Muji stores will have a faucet where you can fill up your 190 yen (US$1.77) plastic bottle with water.
A chance encounter at a Tokyo fish market fills us with intrigue/dread, and things don’t get any less scary when we tear it open.
Hiiiiii! Fancy taking a gourmet tour of the tropics with Kirby as your guide? Now you can — and there’s pizza, too!
Otaku aesthetics, improved acoustics.
You can’t get this new treat in Starbucks’ home country or the land of Frappuccino plenty, but we just tried it for ourselves.
Pokémon Unite is sure to be divisive with its free-to-play, in-app purchase model and Switch/smartphone cross-play.
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Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day
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All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge
More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
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Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
We asked a Uniqlo employee what four things we should buy and their suggestions didn’t disappoint
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Two things to do, and two things not to do, when leaving a traditional Japanese inn
Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
One of Japan’s oldest castles now lets travelers spend night on the grounds, drink in its keep
Yakuza lieutenant arrested in Tokyo for stealing Pokémon cards
Amazing photos of off-the-beaten-path Japanese castles to add to your travel wish list【Photos】
These Pakistani students in Tokyo had never been to the beach, and that’s something we had to fix
Star of Studio Ghibli’s Kiki’s Delivery Service now comes as a doll with four cute accessories
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Randomly running into a great sushi lunch like this is one of the best things about eating in Tokyo
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McDonald’s Japan’s new winter menu exclusives: Hot pies and special chicken nuggets
We try hone-jiru (bone soup), a delicious Okinawan specialty hard to find on mainland Japan
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