Even those of us who weren’t legendary swords in a previous life will fall in love with these easy-to-make sweet treats!
Manga legend Rumiko Takahashi is even designing a brand-new character just for Japan’s top cosplayer to pose as.
Colourless beverage contains special ingredients to enhance the flavour of Japan’s “national dish”.
Melon bread and more goes into the hot sandwich maker for our kashipan taste-test experiment.
The story of how one guy decided to stick it to the man with coffee beans rather than punk music.
The service’s founder shares reasons for its decade of success and typical examples of why people, mainly women, might rent an ossan.
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Close friend of Kentaro Miura says he’s known how the series would end for almost 30 years.
Instead of CG, the Straw Hat Pirates will have an actual Going Merry and Baratie for their adventures.
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Foreign English teachers in Japan pick their favorite Japanese-language phrases【Survey】
New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
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Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
We asked a Uniqlo employee what four things we should buy and their suggestions didn’t disappoint
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Japan’s awesomely adorable cat pseudo-currency is actually usable at one very special place【Pics】
Studio Ghibli and Uniqlo team up for line of beautiful T-shirts and bags, but not in Japan【Pics】
Cheap Air Seoul ticket allows unlimited flights between Korea and exciting destinations in Japan
Chinese man loses his nose in an accident, has new one artificially grown on his forehead
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Japanese manhole covers become a hit with foreign tourists in off-the-beaten path Tokyo area
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