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Katy Kelly
Katy has been enamored with Japan since she was a kid in Cheshire, England watching Digimon on old VHS tapes. Later, when she got into the Japanese independent music scene, she discovered it was so hard to learn anything about her favorite bands in English that she may as well start studying Japanese. After a year abroad at university in Tokyo she decided to return and work in the Kansai area, where she achieved minor superstardom amongst elementary and middle school students for knowing how to draw Crayon Shin-chan when prompted. In her free time, Katy can be found at home, tracking down the latest chocolate mint additions to stores and studying Japanese while her enormous tuxedo cat tries to smother her. She also does part-time translation for her own benefit, which mostly means researching the minutiae of mobile games or reading manga before anyone can spoil them for her. http://moonlitemuseum.tumblr.com
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Japanese cat does a perfectly graceful acrobatic flip to escape from the perilous shower room【Video】
This bonus comes with a special set of conditions: you must prove you used up the entire amount by April 30, or it’s null and void.
Any parents in Japan fretting about their kids’ hand hygiene will want to buy one of these cute stamps.
Let it not be said that SoraNews24’s reporters don’t push the limits of speedy kimono suit-ups.
In today’s installment of incredibly niche gachapon capsule toys, we coo over these very cute teeny-tiny barricades.
Lego’s Twitter announcement shows Mario being built out of little blocks instead of bashing them to get coins.
Muji started selling lunchbox meals while we weren’t looking, so we sent our resident gourmand Mr. Sato off to try one.
The Big Mac Jr., the classic Big Mac, the Grand Big Mac and the Giga Big Mac are like a happy Big Mac family made of meat and buns.
Japan’s economical provider of weird products does it again, with a battery powered infinity mirror light. Who doesn’t need one of those?
Japan’s most beloved cheap and cheerful fashion brands are taking another step to reduce damage to the planet.
The pages are filled with intricate etchings of everything from talk-show guests to Shadow of the Colossus to Coraline.
A makeup studio augmented all her feline facial features until she could pass for Bombalurina!
Our lovestruck heroine is caught between two gorgeous men whose sweat smells exactly like Kadoya’s sesame oil.
The Internet is still reeling from the amount of oblong meat products they’ve crammed into a single lunch box.
There are only three of these adorable verdant vehicles out on the streets — flag one down if you get the chance!
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