The gathering point for anime and game fans from around the globe looks eerily different these days.
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We take a chance with a random selection from a machine that sells tarantulas and dung beetles for you to eat.
He’s ready to run customers around the empty streets of Asakusa, even though he knows it’s not the safest choice.
A trip to a Tokyo dog cafe and a chance encounter with a Shiba Inu master leads to an epiphany for our canine-loving reporter.
Nine rooms of puzzles and a countdown to disaster to get your team’s minds working and pulses racing.
Roughly one third of the planet expected to be unable to travel to Japan as part of expanded coronavirus countermeasures.
Pretty much everyone who visits Nara stops by the park to feed crackers to the deer, so are the smaller crowds leaving them hungry?
A helping hand to Japan’s hurting ranchers that would also be great reason to social distance at home.
”Military” designation has been absent from certified teaching materials for more than a decade.
Mos Burger’s burgers are still moss-free, but this new one doesn’t use any animal products either.
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New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
Pot Noodles prove too much for Japanese taste buds
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Japan now has stricter requirements for foreigners applying for citizenship
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