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- Tokyo sweets store sells beautiful soft serve ice creams that look like works of art
- This is Japan’s, and the world’s, first capsule hotel, and you can still stay there
- Cheap Japanese ryokan at Kusatsu Onsen is hidden at the back of a traditional store
- Shinkansen station platforms now have…Baskin Robbins ice cream vending machines!
- FUK COFFEE?!? Japanese cafe has a perfectly innocent reason for its startling-looking name
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- Japanese-style accommodation at the new Premium Dormy Inn hotel in Asakusa will blow your mind
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- McDonald’s Japan’s new pancake pie is a taste sensation
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- Bad tourist manners at Mt Fuji Lawson photo spot prompts Japanese town to block view with screens
- McDonald’s Japan’s new pancake pie is a taste sensation
- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
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- One of Japan’s oldest castles now lets travelers spend night on the grounds, drink in its keep
- FUK COFFEE?!? Japanese cafe has a perfectly innocent reason for its startling-looking name
- Studio Ghibli unveils new goods that tip the hat to The Cat Returns
- Studio Ghibli unveils massive T-shirt collection featuring top anime movie characters
- Starbucks at Shibuya Scramble Crossing reopens, but is it really bigger and better than before?
- Japan has nearly 4 million abandoned homes, but where and why?
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- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
- New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers
- Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
- Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
- All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge
- Bad tourist manners at Mt Fuji Lawson photo spot prompts Japanese town to block view with screens
- McDonald’s Japan’s new pancake pie is a taste sensation
- More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
- Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
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- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
- Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
- 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
- Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
- Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
- One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
- We asked a Uniqlo employee what four things we should buy and their suggestions didn’t disappoint
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