Wobbly Spirited Away No Face tea time figure is ready for a jittery Ghibli break, Jiji too【Pics】

No Face will be fine. He just needs his tea.

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Hiroshima samurai house’s toilet and shrine show it wasn’t always easy being a warrior family

Small details tell some big stories.

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Five things about New York that surprised our Japanese reporter

There are many quirks to life in the Big Apple, but not all of them are easy to get used to. 

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Soirée is a classy hidden gem of a cafe in Kyoto

It’s like slipping into a whole other world.

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Osaka “restaurant” run by owner who doesn’t want to work may or may not let you in

Nothing is certain at Umeda Yang Rou Chuan.

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Japanese female rock band Scandal earns a Guinness World Record for staying together for 17 years

17 years and counting!

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KFC Japan’s new Tsukimi Moon-Viewing burger range includes two new surprises

The moon rises on another Japan-exclusive collection, and it looks to be the best one yet.

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We make anime food from Studio Ghibli movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Join us as we recreate Dora’s chunk of meat and the Tiger Moth Airship Stew, which look just like they do in the film.

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How to go buy condoms without spoiling the mood with the help of Schrödinger’s toilet and robots

Our newly single reporter Seiji devises and tests three methods that could only come from a mind like his.

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Japanese vending machine sells…retro toothbrushes?

This is one weird machine you won’t find anywhere else!

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Round 2 of the Pokémon Happy Meal toys at McDonald’s is here! Will you collect ’em all?

This round is just as fun as the last!

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At Kichi Kichi in Kyoto the rice omelets are both dinner and a show【Video】

Kichi Kichi ya ya da da…

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Studio Ghibli mini heroine dress sachets will have your home looking, and smelling, great【Photos】

Costumes of three iconic Ghibli anime protagonists have been shrunk down to sachet size.

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Japanese prison mascot appears in children’s colouring book made by prison inmates

Can an anthropomorphised prison wall really capture the heart of a child? 

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How do young Japanese women spend their hard-earned money to treat themselves?

The millennial generation of women dishes on how they’ve spent the largest amount of money on themselves as a reward.

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Humongous Charizard card, created with help from Pokémon fans, appears in Yokohama

Charizard arrives late to the Pokémon art party, but still makes a big entrance.

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We take a giraffe nap in a standing sleep pod at a cafe in Tokyo

Testing the benefits of vertical sleep and coffee in Harajuku.

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Japanese boss’ kind reaction to employee ditching work, playing pachinko, losing company car in fire

Gambler is offered chance to avoid being fired after losing car in parking lot fire.

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Is Burger King Japan’s new Crown The One Pounder really that hard to eat?

One person’s cheesy nightmare is another person’s divine dream.

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Japan’s Ninja Bear shot and killed in Hokkaido, eaten as yakiniku in Tokyo, to become stew next

After four year of attacking dairy cows in Japan’s northernmost prefecture, the Ninja Bear ends up on the grill.

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