SoraNews24
SoraNews24 is a Tokyo-based news site. In 2008, our sister site, RocketNews24 published its first Japanese-language article, and two years later came the start of our English site, which originally existed exclusively to translate articles from our Japanese colleagues. Over time we’ve expanded the amount of English-language content we produce while maintaining a focus on fun, weird, and intriguing news from Asia, particularly Japan.
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Hogsmeade Station serves as inspiration for closest stop to new permanent Harry Potter museum.
Our reporter puts together a flavor/calorie map for the chain’s frozen dessert beverages in Japan.
For those times when you’ve got someplace to be, and you’ve also got a craving for kimchi.
The Tanjiro’s Charcoal-grilled Mayo Chicken Bowl is lunch, cuisine cosplay, pun, and skill trial all in one.
If you’re so bad at action games that even you non-gamer spouse clowns on you, will you still have fun with the newest Pokémon game?
The Japanese Internet is buzzing about this mysterious blue cheese, and as usual, we’re ahead of schedule on the weirdness.
Decision follows backlash to advice such as “A woman’s enemy is always other women,” but not everyone is happy.
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Major Japanese hotel chain says reservations via overseas booking sites may not be valid
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