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Private booths are coming to Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains even sooner than we’d thought【Video】
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Visiting the Kikyoya Shingen Mochi theme park takes some planning–but it’s a stop worth making!
Starbucks Japan releases the new Soupuccino, but is it everything it’s cracked up to be?
The etiquette rules for visiting Shinto shrines in Japan
Rakuten randomly offers 58 New Year’s osechi feasts in Japan, but did we get a star or a dud?
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