This plastic wrap is supposed to turn supermarket sashimi into great sashimi, but does it work?

Taste-testing the effects of Pichit sheets.

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Weiner Onigiri: Japanese convenience store rice ball has a surprise in store for Mr Sato

Celebration sausage opens our mouth to a new way of eating. 

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Naomi Watanabe’s New York food budget leaves TV co-stars and netizens stunned

People were shocked to learn that eating out in the Big Apple comes with a big bill at the end of your meal.

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Grab your pantyhose and let’s make inverted eggs, a Japanese foodie favorite from the Edo period

Today in the SoraKitchen we’re trying out hand at one of the 10,000 Cooking Treasure Secrets of a samurai-era cookbook.

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Sony’s wearable air conditioners selling like cold cakes in heat-stricken Japan

Sony’s got what now?!

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Machine-learning A.I. used to try to skirt Japanese censorship laws.

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We visit izakaya in Thailand billed as “Middle Aged Man’s Paradise”, try food that’s illegal in Japan

Thankfully our reporter lived to tell the tale.

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Sega’s old arcades are making money again as new owners announce 3.175-billion yen profit

Game centers are back in the black after a 2-billion-yen-plus loss just a year earlier.

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Single snake sparks power outage for nearly 10,000 homes in Fukushima

What’s wrong? Snake?! Snaaaaake!

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Annual Tokyo festival where guys get wrapped in straw and carried through streets returning【Vids】

The story of a drought, dragons, and one of Japan’s craziest festivals.

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Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best hamburger steak sushi?【Taste test】

No, no, not sushi hamburgers. That would be weird.

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Japanese city makes list of world’s top 10 most livable cities, but not one most people expected

If it’s not Tokyo, can you guess which city made the list?

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All Shonen Plus Jump serializations to get simultaneous English digital releases starting in 2023

Shonen Jump wants fans all over the world to share the excitement of their favorites series at the same time.

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Tokyo government announces new name for maternity/paternity leave, hopes to change attitudes

Governor of Tokyo wants people to stop saying the old term because paternal leave is not a vacation.

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Chikawa beats out Evangelion and Super Mario to win Japan Character Award 2022

Don’t mistake cuteness for softness.

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Amazing castle photo ever shows why you shouldn’t skip this often-overlooked part of Japan

Breathtaking night sky shows the beauty of this landlocked prefecture.

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Charges dropped against elderly Japanese man for nailing Putin voodoo doll to sacred shrine tree

Many hope he finds a different way to express his feelings about the Russian president, though.

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Our otaku reporter Seiji rides the slowest train to Chichibu–and his coworker flips out

What’s so wrong with taking the local train to Chichibu?

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The restaurant where one of Japan’s last samurai lords ate now has a café with really good cake

If Kawai Tsuginosuke were alive today, he’d probably order the Special Plate dessert too.

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Curry and lassi ice creams: Like eating cubes of frozen curry roux

Some convenience store ice creams aren’t as great as you think they’ll be. 

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