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- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
- Starbucks reopens at Shibuya Scramble Crossing with new look and design concept
- Is the new Shinkansen Train Desk ticket worth it?
- The oldest tunnel in Japan is believed to be haunted, and strange things happen when we go there
- Dogs now allowed on Catbus! Ghibli Park vehicles revise service animal policy
- Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time
- Arrest proves a common Japanese saying about apologies and police
- Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!
- “Half-naked men only in loincloths” drum battle returns to Hida festival for first time in five years
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- Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
- We try out “Chan Ramen”, an underground type of ramen popular in the ramen community
- Foreign English teachers in Japan pick their favorite Japanese-language phrases【Survey】
- Beautiful new Final Fantasy T-shirt collection on the way from Uniqlo【Photos】
- There’s a park inside Japan where you can also see Japan inside the park
- New Studio Ghibli bedding sets are cool in all senses of the word
- Japanese convenience store packs a whole bento into an onigiri rice ball
- Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should
- New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
- Hamburg and Hamburg Shibuya: A Japanese restaurant you need to put on your Tokyo itinerary
Monthly
- Studio Ghibli releases Kiki’s Delivery Service chocolate cake pouches in Japan
- Japan’s bone-breaking and record-breaking roller coaster is permanently shutting down
- New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers
- Foreign passenger shoves conductor on one of the last full runs for Japan’s Thunderbird train
- Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
- Kyoto bans tourists from geisha alleys in Gion, with fines for those who don’t follow rules
- Studio Ghibli unveils Mother’s Day gift set that captures the love in My Neighbour Totoro
- Domino’s Japan now sells…pizza ears?
- New Japanese KitKat flavour stars Sanrio characters, including Hello Kitty
- Kyoto creates new for-tourist buses to address overtourism with higher prices, faster rides
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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
- Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
- Studio Ghibli’s new desktop Howl’s Moving Castle will take your stationery on an adventure
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- Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time
- Arrest proves a common Japanese saying about apologies and police
- Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!
- “Half-naked men only in loincloths” drum battle returns to Hida festival for first time in five years
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