuya too? We ask our in-office Tokyo-ites

• Shannon
  Apr 4, 2022

The maze of Shinjuku Station and beyond may just be a maze for everyone.

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• Japan
• (Go Hatori • Ikebukuro • Seiji Nakazawa • sense of direction • Shibuya • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • Tokyo natives • Yoshio)

This Tokyo coronavirus quarantine facility’s bento boxed meals are amazingly good【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2022

A multi-day taste test our infected reporter would rather not have had to do, but his taste buds thank him.

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• Japan
• (bento • COK • coronavirus • food • quarantine • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)

An expert in entertainment recommended us an Osaka sightseeing spot little known even to locals

• Dale Roll
  Mar 2, 2022

It even gave our reporter a profound experience!

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• Japan
• (cruise • Osaka • recommendations • Seiji Nakazawa • sightseeing • tourism • travel • water taxi)

We investigate whether the “Beijing Olympics” is, in fact, real

• Dale Roll
  Feb 20, 2022

Our Japanese-language reporter Seiji Nakazawa brings us news straight from the source.

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• Japan
• (Beijing Olympics • conspiracy theories • Go Hatori • investigative journalism • Seiji Nakazawa)

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)

How to stop your glasses from fogging up when wearing a mask

• Oona McGee
  Feb 15, 2022

Handy hack from a longtime Japanese mask wearer.

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• Japan
• (COK • eyeglasses • face masks • glasses • hack • lifehack • Lifehacks • masks • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best Sapporo ramen place!” – Things don’t go as planned

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2022

That doesn’t mean they go badly, though.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Genghis Khan • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hokkaido • ramen • restaurants • Sapporo • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taxis • travel)

We visit Osaka’s newly dubbed Koreatown for the first time and set our sights on all of the food

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 31, 2022

After viewing 60+ varieties of kimchi in a single shop alone, our reporter learns that she has much to learn about Korean cuisine.

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• Japan
• (dining • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • kimchi • korean food • Osaka Ikuno Koreatown • Seiji Nakazawa • travel)

Our Japanese reporter falls in love with “Lebanese-style gyudon”【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2022

”It’s super easy and soaked with umami!”

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• Japan, W Asia
• (Arabia • beef bowls • COK • cooking • food • gyudon • internationalism • Lebanon • Middle East • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • SNO • SoraKitchen)

7 new winter 2022 anime (besides Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer) our otaku reporter recommends

• Dale Roll
  Jan 28, 2022

These anime flew under the radar, but Seiji is bringing them into the light!

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• Japan
• (2022 winter anime • anime • anime recommendations • Seiji Nakazawa • Seiji's world of anime • video • winter anime)

A random stranger (or possibly a river spirit) gives us a ramen recommendation by a frozen stream

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2022

He also makes a startling invitation.

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• Japan
• (Asahikawa • COK • cool • crazy • food • Hokkaido • Otaru • ramen • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • travel • weird)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best seafood joint in Otaru!”

• Oona McGee
  Jan 21, 2022

What happens when we put our faith in a cab driver for local restaurant recommendations in Hokkaido?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Hokkaido • Japanese food • local specialties • Otaru • restaurants • seafood • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sushi • taxis • travel)

Gyoza No Ohsho celebrates birthday with discounts on the weekend of 25 December

• Master Blaster
  Dec 25, 2021

This holiday let’s celebrate the birth of a king…a King of Gyoza.

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• Japan
• (food • gyoza • Gyoza No Ohsho • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • special offer • taste test)

Kubipan Soccer — the hot new sport set to sweep the nation… maybe

• Katie Pask
  Dec 14, 2021

We play soccer with our pants up to our necks and battle some childhood demons along the way.

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • football • funny • kubipan • Mr. Sato • pants • Seiji • Seiji Nakazawa • soccer • sport • sports)

We buy a beginner’s guitar from discount retailer 3 Coins, ask THAT guitar expert if it’s any good

• Dale Roll
  Dec 10, 2021

Seiji and the spirit of Yngwie Malmsteen give their opinion on the discount store’s “guitar for those starting to play the guitar”!

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• Japan
• (3COINS • ASOKO • cheap products • guitars • instruments • learning music • Mr. Sato • music • musical instrument • Seiji Nakazawa • Yngwie Malmsteen)

The SoraNews24 secret technique for staying warm in your office this winter【Experiment】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2021

All it takes is a little teamwork!

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • fashion • funny • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • warm • weird • winter)

Our reporter finally tried vending machine ramen, and his life is changed forever

• Dale Roll
  Dec 8, 2021

Seiji may never need to go to a ramen restaurant again, so long as he can find a ramen vending machine.

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• Japan
• (Japanese food • Kiyose • Noodles • ramen • ramen jiro • ramen vending machine • Seibu Ikebukuro Line • Seiji Nakazawa • vending machine)

9 middle-aged Japanese men try putting on their own makeup

• Master Blaster
  Nov 26, 2021

How hard could it be?

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • cosmetics • experiments • fashion • makeup • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • Seiji Nakazawa • Yoshio • Yuichiro Wasai)

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