Transparent coffee! We taste-test Asahi’s Clear Latte, marvel at Japanese drinks wizardry soranews24.com

SoraNews24 tries the latest offering to clear beverages: Asahi’s Clear Latte.
Our home-brewed “Clear Latte” recipe distils the latte experience down to its delicious essentials.
The Clear Latte makes…

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How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas www.atlasobscura.com

This year, millions of people across Japan will celebrate Christmas around buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
There was never a reason to doubt the company’s account, until the man who brought KFC to…

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KDDI, convenience store Lawson to tie up on mobile payments japantoday.com

Japanese telecom company KDDI Corp is taking a 2.1% stake in convenience store chain Lawson as part of a tie-up in smartphone payment services, amid a push by the government and businesses to bolster…

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Mario Kart apparel line pulls into Uniqlo just in time for Christmas【Photos】 soranews24.com

But Uniqlo’s love for Japanese pop culture goes beyond animation and into the world of video games too, and its newest collaboration is with Nintendo.
Officially called Mario Kart Friendship, the com…

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Cafe in Tokyo serves custom 2-D and 3-D latte art, and their coffee is nothing to sniff at either soranews24.com

Though they’ve only been around for a short time, they’ve been making waves on Instagram for their custom 3-D latte art.
They have eight kinds of lattes you can choose from for your latte art: Cafe L…

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Over 30 percent of surveyed Japanese managers feel intense stress from working with foreigners soranews24.com

In a survey of Japanese managers with foreign subordinates, 34.3 percent of the 872 respondents reported that they feel intense stress because of the challenges the situation presents.
Moreover, 17.2…

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Woman on train groped by two men at once, suspects apparently unrelated soranews24.com

A young woman in her twenties was allegedly groped while riding the train.
What sets this event apart from other incidents is that both men had apparently targeted the same, incredibly unfortunate, w…

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A 600-Mile Quest to Savor Japan’s Kissaten and Pizza Toast www.eater.com

Pizza toast is what you’re imagining: the concept of using toast to make something like pizza.
Standard-issue pizza toast is constructed atop slices of white bread about an inch and a half thick.
I a…

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Japanese anime industry is earning more money than ever, almost half of it from outside Japan soranews24.com

The Association of Japanese Animators conducts a yearly study of industry earnings, calculating data from roughly 150 significant anime-related companies.
It’s just released its 2019 report, which fo…

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Does Living in Japan Change the Way We Speak English? blog.gaijinpot.com

Our “Japan English” starts to infiltrate our lives to the point where we have to train our brains to switch gears.
But out of the more than 70 countries that are considered English-speaking, only abo…

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