Sanrio stars you’ve always loved, and a few you might have forgotten or never met before, hold hands for adorable drinkware.
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When it’s this easy and this affordable, there’s really never a reason to not be eating warabi mochi.
Previous music, which overlaps with a well-known song in the west, deemed not understandable by many foreign shoppers.
Testing the highest-quality earphones from Daiso and the rest of Japan’s lowest-priced stores.
Cute designs teach us which prefecture of Japan grows the most bonsai trees and which has the most Shinto shrines.
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