Characters from Mary and the Witch’s Flower team up with prominent brands for a spectacular promotional campaign.
Menu includes “unicorn” and “rainbow” flavors, the latter of which looks like nothing we’ve seen and tastes nothing like what we expected.
Here’s your convenience store snack survival guide, for when “all of the above” isn’t an option.
Potential embarrassment and squat toilets among factors not conducive to pooping in educational institutions.
That’s “top” as in a “spinning top” not like “top class,” but then again, he probably is… Ah, just watch the darn video.
Otaku love conquers all.
Their amazing speed has them joining the ranks of other incredible record-holding skippers from Japan.
While an eager audience of children hung onto his every word, his pep talk appears to have ruffled Japanese net users for an amusing reason.
Toei Animation has launched a new site and announced a new Net Anime series based on the popular children’s picture book series, Oshiri Tantei.
One of Japan’s most distinctive flavours is blended into a McDonald’s milkshake for a limited time.
The peek-a-boo details on the back are said to be particularly thrilling for a certain subset of Japanese fetishists.
Let’s take this rare sighting of an S-Class bakkura to learn a little about what being a bakkura is all about.
Watch a party of adventurers take down an evil dragon on the wall of the InterContinental Yokohama Grand.
With each battle lasting less than five seconds, these merciless machines are perhaps the future of sumo.
Common sense might lead you to believe that “emoji” is simply a variation of “emoticon,” but Japanese common sense tells a whole different story.


















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