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Hello Kitty is now a transforming truck robot[Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 27, 2026
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Optimus kawaii.

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Tokyo to crack down on hostess/host bar advertising trucks by closing loophole

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2023

Metropolitan government may ask other parts of Japan to match its restrictions on adult entertainment advertising.

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• (ads • COK • host bars • hostess bars • promotional trucks • promotional vehicles • society • trucks)

Kicking off the new year with a gathering of the most famous dekotora in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Jan 9, 2023

Who needs fireworks when you got this?

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• (art • culture • Dekotora • Ichibanboshi • movies • New Year 2023 • Truck Yaro • trucks)

Ramen and dekotora come together at this restaurant in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Sep 30, 2022

Korakuen Iekei Ramen Truck Yaro Since 2021 celebrates Japan’s culture of decorated trucks. 

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• (Chiba • COK • decorated trucks • decotora • Dekotora • food • iekei ramen • Japanese food • Korakuen • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • trucks)

National dekotora association mints NFTs for charity and to support the art of decorating trucks

• Master Blaster
  May 7, 2022

Help dekotora help everyone.

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• (art • charity • culture • Dekotora • NFTs • trucks • Utamarokai • vehicles)

We spot the legendary dekotora Aki Kannon, dedicated to actress and singer Aki Yashiro

• Dale Roll
  Sep 30, 2021

To celebrate Yashiro’s 50th anniversary as an entertainer, it was parked outside of Shibuya Parco for a limited time. 

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• (Aki Yashiro • anniversary • decorated trucks • decotora • Dekotora • enka • Shibuya • Shibuya Parco • trucks)

If Fast and Furious was about 1970s Japanese truckers, this dekotora would be the star【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2021

The hero car from “Truck Guys” is now a real-life hero too.

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• (cars • charity • COK • crazy • decoration trucks • Dekotora • moving • SNJO • touching • trucks • weird)

Half-destroyed truck seen driving down Japanese highway, astounds drivers【Video】

• Dale Roll
  Mar 16, 2019

Should you maybe not be driving that, for safety reasons?

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1,000 boxes of disposable chopsticks dumped on Tokyo freeway following delivery truck fire【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 6, 2018

It’s a bad day at work for driver of a shipment made entirely of tinder.

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• (accidents • cars • chopsticks • crazy • Tokyo • trucks • video • waribashi • weird)

Japan has awesome trains that transform into trucks for best-of-both-worlds mobility【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2018

Video shot in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station shows the elusive kirikusha in the wild.

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• (awesome • cars • cool • technology • trains • trucks • video)

Japan’s insane “dekotora” vehicles look like Transformers come to life【Video】

• Richard Simmonds
  Mar 10, 2017

Disco trucks in the spotlight.

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• (decorated trucks • Dekotora • Lorries • Transformers • Tricked-out • trucks)

Japanese garbage trucks are the latest vehicles to get the full makeover treatment

• KK Miller
  Oct 14, 2016

Who can clean up the neighborhood and look good doing it? The garbage man can!

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• (cars • cute • decotora • garbage • trucks • weird)

Japanese sewage trucks now smell like chocolate

• Oona McGee
  Sep 30, 2016

The new technology has been developed to help mask unpleasant odours.

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• (chocolate • sanitation • sewage • technology • Toilets • trucks • vacuum trucks • vehicles • waste management)

An ode to Japan’s musical trucks and the wondrous things they sell

• Fran W
  Jun 29, 2014

The next time someone asks, “What’s your favourite thing about Japan?”, I know what I’m going to say.

When I was growing up in England, the only thing you could buy from a cute little musical van that drove around the neighbourhood was ice cream, and for the approximately eleven-and-a-half months of the year when it was too cold to eat an ice cream, you had to make do with a “mix-up bag” (like pick ‘n’ mix, but without the “pick” part – that is to say, without the element of choice) which consisted of ten gummy sweets no one ever liked anyway.

Sure, in city centres and at events in England we have vendors selling fast food. But our burger and falafel trucks don’t drive door-to-door playing old-fashioned jingles like an ice cream van does. In Japan, however, there are a bunch of tiny vans, privately owned, that each specialise in one product and each have their own song. And it’s not just food, either. The things you can buy off the back of those little musical trucks are amazing.

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  3. Kochia calling: Right now is a great off-season season to visit this beautiful Japanese park
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  2. Pokémon Center Online designates first Pokémon items that will require Japanese ID card to buy
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  4. Hatsune Miku collaborates with Hokusai’s art in new Vocaloid ukiyo-e illustration series [Pics]
  5. New Shinkansen luggage drop-off system begins in Japan, making train travel even easier
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  8. Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
  9. Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
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