One of Japan’s best katana-collection museums recreates its swords in miniature form for you to cut up your desserts with.
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Tear-jerking reports from multiple artists as studio, which produced a theatrical anime this year, erases its online presence.
Sounds can be deceiving as Ryu battles E. Honda in a fight that’s half laughable, half legitimately amazing.
The most hated forced social activity of the year in Japan could be changed to make everyone happier, Twitter user says.
Find out this year’s trendiest slang for Japanese female teenagers and you’ll be grouped in the cool crowd while strutting the streets of Shibuya.
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Beautiful paintings of glitchy NES screens will star in Tokyo art gallery through December.
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The ramen croquette is here to satisfy all our guilty pleasure hunger food cravings at once.
OK kids, did you remember to finish your homework, brush your teeth, and smash every pot in the village?
Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, and even Baymax turn into traditional symbols of good luck and the Chinese Zodiac to help ring in 2020.
Regardless if you’re a tea aficionado or simply in need of a break, unwind and de-stress at this cozy tea salon in the heart of Tokyo’s fashionable Harajuku district.
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