Or, if you’re going to meet up with your fellow samurai, should your sword point upwards or downwards?
If you’ve watched a lot of period dramas, you might have noticed that sometimes samurai wear the…

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But with September winding down, it’s now too cold to hit the beach, and so M Kikaku is back again with another line of cute and sexy fashions.
The Cyber Maid outfit combines the 19th century style c…

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Sure, there are some kitschy knickknacks, but they are generally pretty tacky.
Then you come across some beautiful wooden boxes with some incredibly intricate patterns on it that make you wonder, how…

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Today, we’d like to take you on a tour of the konbini aisu, or convenience store-bought ice cream, of Japan.

4 Ice cream for manly men with hairy chests: JumboIf imitation fruit and fiddly plastic bo…

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Now you can get your flying fish soup stock at any time of the day or night in Japan’s capital.
Dashi soup stock is an indispensable ingredient in Japanese cooking.
What makes the product even more u…

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You can count on kids to be brutally honest, especially when the honor of their favorite online videos is at stake.
All my friends were watching the same amount of TV as me, so we’d all have square e…

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Like most forms of pasta, ramen noodles themselves don’t have much flavor, and so the deciding factor when picking a ramen restaurant is the broth.
But if none of those tempts you, in Tokyo there’s a…

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But while bespectacled Nobita, girlish Shizuka, and pompadour-sporting Suneo all seem to be keeping the secret under wraps, Gian, seen on the far left in the above shot, almost spills the beans!
We h…

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Democracy protests in Asia have spread to Japan on Sunday with thousands of mascots marching through the streets of Tokyo.
Demonstrations were sparked after the International Olympic Committee discri…

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The fuel cell is the future, Toyota believes, and the Mirai is its flagship.
AW: So I have a Toyota Mirai fuel-cell vehicle for a one-year loan to see what it’s like to live with a fuel-cell vehicle.…

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