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Japan’s love of tiny trees and tiny toys combines in a beautiful way that still has space for you to show off your artistic side.
Scale-size recreations of Japan’s ever-present drink machines dispense their own tiny model cans.
Realistic cases are great for storing coins, creating scenes of home life for scale anime figures.
Who needs a boring coin purse when you can surprise shoppers at the cash register by popping the lid on your miniature rice cooker?
Obvious homage lets your pet dress up like a members of the anime’s cast other than its mentor cats.
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Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Hotel guest who boiled crabs in room’s kettle angry to have to pay for damages
Japanese woman receives Kobe beef croquettes after waiting nine years, and she was lucky.
Sumo wrestler vs. 16-month-old toddler: The cutest match you’ll ever see【Video】
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American visits Japan, wonders why McDonald’s only sells beef bowls, not burgers
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Liev Schreiber’s son deemed “too beautiful” in Japan
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Spy x Family T-shirts from Uniqlo let you make your love of the anime an open secret【Photos】
Japan’s northernmost brewery on the mainland is…a temple?!?
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Why isn’t there more deer poo in Nara Park? This very strange museum has the answer【Photos】
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Man who gambled entire Japanese town’s COVID relief money arrested
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