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New for-otaku shampoo/body wash wants to change how and when card gamers bathe, preserve the hobby

Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2025
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“Treat your opponent with dignity!!”

Japan
(anime • campfire • card gamers • card games • collectible card games • crowdfunding • manga • Off-Kai • otaku • shampoo • weird • wellness)

Japanese anime commercial plays out like an epic neo-Tokyo adventure 【Video】

Oona McGee
Apr 12, 2021

People in Japan are falling in love with Spy Ando…and the humorous twist ending.

Japan
(ads • anime • awesome • beautiful • CG • CGI • commercial • cool • H&S • Japanese commercials • marketing • shampoo • video)

Guinea pigs in Tokyo zoo get pampered in the cutest video of 2020

Katie Pask
Dec 17, 2020

Watch these cute little critters get shampooed and feel all your stress just melt away!

Japan
(animals • cute • guinea pig • guinea pigs • Inokashira park • shampoo • Tokyo • video • zoos)

Yakisoba company teams up with shampoo brand, launches new flavor that boosts hair growth

Koh Ruide
Nov 26, 2018

Now you can enjoy delicious instant stir-fried noodles that will also do wonders for your scalp.

Japan
(funny • instant noodles • instant yakisoba • Noodles • Peyoung • shampoo • weird)

Are separate shampoos key to a successful relationship in Japan? Some women think so

Richard Simmonds
Aug 1, 2017

Equality for all! Except when it comes to the bathroom and its contents.

Japan
(funny • relationships • romance • shampoo • society)

Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku takes the reins from Scarlett Johansson in new shampoo commercial

Oona McGee
Aug 30, 2016

Check out Hatsune Miku showing off her shiny tresses without her signature twin tail hairstyle.

Japan
(anime • commercials • Hatsune Miku • manga • Scarlett Johansson • shampoo • Vocaloid)

New book compiles taste tests of shampoos used by 30 of Japan’s top anime voice actresses

Casey Baseel
Dec 22, 2015

That way you can skip straight to pounding shots of the shampoo you’ll like best.

Japan
(anime • books • Comiket • crazy • shampoo • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

New Shampoo Bar shop in Tokyo promises you a nap, or your money back!

Krista Rogers
Jun 8, 2014

Do you dread that feeling of drowsiness that creeps up on you in the afternoon? Are you sick of having to fight that urge to pass out at work? Well, maybe you should consider using your mid-afternoon break not to down another cup of caffeine, but to give in and catch some z’s–at the local Shampoo Bar!

In another one of Japan’s ingenious solutions to life, the “Shampoo Specialty Shop Shampoo Bars” aim to give their clients, most of whom are frazzled salarymen and office ladies, a few minute’s respite from the chaos of work with–you guessed it–a relaxing shampoo treatment and head massage! The chain has locations in both Tokyo and Fukuoka City, and a new shop just opened last week in Tokyo’s Akasaka district. In celebration, the Akasaka branch has been offering a new menu item since June 1 which is geared especially towards all of the exhausted office workers out there: a “Shampoo Napping” course!

And here’s the best part: If you don’t manage to take a snooze, your money will be fully refunded!

Japan
(Akasaka • massage • nap • relaxation • shampoo • Shampoo Bar)

Seven Japanese drugstore beauty products loved by women abroad

Joan Coello
Feb 6, 2014

When it comes to product quality and innovation, Japanese makers are the cream of the crop, with exceptional achievements in the automobile and electronics sector. Apart from high-tech machinery, the Japanese also create beauty products of excellent quality and value, something that they’re rarely recognized for outside of Asia.

Beauty and fashion website, The Cut by New York magazine spills that makeup artists backstage at Fashion Week often use beauty tools and cosmetics from Japan. The Cut, together with Japanese makeup artist Maki Ryoke, shares seven Japanese drugstore beauty buys that even women in the West are in love with!

Global, Japan, USA
(beauty products • drugstore • makeup • shampoo • skin care)

Life hacks from Japan: Cancelling a stop on an elevator, amazing curry and more

Preston Phro
Oct 28, 2013

Have you ever gotten on an elevator in the lobby, pressed the button for the seventh floor, and then groaned with the realization that you needed the sixth? Or had to throw out a pair of scissors grown dull through years of use?

There are millions of small annoyances and frustrations that seem basically unavoidable. They’re not really serious, but wouldn’t it be nice if someone could go around making our lives easier? While that probably won’t happen until the robot revolution (come on, WALL-E!), there are a few tricks that you can use to fix these tiny frustrations, so join us after the break for some awesome life hacks from Japan!

Internet
(elevators • hacking • shampoo • tips • Toilets • tricks)

Japanese Women’s Scalp Smells Compared to Natto and Crawfish, ANGFA Co Ltd Publishes Results of Research

Karen Bremer Masuda
Oct 24, 2012

ANGFA Co Ltd is a Japanese company that develops health and anti-ageing beauty products like medicinal shampoos for the scalp.

Wanting women to know the importance of good scalp care, which is reported to help keep hair beautiful five and ten years down the line, on October 19th this year the company launched a campaign called “Scalp D Hair Care ‘Scalp Revolution”.

The first part of this project focused on, would you believe it, the smell of women’s scalps. The research included verifying the strength of the smells of the scalps of 500 men and women between the ages of 20 to 30. They also took part in surveys and interviews with body odour care specialists. The results were posted on a special site. Read More