If you’re hungry and quick enough, this eating challenge in Tokyo’s liveliest student neighborhood can make a tidy profit.
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Love the good ol’ fries from McDonald’s? For a limited time, McDonald’s Japan is offering something a little extra to give them even more flavor!
Netizens collectively facepalm and shake their heads after finding out the root of the problem.
With an Olympic medal on his resume, Shoma Uno says he’d like to enter a video game tournament.
Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency claims the country isn’t exciting enough to appease the Western crowd.
Meg decides to get back to basics by using the natural cooling power of snow to create a delicious matcha dessert.
We take a break from daydreaming about Valentine’s Day chocolate as Japan’s newest crazy comfort ramen becomes a reality.
We looked at this Shibuya restaurant’s 2.3-kilogram (5.1-pound) spaghetti serving and said, “Naw, that’s not enough.”
Japanese people not in employment or education have said “If you get a job, you lose!” but how do they feel once they actually join the workforce?
In Japan, women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s Day, but are guys going to get what they really want?
Because nothing promotes a healthy learning environment like traumatizing students with scissors in front of their peers.
Whether the person in front of you adjusting the seat angle is a good or bad thing is all a matter of perspective, Tokyo-bound overnight bus shows us.
As new freshmen get ready to start high school in Japan, a reminder that a lot of what they’ve seen in anime isn’t how things are really going to be.
SoraNews24’s Seiji compiles a list of five things you’ll need to do if you want to be a heroine in the grand tradition of Sailor Moon and her ilk.
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