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Unfortunately, the free Shinkansen ride for all luggage is about to become a thing of the past on the most popular Shinkansen lines. Starting in May, passengers planning to take “large suitcases…
Someone doesn’t think blasting EDM in the streets is a good pon pon wei to celebrate Halloween. Let’s face it: people either love Halloween in Shibuya or they hate it. Japanese pop star Kya…
The Hollywood actor eats natto, puts soy sauce in the wrong spot, and tries a hack for avoiding wasabi “burn”. Hollywood actor Will Smith was in Japan recently to promote his new movie Gemini Ma…
Two new beverages pay homage to two great cities with chocolate and matcha green tea. It’s been 20 years since Starbucks first arrived in Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures, three years after the green…
As Japan’s most internationally popular casual clothing brand, it makes sense that Uniqlo periodically teams up with the country’s most popular anime cultural exports. In addition to 12 differen…
Hankos specializes in, well, hanko, also called inkan, the stamp-like personal seals you use in Japan to sign for deliveries, apply for bank loans, and do all sorts of other legal document stuff…
Everything on these figures moves, from the eyes to the legs to the segments of the shell! The beloved and revered 1984 film Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind is considered one of Hayao Miyazaki’s be…
So traditionally, there is a lot of vegetarian food in the Japanese diet. You’ll find the following foods at most izakaya and other typical Japanese restaurants. Eggplant/nasu なす (and other…
At some point in the pre-dawn hours, a fire had broken out at Okinawa’s Shuri Castle, and photos and video of the blaze showed three of the cultural site’s structures in their final moments befo…
Train with the sport’s most kawaii professional sumo wrestler. That’s not to say sumo wrestlers don’t know how to have fun, though. However, this really is the work of the official Sumo Ass…
