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Hello Kitty cuts ties with hit Japanese spy drama Vivant over torture scenes

• Master Blaster
  Oct 30, 2026
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Goodbye Kitty.

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• China, Japan
• (COK • controversy • Hello Kitty • Sanrio • society • torture • TV • TV shows • Vivant)

10 of the nicest celebrities we’ve met in Japan over the years

• Master Blaster
  Oct 26, 2026

Who wowed our reporters the most with sheer friendliness?

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• Global, Japan
• (celebrities • Chris Pratt • COK • Cunning Takeyama • First Summer Uika • friendliness • interviews • Kuroda • Matt Damon • Maximum the Hormone • Miki Narahashi • movies • moving • music • Non • Shinichiro Azumi • SNJO • touching • TV • Yumi Adachi)

Tokusatsu hero “Moonlight Mask’s” pocket change donations help traffic accidents victims in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Oct 23, 2026

Small change and a big heart.

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• Japan
• (COK • donation • Gekko Kamen • Moonbeam Man • Moonlight Mask • moving • Superheroes • Tiger Mask • tokusatsu • touching • TV)

Puppet Sunsun taking over Lawson convenience stores all over Japan

• Master Blaster
  Aug 20, 2025

Help celebrate the biggest name in Japanese puppets today.

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• Japan
• (collaborations • convenience stores • cute • food • Fuji TV • Lawson • Mezamashi TV • Puppet Sunsun • puppets • TV)

Cosplay in front of explosions and flames at the upcoming fiery Baku Festival

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 23, 2024

Experience the thrill of being an action movie star while posing in front of professionally controlled explosions.

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• Japan
• (action • Baku Festival • cosplay • experience • explosion • film • Hitachiomiya • Ibaraki Prefecture • quarry • special effects • tokusatsu • TV)

Guy next to infamous Japanese fugitive on wanted poster arrested thanks to media coverage

• Master Blaster
  Feb 5, 2024

The suspect’s photo was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • Satoshi Kirishima • Shigeyuki Kin • TV • wanted posters • weird)

Japan’s Got Talent is coming to screens in 2023 with legendary Japanese comedian as judge

• Katie Pask
  Sep 16, 2022

But the announcement of Japan’s Got Talent has netizens wondering if Japan is truly ready for an international-style talent show.

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• Japan
• (got talent • japan's got talent • Masatoshi Hamada • talent show • television • TV)

Stranger Things fails to overtake Spy X Family on Netflix Japan

• Master Blaster
  Jun 4, 2022

Stranger things have happened.

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• Global, Internet, Japan
• (anime • Netflix • society • Spy x Family • Stranger Things • streaming services • TV • TV shows)

The new Bake Off Japan on Amazon Prime is everything we ever wanted (aka more Bake Off!)【Review】

• Dale Roll
  Apr 29, 2022

Bake Off Japan provides the same wholesome, endearing entertainment we know and love, with Japanese bakers, hosts, and judges!

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• Japan
• (Amazon Prime • Amazon Prime Video • Bake Off Japan • baking • cooking show • Japanese TV • reality TV • TV)

Old Enough: Netflix show sparks global debate on parenting and child safety

• SoraNews24
  Apr 16, 2022

Wholesome Japanese TV show about toddlers going out on errands divides overseas viewers. 

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• Europe, Japan, UK, USA
• (children • culture • cute • heartwarming • Japanese TV • Netflix • society • TV • TV shows)

Last One Standing brings an entirely new kind of Japanese crime comedy to Netflix

• Master Blaster
  Mar 25, 2022

Hit show was the cure for Mr. Sato’s quarantine blues.

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• Japan
• (Chidori • comedy • drama • Last One Standing • Netflix • Talk Survivor • TV)

TVs that don’t show TV selling out fast in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Feb 15, 2022

Electronics complete with onboard existential crises.

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• Japan
• (Android TV • business • Don Quijote • NHK • technology • television • tunerless • TV)

Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso: Behind-the-scenes trivia and secret Easter eggs revealed

• Oona McGee
  Jan 19, 2022

Insider revelations shed new light on the beloved anime film.

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• Japan
• (animation • anime • COK • drawing • films • Friday Roadshow • Ghibli • ghibli art • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • Porco Rosso • Studio Ghibli • Trivia • TV • twitter)

Japan’s year-end Kohaku song battle rumored to end soon

• Master Blaster
  Dec 30, 2021

Is 72 years long enough for this TV tradition?

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• Japan
• (J-Pop • Kohaku • Kohaku Uta Gasen • music • New Year's • New Year's Eve • NHK • Oshogatsu • red and white • Terunobu Maeda • TV)

Lineup for end of year Kohaku Song Battle 2021 revealed

• Katie Pask
  Nov 21, 2021

The New Years’ television special announced the cast for this year’s battle.
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• Japan
• (end of year • Japanese music • Japanese TV • KAT-TUN • Kohaku • Kohaku Uta Gasen • LiSA • music • new year • TV • TV show • yoasobi)

Japanese TV show about women sprinting up hills and panting adds its first-ever male performers

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2021

After 15 years of a very focused formula, Zenryokuzaka is making a change.

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• Japan
• (beautiful women • Handsome men • Kamen Rider • TV • weird • Zenryokuzaka)

Kanna Hashimoto wins Guinness World Record for getting tissues really fast

• Master Blaster
  Jun 16, 2021

Hashimoto becomes the undisputed, certified Queen of Tissues.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • Guinness world records • Idols • Kanna Hashimoto • tissues • TV • weird • world record • world records)

It’s too hard to sell Japanese people on romance dramas nowadays, says broadcasting president

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 1, 2021

According to BS Fuji’s top dog, there’s a reason why making romance dramas in Japan is an uphill battle.

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• Japan
• (COK • dramas • Japanese dramas • love • relationships • romance • romantic dramas • society • television • TV • TV dramas)

The return of Terrace House? Seina and Noah star in new series produced by the reality show【Vids】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 8, 2021

Former presenter Reina Triendl and her sister also make an appearance, naked in a bathtub together.

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• Japan
• (celebrities • Japanese women • love • marriage • reality TV • Reina Triendl • Seina Shimabukuro • television • Terrace House • TV • videos • Wedding • YouTube)

Terrace House stars announce their marriage on social media 【Pics & Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 4, 2021

Japanese model looking for her “last love” finally gets her happy ending.  

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• Japan
• (celebrities • Japanese women • love • marriage • reality TV • television • Terrace House • TV • Wedding)

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