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What makes the Tuna Mayonnaise Spam Musubi so popular with Japanese convenience store customers?
Unwrapping a convenience store rice ball turns out to be one of the biggest challenges at the Olympics.
Feel-good story about a Japanese convenience store becomes one of the most unexpected surprises at the Olympics.
West tells everyone he’s “creating the convenience of the future” and posts 30 mysterious photos of Japanese shopping spree.
What makes a fried nugget so good that it causes a songstress to cram her mouth full with them and create international headlines?
Whether you like traditional Japanese flavours or Western-inspired combinations, these frozen desserts will satisfy all your sweet cravings.
The unaccompanied kitten is winning hearts for looking just like Jiji, the cat from Kiki’s Delivery Service, out on a magical errand.
Convenience stores in Japan really do have everything, including a meal from the world’s only Michelin-starred ramen restaurant.
Here are five of the best, high quality cosmetics that line the shelves at Japanese convenience stores, according to one of our Japanese reporters.
Sometimes the heat here in Japan really does get too much, but this mystery guy’s cool-down method seems to have backfired. Angry Japanese Netizens are up in arms at the possibility that the selfish iceman may have sullied precious ice-cream with his stinky sweat.
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More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
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Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
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Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
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