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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In the paper DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement, the researchers show how their novel approach can bring new life to old films.
The researc…

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With December less than two weeks away, Japanese companies are beginning to make preparations for their annual bounenkai (end-of-year) and shinnenkai (New Year) parties.
But according to a recent sur…

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Well, because it was black bread.
The moment we took it out of its bag, we were immediately overwhelmed by the smell of black sesame seeds.
▼ ‘Gold’ bread vs black bread.
We asked if there would be a…

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