All of Japan has Coming of Age Ceremonies in January, but nowhere has them quite like Kitakyushu.
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Virtual idol queen might get an entire airport named after her in one of Japan’s largest cities.
Need to catch up on 70-plus volumes of Luffy’s pirate adventures? Right now it won’t cost you a single yen.
Adult department store M’s’ eroticism expert picks out a blind-buy bundle for women and couples that includes a tube of Surprisingly Gooey Feeling Super Gooey Type.
Fushimi Inari-taisha did all sorts of things to keep visitors safe this New Year’s, and one may be steeped in the local culture’s velvety harshness.
You can always count on cool drinkware, cute plushies, and free coffee from Starbucks Japan at New Year’s.
Our resident otaku signed up to be the Internet’s guinea pig…the first to document bleaching his transplanted hair.
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