A 600-Mile Quest to Savor Japan’s Kissaten and Pizza Toast
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 …
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Japanese anime industry is earning more money than ever, almost half of it from outside Japan
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…
Does Living in Japan Change the Way We Speak English?
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…
5 Famous Foods You’ll Find in Hokkaido
Hokkaido Dairy and RamenThe monopoly on cows in Japan has created a heavenly aura around Hokkaido’s dairy industry. One of the more exciting uses of Hokkaido’s dairy is the signature ramen dish,…
Rei Kawakubo designs costumes for Vienna State Opera
Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The costumes for the production, which premiered on 8 Decem…
Foreigners in Japan sound off on the top four quirks of the Japanese job-hunting system
Japanese research organization Disco, which conducts surveys on job-hunting foreign students in Japan every year, recently polled them on what the biggest oddity of the Japanese job-hunting…
Honda Reimagines S2000 Roadster for 2020 With New Anniversary-Edition Prototype
Honda will reboot the S2000 in 2020, but not in the way everyone wants. Instead of building a new generation of its rev-happy sports car, Honda has come up with what the S2000 could look li…
Secret way Yoshinoya’s president customizes his beef bowl orders is a secret no more【Taste test】
How does the boss of the beef bowl king eat his gyudon? In comparison to the topping and sauce-laden “teriyaki bowls” served at pseudo-Japanese restaurants overseas, authentic gyudon (…
Our reporter documents his epic fail at designing original SoraNews24 socks at Muji
Nothing like a good pair of socks to remind us that some people are blessed with artistic talent and others, well, aren’t. There’s only one Muji (short for Mujirushi Ryohin) store location in al…
W.T.F. Japan: Top 5 confusing Japanese Internet slang words 【Weird Top Five】
That’s why today we’re counting down the top five indecipherable Japanese Internet slang words. It’s dangerous to go into the Japanese Internet alone; take this! 5. orzThe first offici…