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Japan (Page 529)
Hidden sprinkler defense system activates to help protect beautiful traditional thatched-roof farmhouses.
Food, shelter, shower, and laundry. Everything you need, and for just 2,140 yen (US$19.80) a day.
If you work in an office or live in a home with people who have a sweet tooth and sticky fingers, this is the dessert-saving device you need.
Extra-cute Animal Crossing kitchenware also on offer at Japan’s first-ever dedicated Nintendo store.
We look back on a great solution to the problem of picking one costume: wear everyone’s old ones at once!
Use these mobile suit-inspired glasses to rep your favorite franchise in an understated way.
Twitter posts the highest highlight of Shibuya’s newest tourist spot: its vast and dizzying view.
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Admission fees, age requirements, and unrestricted public posting of erotic anime art would all be part of “Akihabara Gate City.”
Turns out the Japanese randoseru school backpack is perfectly designed for cats to ride on.
If you’ve ever wanted to zip-line through the King of the Monsters or save Japan from one of his rampages, this is your new happiest place on earth.
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Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
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More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
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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
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Red light district sushi restaurant in Tokyo shows us just how wrong we were about it
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Japanese-style accommodation at the new Premium Dormy Inn hotel in Asakusa will blow your mind
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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World record set for most crane games in one arcade with new game center in Tokyo
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